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Gerald
DWORKIN
Visiting Professor
Visiting period: 5 Jan – 9 Feb 09
Office : ETS #02-27
Tel No : 5201
User ID : lawgd
Professor Gerald Dworkin is currently the Emeritus Professor of Law
at King’s College, University of London.
Professor Dworkin has been actively involved in academic and
professional activities in intellectual property matters for over thirty
years. He has held, amongst other professorial posts, the Herchel Smith
Chair in Intellectual Property Law in the University of London where he
designed and taught a number of different undergraduate and postgraduate
courses. He has also taught at many other universities in Europe,
Australia, the USA and Singapore; participated in WIPO and other course
and conferences; and provided in-house courses for legal and other
professional groups. He has written widely on intellectual property and
related matters.
Professor Dworkin
will be lecturing in the
Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law course, jointly
organised by the IP Academy and the Faculty of Law, National University
of Singapore, during his visit.
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Mark TUSHNET (LL4012 Comparative Constitutional Law) Distinguished
Visitor
Visiting period: 5 – 21 Jan 09
Office
: ETS #02-13
Tel No : 3611
User ID : lawmvt
Professor Tushnet is currently the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of
Law at Harvard Law School, a position he has held since 2006. He was
formerly a Professor of Law in the Georgetown University Law Center from
1981 to 2006.
He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D., as well as an
M.A. in history, from
Yale University. While serving as a
law clerk to
Justice
Thurgood Marshall, Professor Tushnet is
rumoured
to have authored a
memo that dramatically influenced the opinion in Roe v. Wade.
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Chris THOMAS (LL4178 International Legal Protection of Trade and
Investment)
Visiting Professor
Visiting period: 2 Jan – 3 Feb 09
Office : FED #02-41
Tel No : 3626
User ID : lawjct
Professor Thomas is a lawyer and Chartered Arbitrator who has practised
in the field of international trade and commercial law with emphasis on
trade and investment regulation and dispute settlement. He has also
acted as counsel in domestic administrative law procedures (anti-dumping
and countervailing duty cases) and contentious proceedings before the
superior courts of Canada.
Professor Thomas holds an LL.B. from the University of British Columbia
and an LL.M. from Columbia University. He had previously taught at two
Canadian law schools (the University of Ottawa (1984-86) and the
University of British Columbia (1987-89)) and has lectured in many
academic and professional contexts in Canada and abroad. Professor
Thomas is recognised as one of the leading international experts in
trade law.
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Derek DAVIES (LL4181 Developments in the Field of Commercial Trusts)
Distinguished Visitor
Visiting period: 12 - 30 Jan 09
Office : FED #01-05E
Tel No : 6630
User ID : lawjndd
Professor Davies has taught Property Law at the Faculty of Law on an
annual basis as Visiting Professor from 1997 to 2003. He also taught
Equity & Trusts and conducted several courses for the Faculty’s
Continuing Legal Education Programme. In 2000, he was appointed as the
first CJ Koh Professor.
Professor Davies is well-known in the common-law world as one of the
leading minds in the law of equity and restitution.
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Francis REYNOLDS (LL4008 Carriage of Goods by Sea)
Visiting Professor
MPA Professor in Maritime Law
Visiting period: 14 Jan - 19 Feb 09
Office :
FED #01-O5D
Tel No :
8083
User ID : lawfmbr
Professor Reynolds is an Emeritus Professor of Law at the University of
Oxford and an honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. He is also a
Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary QC and an Honorary Bencher of
the Inner Temple.
He specialises in international commercial law - international sales,
carriage by sea, parts of the conflict of laws and the law of agency. He
is the standing editor of Bowstead and Reynolds on
Agency and the editor of the
Law Quarterly Review since 1987. He is a contributing editor to
Carver on
Bills of Lading and Benjamin's Sale of Goods.
