Colin Picker

Professor Picker is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, and prior to this the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong. Previously, Professor Picker was the Dean of Law within the faculty and prior to that was at UNSW Law, serving in many capacities including as Associate Dean (International); Director (and founder) of the China International Business and Economic Law (CIBEL) Initiative; and Director of the IBEL Stream of the LLM.

Prior to joining UNSW, Professor Picker was the Daniel L. Brenner/UMKC Scholar & Professor of Law at the University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law. Professor Picker entered academia in 2000, after practicing in the Washington, D.C., law firm Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. Professor Picker's practice included transnational & trade litigation, international transactions and international congressional policy work.

Professor Picker has also published widely in the areas of IEL, International Law, China and IEL, and Comparative Law. His numerous publications have appeared in leading publishers and journals around the world, including in the Yale Journal of International Law, many Oxford and Cambridge University Press books and so on. He has taught and presented his work on every inhabited continent.