SPEAKERS
Devon is a pupil barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings. She formerly worked in the banking sector before being called to the Bar. In 2015-2018, Devon was a member of Goldman Sachs’ Executive Office where she supported both the EMEA CEO and Chairman on regulatory affairs, business strategy, and client relations. Devon enjoys combining her knowledge of Banking and Financial Services with her keen interest in the Law.Devon studied Law at the University of Cambridge, graduating with First Class Honours and ranking 3rd out of 212 students. Since 2021, Devon has been the supervisor for Equity and Trusts at St John’s College, Cambridge.Devon enjoys researching and writing on Private and Commercial Law matters. Devon has provided research assistance to Professors Sarah Green, John Murphy, Jonathan Morgan and Jodi Gardner. Her paper, ‘The Gig Is Up: The Politics of Institutional Liability in the Modern Era’, will be published in the forthcoming edited collection Politics, Policy, and Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2023) alongside distinguished academics, judges, and practitioners.
Dr Elise Bant is Professor of Private Law and Commercial Regulation at The University of Western Australia, a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. Elise also acts as a specialist consultant to HFW Australia. She is a general editor of the Journal of Equity with Professor Simone Degeling (UNSW) and Associate Professor Ying Khai Liew (MLS). Elise’s main areas of teaching and research interests lie in the fields of unjust enrichment and restitution law, contract and consumer law, commercial regulation, civil remedies, property, equity and trusts. Elise has been appointed an Australian Research Council Future Fellow to examine corporate liability for serious civil misconduct, including fraud and predatory trading practices (FT 190100475): https://www.uwa.edu.au/schools/research/unravelling-corporate-fraud-re-purposing-ancient-doctrines-for-modern-times
Michael Bridge is a Professor of Law in the National University of Singapore. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a King’s Counsel and a Bencher of the Middle Temple. He is also an emeritus Professor Commercial Law at the London School of Economics and has previously held full professorships at McGill University Montreal, the University of Nottingham and UCL (where he also served as Dean of the Faculty). His outside activities include acting as an advisor to the Fourth American Restatement on Property Law; membership of the CISG Advisory Council (where for a time he was the Chair); membership of the Lando Commission on European Contract Law; and participation in the Trento Project on the Common Core of Private Law and in the European Civil Code Study Group. He is the author of over 150 papers and chapters dealing with contract, tort, conflict of laws, personal property law, domestic sale, international sale, comparative law and uniform law. In addition, his books for OUP consist of: The Sale of Goods (4th edn); The International Sale of Goods (4th edn); Personal Property Law (4th edn); and (with others) The Law of Security and Title-Based Transactions. For Sweet and Maxwell, he is both general editor and contributing author for Benjamin’s Sale of Goods (11th edn) and (with others) The Law of Personal Property.
Christopher M. Bruner is the Stembler Family Distinguished Professor in Business Law at the University of Georgia School of Law. His scholarship and teaching focus on corporate law, corporate governance, comparative law, and sustainability. Bruner’s books include The Corporation as Technology: Re-Calibrating Corporate Governance for a Sustainable Future (OUP 2022), The Cambridge Handbook of Corporate Law, Corporate Governance and Sustainability (co-edited with B. Sjåfjell) (CUP 2019), Re-Imagining Offshore Finance: Market-Dominant Small Jurisdictions in a Globalizing Financial World (OUP 2016), and Corporate Governance in the Common-Law World: The Political Foundations of Shareholder Power (CUP 2013). His scholarship has appeared in numerous law and policy journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal and the Yale Law Journal.
Bruner is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and has presented his work in numerous countries around the world. He has been a visitor to the law faculties of the University of Cambridge, the University of Hong Kong, the University of Leeds, the University of Sydney, the University of Toronto, the National University of Singapore, the Southwest University of Political Science and Law (Chongqing, China), and the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). Prior to entering academia, Bruner practiced with Ropes & Gray in Boston, where he worked with public and closely held companies on a range of corporate, transactional and securities matters. He received his A.B., M.Phil. and J.D. from the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford and Harvard Law School, respectively.
Timothy is a Sheridan Fellow at the National University of Singapore. His present research focuses on novel issues in property law and equity and trusts, including the intersection of established doctrines with digital assets. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in leading journals such as the Modern Law Review, Legal Studies, and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. Prior to joining the Faculty, Timothy practiced commercial litigation in a leading firm, where he acted in banking litigation and in joint venture disputes.
