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Alexander Loke JSD, LLM (Columbia), LLB (Hons)(NUS) is Professor at the City University of Hong Kong School of Law, and Director of the Hong Kong Commercial & Maritime Law Centre. Alex was the founding chief editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and was also one of the founders of the NUS Centre for Banking & Finance Law.
Alex publishes widely in contract law, corporate and securities law, and international finance. He was a co-editor of vol. 1 (Remedies for Breach of Contract) and vol. 2 (Formation and Third-Party Beneficiaries) in the series Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia (Oxford University Press). Representative publications include: “Excusable Consent in Duress” (2017) 37 Legal Studies 418, “Rethinking the transplantation of TSC Industries v Northway in Singapore” (2013) 28 Aus J Corp Law 253, and “From the Fiduciary Theory to Information Abuse: The Changing Fabric of Insider Trading Law in the U.K., Australia and Singapore” 54 Am J Comp L 123 (2006).
He is currently researching on hard and soft norms in financial services law, and the theoretical underpinnings of contract law.
He was also an Adjunct Researcher with the NUS Centre for Banking & Finance Law between 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2017.
The hard and soft norms in financial services law, and the theoretical underpinnings of contract law.