NUS Law welcomes Visiting Faculty – Phase 1 Sem 1

First row (L to R): Professor Cui Guobin, Senior Fellow Paul Czarnota, Professor Michael Tsimplis, Professor Poonam Puri
Second row (L to R): Professor Dino Kritsiotis, Professor Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Professor Robin Hui Huang, Professor Djakhongir Saidov

NUS Law is delighted to welcome the following Visiting Faculty for 2021 Phase 1 of Semester 1.

CUI Guobin (Chinese Intellectual Property Law)
Visiting Professor

Cui Guobin is Professor as well as Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property at Tsinghua University Law School. He was the Associate Dean for International Affairs and Academics (July 2016 – July 2019). Professor Cui earned his PhD in law, LLM, and BSc in Chemistry from Peking University, and his second LLM from Yale Law School.

His scholarly interests include intellectual property, antitrust, property, and law and economics theory. He teaches Intellectual Property Law, Patent Law, IP Licensing, and Chinese Civil Law. He has published more than 20 law review articles and two popular casebooks, “Patent Law: Cases and Materials” (1st edition in 2012, 2nd edition in 2015) and “Copyright Law: Cases and Materials” (2014, Peking University Press).

Paul CZARNOTA (Sports Law & Arbitration)
Visiting Senior Fellow

Paul Czarnota is a barrister at the Victorian Bar, and is admitted as an Attorney to the New York State Bar. His practice includes common law, commercial litigation, and international commercial arbitration, with a particular focus on torts (personal injury and insurance) and sports law. He has broad experience in the area of sports law. He has Commerce and Law (with Honours) degrees from Monash University, and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Melbourne, where he specialised in sports law. He is widely published on various sports law issues.

He has advised and appeared on behalf of athletes and governing bodies in various sporting-related disputes including doping, match-fixing, and disciplinary matters. He is a former board member for BMX Victoria. He has acted as a tribunal member for various sporting organisations including Basketball Victoria, Touch Football Australia, and Boxing Australia. In March 2020 he was appointed by the Australian Government as an inaugural tribunal member (part-time) to the National Sports Tribunal for a three-year term.

In addition to practice, Paul is a Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne and of Monash University where he teaches Sports Law courses to LLB and LLM students. He is a member of the Australia and New Zealand Sports Law Association (ANZSLA) and the Sports Lawyers Association (USA).

Michael TSIMPLIS (Law of the Marine Environment)
Visiting Professor

Michael Tsimplis is Professor of Law at the City University of Hong Kong. He was previously a Professor of Law and Ocean Sciences at the University of Southampton. He obtained his PhD in Physical Oceanography and LLM in Maritime Law from the University of Southampton.

His research interests are in the areas of admiralty law, carriage of goods be sea law, law of the marine environment, interdisciplinary research, and sea level rise and climate change.

Poonam PURI (Comparative Corporate Governance)
Visiting Professor

Poonam Puri is Professor of Law at the Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Professor Puri is one of the world’s leading experts in corporate governance, corporate law and securities law. A prolific scholar, Professor Puri has co-authored/co-edited close to 100 books, book chapters, scholarly articles in leading journals, and commissioned research reports. She is also Co-Founder and Director of the Osgoode Investor Protection Clinic, a clinic that provides pro bono legal assistance to individuals who have suffered financial harm. She has served as both Associate Dean and Associate Dean, Research, Graduate Studies and Institutional Relations at Osgoode.

Professor Puri is an Affiliated Scholar and practicing lawyer at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP in Toronto and she serves as a corporate director on the boards of the Canada Infrastructure Bank, CAPREIT (TSX) and Augusta Gold (TSX). She is also Vice-Chair of the Board of Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital in Toronto.

Professor Puri has been recognised for her impact and leadership within the legal profession, the business community and society: She is a recipient of the 2021 Law Society Medal and has been honoured as one of the Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada, one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women and one of Canada’s Top 40 under 40.

Dino KRITSIOTIS (An Uncensored History of International Law)
Visiting Professor

Dino Kritsiotis is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Nottingham, where he also serves as Co-Director of the Nottingham International Law & Security Centre.

Professor Kritsiotis specializes in the use of force, international humanitarian law, as well as the history and theory of general international law. Most recently, he has coedited Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives on the Modern Law of Treaties (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and has authored “Fourteen Ways of Looking Back at the Treaty of Versailles,” London Review of International Law (2020), Vol. 8, pp. 43–88.

Professor Kritsiotis has taught at leading law schools throughout the world, including the University of Michigan, the University of Melbourne, the University of Auckland and the University of Hong Kong.

Laurence BOISSON DE CHAZOURNES (International Dispute Settlement)
Visiting Professor

Laurence Boisson de Chazournes is Professor of International Law at the University of Geneva School of Law and the Director of the LLM in International Dispute Settlement (MIDS) as well as Co-Director of the Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement (CIDS).

Her writings and practice cover various fields such as international economic law, international dispute settlement, international environmental law, the law of international organizations, boundaries and law of the sea. She is a recognized practitioner for her role as an advisor to many international organisations, states, and non-state entities both public and private, as well as an arbitrator and counsel in various dispute settlement fora (inter alia ICJ, ITLOS, ICSID).

Robin Hui HUANG (Capital Markets Law in Mainland China and HKSAR)
Visiting Professor

Robin Hui Huang is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining CUHK, Professor Huang was a tenured staff member in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he now holds a position of Adjunct Professor. He is also Li Ka Shing Visiting Professor in McGill Law School, Honorary Professor at East China University of Political Science and Law, Guest Professor at China University of Political Science and Law, as well as visiting scholars at Harvard Law School, Michigan Law School, Oxford Law School and Cambridge Law School. He received two bachelor degrees – in mechanical engineering and in law – and a Masters degree in law, from Tsinghua University in Beijing China, graduating first in his class, and a PhD from the Faculty of Law, UNSW.

Professor Huang is a leading expert in the field of corporate law, securities regulation, financial law, commercial dispute resolution, and foreign investment, with a particular focus on Chinese and comparative law issues. He has had more than 120 publications in his areas of expertise, with articles published in some of the top-rated journals in the US, the UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and elsewhere (some of his work is available for download at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=365831).

Djakhongir SAIDOV (International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law)
Visiting Professor

Djakhongir Saidov is Professor of Commercial Law at the King’s College London. He specialises in international commercial law, having joined The Dickson Poon School of Law in August 2015 as Professor of Commercial Law. He was previously based in the University of Birmingham, where he was Reader in Law (2013-2015), Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law (2009-2013) and Lecturer in Commercial Law (2004-2009).

Professor Saidov holds PhD and LLM (with Distinction) degrees from the University of East Anglia and an LLB degree from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Uzbekistan). His expertise lies in international commercial law, the law of sale of goods, remedies for breach of contract and the law governing international oil and gas operations. He publishes widely in these and other areas of commercial law. Professor Saidov is a Consultant at Helmsman LLC, Singapore, an Academic Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Law (CML), NUS, and the Editor of the English Sale of Goods Law section of the LMCLQ International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook. Professor Saidov was a Rapporteur to the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC) on the CISG-AC Opinion No 19 on ‘Standards and Conformity of the Goods under Article 35 CISG’.