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NUS Law welcomes Visiting Faculty – AY 2024/2025 Semester 2
NUS Law is delighted to welcome the following Visiting Faculty for AY 2024/2025 Semester 2:
Phase 1: Professor Ozlem Gurses, Professor David Johnson, Professor Filippo Lorenzon Carrer, Professor Mavluda Sattorova, Professor Paul Myburgh, Dr Luke Nottage, Professor Shen Wei and Professor Andrea Stazi, the Visiting Yong Shook Lin Professor of IP Law
Phase 2: Professor Benjamin Hughes; Dr Graham Reynolds; Professor Adrienne Stone, the Visiting Chan Sek Keong Professor in Public Law; Professor Jeffrey Waincymer; and Professor Wen-Yeu Wang
At the Welcome Lunch, Dean Andrew Simester gave a quick introduction of the Visiting Professors (Phase 1), before separate faculty members took turns to describe each visiting professor’s biography, offering details on their illustrious background. Amid the informal lunch setting, the atmosphere was convivial, with much laughter and cheerful conversation.
About the Professors and their modules:
Phase 1:
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, Professor Gurses taught commercial law at the Norwich and Southampton Law Schools.
She 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 recently edited Edward Elgar Research Handbook on Marine Insurance Law (2024) and co-edited with Professor Soyer Insurability of Emerging Risks (Hart, forthcoming, 2025).
Professor Gurses sits on the Presidential Council of the International Insurance Law Association, and the British Insurance Law Association Committee. She chairs the Reinsurance Working Party of AIDA.
David Johnson (Design and Negotiation for Lawyers)
Professor David Johnson has been teaching at Stanford Law School since 2006, in conjunction with his full-time practice of law. His legal career began in the courtroom, with several dozen first-chair trials and appeals, including two supreme court arguments. Thereafter he served as General Counsel for public, private and non-profit technology companies in Silicon Valley. As of 2015 he also became a Lecturer at the Hasso Plattner School of Design at Stanford (a/k/a “the d.school”). His current research and teaching centres on the intersection of law and design.
Filippo Lorezon Carrers (Charterparties)
Professor Filippo Lorenzon Carrer is a Professor of Maritime and Commercial Law at D’Annunzio University in Italy and held a Chair in Maritime and Commercial Law at Dalian Maritime University in China and at the University of Southampton where he was Director of the Institute of Maritime Law from 2010 to 2014. He is dual qualified in both the UK and Italy.
Professor Lorenzon Carrer specialises in the law of charterparties, bills of lading, commodity sales on CIF and FOB terms, Incoterms and letters of credit. He has also worked on several projects for the World Bank, UNCTAD and the European Commission on maritime and transport law reform.
Mavluda Sattorova (International Investment Law and Arbitration)
Professor Mavluda Sattorova specialises in international economic law broadly defined, with particular focus on international investment law, investor-state arbitration and transnational law governing corporations. She works closely with international organisations and government agencies involved in the design and reform of international investment treaties and national investment policies. Professor Sattorova has worked in an expert capacity with the UNCTAD and WHO, and served as an Investment Law Expert in the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (2019-23) and the Government Legal Department (since 2024). She joined Liverpool Law School in September 2010 after completing a PhD in Law (2010) and LLM (2006) at the University of Birmingham where she was a recipient of Chevening scholarship and the Postgraduate Research Award. Professor Sattorova has lectured as a Visiting Professor at the University of Melbourne, the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil) and Nagoya University (Japan). Her scholarship is recognised for its pioneering contribution to the empirical studies of international investment law.
Paul Myburgh (Admiralty Law & Practice)
Paul Myburgh is a Professor of Law at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). He was formerly the Deputy Director of the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) and Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore since May 2015, where he primarily taught Admiralty Law & Practice, Maritime Conflict of Laws, and Trade Finance Law. He had previously held faculty positions in South Africa and New Zealand. He has also held visiting teaching positions and research fellowships at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, the Nordisk Institutt for Sjoerett, University of Oslo, and at City University of Hong Kong (as KH Koo Foundation Visiting Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Centre for Maritime and Transport Law).
Dr Luke Nottage is Professor of Comparative and Transnational Business Law at Sydney Law School, specialising in arbitration, contract law, consumer product safety law and corporate governance, with a particular interest in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. He is founding Co-Director of the Australian Network for Japanese Law and Associate Director of the Centre for Asian and Pacific Law at the University of Sydney. He is also Managing Director of Japanese Law Links Pty Ltd and Special Counsel at Williams Trade Law.
