Son Tan Nguyen

• PhD in Law, Monash Law School, Monash University, Australia (2009 - 2014)
• Master of Law, Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne (2007- 2008)
• Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Teaching and Learning (with Distinction), RMIT International University Vietnam (2017)
• Bachelor of Law, Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (1994 - 1999)

• Law

• Blockchain-based smart contracts
• Consumer law
• Machine learning and AI pricing algorithms
• Business law
• International trade law
• Corporate governance 
• Business ethics

• 2023 - Consumer protection against unfair contract terms in the age of smart contract’ (2023) 51(4) Federal Law Review 487, 487-508 (A*, under both ABDC ranking and ERA ranking)
• 2023 - Smart contracts and Consumer protection in Australia’ 30(1) Competition and Consumer Law Journal 85 (A, ABDC ranking)
• 2018 - Resolving Jurisdictional Conflicts Between WTO and RTA Dispute Settlement - Possible Roles for Article 31(3)(c) of the VCLT', in The New Law: Suggestions for Reforms and Improvements of Existing Legal Norms and Principles, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, Germany, pp. 211-231 ISBN: 9783848740888
• 2018 - Resolving Jurisdictional Conflicts between WTO and RTA Dispute Settlement: Toward an Interpretative Approach’ (2018) 30(2) Bond Law Review 1
• 2018 - Integration of Judicial Decisions in Multiple Proceedings before the WTO and RTAs: The Potential Relevance of Article 32 of the VCLT’ (2017) 15(1) Canberra Law Review 1
• 2016 - The Applicability of Comity and Abuse of Rights in World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement’ (2016) 35(1) University of Tasmania Law Review 95
• 2014 - The Applicability of Res Judicata and Lis Pendens in World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement’ (2014) 25(2) Bond Law Review 123
• 2013 - The Applicability of RTA Jurisdictional Clauses in WTO Dispute Settlement’ (2013) XVI, International Trade and Business Law Review 254
• 2008 - Toward a Compatible Interaction between Dispute Settlement under the WTO and Regional Trade Agreements’ (2008) 5 Macquarie Journal of Business Law 113

Two current PhD Students (one in law and one in economics and technology).

Head of the Centre of Commerce and Management’s Awards: Excellent in Teaching Award (for individual lecturer), Semester 3, 2016; Excellent in Teaching Award (for course coordination), Semester 3, 2016. 

• 2017 – 2023, Trade Arbitrator at Vietnam's Southern Trade Arbitration Center (STAC)
• 2014 - 2016, Mentor (online) for post-graduate students, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne University, Australia

• 2023 - Now: Interim Program Manager (Accounting and Law)
• 2014 - 2023: Law Lecturer and Course Leader: Civil and Criminal Issues in the Digital World (2023 - now), Commercial Law (2014 – 2023), Ethics & Governance (2015 – 2019), MBA Corporate Governance and Regulation (2017), Department of Economics and Finance, The Business School (TBS), RMIT International University Viet Nam
• 2000 - 2007: Law Lecture, Faculty of State and Law, National Political and Administrative Academy, Vietnam