Locknie Hsu

Locknie Hsu is a full Professor of Law at the School of Law, Singapore Management University. She received her legal training at the National University of Singapore and Harvard University, and is a member of the Singapore Bar. She has received several teaching awards and in 2017, she was conferred the Outstanding Service Award by the ASEAN Law Association (ALA), in which she is Coordinator of the Trade and Investment Group. She was attached to Singapore’s Ministry of Trade & Industry for a period, to participate in free trade agreement negotiations, before returning to academia.

Locknie specializes in international trade and investment law, including areas such as  paperless trade, FTAs, digital commerce, business applications of technology, and developments relating to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), including its Digital Silk Road. She currently teaches Contract Law to students in the Computing & Law programme, and an elective course which she pioneered in 2019, Law & Digital Commerce, to law students. In March 2018, the Final Report in a research project led by Locknie, “Improving Connectivity Between ASEAN’s Legal Systems to Address Commercial Issues”, containing recommendations on matters such as Digital Economy and connectivity issues in ASEAN, was published.

Locknie is a member of the International Law Association and a member of the Singapore Executive Council of the ASEAN Law Association.