NUS Law welcomes Visiting Faculty – Phase 1 of Semester 1

(L to R): Associate Professor Andrea Stazi, Professor Dev Gangjee, Professor Simon Chesterman, Professor Djakhongir Saidov
Top left: Professor Chi Manjiao, Bottom left: Mr Jonathan Lim

NUS Law is delighted to welcome the following Visiting Faculty for 2022 Phase 1 of Semester 1.

CHI Manjiao (The Belt & Road Initiative & Int’l Trade Governance)
Visiting Professor

Chi Manjiao is Professor and Founding Director, Center for International Economic Law and Policy (CIELP), at the Law School of the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE) in China. His recent research focuses on international trade and investment law and policy, dispute settlement, global development and cooperation law. He is author of numerous academic books and journals articles in English and Chinese.

Prior to joining UIBE, he was Professor at the Law School of Xiamen University; Senior Fellow, Centre for Global Cooperation Research (Germany); and Expert Counsel-in-Residence, Department of Treaty and Law, Ministry of Commerce of China (on secondment). He was Edwards Fellow of Columbia Law School, and visiting fellow of the Max-Planck Institute of International Law, German Institute of Development and UNIDROIT.

Manjiao has rich experiences in practicing law. He has dealt with a number of WTO and investment arbitration disputes, and participated in treaty negotiations, advises various international organizations, governments and companies on international law issues, and serves as arbitrator and expert witness in legal disputes and in Chinese and foreign courts. He holds BA, LLM, and Ph.D. in law degrees.

Dev GANGJEE (International Geographical Indications Protection (IP))
Lionel A. Sheridan Visiting Professor

Dev Gangjee is Professor of Intellectual Property Law within the Law Faculty and a Tutorial Fellow at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Prior to joining Oxford, he was a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics. Dev is a graduate of the National Law School of India and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Dev’s research focuses on Intellectual Property (IP), with a special emphasis on Branding and Trade Marks, Geographical Indications and Copyright law. Thematic research interests include the history and political economy of IP, collective and open innovation, and the significance of registration for intangibles. He has acted in an advisory capacity for national governments, law firms, international organisations and the European Commission on IP issues.

Jonathan LIM (International Commercial Arbitration)
Visiting Senior Fellow

Jonathan Lim is a triple-qualified English solicitor, Singapore advocate, and New York lawyer with a focus on complex international disputes. He has particular experience with disputes in the energy, financial services, technology and telecommunications sectors, and has represented private sector and government clients in commercial and investment treaty arbitrations in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Jonathan has also worked on WTO dispute settlement matters involving claims under multiple WTO agreements (including GATT, GATS, TRIPS, TBT and SCM).

In addition to his practice as counsel, Jonathan has a developing practice as arbitrator and has received appointments as sole and party-appointed arbitrator in proceedings seated in Europe and Asia, including bilingual English-Chinese arbitrations and arbitrations governed by the CISG. He has also advised international organizations and governments in Africa and Asia on public international law issues (including state and international organization immunities, treaty accession, international trade law, and law of the sea) and assisted with the drafting of legislation in Fiji, Iraq, Papua New Guinea, Somalia and Tonga.

Jonathan is Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Forum for International Arbitration, a Committee Member of the ICC Singapore Regional Projects Sub-Committee, and a member of the SIAC Users Council. He has also lectured on international arbitration at Kings College London, the London School of Economics, the National Law School of India University, and the Singapore Management University.

Jonathan is listed for his expertise in Who’s Who Legal and Euromoney’s Rising Stars. In 2021-2022, he was ranked by Who’s Who Legal as one of 13 “most highly regarded” future leaders (non-partners) in Europe, the Middle Ease, and Africa. Clients and peers describe him as “a very smart all-round lawyer with a strong work ethic” who “provides top-of-the-class legal and strategic advice,” “highly intelligent, articulate and very professional,” “extremely capable and hardworking,” and “a sure bet as a future global leader.”

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

Djakhongir Saidov is Professor of Commercial Law and the Director of the Professional Law Institute at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, and Consultant at Helmsman LLC, Advocates & Solicitors, Singapore. Prior to joining King’s College London in 2015, he was based in the University of Birmingham (UK), where he was Reader in Law (2013-2015), Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law (2009-2013) and Lecturer in Commercial Law (2004-2009). Djakhongir holds PhD and LLM (with Distinction) degrees from the University of East Anglia (UK) and an LLB degree from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Uzbekistan).

His expertise lies in international commercial law and he has published extensively on the law of the international sale of goods, international commercial law instruments, remedies for breach of contract, oil and gas law and the law on expert determination. Djakhongir has given lectures and taught courses at NUS, Diego Portales University (Chile), University of Navarro (Spain), International Training Centre of the ILO, (University of Turin/UNCITRAL (Italy)), University of World Economy and Diplomacy and Tashkent State Juridical Institute (Uzbekistan). He is frequently invited to speak at international conferences and seminars on matters of international commercial law. Professor Saidov was a Rapporteur to the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC) on its Opinion No 19, ‘Standards and Conformity of the Goods under Article 35 CISG’.

Andrea STAZI (Biotechnology Law)
Visiting Professor

Andrea Stazi is an Associate Professor of Comparative Law and New Technologies Law and Director of the Innovation Law Laboratory at the European University of Rome. He holds the Italian National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor in Comparative Law.

Andrea authored many scientific publications, including the books Smart Contracts and Comparative Law (Springer 2021), and Biotechnological Inventions and Patentability of Life (Edward Elgar 2015).

Previously he was Visiting Professor in Law and Technology at the Singapore Management University, Research Fellow at NUS, Research Associate at the FLACSO University of Buenos Aires, Max Planck Institute for Competition & IP Law of Munich, Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam, and Coordinator of the Master in Competition and Innovation Law at Luiss University of Rome and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna.