NUS Law welcomes Visiting Faculty – AY 2023/2024 Semester 2

NUS Law is delighted to welcome the following Visiting Faculty for AY 2023/2024 Phase 1 of Semester 2: Professor Franco Ferrari, Professor Ozlem Gurses, Lionel A. Sheridan Visiting Professor Jaemin Lee, Professor Ying Khai Liew, Dr Kim Min Kyung, Professor Jeremy K. Sharpe and Professor Guilherme Vasconcelos Vilaca.

After a briefing held on 14 January, they were warmly introduced to the NUS Law family at the Start of Term Welcome Lunch, which took place at the Oei Tiong Ham Lobby on 17 January.

At the Welcome Lunch, faculty members took turns to introduce the seven visiting professors, offering details on their illustrious background and anecdotes to break the ice. Amid the informal lunch setting, the atmosphere was convivial, with much cheerful conversation.

     

   

About the Professors and their modules:

Phase 1:

Franco Ferrari (Conflict of Laws in Int’l Commercial Arbitration)

Professor Franco Ferrari is a Professor of Law and Director of Centre for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law at the NYU School of Law. He was most recently a Chaired Professor of International Law at Verona University in Italy. Previously, he was a Chaired Professor of Comparative Law at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the University of Bologna in Italy.

Professor Ferrari has published more than 300 law review articles and book chapters in various languages and 30 books in the areas of international commercial law, conflict of laws, comparative law, and international commercial arbitration.

Ozlem Gurses (Law of Marine Insurance)

Professor Ozlem Gurses is Professor of Commercial Law at the King’s College London where she teaches insurance and reinsurance law. Prior to joining King’s College London, she taught commercial law at the Norwich and Southampton Law Schools. She sits on the Presidential Council of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA), and the British Insurance Law Association (BILA) Committee. She chairs the Reinsurance Working Party of AIDA. Professor Gürses is also Visiting Professor at the Centre for Maritime Law at NUS Law. She is conducting a public seminar on, “Insurance and Marine Insurance Law – Recent Developments” on 1 February 2024.

Professor Gurses has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of Istanbul. She also studied LLM in Maritime Law and PhD in Reinsurance Law at the University of Southampton.

She is the sole author of Marine Insurance Law (Routledge, 2023, 3rd ed),The Law of Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance (Informa, 2019), and Reinsuring Clauses (Informa, 2010). She has recently edited  Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law (forthcoming, 2024). Professor Gurses frequently presents her research at national and international conferences.

Kim Min Kyung (International Commercial Litigation in Civil Law World)

Dr Kim Min Kyung has been sitting as a judge since 2010 in the judiciary of South Korea. Her main expertise is in international commercial litigation, including arbitration-related cases (annulment, recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards) as she sat in the Special Division for International Commercial Disputes at the Seoul Central District Court. Dr Kim has participated in the recent amendment of the Korean Arbitration Act and contributed to enacting new court procedure rules in relation to international arbitration. She is a co-author of the Korean judiciary’s Practice Guide on International Arbitration Issues (2018) published by the Supreme Court of Korea. She is  a member of the Korean judiciary’s delegation to the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC).

Dr Kim holds a BA, MA and PhD from Seoul National University and an LLM from the University of Cambridge (Queens’ College).

She authored Overriding Mandatory Rules in International Commercial Disputes: Korean and Comparative Law (Hart Publishing) and co-authored the Commentary on the Korean Act on Private International Law (Thompson Reuters, 2023).

Ying Khai Liew (Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region)

Dr Ying Liew is a Professor at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. He teaches and researches in private law, specialising in the law of equity and trusts, the law of assignment, contracts, and remedies. His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed international journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Sydney Law Review, UNSW Law Journal, and Melbourne University Law Review. His work has been cited by courts around the world, including the UK Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of India, the Federal Court of Australia, and courts in New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, and the Cayman Islands.

Dr Liew is the author of the monograph Rationalising Constructive Trusts (Hart Publishing 2017), and of the practitioners’ text Guest on the Law of Assignment which is in its fourth edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2021). He is also the founder of the Asia-Pacific Trusts Law project, and the General Editor of the Asia-Pacific Trusts Law book series (Hart Publishing) which publishes papers presented at a biannual symposium. Two volumes have been published to date: Theory and Practice in Context (2021, with Matthew Harding) and Adaptation in Context (2022, with Ying-Chieh Wu).

Dr Liew is Associate Director (Private Law) of the Asian Law Centre at the Melbourne Law School, and is a General Editor of the Journal of Equity.

