Joseph Chu is a graduate teaching associate from Adelaide, currently reading law at Oxford for the Bachelor of Civil Law degree. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Arabic and Political Science from New York University Abu Dhabi, a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the University of Adelaide, and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the College of Law. Joseph’s interests include fencing and piano, as well as foreign languages, of which he can speak four. With his World Universities Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship, Joseph will undertake a Doctor of Philosophy in Law at Oxford, for which he plans to investigate the emergent influences of Chinese involvement in the historically Western-led efforts of transnational commercial lawmaking, as well as the diffusion of Western legal concepts into Chinese domestic law from 1980 to 2023. In the future Joseph hopes to work as a law professor conducting research and teaching the next generation of legal scholars.