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Tên thật Dương Như Nguyện; ten o My: Wendy Nicole NN Duong (Wendy N. Duong).
Cac bút hiệu khac: Uyển Nicole Dương, Ng.Uyen Nicole Duong, Nhung-Uyên, Tho Ty Uyen, Wyndi Nicole Duong Nhu-Nguyen
Sinh ở Hội An, Trung Việt; thời thơ ấu ở Huế và Sài Gòn
Con gai dau long cua GS Anh van/Ngon Ngu Hoc Duong Duc Nhu (Dai Hoc Van Khoa Saigon) va GS Viet van Nguyen thi Tu Nguyen (Tran Quy Cap Hoi An va Dong Khanh Hue); nu sinh xuat sac uu hang dac biet, tuan truong va toan quoc (1972. 1973, 1974); giai danh du van chuong phu nu Le Hai Ba Trung (nguời cuối cùng của Việt Nam Cộng Hoà nhận giải văn học toàn quốc cuả tổng thống, tháng 3 1975, truoc khi Saigon mat).
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Tung theo hoc truong Kich Nghệ Hoa Kỳ (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), nhac kich, va kieu mau thoi trang; hoa si tu hoc (L'Art Brut); Cử Nhân Báo Chí Truyền Thông (Nam Illinois, hoc bổng Hearst); Tiến Sĩ Luật (J.D. Houston, tuyen duong đẳng cấp Coif (Order of the Coif), và giải thưởng Triết lý Luật học, American Jurisprudence Award); Hau Tien Si Luật Hoc (LLM Harvard) (Luan an: Phu Nu Viet Nam; Su lien doi giua Luat Hoc va Van Chuong).
Hanh nghe luat (Texas, Washington, D.C.); Giao Su Luat toan thoi gian, ngach trat thuc thu (Denver, 2001-2011); Tham phan dau tien goc Viet tai My (Houston 1992-95); Hoc Gia va Chuyen Vien Luat Fulbright, Việt Nam/Dong Nam A và Nga (2011-12, 2013). 
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Tieu thuyet tieng Anh: Daughters of the River Huong (first edition Ravensyard; second edition AmazonEncore/Lake Union); Postcard from Nam (semifinalist) & Mimi and Her Mirror (multicultural fiction International Book Award 2011) (AmazonEncore/Lake Union).  Tieng Viet: Mui Huong Que (Van Nghe 1999); Chin Chu Cua Nang (Van Moi 2005); ban dich Con Gai Cu Song Huong (dich gia: Linh-Chan Brown 2005), Buu Thiep Cua Nam (dich gia: Doan Khoach Thanh Tam 2010).
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NGHI LUAN VA NGHIEN CUU (LIEN QUAN DEN SANG TAO VA CAC V/D VN): dang tai o cac tap chi han lam, xuat ban qua cac dai hoc luat, va sach giao khoa ve Luat:
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LIST OF SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:

1. Te trang buon nguoi o Dong Nam A: The Southeast Asian Story and its Forgotten “Prisoners of Conscience”: Some Proposed Legal Measures to Combat Human Trafficking, 9 Seattle Journal for Social Justice Issue 2. 679 (Spring/Summer 2011)  

2. Thong minh nhan tao va v/d dau tu nuoc ngoai, dùng thí dụ cua VN: 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).  

3 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) (paper based on speech at International Law Symposium).

4. V/d Tranh Chap La~nh Tho^? o? Bien Dong: Following the Path of Oil: The Law of the Sea or RealPolitik – What Good Does Law Do in the South China Sea Territorial Conflicts? 30 FORDHAM INTENATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, No. 4, 1098 (April 2007) (book length).

5. Lien doi giua Luat Hoc va Van Chuong: 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).

6. V/d kinh tai nang luong va the gioi thu ba: 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)

7. V/d khai thac dau khi va the gioi thu ba: 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).

8. Nguoi Phu Nu VN : thi si va chien si: Gender Equality and Women’s Issues in Vietnam -- The Vietnamese Woman: Warrior and Poet, 10 PACIFIC RIM LAW & POLICY JOURNAL 191 (2001) (book length)

9. V/d chu~ ky' điện tử: The Magic of Digital Signatures in the New Age of Global-E-Commerce, 15 TEXAS TRANSNATIONAL LAW QUARTERLY No. 2, 26 (April 2001).

