NUS Law welcomes Visiting Faculty – Phase 2 of Semester 2

L to R (1st row): Professor Miranda Stewart, Professor Arun K. Thiruvengadam, Professor Lucy Reed, Professor Dan Hunter
(2nd row): Professor Gary Born, Professor Ozlem Gurses, Professor Norman P. Ho

NUS Law is delighted to welcome the following Visiting Faculty for 2022 Phase 2 of Semester 2.

Miranda STEWART (Taxation Law & the Global Digital Economy)
Sat Pal Khattar Visiting Prof in Tax Law

Miranda Stewart is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne Law School where she is Director of the Tax Group and is an Honorary Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, affiliated with the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute. Miranda was the inaugural Director of the Institute from 2014 to 2017. Miranda researches, teaches and consults on tax law and policy in academia, government and the private sector, across a wide range of topics including taxation of large and small business entities, not-for-profits and individuals; international taxation and the role of tax in development; budget laws and institutions; and gender equality in tax and transfer systems. Miranda has an enduring interest in the resilience, legitimacy and fairness of tax systems to support good government.

Arun K. THIRUVENGADAM (Comparative Constitutionalism in Southern Asia)
Visiting Professor

Arun Thiruvengadam is a Professor of Law at the National Law School, Bangalore. He holds degrees in law from the National Law School, Bangalore and the New York University School of Law. Between 1995-97, he served as a Law-clerk-cum-research-assistant to the Chief Justice of India, Justice A.M. Ahmadi. He practiced law for approximately two years before the High Courts of Madras and Delhi and the Supreme Court of India.  He has held research and teaching assistant positions at the National Law School (1999-2001) and New York University School of Law (2003-05). He was successively appointed a Visiting Fellow (2005-07) and an Assistant Professor of Law (2007-15) at the Faculty of Law, NUS. He joined the School of Policy and Governance at Azim Premji University in June 2015 as an Associate Professor, and moved to his current position in September 2021.

His primary areas of research and teaching are Indian Constitutional law, Comparative constitutional law, regulatory policy and law, law and development and welfare rights. He is a founding editor (and currently the co-General Editor) of the Indian Law Review (Taylor and Francis, UK). He is also on the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law (Cambridge UK) and World Comparative Law (Nomos, Germany).  He is the author of ‘The Constitution of India: A contextual analysis (Hart Publishing/Bloomsbury UK/Bloomsbury India: Dec 2017).  He is a co-editor of three other books, with the most recent being: Democratic Constitutionalism in India and the European Union: Comparing the law of democracy in continental polities (Edward Elgar: Feb 2021) (with Philipp Dann).

Lucy REED (Mediation/Conciliation of Inter- & Investor-State Disputes)
Visiting Professor

Lucy Reed is an arbitrator based in New York, specializing in investor-State and complex international commercial disputes. She is President of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA) and the Singapore International Arbitration Centre Court, having formerly served as a Vice President of the ICC Court, President of the American Society of International Law, the Chair of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), and a member of the LCIA Court and the HKIAC Board. From 2016 through 2019, Lucy was the Director of the Centre for International Law and a Professor on the Law Faculty of NUS.

From 1998 until 2016, she was a Partner with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where she led the global international arbitration group and represented private and public clients in high-stakes international disputes. Before Freshfields, Lucy was General Counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization, in which capacity she led negotiations with North Korea, and a senior attorney with U.S. State Department and U.S. Agent to the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in The Hague.

Dan HUNTER (Legal Technology & Innovation)
Visiting Professor

Dan Hunter is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and was previously the Founding Dean of Swinburne Law School. He is an international expert in internet and intellectual property law, in artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law, and in legaltech and legal innovation. He holds a PhD from Cambridge on the nature of legal reasoning, as well as computer science and law degrees from Monash University, and a Master of Laws by research from the University of Melbourne. He has taught at law schools in Australia, England and the United States, including Cambridge University, Melbourne Law School, New York Law School and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dan regularly publishes on artificial intelligence, legal technology, and the theory of intellectual property. His most recent books have been A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (Cambridge), The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Intellectual Property (OUP, 2012) and two books on gamification, The Gamification Toolkit (Wharton Digital, 2015) and For the Win (Wharton Digital, 2012) (which has been translated into ten languages).

Gary BORN (Advanced Issues in the Law and Practice of International Arbitration)
Visiting Professor

Gary Born is Chair of the International Arbitration Group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. Gary has served as counsel in over 675 arbitrations, including several of the largest arbitrations in ICC and ad hoc history, and has sat as arbitrator in more than 250 institutional and ad hoc arbitrations. He is a preeminent authority in the field, renowned as the author of International Commercial Arbitration (3rd ed. Kluwer 2021), the leading treatise on the subject. He is also the author of International Arbitration: Law and Practice (3rd ed. Kluwer 2021), International Civil Litigation in U.S. Courts (6th ed. 2018), and a number of other works. Gary is an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and Tsinghua University, Beijing and teaches widely at law schools in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.

Ozlem GURSES (Law of Marine Insurance)
Visiting Professor

Özlem Gürses is Professor of Commercial Law at the King’s College London. Prior to joining King’s College London, she taught commercial law at the Norwich and Southampton Law Schools.

Özlem has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law from the University of Istanbul. She also studied LLM in Maritime Law (graduated with distinction) at the University of Southampton which, following her masters’ degree, provided full funding for her PhD degree in reinsurance law. She is the sole author of Marine Insurance Law (Routledge, 2022, 3rd ed),The Law of Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance (Informa, 2019),  and Reinsuring Clauses (Informa, 2010). She also updated Insurance of Commercial Risks (Sweet and Maxwell, 2016) in its preparation for the fifth edition.

Özlem sits in the Presidential Council of the International Insurance Law Association (AIDA), and the British Insurance Law Association (BILA) Committee. She is Vice Chair of the Reinsurance Working Party of AIDA.

She is a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Maritime Law (CML) at NUS Law from 31 January to 25 February 2022 and will be conducting a seminar on ‘The Proximate Cause of Loss’ on 23 February 2022 at Maxwell Chambers. More details about her seminar can be found here.

Norman P. HO (Traditional Chinese Legal Thought)
Visiting Professor

Norman P. Ho is Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. Norman’s research interests, broadly speaking, are in legal theory and legal history. More specifically, he writes in the areas of premodern Chinese legal history and legal theory, comparative jurisprudence, property theory, and Asian-American jurisprudence.  Prior to joining STL, he practised 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. He also previously taught as a lecturer in the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and as a visiting associate professor at the NUS Faculty of Law. He has also 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. Norman is also a recipient of an Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship from the University of Surrey, and he is an Affiliated Scholar in the Transnational Legal History Group of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Center for Comparative and Transnational Law. 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.