Stephen D. Mau, Esq. (BRE)

Biography:

Stephen D. Mau, Esq. is a fully-qualified and licensed attorney in the United States and has more than 20 years of legal and business experience in the US and Hong Kong. He has served as a senior registered foreign consultant with one of Hong Kong's largest local firms (125 solicitors) as its Head of Construction and Engineering Practice Group.  Atty. Mau also served as in-house legal counsel to an international joint venture construction company. Before joining PolyU as a lecturer in 2007, he served as an Assistant Professor of Law in City University of Hong Kong's Master of Laws (LLM) in Arbitration and Dispute Resolution. Currently he is the Deputy Award Coordinator for the Master of Science / Postgraduate Diploma in the Construction Law and Dispute Resolution programme in the Department of Building and Real Estate.  Atty. Mau continues to be involved in the dispute resolution field and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the American Arbitration Association.  He has also qualified as a Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre Accredited Mediator (General).

Future Plan:

Having published a number of articles in international arbitration journals, the focus of his research will continue to be in alternative dispute resolution methods, particularly the reformation of the regional arbitration regimes and the development of adjudication and expert determination in Hong Kong. He will also work on the new editions of several books that he published on general Hong Kong legal principles, for instance, tort, contract and property. Apart from legal studies, Atty. Mau is also interested in pedagogy, i.e. effective teaching and learning in multicultural settings, as a result of his education in the US, UK and Austria.