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Professor Donal Nolan delivers 19th Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitors Lecture
Professor Donal Nolan delivered the 19th Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitors Lecture via Zoom on 30 September 2021, titled “Negligence and Autonomy”.
NUS Law established the “Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitors Programme” in 2012 as one of the several initiatives to pay tribute to the late Madam Kwa Geok Choo, wife of Singapore’s founding Prime Minister, the late Mr Lee Kuan Yew. Under this programme, leading law academics will be invited to teach an intensive course at NUS for 3 weeks and to deliver a public lecture on a topical legal issue. Past visitors included Gary Born, Christine Chinkin, Matthew Harding, Ran Hirschl, Michael Klausner, Peter Mirfield, Francis Reynolds, Cheryl Saunders and Mark Tushnet. The lecture will also be published in the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies in 2022.
The session was chaired by Professor David Tan, with a virtual audience of almost 150 participants. A lively discussion followed the lecture, with Singapore Court of Appeal decisions like ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd and Anwar Patrick Adrian v Ng Chong & Hue LLC being discussed.
The video of the 19th Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitors Lecture can be viewed here.
About Professor Donal Nolan
Donal Nolan is Professor of Private Law in the University of Oxford and the Francis Reynolds and Clarendon Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford. He has taught tort law, contract law, international trade law, restitution and commercial law, and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Florida, the University of Trento and Sichuan University. He is a Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne, a founding member of the World Tort Law Society, and an elected member of the American Law Institute. Professor Nolan’s research is focused primarily on the law of tort, and in particular on the law of negligence, the law of private nuisance and the interface between tort law and public law. His illustrious list of publications comprises close to 100 books, articles, book chapters and case notes.