Shen Wei (Business Law in China)
Professor Shen Wei is the KoGuan Distinguished Professor of Law at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Law School. Prior to teaching at the law school, Professor Shen practised in major US and UK firms in Shanghai, Chicago and Hong Kong for a decade primarily assisting multinational clients in their China-related transactions such as foreign direct investment, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, project finance and commercial arbitration.
Professor Shen is now teaching international investment law, international financial regulation, company law, international economic law and contract law in the law school. Professor Shen’s current research interests include international investment law, corporate governance, financial regulation, and international commercial arbitration.
Andrea Stazi (Biotechnology Law)
Andrea Stazi is a Full Professor of Comparative Law and Biotechnology Law at San Raffaele Roma University. He is also Academic Fellow of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Law – TRAIL at NUS Law. Previously he was Associate Professor of Comparative Law and New Technologies Law and Director of the Innovation Law Laboratory at European University of Rome, and a Visiting Professor at the Francisco de Vitoria University of Madrid, Beijing Normal University, Singapore Management University, Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute of Florence, Research Fellow at NUS, FLACSO University of Buenos Aires, Max Planck Institute for Competition & IP Law of Munich, Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam, Coordinator of the Master in Competition and Innovation Law at Luiss University of Rome, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna.
Professor Stazi authored about 80 scientific publications, among which the books GMOs, Food Traceability and RegTech, Springer 2024, Smart Contracts and Comparative Law, Springer 2021, and Biotechnological Inventions and Patentability of Life, Edward Elgar, 2015.
He is a member of think-tanks and research networks including the Aspen Institute, World Metaverse Council, Government Blockchain Association and IP & Innovation Researchers of Asia Network.
Phase 2:
Benjamin Hughes (Interim Measures in International Arbitration)
Associate Professor Benjamin Hughes is an independent arbitrator with The Arbitration Chambers in Singapore and Fountain Court Chambers in London. He has taught extensively in the field of international dispute resolution and comparative law, including as Associate Professor at Seoul National University Law School (2015-2019), and as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, the National Taiwan University School of Law and the National University of Singapore Law School. He serves on the editorial boards of the Asian International Arbitration Journal, the Korea Arbitration Review and the Journal of Korean Law.
Graham Reynolds (Intellectual Property & Human Rights)
Dr Graham J. Reynolds is an Associate Professor at the Peter A Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. He teaches and researches in the areas of copyright law, intellectual property law, property law, intellectual property and human rights, and technology and access to justice. His current research focus is the intersection of intellectual property and human rights, as well as the relationship between intellectual property and social justice.
Before joining the Allard School of Law, Dr Reynolds was a member of faculty at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law, where he was the Co-Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Law and Technology and served as a member of the Schulich School of Law’s Law and Technology Institute. He also previously served as the judicial law clerk to the Honourable Chief Justice Finch of the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
Adrienne Stone (Freedom of Speech: Critical & Comparative Perspectives)
Professor Adrienne Stone is the Chan Sek Keong Visiting Professor in Public Law. She is also a Melbourne Laureate Professor and Director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies at Melbourne Law School. She researches in the areas of constitutional law and theory in Australia and globally, freedom of expression and academic freedom. She has published widely on these topics. She teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and freedom of speech across the JD and MLM programmes. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick Australian Laureate Fellow (2016-2021), she established and directed the Laureate Program in Comparative Constitutional Law which developed a significant research capacity in comparative constitutional law at Melbourne Law School.
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 practises 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.
Wen-Yeu Wang (Comparative Antitrust Law: Taiwan, China and Beyond)
Professor Wen-Yeu Wang is the Dean and Emeritus Professor at the Kainan University Law School, as well as Adjunct Professor at the National Taiwan University Law School (NTU). He had been teaching full time at NTU from 1995 through 2023. In this capacity, he had conducted guest teaching at many universities, including Stanford, Columbia, Peking and Tsinghua. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he practised corporate and commercial law at Lee and Li, Taipei, and Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for more than six years. Principal research areas include business associations, antitrust law, business transactions, and economic analysis of law.
Professor Wang has authored 10 books and over 100 papers. Over a dozen articles have been published by reputable academic journals such as Washington Law Review, NTU Law Review, and Columbia Journal of Asian Law. His research projects have been sponsored by the National Science Foundation of Taiwan as well as the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics. He has been invited to attend many international conferences held by well-known institutions such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB). From 2004 to 2007, Professor Wang took a leave of absence from the NTU to serve as a Commissioner at the Taiwan Fair Trade Commission, the government authority responsible for enforcing antitrust regulations.