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Sek Lun Cheong

Assistant Professor in Business & Human Rights and Investment Law, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Biography

Sek Lun Cheong is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham School of Law. He teaches and researches primarily in the areas and at the intersection of international investment law and business and human rights. He is module convenor for International Investment Law and Business and Human Rights on the LLM and Head of the Business, Trade and Human Rights Unit of the Human Rights Law Centre at the university.

Sek Lun holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of London and the University of Melbourne respectively. He has previously lectured modules on UK business law, company law and corporate governance. He was also a teaching fellow at Melbourne Law School and a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Prior to his foray in academia, he was an advocate and solicitor in the field of litigation during which he had worked on matters on corporate insolvency, judicial review, and commercial disputes.

Expertise Summary

Sek Lun's research interests include the areas of international investment law, business and human rights, and corporate human rights due diligence. He follows developments in the discourse on corporate obligations in the contexts of domestic law and public international law, including in relation to corporate environmental and climate obligation. He has particular interest in the evolution of corporate (transnational) obligations at the intersection of international investment law, human rights, and the environment/climate, and broader questions of international (economic) law and dispute settlement relating to the corporate actor.

Sek Lun has presented widely on the topic of foreign investor responsibility, in particular on investor due diligence, including having published on the implications of the climate change dimension of corporate human rights due diligence for investor responsibility in international investment law. In 2023, his scholarship on the standards of investment protection and their alignment with broader notions of fairness in international law has been awarded an honourable mention by the jury of the ESIL young scholar prize at the 18th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law in Aix-Marseille University, France.

Teaching Summary

Sek Lun convenes and teaches International Investment Law and Business and Human Rights on the LLM. He also tutors Foundations of Tort on the LLB.

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