Joel Arthur MCINNIS

Arthur is an adjudicator, independent legal consultant, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and General Editor of Emden’s Construction Law Hong Kong, 3 vols. looseleaf, Lexisnexis, Hong Kong.  He is an Adjunct faculty member at the University of Victoria, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Melbourne, Royal University of Law and Economics in Phnom Penh, and a Visiting Fellow at the Asian Institute of International and Financial Law at the University of Hong Kong.  Arthur has an international reputation in the field of construction law and projects which is tied to his many years of teaching in Hong Kong at both the University of Hong Kong and the Chinese University of Hong Kong as well as legal practice with Baker and McKenzie, Denton Wilde Sapte and Clifford Chance where he was the head of the firm’s Asian Construction Practice Group.  Arthur has over 100 publications including Hong Kong Construction Law, 3 vols. looseleaf, Lexisnexis, Hong Kong;  Construction Law and Practice in Hong Kong, (2011) 2nd edition. Sweet and Maxwell, Hong Kong (co-author); Project Finance for Construction and Infrastructure: Principles and Case Studies, (2008) Blackwell, London (co-author); The Butterworths Hong Kong Building Law Handbook, (2007) 2nd edition. Lexisnexis, Hong Kong; and The New Engineering Contract: A Legal Commentary, (2001) Thomas Telford, London, and has given over 50 conference papers and addresses.  Arthur was the Honorary Legal Advisor to the Joint Contracts Committee, the body which published the new Standard Form of Building Contract (Private) for Hong Kong in 2005; a Chairman for 10 years of the Appeal Tribunal Buildings (Hong Kong); and a founding member of the Society of Construction Law Hong Kong.  He divides his time between Asia and Hong Kong and has a particular interest in the built environment.