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Zack Hsu is a senior counsel of the firm’s international law practice. His practice focuses on public international law, international commercial and treaty arbitration, and international transaction.
Prior to joining BSTN, Mr. Hsu served as a Special Adviser of international law to an international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. Mr. Hsu was also an adviser on international law and climate change issues at the Office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 2018.
Mr. Hsu is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and World Commission on Environmental Law.
Zack Hsu has intensive experience representing Sovereign States on various international law matters, including issues of climate change, maritime boundaries, human rights and nuclear weapons.
Mr. Hsu advised sixteen States on International Law Commission’s report “Sea-level Rise and International Law,” one State on the issue of cybersecurity, a Caribbean international organization on the issue of renewable energy, and twelve States on issues of refugees and migration.
Mr. Hsu has experience representing Sovereign States in negotiating Free Trade Agreements and Investment Treaties. He also represented Sovereign States and private companies in investment disputes in the world’s principal arbitral forums, including the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA).
Zack Hsu is a senior counsel of the firm’s international law practice. His practice focuses on public international law, international commercial and treaty arbitration, and international transaction.
Prior to joining BSTN, Mr. Hsu served as a Special Adviser of international law to an international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. Mr. Hsu was also an adviser on international law and climate change issues at the Office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly in 2018.
Mr. Hsu is a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and World Commission on Environmental Law.
Adviser at the Office of the President of the United Nations General Assembly
Special Adviser of international law to Debevoise & Plimpton
Publications
The New Trend of P-G Arbitration Mechanism under Draft TPP Articles (2015).
Investment Dispute Resolutions under Cross-Strait Investment Agreement – The Practical View (2015).
Code of International Law (2015).
The Rights of the Coastal State and Its Maritime Rights (2015).
Constitution and Administrative Law, (2014).
Senkaku Islands Dispute (2013).
Questions of International Law and International Private Law (2011).
The introduction of the Baseline System under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (2009).
International Union for Conservation of Nature
World Commission on Environmental Law.
New York State
Washington State
Taiwan
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Mandarin
Taiwanese
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington School of Law
LL.M., University of Washington School of Law
