Shahla F. Ali

Professor of Law · The University of Hong Kong

Arbitration, mediation & the making of transnational norms.

Shahla Ali is a Chartered arbitrator, accredited mediator and Professor of law at the University of Hong Kong with 18 years of experience in the Asia Pacific region. Her scholarship — ten books and dozens of studies with Cambridge, Oxford, Elgar and Routledge — maps how the Asia-Pacific is reshaping cross-border dispute resolution.

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Professor Shahla F. Ali
HKU Faculty of LawUNCITRAL WG IIFCIArbAIIB · ADB · World BankUC Berkeley JD/PhD

Selected books

A shelf of field-defining work

Cover of Forming Transnational Dispute Settlement Norms: Soft Law and the Role of UNCITRAL's Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific

Forming Transnational Dispute Settlement Norms: Soft Law and the Role of UNCITRAL's Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific

Edward Elgar, 2021

“It is rare to have 5 years of our work performance scrutinized academically…. I cannot escape a sense of relief after re…”

Cover of Commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration

Commentary on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration

Cambridge University Press, 2020

“A truly international treatise where theory meets actual practice. Not only does this book provide a useful and interest…”

Cover of Diversity in International Arbitration: Why it Matters and How to Sustain It

Diversity in International Arbitration: Why it Matters and How to Sustain It

Edward Elgar, 2022

“Ali, Balcerzak, Colombo, and Karton have edited a unique tour-de-force of diversity issues ranging from personal identit…”

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“How does UNCITRAL’s regional centre shape soft-law norms in Asia?”
→ answered from Transnational Norms (2021), ch. 3