Wilson is a PhD candidate at the Melbourne Law School and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Private Law of the University of Hong Kong. His publications include five (edited) books – Hong Kong Private International Law (2025), Choice of Law and Recognition in Asian Family Law (2023), Direct Jurisdiction: Asian Perspectives (2021), and two books on arbitration law and practice in Hong Kong – and multiple book chapters and journal articles. Wilson is a frequent (invited) speaker at various international and regional conferences and seminars. He has also taught as a part-time Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong since 2022. He designs and teaches courses for undergraduates and postgraduates on private international law (conflict of laws), dispute resolution, legal language, and legal Chinese. Wilson is a Chartered Linguist at the Chartered Institute of Linguists, and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb), the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators (FHKIArb), and Advance HE (FHEA).
1. Introduction For more than 20 years after the handover, Hong Kong courts had regularly noted difficulties with the ‘trial supervision system’ (also known as ‘retrial procedure’ ) in the Chinese Mainland when attempting to recognise and enforce Mainland judgments under the common law, as the trial supervision system was thought to mean that these […]
The 4th Asian Private International Law Academy (APILA) Conference was held on 13–14 December 2025 in Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan). The two-day Conference explored a wide variety of questions and issues on private international law in Asia. It featured 21 papers delivered by leading and emerging scholars. Each paper was followed by a Q&A and […]
The fourth annual APILA Conference will take place in person at Doshisha University in Kyoto (Japan) on Saturday 13 (Day 1) and Sunday 14 (Day 2) December 2025. The APILA Conference will be in the form of two days of roundtable discussions in English. Persons whose abstracts have been selected (see next paragraph) will deliver oral […]
On 21 August 2025, the UNSW School of Private and Commercial Law, the Journal of Equity and Allens jointly hosted the 2025 Journal of Equity Conference. This year’s one-day Conference focused on important questions at the intersection of equity, trusts and private international law. It featured four papers delivered by judges and scholars, each of […]