NUS Law welcomes Visiting Faculty – AY 2025/2026 Semester 2

NUS Law is delighted to welcome the following Visiting Faculty for AY 2025/2026, Semester 2:

Phase 1

Professor Franco Ferrari; Professor Miriam Goldby; Professor Greg Gordon; Professor Douglas Kysar, Visiting Tan Ah Tah Professor; Professor Liew Ying Khai, Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor; Associate Professor Peter Chau; Assistant Professor Muhammad Rifky Wicaksono; and Dr Georgia Jenkins.

Phase 2

Professor Norman P. Ho, Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor; Professor James Fowkes, Chan Sek Keong Visiting Professor in Public Law; Professor Matthias Lehmann, Peter Ellinger Visiting Professor; Professor Jeffrey Waincymer; Professor Wenming Xu; Associate Professor Joon Hyug Chung and Associate Professor Yazid Ben-Hounet

The professors in Phase 1 were introduced to the NUS Law family at the Start of Term Welcome Lunch, which took place at the newly opened Wee Chong Jin Moot Court on the Faculty’s new Kent Ridge premises on 14 January 2026.

At the Welcome Lunch, faculty members took turns to introduce the 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/Fellows and their courses:

Phase 1:

Professor Franco Ferrari (Conflict of Laws in International Commercial Arbitration)

Professor Franco Ferrari is a Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Commercial Law at the New York University 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.

Professor Miriam Goldby (Legal Aspects of Paperless Trade)

Professor Miriam Goldby is Professor of Shipping, Insurance and Commercial Law and Director of Research at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, at Queen Mary University of London. She was previously Director of the Centre’s Insurance, Shipping and Aviation Law Institute and founder and director of its International Shipping Law LLM programme. She is the author of Electronic Documents in Maritime Trade: Law and Practice, the second edition of which was published in 2019, and has published extensively in the fields of shipping, insurance and financial law.

Professor Greg Gordon (International and Comparative Oil and Gas Law)

Professor Greg Gordon is the Head of the School of Law at the University of Aberdeen. He joined as a Lecturer in 2004 after a period working in Aberdeen and London as a solicitor specialising in litigation, primarily in the oil and gas sector, and became a Professor of Law in 2019. He previously served as Co-Director of the Aberdeen University Centre for Energy Law. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Professor Gordon’s principal teaching and research interests are in energy law (particularly upstream oil and gas law), delict/tort and commercial contracting. He is an editorial board member of the Stair Memorial Encyclopedia, a Board member of SULI and a Trustee of the TB Smith Memorial Trust.

Professor Douglas Kysar (Climate Change Law & Policy)

Professor Douglas Kysar is the Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School and faculty director of the Law, Environment and Animals Program. His teaching and research areas include torts, animal law, environmental law, climate change, products liability and risk regulation. He was previously on the faculty at Cornell Law School. He received his BA summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998. Following law school, he clerked for the Honourable William G. Young of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

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

Professor Ying Khai Liew is a Professor at Melbourne Law School. 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, Melbourne University Law Review, and in several major edited collections. His work has been cited by courts around the world, including the UK Supreme Court, the Supreme Courts of India and Sri Lanka, and various courts in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland and the Cayman Islands. He is the founder and General Editor of the Asia-Pacific Trusts Law book series.

He is Co-Director of the Obligations Group and Associate Director (Private Law) of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School. He is a General Editor of the Journal of Equity and an Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association (UK).

Associate Professor Peter Chau (Topics in Punishment and Sentencing)

Dr Peter Chau has a PhD from the University of Oxford. He is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He works on the philosophy of criminal law and private law. He has written on a variety of topics, including the sentencing of socially deprived offenders, the exclusion of improperly obtained evidence in criminal trials, and the justification for criminal punishment, tort reparation and restitutionary liability. His works have appeared in journals such as The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Law and Philosophy, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, Criminal Law and Philosophy and Ratio Juris.