Paul S Davies is Professor of Commercial Law at UCL. He was previously a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St Catherine's College, Oxford. Paul has also worked at the Law Commission. Paul is interested in all areas of commercial law, and has written widely on private law more generally. He is the author of Accessory Liability (Hart Publishing, 2015; revised paperback edition, 2017), which won the main Inner Temple Book Prize in 2018, JC Smith’s The Law of Contract (3rd ed, OUP, 2021), and a co-author of Equity and Trusts: Text, Cases and Materials (3rd ed, OUP, 2019 (with Graham Virgo)). Paul is an editor of both Chitty on Contracts and Snell's Equity. In 2020 Paul was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law. He is also a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and member of Essex Court Chambers.
Jodi is a Fellow of Private Law at St John’s College, Cambridge and a Senior Adjunct Research Fellow at the Centre for Banking & Finance Law, National University of Singapore. From April 2023, she will also be the Brian Coote Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland.
Jodi’s research focuses on the intersection between private law and social policy, spanning the regulation of high-cost credit contracts, the impact of austerity measures, the impact of technology on equality and vulnerability, and concurrent liability in tort and contract. Before moving to Cambridge, Jodi was a Lecturer at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where she completed a D.Phil in contract law and consumer protection under Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart.
Jodi has held visiting positions at Columbia Law School, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Policy at Princeton University, and the Centre on Household Assets and Savings Management at the University of Birmingham.
Özlem Gürses is a Professor of Commercial Law at King’s College London (KCL). She teaches insurance and reinsurance law at KCL and several other institutions in the UK and abroad (including Germany, Italy, Sweden, Singapore, China). Özlem studied her first degree in law as well as master’s in public law at the University of Istanbul. She then studied LLM in Maritime Law (with distinction) at the University of Southampton, where she subsequently completed her PhD in Reinsurance Law. Since 2009 she has been working as a full time academic in England.
Özlem is a committee member of the British Insurance Law Association (BILA). She is Vice-Chair of the Reinsurance Working Party of AIDA (Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances), and she sits in the Presidential Council of AIDA. She is the sole author of ‘Reinsuring Clauses’, Informa, 2010, ‘Insurance of Commercial Risks’, Sweet and Maxwell, 2016, ‘The Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance’, Informa, 2019, and ‘Marine Insurance Law’, Routledge, 3rd ed 2023.
Virginia HARPER HO is a Professor of Law at City University of Hong Kong School of Law. Her primary research interests focus on the intersections of corporate law and governance, securities regulation, sustainability, and finance from a comparative perspective. She has written recently on ESG disclosure reform, shareholder activism, comparative corporate governance, and China's green finance initiatives. Professor Harper Ho is a Research Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute, an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law, and a former Research Fellow of the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF) at the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing.
Justin Lim is a research assistant supervised by Associate Professor Yeo Chuan Seng at the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University. He graduated First Class in his BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford in 2022. During his time in Oxford, he was awarded the Peter Carter Prize for achieving top academic performance in Wadham College. Justin’s research interests are in company law, capital markets regulation, and environmental law.
Kelvin F.K. Low is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, an Executive Committee member of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law (TRAIL) and a Fellow at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business and Centre for Banking & Finance Law. His research interest spans the field of private law but with a particular interest in property, broadly defined. He has published internationally with leading journals such as the American Journal of Comparative Law, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, Legal Studies, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, the Law Quarterly Review, the Melbourne University Law Review, and the Modern Law Review. He is a co-author (together with Michael Bridge, Louise Gullifer, and Gerard McMeel) of the 2nd and 3rd editions of The Law of Personal Property, and co-author (together with Tang Hang Wu) of the 3rd and 4th editions of Tan Sook Yee’s Principles of Singapore Land Law. His works have been cited by the courts in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong SAR, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore as well as law commissions and law reform bodies in Australia, England and Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and Singapore.
Justice Andrew Phang received his Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1982. He pursued his postgraduate studies at Harvard University, where he was conferred his Master of Laws and Doctor of Juridical Science degrees in 1984 and 1988, respectively. In 1990, he was admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore.
He taught at the NUS Law Faculty from 1982 to 2000 and was appointed Professor of Law in 1999. In 2000, he was appointed Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University (SMU), and a year later, became Chair of the Department of Law at SMU’s Business School. He was appointed Senior Counsel in 2004.
