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Profiles

Conference Convenor – Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law
University of Oxford

Mindy Chen-Wishart is a Professor of the Law of Contract at Oxford University and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Merton College. She was formerly a Senior Lecturer at Otago University in New Zealand and a Rhodes Visiting Research Fellow at St. Hilda’s College before taking up her current position. She has taught Contract, Restitution, Torts and Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Consumer Protection Law and Introduction to Law. She is involved in graduate teaching in Philosophical Foundations of the Common Law and Private Law and Fundamental Rights. She is author of Contract Law (5th ed), and is leading a large project on the Contract Laws of Asia, to be published with OUP. She holds a fractional Professorship at the National University of Singapore and a Visiting Professorship at Hong Kong University. She is the Associate Dean of Taught Graduate Studies at Oxford Law Faculty. She delivered the Fourth Annual International and Comparative Quarterly Lecture as author of the best paper in 2013, has lectured to the Judicial College in the UK, Hong Kong and Taiwan and is an Editor of Chitty.

Conference Convenor – Professor Stefan Vogenauer
Max Planck Institute

Professor Vogenauer is a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society. He has been Director of the Institute and Head of Department I since 1 October 2015. In January 2016 he took over the Managing Directorship of the Institute.

From 2003 to 2015 Vogenauer held the established Chair in Comparative Law at the University of Oxford where he also was a Fellow of Brasenose College and, since 2004, Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.

Vogenauer was born in Germany (Eutin) in 1968. He read law at the Universities of Kiel, Paris and Oxford (MJur 1995) and did his practical training in Regensburg where he also was a research assistant at the university. He went on to be a Senior Research Fellow at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.

In 2012 a Humboldt Award was conferred upon him ‘in recognition of his lifetime achievements in research’. For his comparative and historical analysis of the interpretation of statutes in English, French, German and EU law, ‘Die Auslegung von Gesetzen in England und auf dem Kontinent’, he was awarded the Max Weber Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society in 2002, as well as the 2008 Prize of the German Legal History Conference.

Vogenauer has held visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, Paris II and Stellenbosch, and also at Bucerius Law School, Louisiana State University (LSU), New York University (NYU) and the University of Texas at Austin.

Conference Convenor – Professor Hiroo Sono
Hokkaido University, Faculty of Law

Hiroo Sono is a Professor of Law at Hokkaido University, Japan. Before joining the faculty at Hokkaido University in 2004, he taught at Kanazawa University (1994- 1998) and Kyushu University (1998-2004).

His main fields of research interest lay in contract law (including consumer law) and international commercial law. He approaches these fields from the perspective of interaction between private ordering and the regulatory function of private law; and also from the perspective of globally and regionally coordinated developments in commercial law.

Recently, he has been most active in the field of international commercial law. He is one of the founding members of the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC) since 2001 and the Global Private Law Forum (GPLF) of Japan since 2014. From 2006 to 2008, he served as Counsellor, Civil Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Justice where he was responsible for Japan’s accession to the CISG. Since 2008 he serves as the Japanese delegate to UNCITRAL Working Group VI (Security Interests).

At Hokkaido University, he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on Japanese Civil Law (including contracts, torts, obligations, property, and secured transactions) and International Commercial Law. He also holds seminars to prepare students for the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competitions.

He holds an LL.M. from the University of Michigan Law School where he was also visiting scholar in 1990-1991. In 2000-2001, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Ahn Taeyong
Common International Law Office

Tae Yong Ahn is a practitioner of law in Korea in the areas of contract, corporate, labour, fair trade, tort and dispute resolution, especially for international business concerns. He received an LLB from Seoul National University, JD cum laude from Fordham University School of Law in New York, and an LLM from New York University School of Law, and is licensed to practice in Korea and New York. He served as a member of the contract law and tort law divisions of the Commission of the Ministry of Justice of Korea on the Amendment of the Korean Civil Code, and a member of the Accessible Civil Code Revision Committee of the Korean government. He also served as an examiner of the Korean Bar Exam. He translated the European Draft Common Frame of Reference for the government’s comparative civil code reference sources project. He was involved for more than 7 years in the international project known as “PACL” (Principles of Asian Contract Law). He is the writer of the two chapters on the remedies for breach of contract under Korean law in the first volume of this series.