Assistant Professor Muhammad Rifky Wicaksono (Indonesian Business Law: Theory and Practice)

Assistant Professor Rifky teaches Competition Law and Indonesian Business Law at the Faculty of Law, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Indonesia. He is currently a PhD candidate in Law at the University of Oxford, and a researcher at Oxford’s Centre for Competition Law and Policy.  He regularly advises the Indonesian Competition Commission, as well as the private sector on antitrust issues related to the digital economy. His research interests include competition law, technology law, data privacy law, Indonesian business law and alternative dispute resolution.

He has taught the Competition Law & Policy course for students at the BA in Jurisprudence, the Master of Law and the Finance programmes in Oxford. His doctoral research examines how developing countries should adapt their competition policies to address the unique antitrust challenges posed by the digital economy. He holds an LLM degree with a Dean’s Scholars Prize from Harvard Law School, and an MJur degree with Distinction from Oxford.

Dr Georgia Jenkins (Digital Remix in EU Copyright Law)

Dr Georgia Jenkins is a Lecturer in Law at Liverpool Law School and Director of the Intellectual Property Law LLM programme. Her research focuses on the intersection of IP and public interests, namely creativity, competition and cultural heritage. Her current research topics include generative AI and authorship remuneration, platform liability/responsibility and freedom of expression, and semiotic disobedience and trademark law.

Phase 2:

Professor Norman P. Ho (Traditional Chinese Legal Thought)

Professor Norman P. Ho is a Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (STL). He writes and teaches in the areas of property law, legal theory, Chinese legal history, and law and the humanities (especially the intersections between law and music). Prior to joining STL, Professor Ho practiced law in the law firms of Slaughter and May and Morrison & Foerster LLP. Based in Hong Kong, his practice focused on a wide range of capital markets, private equity, and M&A transactions, as well as U.S. securities law compliance matters.

Professor James Fowkes (Constitutionalism: Perspectives from the Global South)

Professor James Fowkes is a legal scholar specialising in constitutional law, with a particular focus on foreign and international law. He holds a J.S.D. (Doctor of the Science of Law) and an LL.M. from Yale University, as well as a BA (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Professor Fowkes has held academic positions in Europe, including a professorship for Foreign and International Law, and is recognized for his expertise in South African constitutionalism.

Professor Matthias Lehmann (Law of Global Finance & Crypto Markets)

Dr Matthias Lehmann is a Professor at the University of Vienna, where he holds the Chair for Private Law, International Private Law and Comparative Law at the Department for European, International and Comparative Law. His expertise spans cross-border financial law, international litigation, and comparative business law, with a strong focus on international and transnational legal issues.

Dr Lehmann studied law in Jena, Paris, and New York, earning doctorates from both the University of Jena and Columbia University, and completed his habilitation at the University of Bayreuth.

Professor 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 Wenming Xu (Banking and Finance Law in China)

Professor Wenming Xu is a Professor and Dean of School of Law and Economics at China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL), and an Editor of the International Review of Law and Economics. He obtained his Undergraduate Degree in Economics (magna cum laude) and Master of Law from CUPL, and Ph.D in Law and Economics from the University of Bologna in Italy.

Associate Professor Joon Hyug Chung (Comparative Corporate Law from a Korean Perspective)

Dr Joon Hyug Chung is an Associate Professor at Seoul National University (SNU) School of Law, specializing in corporate and financial law. He regularly advises the Korean government and has led several high-profile government projects on mandatory takeover bids, share repurchases, dividend policies, insider trading, corporate group transactions, and public M&A regulation.

He currently serves as a non-standing Commissioner of the Securities and Futures Commission, which oversees Korea’s capital markets and reviews related laws and regulations. He is also Chair of the Legal Framework Committee at the Korea Accounting Institute, Korea’s national standard setter for sustainability disclosure.

Associate Professor Yazid Ben-Hounet (Introduction to Anthropology of Law)

Dr Yazid Ben-Hounet is a social anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), affiliated with the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale (CNRS – Collège de France – EHESS) in Paris. He holds a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), completed in 2006, and a habilitation (HDR) from the University of Paris in 2020. His academic work primarily explores the intersections of legal and political anthropology in Muslim societies, with a particular focus on North Africa. His research has delved into tribal issues in contemporary Algeria, local reconciliation processes in Algeria and Sudan, legal practices related to property, and kinship studies.