Accolades

Awards, scholarships and competitive selections recognising Professor Fan’s research on arbitration and mediation.

Award
Australian Law Awards 2021 — Academic of the Year (finalist)
Lawyers Weekly Australian Law Awards.
2021
Award
Beijing Arbitration 30th Anniversary Special Issue — one of the twenty most influential publications
For the Chinese translation of “Salient Features of International Commercial Arbitration in East Asia: A Comparative Study of China and Japan”.
2025
Faculty Scholar
Norton Rose Fulbright Faculty Scholarship in Arbitration and Commercial Law (McGill University)
2017
 – 2020
Award
Best Research Outputs for Arbitration Theory 2015 — China Arbitration Research Institute
2015
Selected paper
2nd Annual ITA Winter Forum (Center for American and International Law)
Selected from 57 submissions through a rigorous review process.
2013
Award
Focused Innovations Scheme: Support for High-impact Scholarship
“This nomination carried enough justifications and evidence for high impact.” — Committee on Focused Innovations Scheme
2013
 – 2014
Selected paper
Fourth Annual Harvard-Stanford International Junior Faculty Forum
One of 11 junior legal scholars from around the world selected to present their work at Harvard Law School.
2011
Award
SNIS Award for the Best Thesis in International Studies (Swiss Network for International Studies)
“The jury found that your subject was timely, addressed in a very original manner and presented in a well-articulated and appropriate form with a logical flow of arguments… your work is an excellent example of interdisciplinary research and your conclusions and proposals reach out beyond academia to policy makers on various levels.” PhD thesis awarded summa cum laude.
2011