Professor Hugh Beale
University of Warwick

Hugh Beale QC FBA is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick in the UK and Senior Research Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. He was a Law Commissioner from 2000-2007, responsible for the Commercial and Common Law team. He was a member of the Commission on European Contract Law 1987-2000, of the Study Group on a European Civil Code and of the Group of Experts called upon to draft the Feasibility Study for a Common European Sales Law. Among his publications, he is an editor (with B FauvarqueCosson, J Rutgers, D Tallon and S Vogenauer) of Casebooks on the Common Law of Europe: Contract Law (3rd ed, 2018, forthcoming). He is the General Editor of Chitty on Contracts (32nd ed., 2015).

Associate Professor Gary F. Bell
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

After an undergraduate degree in theology (BTh) at the Université Laval (Quebec City), Gary F. Bell obtained degrees in both the common law (LLB) and the civil law (BCL.) at McGill University in Montreal and an LLM at Columbia University in New York City. He was Editor in Chief of the McGill Law Journal, clerked for Justice Stevenson of the Supreme Court of Canada and taught at McGill University. He teaches in comparative law (Comparative Legal Traditions, International and Comparative Law of Sale, Indonesian Law). He does most of his research on Indonesian law and on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

Associate Professor Sandra Booysen
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Dr Sandra Booysen is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore with research interests in contract and banking law. She has published in a variety of international journals and is co-editor of Can Banks Still Keep a Secret? Bank Secrecy in Financial Centres Around the World (Cambridge University Press, 2017). Sandra is an Executive Committee Member of NUS Law’s Centre for Banking and Finance Law, and the Case and Legislation Notes Editor of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. A graduate from Rhodes University and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Sandra started her legal career in commercial litigation in London and Johannesburg. She has been admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales and as an attorney and notary in South Africa. After moving to Singapore and completing her PhD, she joined NUS Law in 2009.

Professor Michael Bridge
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Having obtained my bachelors and masters degrees from the London School of Economics, I started my academic career at the Universities of Leicester and Leeds before moving to Canada, where I held the position of Professor of Law at McGill University, Montreal. On my return to England, I was the Hind Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Nottingham, and Head of the Law Department for several years, later the Professor of Commercial Law at UCL, where I was also Executive Dean of the Faculty of Laws, and latterly the Cassel Professor of Commercial Law at the London School of Economics.

Professor Adrian Briggs
University of Oxford

Adrian Briggs QC is Professor of Private International Law at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Law at St Edmund Hall; he also practises from chambers in the Temple. He has been teaching in Oxford since 1980. His main interest has always been in private international law, and within that, in questions of civil jurisdiction and the effect of foreign judgments. He spent 15 years as one of the editors of Dicey, Morris and Collins, The Conflict of Laws, but his own perspective on the subject, in its increasingly European guise, was published as Private International Law in English Courts, the first edition of which came out in October 2014 and took its place alongside his several other books on private international law, of which Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments is the most established. When the dust settles, and it is possible to see the outlines of private international law after secession from the European Union, it will be time to return to the task of writing monographs on the subject. In the meantime, his Private International Law in Myanmar (published in 2015) and The Law of Contract in Myanmar (jointly written with Andrew Burrows and published in 2017) have been providing an alternative, and completely absorbing, intellectual challenge.

Distinguished Professor Chen Tsung-Fu
National Taiwan University, College of Law

Graduating summa cum laude in 1987 from the Department of Law, NTU, Professor Tsung-Fu Chen practiced law in Taiwan for two years and later received his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1994 and his Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) from New York University School of Law in 1997. He teaches Taiwan Civil Code (including contract law and tort law), Comparative Contract Law, Comparative Tort Law, and Medical Law, and has published eight books entitled “An Introduction to the Civil Code,” “General Principles of Civil Code,” “Principles of Tort Law,” “Freedom of Contract and Good Faith,” “Causation and Damages,” “Tort Liability and Damages,” “Wrongfulness in Tort and Damages,” and “Formation and Evolution of Medical Liability.”

Professor Chen was a Visiting Professor both at Hawaii University Law School in 2006 and at Renmin University Law School in 2007. He won the National Teacher’s Prize granted by the Ministry of Education in 2013, NTU Fu Sue-nian Memorial Chair Professor, Tsai Wan-tsai Chair Professor of Law in 2017, and many excellent teaching prizes from the NTU during the past years.

