Rate My Professor Tania Voon

Tania Voon is Professor at Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge, a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, a Graduate Diploma in International Law, LLB (Hons) and BSc from the University of Melbourne. Previously, she served as Legal Officer of the Appellate Body Secretariat of the World Trade Organization, practised law with Mallesons Stephen Jaques (now King & Wood Mallesons) and the Australian Government Solicitor, and was Associate Dean (Research). She has taught law at the National University of Singapore, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Georgetown University Law Center, University of British Columbia, University of Western Ontario, Australian National University, Monash University, and Bond University. Voon has held visiting fellowships at the Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown University Law Center (2003, 2009), as Senior Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice, New York University School of Law (2014), at PluriCourts, University of Oslo (2015), and at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Faculty of Law and Clare Hall, University of Cambridge (2016). In recent years, she has taught and coordinated JD Torts.

Her research specializations encompass public international law and international economic law. Key publications include her monograph Cultural Products and the World Trade Organization (Cambridge University Press, 2007), editor of Trade Liberalisation and International Co-operation: A Legal Analysis of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (Edward Elgar, 2013), co-author of Regulatory Autonomy in International Economic Law: The Evolution of Australian Policy on Trade and Investment (Edward Elgar, 2017), and co-author of Focus Torts (10th ed, LexisNexis, 2024) with Professor Martin Davies and Emeritus Professor Ian Malkin. Voon serves on the editorial boards of the World Trade Review and the Journal of World Investment and Trade, was on the editorial board of the Journal of International Economic Law (2009-2025), and edited the Oxford University Press Series on International Economic Law (2013-2024). She is a member of the Indicative List of Governmental and Non-Governmental Panelists for WTO disputes, the Roster of Panellists for the Energy Charter Treaty, the list of chairpersons for arbitrations under the European Union’s trade agreements with third countries, and the list of arbitrators under Article 304(4) of the Trade Agreement between the EU, Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. Her work has significantly influenced scholarship and practice in international trade and investment law.