Professor Bee Chen Goh LLB (Hons) (Malaya) LLM (Cambridge) SJD (Bond) Professor Bee Chen Goh is the first Malaysian woman Rhodes Scholar. She specialized in International Law at Cambridge, and is a Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Society. She was a Visiting Researcher at the Harvard Law School in the Summer of 1993. She is a Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, London. Bee Chen’s particular teaching and research interests are International Law, with a special focus on International Law of Peace, Alternative Dispute Resolution (especially on Chinese, and Cross-cultural Negotiation, and traditional Chinese mediation), and Contract Law. In the field of Chinese Negotiation (also the focus of her doctoral thesis), Bee Chen has published, and presented papers in Australia, New Zealand, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Norway. Bee Chen is well-versed in English, Mandarin, Malay/Indonesian, Hokkien (Taiwanese) and Cantonese.
Journal Articles
Ideas of peace and cross-cultural dispute resolution, Bond Law Review (2005)
In contemporary times, the idea of peace has assumed a deeper and more urgent meaning....
Skill is not enough: seeking connectedness and authority in mediation (law) (with Christopher Honeyman and Loretta Kelly), Negotiation Journal (2004)
Coauthor Christopher Honeyman was struck by the flagging "marketability" of mainstream professionally trained mediators in...
Books
Law without lawyers, justice without courts: on traditional Chinese mediation, (2002)
The Chinese have, since ancient times, professed a non-litigious outlook. Similarly, their preference for mediation...
Negotiating with the Chinese, School of Law and Justice Papers (1996)
Contents: 1. Introduction: Negotiating In The Pacific Century -- 2. Cross-Cultural Perspectives On Sino-Western Negotiation...
Book Chapters
Activating peace education: a Buddhist-wisdom approach, Activating human rights in education: exploration, innovation and transformation (2008)
Typical errors of Westerners, The negotiator's fieldbook: the desk reference for the experienced negotiator (2006)
It's no longer rare for negotiators based in a Western culture and instinctively applying Western...