Dr Cheong May Fong
Australian Catholic University, School of Law

Dr Cheong May Fong is a Senior Lecturer at the Thomas More School of Law, Faculty of Law and Business, Australian Catholic University. She is Visiting Professorial Fellow at University of New South Wales and Adjunct Professor at Multimedia University Malaysia, and was formerly Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya. She has previously practiced as a commercial litigation lawyer at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia having been admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya. Her main research areas are contract law, commercial law, consumer law, remedies and unfair contracts. She is author of Contract Law in Malaysia (2010), co-author of Civil Remedies (2016) and Evidence Law in Malaysia and Singapore: Cases and Commentary (2013). Her other research interest is the legal and regulatory frameworks of competition law regimes in ASEAN. She has taught a wide range of subjects in private law and currently teaches Contract, and False or Misleading Conduct and Economic Torts.

Associate Professor Wayne Courtney
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Wayne Courtney specialises in contract law and has broader interests in commercial law and private law. His work has been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal, the UK Supreme Court, the High Court of Australia, and various other courts. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contract Law, section co-editor (SE Asia) for the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, and a past member of the editorial board of the Sydney Law Review. He has been a visiting scholar at Osgoode Hall, York University and the Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Wayne joined NUS from the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney, where he had been an Associate Professor and Associate Dean. Before entering academia, Wayne practised as a commercial lawyer in a leading Australian law firm and also in-house at a major multinational company.

Dr Michael Dizon
University of Waikato

Michael Anthony C. Dizon is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. He previously worked as a lawyer and researcher for institutions and organisations in the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the Philippines. For a number of years, he was a Lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Law where he taught courses in commercial law. He has also been engaged in legal practice having been an associate attorney at a Philippine law firm, a corporate lawyer for a privately held investment company, and a professional support lawyer with a global law firm.

Mr Do Giang Nam
Vietnam National University, School of Law

Do Giang Nam is a lecturer at the Civil Law Department, School of Law, Vietnam National University, Ha Noi, Viet Nam. He graduated from Viet Nam National University as a Valedictorian for undergraduate class of 2005-2009. He continued his LLM in Comparative Law in SMU Dedman School of Law, the USA in 2012 before earning his PhD degree at Utrecht University, the Netherlands in 2017. His research interest includes contract law, property law, comparative law, consumer protection law and legal education.

Associate Professor Goh Yihan
Singapore Management University, School of Law

Dean, School of Law
Associate Professor of Law
LL.M., Harvard University, 2010

Professor Kihara Hiroyuki
Asia University Tokyo

Hiroyuki Kihara is a Professor of Law at Asia University, Japan. He received his doctor’s degree in law from Yokohama National University, Japan in 2004. He was a visiting researcher at Oxford University Law Faculty from 2010 to 2011. His major research interests are contract law, comparative contract law, consumer protection law, and tort law. He is a member of the Japan Association of Private Law, Japan Society of Comparative Law and the Japanese American Society for Legal Studies. He also serves as a member to the Advisory Group of Nepalese Civil Law Reform of JICA’s (Japan International Cooperation Agency) Legal Assistance Project, which supports the drafting of the Bill of Civil Code in Nepal.

Professor Lusina Ho
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law

Professor Lusina Ho applies her expertise in both common law and civil law trusts to analyse laws and regulations pertaining to the use of trusts in China. Her book, Trust Law in China, published in 2003, is so far the only comprehensive critique of the Chinese Trust Law in the English legal literature, and has enabled international experts to gain a thorough understanding of the subject. Her research has provided much-needed analysis, given the burgeoning interest in the use of trusts in private wealth management in China, and the world-wide growth in the adoption of the trust.

After obtaining her undergraduate and Masters degrees in Laws from the University of Oxford, Professor Ho joined the Faculty of Law at HKU in 1992. While pursuing her research interests in Trust and Equity, Restitution, and Comparative trust, she has provided advice to both the Central Government on the enactment of the Chinese Trust Law, and the HKSAR Government on the reform of the Trustee Ordinance.

