NUS Law welcomes Visiting Professors – August 2019

NUS Law welcomes our Visiting Faculty for Semester One of Academic Year 2019-2020.

Djakhongir Saidov (International and Comparative Oil & Gas Law)
Visiting Professor

Professor Djakhongir Saidov is a Professor of Commercial Law at King’s College London. He specialises in international commercial law, having joined The Dickson Poon School of Law in August 2015 as a Professor of Commercial Law.

He was previously based in the University of Birmingham, where he was a Reader in Law (2013-2015), Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law (2009-2013) and Lecturer in Commercial Law (2004-2009).

Professor Saidov holds PhD and LLM (with Distinction) degrees from the University of East Anglia and an LLB degree from the University of World Economy and Diplomacy (Uzbekistan). His expertise lies in international commercial law, the law of sale of goods, remedies for breach of contract and the law governing international oil and gas operations. Professor Saidov is a Rapporteur to the CISG Advisory Council (CISG-AC) on the CISG-AC Opinion on ‘Standards and Conformity of the Goods under Article 35 CISG’.

Gen Goto (Japanese Corporate Law and Governance)
Visiting Professor

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

Christopher Hare (Wealth Management Law)
Visiting Associate Professor

Christopher Hare is the Travers Smith Associate Professor of Corporate and Commercial Law at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Somerville College, Oxford. He has previously held posts at the University of Auckland and Jesus College, Cambridge. He has degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge (undergraduate), Harvard Law School (LLM) and Brasenose College, Oxford (BCL). His teaching and research interests lie broadly in the law of obligations and the corporate and commercial law fields, with particular focus on domestic and international banking law, corporate finance, and shareholder remedies. He has co-authored Ellinger, Lomnicka and Hare, Ellinger’s Modern Banking Law (Oxford University Press, 5th ed., 2011), Watts, Campbell and Hare, Company Law in New Zealand (LexisNexis, 2nd ed., 2015) and Cranston, Avgouleas, Van Zwieten, Hare and Van Sante, Principles of Banking Law (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2017). He has also contributed chapters on syndicated lending and tiers of lending to Paget’s Law of Banking (LexisNexis, 15th ed., 2018) and will be co-editor (with Paul Davies and Sarah Worthington) of the 11th edition of Gower’s Principles of Modern Company Law.

Brian F Havel (Aviation Law & Policy)
Visiting Professor

Professor Brian F Havel is a Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Air and Space Law at the McGill University, Faculty of Law. Previously, Professor Havel was a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, where he directed the International & Comparative Law Programme and the International Aviation Law Institute. He practised transnational corporate and antitrust litigation at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York, before entering academia.

His current research focuses on issues of public/private governance in the air transport and space industries – and the sites of that governance – that emerge from ‘messy’ public and private international norm-generation at all levels.

Michael Hor (Administration of Criminal Justice)
Visiting Professor

Professor Michael Hor ’84 was the Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Hong Kong until June 2019. He was previously a Professor of Law at NUS Law.

He specialises in criminal justice and has taught and published in criminal law, evidence, and criminal procedure. He has served as a Consultant for the Ministry of Law, Singapore, and the Criminal Practice Committee of the Law Society of Singapore. He was Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, a member of the editorial boards of the Singapore Academy of Law Journal and the Asian Journal of Comparative Law, and an advisor to the Singapore Law Review and the Criminal Justice Club, NUS. He was also Chairman of the Faculty Search (Hiring) Committee and a member of the Faculty Promotion and Tenure Committee, NUS. In Hong Kong, he is a member of the Standing Committee on Legal Education and the Law Reform Commission.

Michael Tsimplis (Maritime Law)
Visiting Professor

Professor Tsimplis is a Professor of Law at the City University of Hong Kong. He was previously a Professor of Law and Ocean Sciences at the University of Southampton. He obtained his PhD in Physical Oceanography and LLM in Maritime Law from the University of Southampton.

His research interests are in the areas of Maritime Law, Environmental Law, Physical Oceanography, and Sea Level Change.