Description

This conference aimed to

• present the first findings on a variety of Asian contract laws on ending and changing performance;
• critically comment upon and discuss the first drafts leading up to volume V of the Studies in the Asian Laws of Contract series;
• map out the path to publication of these papers.

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Chairpersons

Conference Convenor – Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart, Oxford & NUS Law

Mindy Chen-Wishart is Professor of the Law of Contract and has held the posts of Associate Dean of Undergraduates and of Graduates at Oxford University. She is the Senior Fellow in Law at Merton College. She holds a fractional professorship at the National University of Singapore and holds or has held visiting professorships at Hong Kong University, the National University of Taiwan, Otago University, Auckland University, Canterbury University, Gottingen University and Renmin University in Beijing. She is author of Contract Law (6th ed, OUP, 2018), an editor of Chitty on Contracts (33nd ed), and was a member of the Advisory Group on A Restatement of the Law of Contract in English and Wales. Mindy has lectured to the Judicial College of England and Wales and the Judicial Academy in Taiwan and Hong Kong. She delivered the Plenary Lecture of the at the US 12th Annual International Conference on Contract, and the Fourth Annual Lecture of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly as author of the best paper.

Conference Convenor – Professor Stefan Vogenauer, Max Planck Law

Professor Vogenauer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt and Chair of Max Planck Law, the German-wide network of eleven Max Planck Institutes with an emphasis on legal studies ranging from private international law to competition law, IP, international dispute resolution and tax.

Before taking up his current position he was the Professor of Comparative Law, later Linklaters Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford from 2003 to 2015. At Oxford, he also served as Director of the Institute of European and Comparative Law.

He has taught, among other subjects, Comparative Contract Law, International Commercial Arbitration, Global Commercial Contract Law, Transnational Commercial Law, The Common Law for Civil Lawyers and Roman Law. He has taught and lectured widely in many European countries and has held visiting positions at the universities of Auckland, Melbourne, Paris 2 and Stellenbosch, as well as at Bucerius Law School, Louisiana State University (LSU), National Law University Delhi (NLUD), National Taiwan University (NTU), New York University (NYU) and the University of Texas at Austin.

Apart from legal history, his research interests include comparative contract law and transnational commercial law. He is the editor of the Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2015) and a co-author of the leading student textbook in comparative contract law, the Ius Commune Casebook for the Common Law of Europe: Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law (3rd edn, Hart Publishing 2019).