The work of Professor Ho has been published widely and has been cited in the English House of Lords and the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and has been translated and published in Japanese. She serves as a member of the international board of editors of the Journal of Equity, and as a country representative for China of Trusts and Trustees. She is also an invited member of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Professor Ho has been invited to give public lectures in Tokyo, Montreal and Auckland, and has delivered invited papers at conferences in Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, Vienna, Montreal, Changsha, Chengdu, Seoul, Yokohama and Singapore. She received the University Teaching Fellowship award in 2000 for excellence in teaching, and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from HKU in 2006.

Specialized Areas: Obligations, Restitution, Trusts, Non-profit Law

The Honorable Justice and Professor Jan Sheng-Lin
National Taiwan University, The Constitutional Court Taiwan and College of Law

Professor Sheng-Lin Jan graduated from the Department of Law and the Graduate Institute of Law, NTU in 1979 and 1984 respectively. After several years of being practicing attorney, he pursued his Doctor of Laws at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and earned the degree of Dr. iur. in February 1992. Professor Jan has become a faculty member at the Department of Law at NTU since August 1992. He specializes in civil law, consumer protection law, government procurement law and comparative private law, and has prolifically written articles on issues of these topics. Professor Jan is the author of several well-known books. He has served as the founding Director of the Graduate Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies and Vice Dean of the College of Law, NTU. He mainly teaches Civil CodeGeneral Principles, Civil Code-Law of Obligations, Consumer Protection Law, Chinese Civil Law, Case Studies on Contract Law and Tort Law, Case Studies on the Development of the Supreme Court Decisions, and Comparative Study on German Court Decisions.

Professor Jan is also editor of several renowned national and international law journals or periodicals.

Dr. Trần Kiên
Vietnam National University, School of Law

Tran Kien is a lecturer in laws at the School of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He earned both his PhD and Master degree at the University of Glasgow, Britain in 2015 and 2010 respectively. Prior to his postgraduate studies overseas, he had completed his first law degree at Vietnam National University, Hanoi (2007).

At the School of Law, his teaching is primarily focused on private law including but not limited to Roman law, Civil law, and Intellectual property law at both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. However, Kien’s research is more diverse and interdisciplinary. His research on child support, family and marriage law, immigrant workers, human rights and constitution has been published on a number of domestic as well as international journals and books. At this moment, his research interests lie in the reform and development of law of Vietnam in the context of transition, post-socialist. He is also interested in understanding how other fields of social science such as history, art, economics can inform or influence our perception about law.

Professor Kong Phallack
Pannasastra University of Cambodia

Prof. KONG Phallack holds LL.M. from Nagoya University, Graduate School of Law (Japan), LL.B. from the Royal University of Law and Economics (Cambodia) and Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) from the Royal University of Health Science (Cambodia). Prof. Phallack has served as a Dean and taught laws at Faculty of Law and Public Affairs of Pannasastra University of Cambodia since 2001 and he has been promoted to be a Professor status in March 2016 after 15 years of involvement in teaching and research. He has conducted researches and published number of articles and books locally and internationally.

Prof. Phallack has extensive professional experience working with government, parliament, courts, development partners, private sectors, political parties, trade unions, civil societies and media for more than 16 years in the field of laws and policies development and training; and strategic plan development. His primary expertise is ADR ( Negotiation, Mediation and Arbitration), business law, labor law, intellectual property law, civil law, and public private partnership. He recently has extended his research interest in business and human right, access to information, Environmental law(Environmental ADR), Law and religions.

Besides teaching and research, Prof. KONG Phallack serves as Attorney at law of KhmerLex Legal Solutions, an arbitrator, the Arbitration Council since 2003, an Arbitrator of Kuala Lumpur Regional Center for Arbitration, KLRC in Malaysia since 2012 (New appointment valid from 2017-2020); and a regional mediator of Compliance Advisor Ombudsman, an Independence Recourse Mechanism of IFC/MIGA, World Bank Groups since 2013, a PPP legal specialist of Asian Development Bank and social protection legal expert of GIZ.

Prof. Phallack has involved in teaching, working and providing pro bono services in Denmark, Laos, Vietnam, Singapore and Myanmar on specific topics such as model court project, clinical legal education, conflict resolution and mediation, employment and Labor Law, Rule of law and religion in Cambodia, Religious Conflict Resolution, Community and company mediation, and other legal trainings. He has joined PACL Team in drafting Principles of Asian Contract Law (PACL). PACL Team is composed of Professors from Japan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar and Cambodia.