Justice Phang was appointed Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court on 3 January 2005 and elevated to a Judge on 9 December 2005, before his appointment as Judge of Appeal on 28 February 2006. He was appointed Vice-President of the Court of Appeal on 28 September 2017. He retired on 15 December 2022 and was appointed a Senior Judge of the Supreme Court with effect from 6 January 2023. He was also appointed Distinguished Term Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University in January 2023 and is presently also a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Reading.
Magda Raczynska is Associate Professor of Law at UCL. She has written on personal property, obligations, and other aspects of commercial law. She is a Co-Director of the Secured Transactions Law Reform Project, and contributed to the Secured Transactions Code developed by the City of London Law Society Financial Law Committee. She is a contributing author to McKnight, Paterson and Zakrzewski on The Law of International Finance(OUP 2nd ed 2017), the author of The Law of Tracing in Commercial Transactions(OUP 2018) and co-editor of Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms(Hart 2020). She is also one the editors of Snell’s Equity.
William Swadling is Professor of Law at the University of Oxford. He is chair of the faculty’s Private Law Research Group. He also chairs the faculty's teaching groups in Restitution, Trusts, and Personal Property. He is editor of a number of books, including The Quistclose Trust: Critical Essays. He is particularly interested in the intersection between trusts, property and restitution, and his writings are regularly cited and relied upon by the apex courts in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore, most recently in Esben Finance Ltd v Wong [2022] SGCA(I) 1. He is a contributor to Halsbury's Laws of England (4th ed, reissue), and is the author of the section entitled 'Property' in Burrows (ed), English Private Law (3rd ed, 2013). He was, along with Professors Peter Birks and Francis Rose, a founding editor of the Restitution Law Review and has held visiting professorships at the University of Hamburg, Seoul National University, the National University of Singapore, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Renmin University, and the University of Leuven. He is an academic associate at One Essex Court (chambers of Lord Grabiner QC), a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, and an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association.
Professor Tan Cheng Han S.C. is Professor of Law and Chief Strategy Officer at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). From July 2019 to August 2022 while on leave from NUS, he was Dean and Chair Professor of Commercial Law at the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Public Affairs and Law. Until July 2019 he was the Chairman of the NUS E W Barker Centre for Law and Business, and was Dean of the NUS law school from 1 May 2001 – 31 December 2011. He is also Chairman of Singapore Exchange Regulation Ltd, President of the Asian Law Schools Association, and a practicing advocate and arbitrator. Some of his previous appointments include being a board member of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Chairman of the Public Accountants Oversight Committee, a Commissioner of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, and a member of the HK Law Reform Committee.
Recent publications include: Intermediaries in Commercial Law (co-edited with Paul S Davies, Hart, 2022) where he also contributed a chapter on “Agency, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Agreements”; “Implied Terms in Undisclosed Agency” (2021) 84 Modern Law Review 532; “Mixed Ownership Reform and Corporate Governance in China’s State-owned Enterprises”, 53 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1055 (2020) (with Wang Jiangyu); “Estoppel in the Law of Agency” (2020) 136 Law Quarterly Review 315; “Piercing the Corporate Veil: Historical, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives”, 16 Berkeley Business L.J. 140 (2019) (with Wang Jiangyu and Christian Hofmann). A paper “The Metaverse Beyond the Internet” is forthcoming in (2023) Law, Innovation and Technology.
Weiming Tan is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law. His research interests lie broadly in commercial chancery law, including equity, trusts, insolvency law, fiduciary regulation, and remedies. His work is published in leading international journals including the Modern Law Review, Journal of Equity, Trust Law International, Journal of Business Law, and Civil Justice Quarterly. In Tan Teck Kee v Ratan Kumar Rai [2022] 2 SLR 1250, the Singapore Court of Appeal cited Weiming’s work with approval. In addition, the High Court of Singapore in Commodities Intelligence Centre Pte Ltd v Mako International Trd Pte Ltd [2022] SGHC 131 has similarly referred to his work. In addition to his research on fiduciary obligations and equitable remedies, Weiming is also interested in investigating the private law responses to agents who commit bribery, and how these responses interact with the sphere of criminal law. Prior to joining academia, Weiming served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel in the Attorney-General’s Chambers specialising in white collar crimes. He also had a stint at the Insolvency and Public Trustee’s Office as an Assistant Official Assignee and Public Trustee.
