Description

This two‐day conference aimed,

• to bring  together  leading  comparative  corporate  law  scholars  from  Asia  and  important  non‐Asian jurisdictions to produce cutting‐edge scholarship to advance the  field of comparative corporate law and governance;
• to continue to strengthen research links between NUS Law and Vanderbilt Law School faculty members as well as with our network of other leaders in the field of comparative corporate law and governance; and,
• to produce a special issue in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law on the cutting‐edge topics covered at the conference.

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Convenors

Associate Professor Dan W. Puchniak, NUS Law 

Dan W. Puchniak is the former Director of the National University of Singapore (NUS) Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), the former Editor‐in‐Chief of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press), and an Associate Professor at NUS Law. He has published widely on comparative, Asian, Singapore, and Japanese corporate law and governance. Dan has received numerous domestic and international awards for his academic research and teaching and has held visiting academic positions at leading universities around the world, including Chulalongkorn University, Melbourne University, Moscow State University, Nagoya University, Oxford University, Queen’s University, Seoul National University, University of Chicago, University of Tokyo, University of Trento, University of Victoria, Vanderbilt University, and Yangon University. In 2019, he was a visitor at Columbia University, Radzyner Law School, Stanford University, and the University of Tokyo. Dan has been placed on the NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award Honour Roll as recognition for receiving the university wide NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award three times. Prior to entering academia, Dan worked as a corporate commercial litigator at one of Canada’s leading corporate law firms.

John S. Beasley Professor of Law & Business Randall Thomas, Director, Law and Business Program, Vanderbilt Law School  

Randall Thomas has earned a reputation of being one of the most productive and thoughtful corporate and securities law scholars in the nation. His recent work addresses issues such as hedge fund shareholder activism, executive compensation, corporate voting, corporate litigation, shareholder voting, and mergers and acquisitions. Twelve of his papers have been selected by his peers as among the Ten Best Corporate and Securities articles in the year they were published by Corporate Practice Commentator.

He joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 2000 to develop and direct the Law and Business Program, having served previously for 10 years on the law faculty of the University of Iowa. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Duke University, Harvard Law School, Boston University and the University of Washington. Prior to teaching law, Professor Thomas was in private practice for four years and was a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Charles Joiner of the Eastern District of Michigan. An acclaimed teacher, Professor Thomas teaches courses in the area of corporate law, including Corporations and Mergers and Acquisitions.