Professor Chaisse is an award-winning specialist in international economic law with particular expertise in the regulation and economics of foreign investment. His research also covers other relevant fields, such as commercial law, international taxation, and cyber law.
Professor Chaisse is an Arbitrator empaneled with the the Dubai International Arbitration Center (DIAC), the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA), the Asian Domain Name Dispute Resolution Centre (ADNDRC), and the Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration (SCIA). He has decided a number of internet domain disputes in cases administered by the ADNDRC. Professor Chaisse is also a Member of the Board of Review, Inland Revenue Ordinance, Government of Hong Kong SAR.
Before joining the CUHK Law Faculty in 2009, Prof. Chaisse served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of France, and started his academic career in Europe. Since then, Prof. Chaisse has been frequently being invited as a guest lecturer to many prestigious academies and universities around the world, including the Academy of International Investment and Trade Law, Columbia University, Brown University and Boston University (U.S.), and Melbourne University (Australia) where he is a Senior Fellow to the Law School.
Prof. Chaisse has authored a broad body of well-regarded and widely-cited articles on topics ranging from the rise of sovereign wealth funds, the regulation of foreign investment, and decision-making challenges facing the WTO, which have been published in the top refereed journals of international law. In recognition of his outstanding scholarly achievements, Prof. Chaisse received the CUHK Research Excellence Award in 2012, and was appointed Director of the Center for Financial Regulation and Economic Development of CUHK Law Faculty since 2013.
In addition to scholarly work, Prof. Chaisse has wide experience as a practitioner, and is engaged as expert, counsel and arbitrator in international dispute settlement. Apart from his frequently being interviewed by local and international media on current events and legal issues, Prof. Chaisse is also regularly invited to provide legal advice and training courses on cutting-edge issues of international economic law for international organizations, governments, multinational law firms and private investors, including the United Nations ESCAP and ITC, World Trade Organization, ASEAN Secretariat, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, numbers of European countries and ASEAN member states.