ABOUT WENDY DUONG & ASSOCIATES

Wendy Duong & Associates is a solo boutique law firm based in Houston, Texas, offering a general and international offshore practice via local counsel's contacts and affiliation, with emphasis on Asia-Pacific and Asian Americans. The firm brings you Ms. Wendy NN Duong's 34 years of diverse legal experience, including her previous career with large firms in high-profiled matters, together with her present affiliated experts in several fields of law.

Publications

WENDY NICOLE NN DUONG
REPRESENTATIVE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Published Interdisciplinary and Law Reviews:

1. Wendy N. Duong, Revisiting the BOT Infrastructure Construction in Developing Economies, in International Business Law in the 21st Century: Challenges and Issues in East Asia 99-116 (Yao-Ming Hsu & Yuichiro Tsuji eds., Cambridge Independent Press 2013), based on " Revisiting the Build-Operate-Transfer Structure for International Infrastructure Building: A Critique of International Economic Development in Lesser Developed Nations," paper presented at National Chengchi University’s College of Law, 2011 International Business Transactions conference.

2. The Southeast Asian Story and its Forgotten “Prisoners of Conscience”: Some Proposed Measures to Combat Human Trafficking, 9 SEATTLE JOURNAL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE, Issue 2. 679 (Spring/Summer 2011) (solicited article) (special issue).

3. Ghetto’ing Workers With Hi-Tech: Exploring Regulatory Solutions for the Effect of Artificial Intelligence on “Third World” Foreign Direct Investment, 21 Temple International & Comparative Law Journal, No. 20, 101 (2008) (book length).

4. Effect of Artificial Intelligence on the Pattern of Foreign Direct Investment in the Third World: A Possible Reversal of Trend, Denver Journal of Int’l Law & Policy(Summer 2008) (printed speech).

5. Following the Path of Oil: The Law of the Sea orRealPolitik – What Good Does Law Do in the South China Sea Territorial Conflicts?, 30 Fordham International Law Journal, No. 4, 1098 (April 2007) (special issue) (book length).

6. Law is Law and Art is Art and Shall the Two Ever Meet? Law and Literature: The Comparative Creative Processes, 15 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, No. 1, 1 (2005) (lead article).

7. Partnership with Monarchs – Two Case Studies: Case Two – Partnerships with Monarchs in the Development of Energy Resources: Dissecting an Independent Power Project and Re-Evaluating the Role of Multilateral and Project Financing in the International Energy Sector, 26 U.Pa. J. Int’l Econ. L. 69 (2005) (book length).

8. Partnership with Monarchs – Two Case Studies: Case One – Partnerships with Monarchs in the Search for Oil: Unveiling and Re-Examining the Patterns of “Third World” Economic Development in the Petroleum Sector, 25 U. Pa. J. Int’l Econ. L. 1171 (2004) (lead article) (book length).

9. Gender Equality and Women’s Issues in Vietnam: The Vietnamese Woman – Warrior and Poet, 10 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 191 (2001) (lead article) (book length).

Trade Articles and Essays:

10. The Practice of Teaching Law: The Why is More Important Than the How, University of Denver College of Law Alumni Magazine 18 (2003).

11. The Magic of Digital Signatures in the New Age of Global-E-Commerce, 15 Texas Transnational Law Quarterly No. 2, 26 (April 2001).

12. The Long Saga of the Spratlys Islands: An Overview of the Territorial Disputes Among Vietnam, China, and Other ASEAN Nations in the South China Sea, 13 Texas Transnational Law Quarterly 26 (November 1997).

13. The Long Saga of the Spratly Islands “Elongated Sandbanks”: Overview of the Territorial Disputes Among Vietnam, China, and other ASEAN Nations in the South China Sea, Currents [South Texas College of Law] 47 (Summer 1997).

14. Bankruptcy law comes into force in Vietnam,International Financial Law review 33 (April 1994).

15. Vietnam’s Move to the Market: New Business Bankruptcy Law, 16 East Asian Executive Reports No. 4, 7 (Apr. 15, 1994).

Typical works in progress (some of the synopses are on SSRN Social Scientist Research Network):

1.            16. From Puccini’s Madam Butterfly To The Statue Of The Awaiting Wife In North Vietnam: 
          Courtroom, Board Room, and Classroom: Where is Portia in the Vietnamese American Experience?
17.
17.  Using Poison to Treat Poison as Antidote in the Post-Enron, Post-Dodd-Frank Era:  Stimulating
Corporate Self-Compliance with the Self-Evaluative Privilege Applicable to Employers’ Internal 
Investigation of Discrimination Claims..

18. Something Extra-Territorial in the Law: Extraterritorial Effect of U.S. Anti-discrimination in
 Employment Law -- Re-examining the Goals and Policies Behind the Citizenship Nexus and the
 Reality of U.S.-based Multinational Corporations’ Global Workforce .

4.              19. The Common Place of Law in the Uncommon World of Vietnamese Immigrants:  The Vietnam War Re-fought in a Massachusetts  federal courthouse --  Example of  Courtroom Use as Chronicle of History.

2020.   20.  Law and Society in a Developing Economy: the Case of Vietnam in the 21st Century (“Law &
 Soc    Society” research based on U.S. Fulbright Core Program lectureship).

5.           21. The Unintended Beneficiaries of the New Defamation “Mitigation of Damage” Statute in Texas and its Chilling Effect.

22.   Book proposal: Suit-casing the Practice of Law in the Search for Oil: The Experience of Vietnam among its ASEAN Neighbors and Against China in Post-Cold War Era.

23. Beyond Musing:  Beethoven’s International Brotherhood Versus Legal Internationalization in the 21st Century -- Music Compositions Versus Law Review Drafting,  A Comparative Analysis of the Creative Processes.

24.    E-Commerce, Internet Publication, and Liability in a Virtual Society.

25.   Geriatric Care and the Law:  The Poor and the Have-Not:  Vulnerable Population, Ignored but at Risk. 

26. New Statutory Requirements for Defamation Causes of Action in Texas -- the Unintended Results.

Published Novels and Creative Writing:

in English:

27. Daughters of the River Huong (historical literary fiction) (Ravenyard Ltd independent Publishing, 1st edition 2005; AmazonEncore 2d edition 2011).

28. Mimi and Her Mirror (historical literary fiction) (AmazonEncore?Lake Union 2011) (winner of International Book Award, multicultural fiction)

29. Postcards from Nam (historical literary fiction) (AmazonEncore/Lake Union 2011) (finalist, International Book Award, multicultural fiction)

30. Book of the Seven Dreams (textbook on creative writing and Vietnamese cultural studies) manuscript to be published)

31. Love, Life and Exile: One Woman’s World (bilingual collection of poetry and poetic prose, paintings and photography, manuscript to be published)

in Vietnamese: 

32. Mui Huong Que (The Cinnamon Fragrance), a collection of short stories, novellas, and creative non-fiction (Van Nghe Publishing, CA 1999).

33.  Chin Chu Cua Nang (Her Nine Words), a collection of short stories, stage plays, and creative non-fiction (Van Moi Publishing, CA 2005).

34. Buu Thiep Cua Nam (translation of Postcards from Nam) (Van Moi Publishing, CA 2009).


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