Prof. Michael Sheng-ti Gau has degrees of LL.M. (Cambridge), LL.M. (King’s College London), and Ph.D. (Leiden), all specialized in public international law. He taught at National Taiwan Kaohsiung University (2000-2005), Soochow Law School (2005-2010), the Institute of Law of the Sea of National Taiwan Ocean University (2010-2017), and Hainan University Law School (2017-2019). Since August 2019 he is professor of public international law at the Institute of International Law at Wuhan University Law School. For the past 19 years professor Gau has been working on legal issues of Intergovernmental Organizations (e.g. ICAO, WHO, OIE), law of the sea, Regional Fisheries Management Organizations like ICCAT, SPRFMO and WCPFC, as well as WTO fishery subsidies negotiations.  He used to work for Civil Aeronautics Administration in Taiwan (1992-1993) and China Airlines (1997-1998). He was the head of legal department for the Aviation Safety Council (ASC, similar to NTSB) of the Executive Yuan (1998-2000) in Taiwan. Since 2004 he became ASC Board Member, and the Vice-Chairman (2012-2014). He has been Administrator for Taiwan Regional Round of the Philip Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (2000-2012). Since 2009 his research focus is on maritime delimitation issues, e.g. outer continental shelf, CLCS and the South China Sea issues, including Sino-Philippine Arbitration, with many publications in Ocean Yearbook, Ocean Development and International Law, Chinese Journal of International Law, Journal of East Asia and International Law, Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, and China Oceans Law Review etc.