NUS Law welcomes Visiting Faculty – 2022 Phase 2 of Semester 1

L to R (1st row): Associate Professor Christopher Hare, Assistant Professor Vigjilenca Abazi, Professor Tanel Kerikmae
(2nd row): Professor Jason Chuah, Associate Professor Ricardo Pereira, Senior Fellow Paul Czarnota

NUS Law is delighted to welcome the following Visiting Faculty for 2022 Phase 2 of Semester 1.

Christopher HARE (Wealth Management Law)
Visiting Associate Professor

Christopher Hare is an Associate Professor of Law and a Fellow of Somerville College. He was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge and was in the first cohort of students to spend their third year at the University of Poiters, France. He then spent a year at Harvard Law School (LLM) and read for the BCL at Brasenose College.

Christopher initially practised as a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings, Gray’s Inn before moving to a fellowship and college lectureship at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has spent the last seven years in New Zealand, where he was a Senior Lecturer in the Law Faculty at the University of Auckland. His teaching and research interests lie broadly in the law of obligations and the corporate and commercial law fields, with particular focus on domestic and international banking law, corporate finance, and shareholder remedies.

Vigjilenca ABAZI (Cybersecurity and Privacy Law)
Visiting Senior Fellow

Vigjilenca Abazi is tenured Assistant Professor of European Law at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
Previously, she was a resident Fellow at Yale Law School – Information Project Society (2019), Emile Nöel Fellow at NYU School of Law (2018), and Fulbright Scholar at Columbia Law School (2014). She holds PhD and LLM degrees from University of Amsterdam and LLM degree from Yale Law School.

In 2020, The Royals Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences named Vigjilenca the recipient of its Early Career Award for her innovative scientific contribution and policy impact. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious VENI research grant by the Dutch Research Council, granted to ‘outstanding researchers who display a striking talent for scientific research’.

Vigjilenca’s work includes five (co)authored books and over 30 scientific peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals. Upon invitation, she has given over 40 lectures and talks at universities worldwide including at Harvard Law School, Oxford University, European University Institute, University of Tokyo, FGV Brazil, Sciences Po Paris.

On issues of privacy, cybersecurity, and whistleblowing, her legal advise was sought by the United Nations, Council of Europe, and various European institutions. She co-drafted the model European law on whistleblower protection and is an honorary appointee at the Government Accountability Project in Washington D.C.

Tanel KERIKMÄE (Ethical Digital Governance and Legal Society)
Visiting Professor

Tanel Kerikmäe is Full Tenured Professor of European Legal policy and Law & Technology at the Tallinn University of Technology. He is a well-known international lawyer and EU scholar who received his academic degrees in law and political science & governance from Tartu, Tallinn, Helsinki and educated himself also in Oxford, EUI, Turku, Cambridge, Strasbourg and Edinburgh. He serves also as a director of TalTech Law School and senior strategist of TalTech Legal Lab, an entrepreneurial hub that consults public and private sector all over the world.

Tanel is a board member of several high-ranked law journals (such as Baltic Yearbook of International Law), chief-editor of TalTech Journal of European Studies and an author of more than 150 articles and publications e.g., published by Ashgate, Martinus Nijhoff, Kluwer, Cambridge Press, Peter Lang, Lexis Nexis, Springer etc. He has been teaching in Nagoya university, Luzern university and was invited speaker for high level expert forums in Brussels, Tokyo, Beijing and elsewhere. He has been active as principal investigator and/or of several capacity building projects funded by EU in Eastern Partership countries, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. Tanel is elected foreign member of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine and awarded with the titles of Doctor Honoris Causa at Jaroslav Mudryi National Law University and honorary professor at Ho Chi Minh City University of Law.

Jason CHUAH (Principles of Port Finance and Regulation)
Visiting Professor

Jason Chuah FRSA is Professor of Commercial and Maritime Law and, formerly, Head of Department at the City University of London. He was the holder of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Award, Barclays Cambridge Scholarship and the Cambridge Commonwealth Fellowship and also has a Certificate in Export with Distinction from the Institute of Export, winning the Clive Schmitthoff Commercial Law prize and the Sweet & Maxwell book prize.

Jason is Executive Director of the London Universities Maritime Law and Policy Group and has been nominated three times for the Oxford University Press Award for Best Law Teacher of the Year. He has been involved in various consultations with the Ministry of Justice, the OECD, the ICC, the Association of British Insurers, the UNCITRAL, etc. He also serves as a member of the Consultative Group on Sustainable Shipping for the UN Global Compact and has contributed to the highly influential ICC-ECCO International Good Practice Guide for Offsets. He has given evidence to the UK Parliament on various matters including access to trade finance and seafarers employment rights. He has published widely, including 11 books and over 200 articles in academic and professional journals.

Jason is the speaker for the CML Seminar, “Greening the Shipbuilding Industry – A Role for Contractual Devices” that will be held on 21 September 2022.

Ricardo PEREIRA (International Energy Law)
Visiting Associate Professor

Ricardo Pereira is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Law at Cardiff University, Law & Politics School, United Kingdom. Prior to joining Cardiff University he held positions in a number of other UK academic institutions, including Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Westminster, Business School (2013-2015) and Lecturer in Environmental and Energy Law at Imperial College London, Centre for Environmental Policy (2009-2012). He has held visiting or associate teaching positions in a number of academic institutions, including Queen Mary, University of London (2010-2014), University College London (UCL) (2012),  Imperial College London (2014 – present) and the University of London, international postgraduate programme (2013-2020). He currently acts as the External Examiner for the Global Environmental Change and Policy programme, Imperial College London.

He joined the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) as Adjunct Research Associate Professor where he has engaged in a number of the Centre’s projects in the field of environmental law and governance. His research interests lie primarily in environmental law, energy law and natural resources law, environmental crime and law enforcement, and specific areas of public international law including human rights law, transnational criminal law, international economic law and the law of the sea. He has published widely in these fields, including in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, the Criminal Law Forum, the Melbourne Journal of International Law and the Review of European, Comparative and International Environmental Law. He holds a Ph.D. in Law (University of Essex), an LL.M. in Public International Law (City, University of London) an LL.M. in International Business Law (Queen Mary, University of London) and an LL.B. in Law (Federal University, Ufba).  His full biography can be seen here.

Paul CZARNOTA (Sports Law & Arbitration)
Visiting Senior Fellow

Paul Czarnota is a barrister at the Victorian Bar, and is admitted as an Attorney to the New York State Bar. He maintains a busy trial and appellate practice in areas of personal injuries/insurance, sports law, and international arbitration. He has extensive experience in sports law. He has Commerce and Law (with Honours) degrees from Monash University, and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Melbourne, where he specialised in sports law. He sat as a tribunal member on the Australian Olympic Committee nomination and selection appeals panels for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. He previously sat as a tribunal member for Basketball Victoria and Touch Football Australia, and was formerly on the board of BMX Victoria. In March 2020 he was appointed by the Australian Government as an inaugural tribunal member (part-time) to the National Sports Tribunal for a three-year term. In addition to practice, he has regularly lectured at the University of Melbourne and Monash University where he has taught courses in torts and sports law.