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A Conversation with Sally Harpole, Interviewed by Prof. Jarrod Wong

This interview was recorded on February 16, 2024 at the University of the Pacific in Sacramento, California. SALLY A. HARPOLE is an international arbitrator, mediator and attorney-at-law. Since 1977, she has focused on trade, investment, merger & acquisition, intellectual property and disputes between multinationals and Chinese and other Asian parties in a wide range of industries. As an attorney qualified in the State of California and the Hong Kong SAR, she led the China practices of multinational law firms in Beijing and Hong Kong for nearly three decades before establishing full-time practice as an independent arbitrator. After 36 years in Asia, she is currently based in San Francisco, California. Sally Harpole has been appointed as arbitrator, mediator and counsel in nearly 150 international commercial cases in Asia, Europe and North America under both ad hoc and institutional rules. She is recognized on the panels of the major arbitral institutions in the People’s Republic of China and accredited as an arbitrator by major arbitral institutions worldwide. She has served as mediator for international commercial disputes in Hong Kong, Beijing and North America and has facilitated conciliation and settlement in dozens of multi-mode dispute procedures. She was awarded Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator status by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and Fellow status by the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators. She is also a Fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators in the United States. Ms. Harpole has served as an Adjunct Professor, UC College of the Law in San Francisco and a Visiting Professor, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine University Law School. She lectures on arbitration and international law at the law faculties of numerous universities in the People’s Republic of China. She has served as a judge in the finals rounds of the William C. Vis International Commercial Moot competitions for law students in both Vienna and Hong Kong. Ms. Harpole has published articles and book chapters on the subjects of direct investment, dispute resolution and other law topics which appeared in the following: ICC arbitration journal, the China Business Review, IBA Dispute Resolution International, the Wall Street Journal, Contemporary Asian Arbitration Journal and others. JARROD WONG is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Global Center for Business and Development. He is a scholar in international dispute resolution and has been published in the Yale Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, NYU Journal of Law & Politics, Minnesota Law Review, George Mason Law Review, Tulane Law Review and Florida State University Law Review, among others. In particular, Professor Wong has written on complex problems in investor-state arbitration and delivered his papers at major international arbitration conferences around the world, including the Investment Treaty Forum of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, the Annual International Arbitration Conference at National Taiwan University, and the Annual Fordham Law School Conference on International Arbitration and Mediation. More recently, Professor Wong has been studying the challenges to the legitimacy of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). He serves as the American Society of International Law delegate to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III, which comprises state and observer delegations from across the globe embarked on an ambitious multiyear initiative to reform ISDS. Professor Wong is also a member of the Academic Forum on ISDS, which works parallel to and advises the UNCITRAL Working Group III. In addition to representing the American Society of International Law (ASIL) in UNCITRAL Working Group III, Professor Wong also serves on the ASIL Nominating Committee and also previously served on the ASIL Executive Committee and was Co-Chair of ASIL’s 114th Annual Meeting in 2020. Additionally, he was Co-Chair of the ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group and co-chaired the 2018 ASIL Research Forum at UCLA Law. Professor Wong also serves on the Academic Council and Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA). He previously served on the ITA Executive Council and as Co-Vice Chair of the ITA Academic Council. He co-chaired the 2017 Annual ITA Workshop in Dallas as well as the 2013 ITA Winter Forum Conference in Miami.