Shahla F. Ali

Dr. Shahla Ali is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the LLM in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. Her research and teaching focus on issues pertaining to cross-cultural mediation and arbitration, international business transactions, access to justice and law and development. Prior to joining the Faculty of Law, she worked as an attorney in the international trade compliance group with Baker & McKenzie LLP in its San Francisco office. She has consulted with USAID, IFC/World Bank and the United Nations Office of Human Resource Management on issues pertaining to access to justice, peace process negotiation training, land use conflict resolution, constitutional reform regarding freedom of religion and principle based evaluation of community mediation.