Mr K V Krishnaprasad
University of Oxford and One Essex Court, Exeter College, London

Krishnaprasad is a DPhil candidate in law at Exeter College, University of Oxford and a pupil-barrister at One Essex Court, London.

He completed an undergraduate degree in law from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (India) in 2012. Subsequently, he read for the BCL (Distinction), MPhil (Distinction) and DPhil at the University of Oxford.

Krishnaprasad has an academic interest in private law in general and on the restitution of unjust enrichment in particular. On the DPhil, he explores the relationship between unjust enrichment claims and other private law obligations.

Professor Kwon Youngjoon
Seoul National University, School of Law

Youngjoon Kwon is a Professor of Law at Seoul National University. He earned his LL.B. (summa cum laude), LL.M., and Ph. D from Seoul National University, and LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He was a visiting scholar at Max-Planck Institute (Hamburg, Germany), and Duke Law School (Durham, USA). He teaches and does his research in the field of private law, mainly on contract, tort, property, and secured transaction. He also writes on the subjects of intellectual property law.

After passing the National Judicial Examination in which he earned the highest score among 21,000 applicants nationwide, Professor Kwon previously worked as a Judgeadvocate in the Republic of Korea Navy and the Republic of Korea Marines, a Judge in various courts where he sat as either an associate judge or as a presiding judge dealing with civil and criminal cases. He was also the director for international affairs in the National Court Administration.

During his professorship, he worked as the Associate Dean at Seoul National University School of Law, the Director at Law and Technology Center, and a committee member in various governmental committees including the Committee for the Civil Code Reform, the Korea Copyright Committee, the National Legal Policy Advisory Committee, the International Trade Law Research Committee. He has also been serving as a delegate to the UNCITRAL Working Group ? (Secured Transaction) since 2010. He authored and co-authored numerous books and articles in the field of civil law and intellectual property law both in Korean and in English. He received numerous prizes and awards for his research and teaching, including the Article of the Year (Korea Legal Center), Best Article Award (Law Research Institute, Seoul National University), Outstanding Book (The National Academy of Science), and Teaching Award (Seoul National University School of Law).

Mr Jeremiah Lau
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Jeremiah joined the faculty as a Sheridan Fellow in 2017. He graduated from NUS Law with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) in 2015. He received the Montrose Memorial Prize for the best performance in Jurisprudence while a student at NUS. While at school, Jeremiah also took a keen interest in mooting. He represented NUS in two international moots, winning both, and was also awarded various best speaker prizes.

Jeremiah’s main research interests are in the law of equity and trusts, competition law and jurisprudence. He is especially interested in the applicability of philosophical and jurisprudential ideas to issues that arise in black-letter law.

Prior to joining NUS, he was practicing commercial litigation and arbitration at a leading law firm.

Associate Professor Rebecca Lee
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law

Rebecca Lee is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong. She received her LLB and BCL from the University of Hong Kong and University of Oxford respectively. She researches in Equity & Trusts and Non-profit Law, and related aspects in Chinese law, including comparative trusts, third sector and adult guardianship laws.

Dr Lee Yin Harn
University of Sheffield

Dr Lee Yin Harn joined the University of Sheffield as a Lecturer in 2014, where she researches and teaches primarily in the area of Intellectual Property Law. She also has research interests in the area of private law remedies: she is the co-author of the second edition of Civil Remedies, a leading Malaysian textbook on the subject, and was a contributor to the first volume of the Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia series. She also designed, and currently convenes, a compulsory first-year module on Remedies in Private Law at the University of Sheffield. She holds an LLB (Hons) (with Distinction) from the University of Malaya, and an LLM and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her PhD thesis focused on the copyright issues surrounding the modification of videogames by players, and is currently under contract to be published as a monograph by Cambridge University Press. She was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor, High Court of Malaya, in 2007.

Assistant Professor Rachel Leow
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Rachel read for her LLB at NUS before heading to Cambridge, where she completed her LL.M. and Ph.D at Downing College. During her time at Cambridge, she won the Chancellor’s Medal in English Law and the Gareth Jones Prize for the Law of Restitution (with the highest mark ever recorded at that time), among other prizes. Her PhD, “Companies in Private Law: Attributing Acts and Knowledge” examined the rules of attribution of actions and knowledge to companies across contract, tort, unjust enrichment, and selected aspects of equitable liability. Rachel’s research interests lie in private law, particularly the laws of unjust enrichment, trusts, agency, and commercial equity.

