Dr Tan Hsien-Li was until recently Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of the ASEAN Integration through Law Project at the Centre for International Law, NUS, an affiliation she still maintains. Hsien-Li has held fellowships at the European University Institute, Florence; the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, NYU School of Law. She was previously also the AsianSIL Research Fellow at the NUS School of Law and the Ushiba Memorial ASEAN Fellow in Tokyo working on Japan’s human security policy’s impact on Southeast Asia. Hsien-Li researches on the role and the rule of law and institutions in ASEAN Integration; public international law, particularly on institution-building and norm-creation; as well as human rights and peace and security. Hsien-Li wrote the first book on the ASEAN human rights system (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and will publish two books (co-authored) on ASEAN dispute settlement mechanisms and human rights in ASEAN with Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2016. Hsien-Li is currently working on two more books – the documentary analysis of ASEAN instruments and a theory of the ASEAN Way. Hsien-Li is an editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and the general co-editor (together with Joseph Weiler) of theASEAN Integration Through Law Book Series (Cambridge University Press).
