Profile

Kun Fan (PhD, summa cum laude, University of Geneva; LLM, NYU; LLB, China Foreign Affairs University) is an Associate Professor of Law at UNSW Law & Justice and a core member of the China International Business and Economic Law Centre (CIBEL). Her expertise spans Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), comparative legal studies, and law and society. She has held academic positions at McGill University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has been a Scholar-in-Residence at WilmerHale, a Visiting Scholar at Harvard-Yenching Institute, Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy, and University Paris Panthéon-Assas.

She is the author of Arbitration in China: A Legal and Cultural Analysis(Hart Publishing) and has published in leading journals, including Journal of International Dispute Settlement, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, ICCA Congress Series and McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution. Her work has earned multiple awards and is widely cited. Beyond academia, she brings extensive ADR practice experience, having served as counsel, legal expert, arbitrator, and tribunal secretary in international disputes. She has overseen over a hundred arbitrations while working at the Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. She is called to the New York Bar, and serves as a Domain Names Panelist, accredited mediator and arbitrator.