NUS Law welcomes Visiting Professors – February 2020

NUS Law welcomes our Visiting Faculty for Semester Two of the Academic Year 2019-20.

Andrew CHRISTIE (International Patent Law, Policy & Practice)
Lionel A. Sheridan Visiting Professor

Professor Andrew Christie is the founding Chair of Intellectual Property in the University of Melbourne Law School. He has Bachelor degrees in Science and in Laws from the University of Melbourne, an LLM with distinction from the University of London, and a prize-winning PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is an academic and professional lawyer who specialises in intellectual property law, with a particular focus on copyright law and patent law.

Professor Christie was appointed as the first Davies Collison Cave Professor of Intellectual Property in 2002. From March 2002 to June 2008, he was the founding Director of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), a national centre for multi-disciplinary research on the law, economics and management of intellectual property. Professor Christie has received national and international recognition for his excellence in teaching. He has held visiting teaching and research appointments in intellectual property law at a number of overseas universities, including the University of Cambridge, Duke University, the University of Toronto, and the National University of Singapore.

Christopher SPRIGMAN (Advanced Copyright)
Yong Shook Lin Professor in Intellectual Property

Professor Christopher Sprigman is Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at the New York University School of Law. He teaches intellectual property law, antitrust law, torts, and comparative constitutional law. His research focuses on how legal rules affect innovation and the deployment of new technologies. Professor Sprigman’s widely cited works have had an influence on important aspects of copyright and trademark law, and often belie the conventional wisdom about intellectual property rights. He was an appellate counsel from 1999 to 2001 in the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, where US v. Microsoft was among his cases, and later was elected partner in the Washington, DC, office of King & Spalding before becoming a residential fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society.

Professor Sprigman received his BA in history magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988, and a JD with honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993. He subsequently clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Lourens H. W. Ackermann of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. In 2015, the American Law Institute named him Reporter for the Restatement of Copyright.

Norman P. HO (Traditional Chinese Legal Thought)
Visiting Associate Professor

Mr Norman Ho is an Associate Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. His research interests, broadly speaking, are in legal theory and legal history. More specifically, he writes in the areas of premodern Chinese legal history and legal theory, comparative jurisprudence, property theory, and Asian-American jurisprudence. Prior to joining STL, Mr Ho practised law in the law firms of Slaughter and May and Morrison & Foerster LLP. Based in Hong Kong, his practice focused on a wide range of capital markets, private equity, and M&A transactions, as well as U.S. securities law compliance matters. He also previously taught as a lecturer in the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and has served as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Chinese Law (University of Hong Kong) and as an Asian Law Institute Visiting Fellow at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.  He is also a recipient of the University of Surrey Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) fellowship (hosted by the University of Surrey’s Centre for Law and Philosophy).

By affiliation, Mr Ho also serves as an honorary fellow of the University of Hong Kong’s Asian Institute of International Financial Law. He received his A.B. and A.M. degrees from Harvard University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he received the Howard L. Greenberger Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Comparative Law.