Stephen D. Mau has more than twenty-five years of legal and business experience in the United States and Hong Kong. Before his retirement, he spent eleven years teaching in the Master of Science/Postgraduate Diploma in Construction Law and Dispute Resolution program in the Department of Building and Real Estate at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a HKMAAL-accredited mediator (general), and a RICS-accredited evaluative mediator. He has published articles in international arbitration journals in addition to four books with HKU Press.