Hans Tjio is CJ Koh Professor and Director of the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He has published in international and local journals, and written books on company law, securities regulation and trust law, and contributes to Palmer's Company Law (Geoffrey Morse ed). He was previously seconded to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Ministry of Law. He is presently serving as Deputy Chairman of the SGX Listing Advisory Committee, as a member on the Securities Industry Council, the MAS Appeal Advisory Panel, the ACRA Corporate Law Advisory Panel and a consultant with TSMP Law Corporation. He has been a visiting professor at National Taiwan University, Auckland and Shanghai's ECUPL and recently gave public lectures at Tsinghua, Zhejiang, WBNUJS and Warsaw. He has been amicus curiae in the Singapore Court of Appeal and an expert witness in Singapore, the US and Indonesia and provided opinions on Singapore law for cases in France and Malaysia.
Yip Man is a Professor and the Associate Dean (Faculty Matters & Research) at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management. In recognition of her research on business families (with focus on Asia), she is appointed the V3 Group fellow in Family Entrepreneurship. She has written widely in the area of equity & trusts, remedies and dispute resolution. She is the Co-General Editor of Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases, an Editor of the Trust Law International, the Asia Pacific case digest contributor on the law of unjust enrichment for the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, and the co-General Rapporteur for the project on “New Specialised Commercial Courts and Their Role in Cross-Border Litigation” commissioned by the International Academy of Comparative Law. Her most recent publications include Singapore Private International Law: Commercial Issues and Practice (OUP, 2023)(with Adeline Chong) and Trusts and Private Wealth Management: Developments and Directions (CUP 2022)(with Richard Nolan and Tang Hang Wu).
CHAIRPERSONS
Dr Sandra Booysen is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, Deputy-Director of the Centre for Banking & Finance Law and Editor-in-Chief of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. Sandra’s research interests are in the fields of contract, consumer protection and banking law. Sandra’s research has been published in several international peer-reviewed law journals in Australia, Canada, Singapore and the United Kingdom, she has edited two volumes, Financial Advice and Investor Protection, (Edward Elgar, 2021) and Can Banks Still Keep a Secret? Bank Secrecy in Financial Centres Around the World (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Prior to joining academia, Sandra practiced law in London and Johannesburg, with a focus on commercial litigation. She is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales, and as an attorney and notary in South Africa.
Paul S Davies is Professor of Commercial Law at UCL. He was previously a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St Catherine's College, Oxford. Paul has also worked at the Law Commission. Paul is interested in all areas of commercial law, and has written widely on private law more generally. He is the author of Accessory Liability (Hart Publishing, 2015; revised paperback edition, 2017), which won the main Inner Temple Book Prize in 2018, JC Smith’s The Law of Contract (3rd ed, OUP, 2021), and a co-author of Equity and Trusts: Text, Cases and Materials (3rd ed, OUP, 2019 (with Graham Virgo)). Paul is an editor of both Chitty on Contracts and Snell's Equity. In 2020 Paul was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law. He is also a Barrister of Lincoln’s Inn and member of Essex Court Chambers.
Kelry Loi is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law in the National University of Singapore. He was previously Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong; and Lecturer at Merton College, Oxford. He obtained his DPhil from the University of Oxford (thesis entitled “Contracts in Writing: Issues in Rectification for Mistake and Rescission for Misrepresentation”); LLM from the University of London (as a graduate student at University College London (UCL)); and LLB from the National University of Singapore (NUS).
Kelry teaches Contract Law as well as Equity and Trusts at NUS. He used to teach Commercial Law, Business Associations, International Business Transactions and Contract Law at HKU. He also taught Contract Law as Lecturer at Merton College, Oxford.
He writes on commercial law, contracts, and trusts. He has published in leading international journals including the Law Quarterly Review, Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Journal of Business Law, The Conveyancer, Restitution Law Review, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, Hong Kong Law Journal and the Singapore Academy of Law Journal.
Kelry is currently Co-Director of the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) and Book Reviews Editor of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (SJLS).
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 in 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.
