Eliza Z. Xue

Eliza joined the Faculty of Management in 2023 and is a member of the Business Administration team. She teaches Business Law at the BBA level and Corporate Governance and Law at the MBA. Prior to joining UNB, Eliza had been teaching Business and Company Law for over ten years at the Hong Kong Baptist University, where she was awarded Teaching Excellence in 2020.

Her research interests include business law, company law, rules of equity, and legal history and culture. She is also a member in a variety of legal professional associations, such as the Society of Legal Scholars, Academy of Legal Studies in Business and Canadian Association of Law Teachers.

Eliza has a doctorate in law with her dissertation on development of rules of equity and equitable administration in England during Lord Denning's era, an LLM in commercial and company law from the King's College London and Juris Doctor from the Hong Kong City University.

Journal articles

Xue, Z. Eliza (2021). International Commercial Arbitration: Impediments to the Development of Commercial Law? International Journal of Management and Applied Science, Vol. 3(7), 118-122

Xue, Z. Eliza (2020). Piercing the Autonomy in Payment Undertakings: Fraud and Others? Journal of Accounting & Finance, Vol. 20(8), 122-127

Xue, Z., Chan, R., and Young, A. (2017). Case Note: Re Yung Kee Holdings Ltd. International Company and Commercial Law Review, Vol. 28 (7), 265-269

Xue, Z. (2015). Judicial Activism and Trespass: A Critical Review on the W Decision of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal, Peking University Law Journal, Vol. 157, 245-263

Xue, Z. (2015). Lord Denning’s Jurisprudence: From Precedent to Precedent, Research Journal, Vol. 21, 16-18

Conferences and presentations

Xue, Z. Eliza (2024). 'Biculturalism, Indigenization and Multiculturalism: How the Otherness has Shaped the "Mosaic" in the Canadian Legal Landscape' The Society of Legal Scholars 115th Annual Conference, University of Bristol, UK, Sept. 2-5, 2024

Xue, Z. Eliza (2024). 'Shifting Demographics of Faculty and Students in Canadian Law Schools' Canadian Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, University of New Brunswick, May 29-31, 2024

Xue, Z. Eliza (2024). 'Honour of the Crown: An Inquiry' Canadian Academy of Legal Studies in Business Annual Conference, Vancouver, April 26-28, 2024

Xue, Z. Eliza (2021). ‘The New UK Restructuring Regime: To What Extent Shall the Hong Kong Restructuring Reform Borrow from It?’ Society of Legal Scholars, Durham University, UK, Aug. 31 – Sept. 3, 2021

Xue, Z. Eliza (2021). ‘Implementing Human Rights Due Diligence: A Visible Hand in Regulating Multinational Enterprises?’ Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, March 31 – April 1, 2021

Xue, Z. Eliza (2021). ‘International Commercial Arbitration: Impediments to the Development of Commercial Law?’ International Conference on Law and Society, Oxford, UK, Feb. 5-6, 2021

Xue, Z. Eliza (2020). ‘Piercing the Autonomy in Payment Undertakings: Fraud and Others?’ The 33rd Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference, Madrid, Spain, Oct. 7-9, 2020