Assistant Professor Timothy Liau
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Tim is currently a DPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, working on the idea of standing in private law. He is primarily interested in private law, its foundational concepts, and their justifications. Within the law of obligations, he has particular interests in the laws of contract and unjust enrichment, and in remedial issues. His publications on these issues have been cited approvingly by leading textbooks, academics, and by the Singapore High Court and Court of Appeal.

Tim graduated as top student from the National University of Singapore (LLB) in 2014, winning fourteen prizes, including faculty and university level prizes for outstanding undergraduate research. He was appointed an inaugural Sheridan Fellow at NUS immediately thereafter, lecturing and teaching tutorials in contract law for a year, before coming to Oxford in 2015 as a Clarendon Scholar, where he completed the BCL with distinction. His MPhil, entitled ‘Reforming Privity of Contract: Third Party Rights or Third Party Powers?’, proves why it matters for the contract lawyer that we recognise a separate concept of standing within private law.

Associate Professor Kelry Loi
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Kelry Loi was an Assistant Professor with the Faculty of Law in the University of Hong Kong where he convened the Commercial Law course (LL.B. and J.D.) and had participated in teaching Global Business Law (LL.B. and LL.M.), Business Associations (LL.B.) and Contract (LL.B.). He has a LL.M. from the University of London and a LL.B. from NUS.

His recent work include publications relating to Quistclose trusts and Romalpa clauses (Law Quarterly Review (2012), Hong Kong Law Journal (2011), Restitution Law Review (2008) and Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly (2008)), sale of goods (Journal of Business Law (2007) and Hong Kong Law Journal (2009)), trustee exemption clauses (The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer (2011)), mortgagees’ and receivers’ duties (Journal of Business Law (2010), The Conveyancer & Property Lawyer (2010) and Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (2009)), bills of exchange (Chitty on Contracts – Hong Kong Specific Contracts (2008)), performance guarantees (Singapore Academy of Law Journal (2011)) and contract (Law Quarterly Review (2009)).

Associate Professor Dora Neo
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Dora Neo started her career as an advocate and solicitor before joining the NUS Law Faculty. She is the founding Director of the Faculty’s Centre for Banking and Finance Law, and was previously Vice-Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) and Director of the Faculty’s Continuing Legal Education Programme. She teaches contract law, credit & security law and international banking law. She also researches on the liberalisation of trade in services under GATS and in the ASEAN region. Her recent publications include Booysen & Neo (eds), Can Banks Still Keep a Secret? Bank Secrecy in Financial Centres Around the World (Cambridge University Press, 2017). She is a graduate of Oxford and Harvard Universities, and was called to the Bar in England (Gray’s Inn) and in Singapore. She is a member of the Accreditation Committee of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education, and has been a visiting professor at universities such as the University of Aix Marseille III, France and the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, China. She was a contributor to Volume I of Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia: Remedies for Breach of Contract.

Associate Professor Burton Ong
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Dr Burton Ong obtained his undergraduate and graduate legal training at the National University of Singapore and Oxford University, where he was awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and the Vinerian Scholarship, as well as at Harvard Law School. He teaches and researches in the areas of Contract Law, Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law and has a special interest in the legal issues surrounding access to the use of, and benefit-sharing arising from, biological resources. He is interested in interdisciplinary pedagogical approaches to the study of law and received a University award for teaching excellence in 2008. Since 2012, he has volunteered as a pro bono legal advisor at a community legal clinic in his local neighbourhood. In 2015, he coached a team of his students in an international competition law moot competition – the inaugural Herbert Smith Freehills competition – where they emerged as champions.

Dr Munin Pongsapan
Thammasat University, Faculty of Law

 

Dr. Munin Pongsapan has been a full-time member of the Faculty of Law staff since July 2003 and Director of this LL.B. Program in Business Law since December 2013. His academic interests lie in the fields of comparative law, comparative private law, European legal history, Thai legal history, legal sociology and legal theory. He teaches a number of undergraduate and postgraduates courses including Introduction to Thai Law, Law of Contract, Thai Legal Methodology, Law of Obligations, Civil Law Systems, Private Law Seminar, Advanced Civil and Commercial Law, and Thai Legal History. Dr. Munin is the author of a number of publications including How to Write Legal Essays (Thai) (6th Edition) and a contributor to a book series on the Contract Laws of Asia published by Oxford University Press (Volume 1, 2014, forthcoming). In 2012, he was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, Germany. Prior to joining Thammasat University, Dr. Munin worked with Clifford Chance (Thailand) Co. Ltd. between 2002 and 2003.

