NUS Law welcomes Visiting Faculty – Phase 2 Sem 1

(L to R): Professor Gen Goto, Professor Andrea Stazi, Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor, Donal Nolan, Professor Massimo Renzo

Gen GOTO (Japanese Corporate Law and Governance)
Visiting Professor

Gen Goto is Professor of Law at the University of Tokyo, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, in Japan. He has visited Harvard Law School as Visiting Scholar at East Asian Legal Studies (2013-2015, 2018), and has taught at NUS Law (2017 and 2019) and at Radzyner Law School of IDC Herzliya in Israel (2019). After graduating from Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo in 2003 (LLB), Gen was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Tokyo (2003-2006), Lecturer (2006-2008) and Associate Professor (2008-2010) at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, and Associate Professor (2010-2019) at the University of Tokyo. He has assisted the Japanese Government on law reforms as Researcher of Japanese Ministry of Justice (2010-2013, for reform of Companies Act) and as Professional Member of Financial System Council of Japanese Financial Services Agency (2011-2013 and 2016-2019, for reforms of Insurance Business Act and other financial regulations).

Andrea STAZI (Biotechnology Law)
Visiting Professor

Andrea Stazi is Associate Professor of Comparative Law, Comparative Legal Systems & New Technologies Law, Director of the InnoLawLab – Laboratory of Innovation Law, and Co-Director of the Research Center of Excellence for Copyright at the European University of Rome. He is a Research Associate at the “Programa de Derecho y Bienes Publicos” at Flacso University of Buenos Aires. He is also the Coordinator of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Diritto Mercato Tecnologia” (Law Market Technology). He is the author of numerous scientific publications, with particular regard to legal issues related to the development of new technologies.

Donal NOLAN (Advanced Torts)
Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor

Donal Nolan is Professor of Private Law in the University of Oxford and Francis Reynolds and Clarendon Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (BA and BCL) and was previously a Lecturer in Law at King’s College London. He has taught tort, contract, international trade law, restitution and commercial law, and has been a Visiting Professor in the University of Florida, the University of Trento and Sichuan University. He is a Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne, a founding member of the World Tort Law Society, and an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Donal’s research is focused primarily on the law of tort, and in particular on the law of negligence, the law of private nuisance and the interface between tort law and public law. He has recently undertaken a major empirical study of the operation of the contributory negligence doctrine with Professor James Goudkamp, which has generated two books: Contributory Negligence: Principles and Practice (OUP, 2018) and Contributory Negligence in the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2019). He is also an editor of Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort and of Lunney & Oliphant’s Tort: Text and Materials.

Massimo RENZO (Harms and Wrongs)
Visiting Professor

Massimo Renzo is the Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy & Law at King’s College London, where he is also Director of the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre. He has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the universities of Virginia and Arizona, the Murphy Institute, NUS and the Nathanson Centre for Transnational Human Rights, Crime & Security. He is an affiliated researcher at the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War & Peace and the Honorary Secretary of the Society for Applied Philosophy.

He is also one of the editors of the journal Criminal Law & Philosophy. He works primarily in legal and political philosophy. His main research interests are in the problems of political authority, international justice and the philosophical foundations of the criminal law.