Jeremy K. Sharpe (The Diplomat’s Toolbox for Int’l Conflicts and Claims)

Jeremy Sharpe is an arbitrator, consultant, Member of the Board of the United Nations Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (UNRoD), and Lecturer in Law and Senior Fellow at the International Claims and Reparations Project at Columbia Law School. He serves as a member of the U.S. delegation to UNCITRAL Working Group III (ISDS Reform), a member of the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on Private International Law, and an editor of the ICSID Review—Foreign Investment Law Journal.

He previously was a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s international arbitration and public international law practices in London and Paris; a legal adviser at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague; and an attorney in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser, where he served as Chief of Investment Arbitration, Legal Adviser to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, and attorney-adviser in the Office of African and Near Eastern Affairs and the Office of International Claims and Investment Disputes.

Professor Marietta Auer is the Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. She studied law, philosophy and sociology at the University of Munich and Harvard University. She completed both the first and second state legal examinations in 1995 and 1997, received her doctorate in law in 2003, her M.A. in philosophy and sociology in 2008, habilitated in 2012 and was granted the professorial teaching qualification for civil law, philosophy of law, commercial and corporate law, comparative law as well as European private law (all at the University of Munich). She received her LL.M. in 2000 and her S.J.D. in 2012 from Harvard University.

In 2001, Professor Marietta Auer received her license to practice as Attorney-at-Law in New York, USA. From 2013-2020, she held the chair for civil law and philosophy of law at the University of Giessen, and from 2016-2019, she served as dean of the law faculty. Since 2020, she is the director of the newly established Department for Multidisciplinary Theory of Law at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) (Frankfurt am Main) and is professor for private law as well as international and interdisciplinary foundations of law at the University of Giessen. She received offers for professorships at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg (2019, declined) and from the University of Bonn (2019, declined).

Ellen Hey (Sustainable Development and International Law)

Professor Ellen Hey is Professor of Public International Law at Erasmus School of Law of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She is also Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Center for the Law of the Sea (NCLOS) at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway and Advisor to the Centre for Environmental Law and Policy (CELP), Columbo University, Sri Lanka.

Professor Ellen Hey received an Honorary Doctorate (2016) from Stockholm University, Sweden. She was a Visiting Professorial Fellow (2013-2015) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and a Visiting Scholar (2019) at K.G. Jebsen Center for the Law of the Sea at UiT (2019), now NCLOS. She was a member of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee (2008-2014) and a legal advisor to the government of the Netherlands (1986-1990). Her research interests include international environmental law, law of the sea and international institutional law.

Norman P. Ho (Traditional Chinese Legal Thought)

Norman P. Ho is Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (“STL” for short).  He writes and teaches in the areas of property law, legal theory, Chinese legal history, Chinese legal thought, and law & music.  He also serves as an Affiliated Scholar in the Transnational Legal History Group of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Center for Comparative and Transnational Law.  Prior to joining STL, Professor Ho practiced law in the law firms of Slaughter and May and Morrison & Foerster LLP.  He has previously taught at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and has served as a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Chinese Law (University of Hong Kong) and as an Asian Law Institute Visiting Fellow at the NUS Faculty of Law.  Professor Ho is also a recipient of an Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship from the University of Surrey.  He received his A.B. and A.M. degrees from Harvard University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was awarded the Howard L. Greenberger Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Comparative Law.

Kees van Raad (Tax Treaties)

Professor Kees van Raad is chairman of the International Tax Center Leiden, of counsel to Loyens & Loeff and past Professor of International Tax Law at the University of Leiden. He is also chair of the International Fiscal Association’s Jury for the annual Mitchell B. Carroll Prize and a member of the Advisory Panel of BRITACOM (the tax branch of the organization set up to develop and implement China’s Belt and Road Initiative).

He was earlier a member (1999-2012) and chairman (2006-2012) of the Executive Board of the European Association of Tax Law Professors, a member (2003-2015) of the Supervisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich, Germany and a member (1988-2019) of the IBFD Board of Trustees / Advisory Council. Kees van Raad has published widely on international tax law issues in general and tax treaties in particular and has taught at many foreign universities.

Jeffrey Waincymer (Comparative Evidence in International Arbitration)

Professor Jeffrey Waincymer’s research and teaching is primarily in the fields of international trade and investment law, international dispute settlement, arbitration, taxation and mooting. He is the author of Procedure and Evidence in International Arbitration; WTO Litigation: Procedural Aspects of Formal Dispute Settlement; and Australian Income Tax: Principles and Policy (2nd ed) and is a joint author of A Guide to the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules; A Practical Guide to International Commercial Arbitration; and also International Trade Law: Commentary and Materials (2nd ed).

Professor Jeffrey Waincymer has also been an arbitrator for a range of institutions including the ICC, SIAC, VIAC and HKIAC, as well as having been an ad hoc appointed arbitrator. He also practices mediation and acts as an expert witness, trade and investment consultant and mediator. He has previously been an Australian Government Nominee as a non-governmental panellist for the WTO and  ICSID.