Batbold Amarsanaa (LL.D, Nagoya) is Chair of Department of Private Law, National University of Mongolia School of Law. Besides tenure at the University, Dr. Amarsanaa currently holds and held in the past number of government appointments such as Administrative Law Judge/Member of Supervisory Board of the Financial Regulatory Commission (appointment by the Parliament of Mongolia), Member, Judicial Qualifications Commission, General Council of Courts of Mongolia and Advisor on Legal Policy to the Minister of Mining of Mongolia. He advised on various Mongolian law issues to foreign and domestic law firms which include one of top 5 law firms in the world. He is also an arbitrator of the Mongolian National Arbitration Center since 2010. He has published and co-authored numerous books and articles in Mongolian and/or English in the areas of Mongolian legal system, corporate law and governance, comparative legal studies. His representative publications include Chapter on Mongolia, in OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW IN ASIA, eds. DavidS.Law, Holning Lau & Alex Schwartz, Oxford University Press (forthcoming in 2019 or 2020); Law and Policy on Natural Resources in Mongolia, in EMERGING ISSUES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW AND POLICY RELATING TO NATURAL RESOURCES, ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT, eds. Mitsuo Matsushita, Thomas J. Schoenbaum, Springer, (2016); The fledgling courts and adjudication system in Mongolia, in ASIAN COURTS IN CONTEXT (Chapter 9), ed. Jiunn-rong Yeh, Wen-Chen Chang, Cambridge University Press, 2014 (English); COMPARATIVE LEGAL STUDIES, textbook 2nd edition, 250 pages, 2014 (in Mongolian); S. NARANGEREL, LEGAL SYSTEM OF MONGOLIA, (co-editor of English edition), 246 pages, 2004, Chapter on Mongolia, in DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN ASIA: A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE LEGISLATIONS AND PRACTICES, ed. Jau-Yuan Hwang, 2006 (TAIWAN). Dr. Amarsanaa also published articles in law journals in Mongolia and made presentations for conferences held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Vancouver, Canada, Nagoya, Japan, Seoul and Pohang, Korea, Taipei, Taiwan and Cambridge, UK. He is Editorial member of Law Review of the National University of Mongolia, and Asian Journal of Comparative Law published by Cambridge University Press.
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Erdenebulgan Juujaa is Dean and Professor of Law of the National University of Mongolia School of Law. Prof. Dr. Erdenebulgan specializes in and practices criminal law and teaches the same subject. Prior to serving a Dean of the National University of Mongolia School of Law, he has been teaching at the same school over quarter of century. He has conducted and led numerous research works including research on past and present Criminal Codes in Mongolia. He also spoke in number of international and domestic conferences and seminars. Prof. Dr. Erdenebulgan holds an LL.M and Ph.D in Law degree from the National University of Mongolia. His most recent publication is Criminal law of Mongolia: concept, tradition and lessons (Монгол Улсын Эрүүгийн эрх зүй: үзэл баримтлал, уламжлал, сургамж) (2019).
Khunan Jargalsaikhan, Master of State and Law Science, is present President of the Mongolian Bar Association (MBA). Prior to his election in 2017, he served as Head of Foreign Relations and Cooperation division of MBA. Mr. Khunan specializes in human rights and judiciary, and began his career at a Judicial Reform Project in 2002 before joining the Ministry of Justice and Home Affairs of Mongolia. In 2007 he was appointed as National Project Manager of UNDP Access to Justice and Human Rights project after which he was also appointed as National Project Manager of UNDP Overcoming Poverty through Legal Empowerment project in 2011 and served until the completion of the project in 2013. Later Mr. Khunan worked as National Consultant of Legal Empowerment Project at the Open Society Forum before joining MBA. He has conducted and led numerous research works including research on judicial independence, appointment of judges, application of international human rights treaties at courts, access to justice, mechanism of legal aid delivery, legal empowerment and others. Mr. Khunan holds an L.L.M degree from Eotvos Lorand University of Science, Faculty of State and Law, Hungary.