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Christine CHINKIN (LL4175 International Human Rights of Women)
Distinguished
Visitor
Visiting period: 2 – 20 Feb 09
Office :
ETS #02-13
Tel No : 3611
User ID :
lawcmc
Professor Christine Chinkin is Professor of International Law at the
London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London;
a barrister; and a member of
Matrix Chambers. Together
with H. Charlesworth, she won the American Society of International Law,
2005 Goler T. Butcher Medal ‘for outstanding contributions to the
development or effective realisation of international human rights law’.
Professor Chinkin is an Overseas Affiliated Faculty Member, University
of Michigan and has been a Scholar in Residence for Amnesty
International (2005), as well as Visiting Professor at Columbia
University (2004) and at the Arts and Humanities Research Centre,
Australian National University (2003).
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Damian CHALMERS (LL4069 European Union Law)
Special Visitor
Visiting period: 2 – 6 Feb 09
Office : TBA
Tel No : TBA
User ID : TBA
Professor Damian Chalmers
is
a Professor in EU law at the London School of Economics and
Political Science. Prior to that he was a lecturer at the
University of Liverpool, and was for 4 years on the Management
Committee of the AIRE Centre. He has held Visiting Appointments at
the College of Europe, Copenhagen, Lund, Helsinki, Michigan,
Instituto de Empresa and Fudan (PRC). He is currently editor of the
European Law Review and EU Jurist. He is the author (with C.
Hadjiemmanuil, G. Monti & A. Tomkins) of European Union Law (2006,
CUP).
Professor
Chalmers last taught EU law at the National University of Singapore
in 2007.
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DANG Xuan Hop (LL4180 Choice of Law for International Commercial
Contracts in Asia and LL4118 Foreign Investment Law in Vietnam)Visiting
Senior Fellow
Visiting period: 2 – 20 Feb 09
Office : ETS #02-17
Tel No : 1105
User ID : TBA
Mr Dang has been a
Visiting Senior Fellow in our Faculty since AY 2004-2005 and has
returned annually to teach modules on Vietnamese Law.
Mr Dang has an LLB from
Vietnam as well as an LLB from Bond University. He also holds an LLM
from Melbourne and has recently completed his PhD at Oxford. Mr Dang has
several years of experience in international commercial practice with a
top Australian law firm and is expected to be appointed as a partner in
the course of this year. Hop Dang is recognised as one of only 2
Vietnamese lawyer/scholars who are qualified to teach at NUS. He is an
excellent teacher whose contributions will enhance the quality of our
Asian Law courses.
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Kriangsak KITTICHAISAREE (LL4073 International Criminal Law)Distinguished
Visitor
Visiting period: 2 – 18 Feb 09
Office : FED #02-01
Tel No : TBA
User ID :
lawkk
Dr Kriangsak
is one of Asia’s leading scholar diplomats. He is currently Thailand’s
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Islamic Republic of
Iran (since 1 October 2007) and was previously Ambassador at Large of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, where he was responsible
for, among other things, counter international terrorism and legal
matters.
Dr Kriangsak has an LLM
from Harvard Law School and a PhD from Cambridge, and has been an
Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law.
He is a recognised
international expert in this field of law. He is also the author of
International Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, July 2001). This
work is one of the leading textbooks in this field and has been widely
used in law schools in Western Europe.
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Imola STREHO (LL4069 European Union Law)
Special Visitor
Visiting period: 9 – 13 Feb 09
Office : TBA
Tel No : TBA
User ID : TBA
Ms Imola Streho is the
Coordinator of the Total Law™ Team, and is Lecturer at Sciences Po,
Paris, where she is Program Director of the Master of European Affairs.
From 2002 till 2008, she was référendaire at the European Court
of Justice in Luxembourg. She is a Doctor of Laws by the Law Faculty of
the University of Paris 2 (Pantheon-Assas) where she is teaching
seminars on the European Judicial System and the Law of the
International Market (Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales).
Ms Streho has also taught
EU law at the National University of Singapore and the University of
Melbourne. From 2000 to 2002, she was a visiting researcher at Harvard
Law School and NYU School of Law where she was the Executive Director of
its Jean Monnet Center.
