Professor Dr. Yann-huei Song was a research fellow in the Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. He retired on February 1, 2021. He received his doctoral degree in International Relations from Kent State University, Ohio; L.L.M. and J.S.D. from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, the United States.

He has broad academic interests covering ocean law and policy studies and currently a member of the editorial boards of Ocean Development and International Law and Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs.

Two of his forthcoming publications are: “Taiwan’s SCS Policy under the Tsai Administration,” in SECURITY, STRATEGY AND MILITARY DYNAMICS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, edited by Gordon Houlden, Scott N. Romaniuk, and Nong Hong (Bristol University Press, 2021), Chapter 4 and “A Preliminary Study of the Potential International Legal Issues Arising from the Plan to Deploy FNNPs in the Disputed South China Sea,” in MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, NEW MARINE TECHNOLOGY, AND THE LAW OF THE SEA, edited by Keyuan Zou and Anastasia Telesetsky (Brill Publisher, 2021), Chapter 5.