Dora Neo is the founding Director of the NUS Law Faculty’s Centre for Banking & Finance Law, and Director of its LLM (Corporate and Financial Services Law) programme. She was previously Vice-Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) at NUS Law, and Director of the Faculty’s Continuing Legal Education Programme. She teaches contract law, credit & security law, and international banking law. Her recent research in these areas have focused on the modernisation of trade finance, secured transactions in Asia, consumer protection in the finance industry, the mis-selling of financial products, and change of circumstances in contract law. Her research interests also include the liberalisation of trade in services under GATS and free trade agreements, particularly in the ASEAN region, and banking law and commercial law generally. She is a first class honours graduate from Oxford University, and holds an LLM from Harvard Law School. She was called to the English Bar at Gray’s Inn in London, as well as the Singapore Bar, and practised law in Singapore before joining NUS. She has researched at institutions such as the United Nations Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in Vienna, Austria, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany, and has taught and presented papers in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. Her past appointments include being Visiting Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille III, France; Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford University; and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School and Georgetown University Law Centre, Washington, DC. She has taught regularly at the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, and was a member of the international academic faculty at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies in London. She has contributed to government policy in Singapore as a member of the Injunctions Review Panel under the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act, as well as at the Ministry of Law on secondment, and on national committees in areas including media policy and retail industry standards. She was a Senate member of the Singapore Academy of Law for several terms, and also served on its various committees , including the Legal Education and Studies Committee, the Publication Committee and the Law Reform Committee, as well as a financial collateral sub-committee of the Law Reform Committee. She is currently one of twelve international members of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT)’s Working Group on a Model Law on Warehouse Receipts, based in Rome. She also serves on the Accreditation Committee of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education relating to continuing professional development. She has conducted training for professionals and government officials in areas including contract law, banking law and world trade law, and, was an instructor from 2007 to 2010 for the World Trade Organisation’s Regional Trade Policy Course for the Asia-Pacific. She has a Certificate in Private Banking from the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore, and a Certificate in Real Estate Finance from the Department of Real Estate, NUS.
Professor Tan Cheng Han S.C. is Professor of Law and Chief Strategy Officer at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). From July 2019 to August 2022 while on leave from NUS, he was Dean and Chair Professor of Commercial Law at the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Public Affairs and Law. Until July 2019 he was the Chairman of the NUS E W Barker Centre for Law and Business, and was Dean of the NUS law school from 1 May 2001 – 31 December 2011. He is also Chairman of Singapore Exchange Regulation Ltd, President of the Asian Law Schools Association, and a practicing advocate and arbitrator. Some of his previous appointments include being a board member of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Chairman of the Public Accountants Oversight Committee, a Commissioner of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore, and a member of the HK Law Reform Committee.
Recent publications include: Intermediaries in Commercial Law (co-edited with Paul S Davies, Hart, 2022) where he also contributed a chapter on “Agency, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Agreements”; “Implied Terms in Undisclosed Agency” (2021) 84 Modern Law Review 532; “Mixed Ownership Reform and Corporate Governance in China’s State-owned Enterprises”, 53 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1055 (2020) (with Wang Jiangyu); “Estoppel in the Law of Agency” (2020) 136 Law Quarterly Review 315; “Piercing the Corporate Veil: Historical, Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives”, 16 Berkeley Business L.J. 140 (2019) (with Wang Jiangyu and Christian Hofmann). A paper “The Metaverse Beyond the Internet” is forthcoming in (2023) Law, Innovation and Technology.
Hans Tjio is CJ Koh Professor and Director of the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He has published in international and local journals, and written books on company law, securities regulation and trust law, and contributes to Palmer's Company Law (Geoffrey Morse ed). He was previously seconded to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Ministry of Law. He is presently serving as Deputy Chairman of the SGX Listing Advisory Committee, as a member on the Securities Industry Council, the MAS Appeal Advisory Panel, the ACRA Corporate Law Advisory Panel and a consultant with TSMP Law Corporation. He has been a visiting professor at National Taiwan University, Auckland and Shanghai's ECUPL and recently gave public lectures at Tsinghua, Zhejiang, WBNUJS and Warsaw. He has been amicus curiae in the Singapore Court of Appeal and an expert witness in Singapore, the US and Indonesia and provided opinions on Singapore law for cases in France and Malaysia.
After graduating from this Faculty, Wee Meng Seng practiced law for a few years before joining NTU as a senior tutor. He was on study leave for a few years where he obtained his BCL (First Class) and D Phil from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis is on contracts and corporate insolvency proceedings. In 2004 he served as a consultant to a statutory board on a project involving issues of insolvency law.