Professor Booth (BA, Yale University, 1981, summa cum laude; JD Harvard Law School, 1984, cum laude) is a Professor of Law at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i and the Founding Director of the Institute of Asian-Pacific Business Law (IAPBL). He taught in the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong from 1989 to 2005, where he also served as the Director of the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) from 2000-2005. He is also a Senior Advisor at Burford Capital.
ELG Tyler
MA (Oxon); Barrister, Lincoln's Inn and Hong Kong; Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Tasmania and the High and Federal Courts of Australia; Department of Justice; formerly Professor, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong and District Judge Hong Kong; Senior Assistant Law Officer, Commercial III (Companies Ordinance Rewrite Team), Department of Justice, HKSARG.Professor Tyler came to Hong Kong in 1985 from Australia. He was a professor at The University of Hong Kong from 1985 to 1991, when he became a District Court Judge. He returned to academia in 1994 to City University of Hong Kong and retired from there back to Australia in 2005. In 2007 he returned to Hong Kong to a temporary position in the Commercial Unit, Civil Division, Department of Justice working on the Companies Ordinance Rewrite (The new Companies Ordinance was passed in July 2012). He is now working on the Improvement of Corporate Insolvency Law exercise. Professor Tyler has lectured and written on Hong Kong Company Law for the past 25 years.