10. V/d Hoang Sa Truong Sa: The Long Saga of the Spratly 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).

11. 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).

12. V/d luat pha san cua VN: Bankruptcy Law Comes Into Force in Vietnam, INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL LAW REVIEW 33 (April 1994).

13. Vietnam’s Move to the Market: New Business Bankruptcy Law, 16 EAST ASIAN EXECUTIVE REPORTS No. 4, 7 (Apr. 15, 1994).

14. V/d su pham cua nganh luat: The Practice of Teaching Law: The Why is More Important Than the How, University of Denver College of Law Alumni Magazine 18 (2003).

 SACH GIAO KHOA VA NGHIEN CUU CHO LUAT SU QUOC TE VA SINH VIEN LUAT:

V/d xay dung ha tang co so quoc gia cua the gioi thu ba, qua kinh tai quoc te: Book Chapter, “Revisiting the Build-Operate-Transfer Structure for International Infrastructure Building: A Critique of International Economic Development in Lesser Developed Nations,” in International Business Law in the 21st Century: Challenges and Issues in East Asia, ed. (2012 Cambridge Independent Press).

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BIOGRAPHY ON FILE WITH THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS,

MINORITY COUNSEL CONFERENCE 2018
Wendy Duong & Associates

Ms. Duong spent 18 years as federal litigator and transactional lawyer for 3 major international law firms, the SEC, and Mobil Asia Pacific (Mobil Corporation’s Global Major Transaction Group). She was the first Vietnam-born female lawyer hired by these employers, and believed to be the first Vietnamese law graduate to hold a federal district judicial clerkship in the mid-1980s (Honorable Hugh Gibson (deceased), Southern District of Texas, Galveston Division). From the federal judicial clerkship, she was recruited to leave Texas and began her law practice in Washington, D.C. with the international law firm of Wilmer Cutler & Pickering (now Wilmer Hale), which housed many Presidential legal advisors (Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Obama), including Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Ms. Duong also spent 12 years as a law professor (including her tenure-tracked doctrinal faculty position at the University of Denver, as well as her overseas law teaching in Asia and Europe as  U.S. Fulbright Core Program scholar and legal specialist. She also served as guest lecturer for the ABA's "rule-of-law initiative" international program (2012). Her legal and scholarly publications are listed above.

A corporate law and legal international specialist, she has practiced mergers & acquisitions, corporate legal compliance, asylum law, and foreign direct investment (outbound under export control, OFAC and FCPA standards, and inbound into the U.S. under investor EB5 visas and M&A controlled by CFIUS.

A pioneer woman in her fields, she is known as the first Vietnamese American judge in America honored by the ABA in New York City among other “pioneer minority women in the judiciary,” due to her appointment as associate municipal judge and Texas magistrate (1992).  Houston Mayor Bob Lanier nominated her, based on her dossier as 1991 White House Fellowship Regional Finalist representing the Southwestern States (she withdrew from the final competition due to federal employment restriction (i,e, her then position as Special Trial Attorney for the Office of General Counsel of the SEC would prohibit her from serving as White House Fellow).

Ms. Duong holds a B.S. (high honors) from Southern Illinois University, a J.D. (cum laude) from the University of Houston Law Center, and an LLM from Harvard University (with a straight A transcript and thesis published by the University of Washington).

Prior to and during law school, Ms. Duong was Executive Director for Risk Management for the Houston Independent School District, making her the first Vietnamese woman promoted to the HISD executive rank at 22 years of age.  She attended U of H law school at night while working full-time and nursing her mother through chemotherapy.

PROFILE AS CREATIVE ARTIST:

NG.UYEN NICOLE DUONG 

A self-taught L'Art Brut artist, Ms. Duong received the 2011 International Book Award for Multicultural Fiction for her trilogy of novels on the Vietnamese American resettlement experience.  Her creative art endeavors are to raise fund for her private charity, the GO PROJECT (established under the name of her late mother, whose mission is to serve disadvantaged elderlies, children, and war invalids).  The first-born daughter of a linguist/British Council-Fulbright scholar/linguist and a Vietnamese literature high school teacher,  she thinks of law as her profession, and of the creative art as her vocation.