Dr. Munin received his LL.B. (First Class Honors) from Thammasat, LL.M. from Cambridge and Ph.D. from Edinburgh.

Ms Irina Sakharova
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Irina Sakharova is a Doctoral Candidate at the NUS Faculty of Law, where she is also a member of the Centre for Legal Theory. Her research is focused on issues concerning the nature of contractual rights and their possible proprietary effect.

Irina earned her MJur degree from the University of Oxford, where she was a Hill Foundation Scholar and an Associate Editor of Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. She also holds a juridical sciences degree from the Southern Federal University and a first law degree from the South-Russia State University of Economics and Services.

Irina has taught private law subjects at a number of institutions in Russia and has been a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School. She has led a large-scale research project on legal framework for finance lease contracting in Russia, supported by a grant awarded in frame of the Federal Target Program ‘Research and ScientificPedagogical Personnel of Innovative Russia in 2009-2013’ adopted by the Government of the Russian Federation. She has also authored a book on the theory and practice of finance lease contacts.

Professor Shen Wei
Shandong University Law School

Wei SHEN is Dean and Professor of Law at Shandong University Law School; PhD (LSE), LLM (Cantab), LLM (Michigan), LLM & LLB (ECUPL). He is a lawyer qualified in New York practising for a decade, mostly in Hong Kong, on foreign direct investment, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. His main research interests include financial regulation, corporate governance, international investment law and commercial arbitration. He has published more than 140 articles in Chinese and English journals, and is the author of the books: Rethinking the New York Convention – A Law and Economics Approach (Cambridge: Intersentia 2013), The Anatomy of China’s Banking Sector and Regulation (Wolters Kluwer 2014), How Is International Economic Order Shaped? – Law, Markets and Globalisation (China Law Press 2014), Corporate Law in China: Structure, Governance and Regulation (Sweet & Maxwell 2015), Investor Protection in Capital Markets – The Case of Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell 2015), Shadow Banking in China: Risk, Regulation and Policy (Edward Elgar 2016), and Chinese Business Law – Narrative and Commentary (Wolters Kluwer 2016). His article was cited by the Supreme Court of Singapore. He is an arbitrator with Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Singapore International Arbitration Centre, Shanghai International Arbitration Centre, Shanghai Arbitration Commission, and Shenzhen International Court of Arbitration.

Associate Professor Shivprasad Swaminathan
Jindal Global Law University

Shiv Swaminathan is Associate Professor and Executive Director, Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence at O.P Jindal Global University. He took his undergraduate law degree from Indian Law Society, Pune before going on to read for B.C.L at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford; and D. Phil, at Balliol College, Oxford. He works primarily in legal philosophy; and teaches Jurisprudence and Contract law. His recent publications include articles in Legal Theory, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and Jurisprudence.”

Professor Tan Cheng Han
Chairman, NUS Law, EW Barker Centre for Law & Business

Professor Tan Cheng Han, SC was Dean of the NUS law school from 2001 to 2011 and is presently the Chairman of the school’s EW Barker Centre for Law and Business. Professor Tan’s present appointments include being Chairman of NTUC First Campus, Chairman of Singapore Exchange Regulation Pte Ltd, a Council Member of Sport Singapore, a board member of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, Chairman of the Public Accountants Oversight Committee, a member of the Governing Board of the International Association of Law Schools, and an Advisor to the Singapore Taekwondo Federation. Recent publications include: “Veil Piercing – A Fresh Start” [2015] Journal of Business Law 20; “State-Owned Enterprises in Singapore: Historical Insights into a Potential Model for Reform”, 28 Columbia Journal of Asian Law 61 (2015) (with Dan Puchniak and Umakanth Varottil); “The Agency of Liquidators and Receivers” in Agency Law and Commercial Practice (Oxford University Press, 2016) (with Associate Professor Wee Meng Seng); and “Equity, Shareholders and Company Law” in Equity, Trusts and Commerce (Hart Publishing, 2017) (with Associate Professor Wee Meng Seng).

