NUS Law welcomes Visiting Faculty – AY 2025/2026 Semester 2

NUS Law is delighted to welcome the following Visiting Faculty for AY 2025/2026, Semester 2:

Phase 1

Professor Franco Ferrari; Professor Miriam Goldby; Professor Greg Gordon; Professor Douglas Kysar, Visiting Tan Ah Tah Professor; Professor Liew Ying Khai, Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor; Associate Professor Peter Chau; Assistant Professor Muhammad Rifky Wicaksono; and Dr Georgia Jenkins.

The professors in Phase 1 were introduced to the NUS Law family at the Start of Term Welcome Lunch, which took place at the newly opened Wee Chong Jin Moot Court on the Faculty’s new Kent Ridge premises on 14 January 2026.

At the Welcome Lunch, faculty members took turns to introduce the visiting professors, offering details on their illustrious background and anecdotes to break the ice. Amid the informal lunch setting, the atmosphere was convivial, with much cheerful conversation.

About the Professors/Fellows and their courses:

Phase 1:

Professor Franco Ferrari (Conflict of Laws in International Commercial Arbitration)

Professor Franco Ferrari is a Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law at the New York University School of Law. He was most recently a Chaired Professor of International Law at Verona University in Italy. Previously, he was a Chaired Professor of Comparative Law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the University of Bologna in Italy.

Professor Ferrari has published more than 300 law review articles and book chapters in various languages, and 30 books in the areas of international commercial law, conflict of laws, comparative law and international commercial arbitration.

Professor Miriam Goldby (Legal Aspects of Paperless Trade)

Professor Miriam Goldby is Professor of Shipping, Insurance and Commercial Law and Director of Research at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, at Queen Mary University of London. She was previously Director of the Centre’s Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute and founder and director of its International Shipping Law LLM programme. She is the author of Electronic Documents in Maritime Trade: Law and Practice, the second edition of which was published in 2019, and has published extensively in the fields of shipping, insurance and financial law.

Professor Greg Gordon (International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law)

Professor Greg Gordon is the Head of the School of Law at the University of Aberdeen. He joined as a Lecturer in 2004 after a period working in Aberdeen and London as a solicitor specialising in litigation, primarily in the oil and gas sector, and became a Professor of Law in 2019. He previously served as Co-Director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Gordon’s principal teaching and research interests are in energy law (particularly upstream oil and gas law), delict/tort and commercial contracting. He is an editorial board member of the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia, a Board member of SULI and a Trustee of the TB Smith Memorial Trust.

Professor Douglas Kysar (Climate Change Law & Policy)

Professor Douglas Kysar is the Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and faculty director of the Law, Environment and Animals Program. His teaching and research areas include torts, animal law, environmental law, climate change, products liability and risk regulation. He was previously on the faculty at Cornell Law School. He received his BA summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998. Following law school, he clerked for the Honourable William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Professor Liew Ying Khai (Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region)

Professor Ying Khai Liew is a Professor at Melbourne Law School. He teaches and researches in private law, specialising in the law of equity and trusts, the law of assignment, contracts and remedies. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed international journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Sydney Law Review, UNSW Law Journal, Melbourne University Law Review, and in several major edited collections. His work has been cited by courts around the world, including the UK Supreme Court, the Supreme Courts of India and Sri Lanka, and various courts in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland and the Cayman Islands. He is the founder and General Editor of the Asia-Pacific Trusts Law book series.

He is Co-Director of the Obligations Group and Associate Director (Private Law) of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School. He is a General Editor of the Journal of Equity and an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association (UK).

Associate Professor Peter Chau (Topics in Punishment and Sentencing)

Dr Peter Chau has a PhD from the University of Oxford. He is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He works on the philosophy of criminal law and private law. He has written on a variety of topics, including the sentencing of socially deprived offenders, the exclusion of improperly obtained evidence in criminal trials, and the justification for criminal punishment, tort reparation and restitutionary liability. His works have appeared in journals such as The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Law and Philosophy, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Criminal Law and Philosophy and Ratio Juris.

Assistant Professor Muhammad Rifky Wicaksono (Indonesian Business Law: Theory and Practice)

Assistant Professor Rifky teaches Competition Law and Indonesian Business Law at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. He is currently a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Oxford, and a researcher at Oxford’s Centre for Competition Law and Policy.  He regularly advises the Indonesian Competition Commission, as well as the private sector on antitrust issues related to the digital economy. His research interests include competition law, technology law, data privacy law, Indonesian business law and alternative dispute resolution.

He has taught the Competition Law & Policy course for students at the BA in Jurisprudence, the Master of Law and the Finance programmes in Oxford. His doctoral research examines how developing countries should adapt their competition policies to address the unique antitrust challenges posed by the digital economy. He holds an LLM degree with a Dean’s Scholars Prize from Harvard Law School, and an MJur degree with Distinction from Oxford.

Dr Georgia Jenkins (Digital Remix in EU Copyright Law)

Dr Georgia Jenkins is a Lecturer in Law at Liverpool Law School and Director of the Intellectual Property Law LLM programme. Her research focuses on the intersection of IP and public interests, namely creativity, competition and cultural heritage. Her current research topics include generative AI and authorship remuneration, platform liability/responsibility and freedom of expression, and semiotic disobedience and trademark law.