DETROIT (Dec. 10, 2009) - Wayne State University Law School Associate Professor Julia Ya Qin has been honored by the Law School with the Donald H. Gordon Award for Excellence in Teaching. The award was established by friends of Gordon who served as dean of Wayne Law from 1975 to 1980.
"I am delighted to present the Gordon Teaching Award to Professor Qin," said Wayne Law Dean Robert M. Ackerman. "Her courses are among the most challenging in the law school, and she consistently receives accolades from her students."
At Wayne Law, Professor Qin teaches courses on international business transactions, international finance, international trade law and doing business in China. She joined the Wayne Law faculty in 2000.
Prior to her arrival at Wayne Law, Professor Qin served as a practicing attorney in the Hong Kong and New York offices of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, specializing in international corporate and securities transactions. Other past professional work includes clerking for the late Chief Judge Dominick DiCarlo of the United States Court of International Trade and serving as a visiting professor at Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing, China, and a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She has also taught as an adjunct professor at NYU Law School and was a research fellow at the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
She has published in various international law journals, and presented in numerous conferences and forums, on the subjects of international trade law, public international law and Chinese law. Her article, "WTO Regulation of Subsidies to State-owned Enterprises (SOEs)" in the Journal of International Economic Law, was cited by Justice Alito of the U.S. Supreme Court in his dissenting opinion in United Haulers Assn., Inc. v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste Mgmt. Auth., 550 U.S. 330 (2007).
Professor Qin serves as a member of the Council and the Steering Committee for the Chinese Society of International Law. She received her LL.B. from Peking University, and LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School.
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