Assistant Professor Tan Zhong Xing
National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

A graduate of Harvard Law School and the NUS Law Faculty, Zhong Xing first joined the faculty as a member of the inaugural batch of Sheridan Fellows in 2014, subsequently being appointed Assistant Professor in 2018. Zhong Xing was the recipient of various academic awards including Harvard Law School’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize, as well as the Montrose Memorial Prize for Jurisprudence and the Wong Peng Koon Prize for Best Directed Research Paper at NUS Law. Prior to entering academia, Zhong Xing practised corporate and commercial litigation.

Zhong Xing’s research and teaching interests are in contract law, private law and legal theory, and commercial and corporate law more generally, as well as the various intersection points between these fields. His work has been published (or is forthcoming) in a number of leading general and specialist law journals, including the Modern Law Review, Journal of Contract Law, Journal of Business Law, and the Journal of Corporate Law Studies.

Associate Prof. Dr. Tay Pek San
University of Malaya, Faculty of Law

Dr Tay Pek San is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. She specializes in the law of contract and intellectual property. Prior to joining the academia, she was in legal practice for five years, handling mainly commercial law transactions and disputes.

Dr Tay has published extensively. Under the Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia series, she has contributed a number of chapters, which are The Legal Landscape of Contract Formation: Towards a Distinct Malaysian Jurisprudence?, Interpretation and Implication of Contractual Terms in Malaysia and Unfair Contract Terms and Consumer Protection: Legislative and Judicial Controls in Malaysia. She is the coauthor of the book Introduction to Cyberlaw in Malaysia (Advanced Professional Courses, 2004) and author of Protection of Well-Known Trade Marks in Malaysia (Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2007), Intellectual Property Law in Malaysia (Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2013) and Khaw on Copyright Law in Malaysia (LexisNexis, 2017). She has contributed chapters in many academic publications and has also written many articles in legal journals. She obtained the double degrees of BSC/LLB from the University of Sydney and her LLM as well as PhD from the University of Malaya.

Associate Professor Tham Chee Ho
Singapore Management University, School of Law

Associate Professor Tham Chee Ho received his LL.B. from the National University of Singapore in 1994, and the BCL from Oxford University in 1998. He joined the Singapore Management University (SMU) in 2001. He has been Associate Professor of Law at the SMU School of Law since 2007, and was the Associate Dean (Research) in the SMU School of Law in 2012 and 2013. He is a contributor to The Law of Contract in Singapore (Academy Publishing, 2012), and the ‘Contract’ chapter in the Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases. He has written on private law topics ranging from contract remedies to cross-border insolvency. Given his general interest in private law, his work has been published in a broad range of journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal, the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, the Law Quarterly Review, the Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, and the Journal of Contract Law. He recently completed a D.Phil. from Oxford University on the topic of equitable and statutory assignment of choses in action and is currently preparing a monograph on the law of assignment to be published by the Cambridge University Press.

Mr Muhammad Rifky Wicaksono
Gadjah Mada, Faculty of Law

Muhammad Rifky Wicaksono is a lecturer at the Business Law Department, Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He obtained his Magister Juris degree with Distinction from the University of Oxford in 2017. During his time at Oxford, he was the elected Class Representative of the 2016/2017 Magister Juris student body, a Jardine-Oxford Scholar and a member of The Queen’s College. Prior to his studies, he was an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law in UGM and an Associate at Assegaf Hamzah and Partners.

Assistant Professor Wu Ying Chieh
Singapore Management University, School of Law

Research Areas and Areas of Expertise:

Asian and Comparative legal systems

• Comparative Law
• Asian legal systems

Private Law

• Contract Law
• Equity & Trusts
• Unjust Enrichment & Restitution
• Tort Law
• Property Law

Professor Yeo Tiong Min
Yong Pung How Chair Professor of Law
Singapore Management University, School of Law

Research Areas and Areas of Expertise:

Asian and Comparative legal systems

• Asian legal systems

Public International law, Regional and Trade Law

• Transborder Trade & Investment Law
• ASEAN law

Private Law

• Contract Law
• Equity & Trusts
• Unjust Enrichment & Restitution

Dispute Resolution

• Private International Law