NUS Law welcomes Visiting Professors – September 2019

NUS Law welcomes our visitors who will be offering intensive courses in the month of September for Academic Year 2019-2020.

Paul Flanagan (The Law of Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Compliance)
Visiting Senior Fellow

Mr Paul Flanagan is an Assistant Professor of Law, Compliance and Privacy at the Drexel University Thomas R Kline School of Law. He is an authority on compliance and privacy who brings decades of experience working with some of the nation’s leading health care providers and higher education institutions. He directs the Privacy, Cybersecurity and Compliance programme.
Selected by the US Department of State as a Fulbright Specialist in 2018, Mr Flanagan previously served as executive director of compliance and privacy services for the Drexel University Compliance and Privacy Office. He also held compliance and privacy leadership posts at Abington Memorial Hospital, Hahnemann University Hospital and the University of Florida’s Shands Health System.

Chang Wen-Chen (Constitutionalism in Asia)
Visiting Professor

Professor Chang Wen-Chen is a Professor at the College of Law, National Taiwan University. She is also Dean and Professor at the School of Law, National Chiao Tung University.

Professor Chang focuses her teaching and research on comparative constitutions, international human rights, international environmental law, administrative laws, and law and society. She has published major scholarly works on comparative constitutional laws, including Asian Courts in Context, with Yeh Jiunn-rong (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Constitutionalism in Asia: Cases and Materials, with Kevin YL Tan ’86, Thio Li-ann & Yeh Jiunn-rong (Hart Publishing, 2014). She serves in editorial boards for leading academic journals including International Journal of Constitutional Law, Cambridge Journal of Global Constitutionalism: Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, and National Taiwan University Law Review. She was awarded with the Outstanding Research Award by Taiwan’s Ministry of Science and Technology in 2015, the Junior Research Investigators Award by Academic Sinica in 2012, the Wu Ta-You Memorial Award by National Science Council in 2010, and the Excellence in Teaching Award by National Taiwan University in 2007.

Chen Lei (Chinese Contract Law)
Visiting Associate Professor

Dr Chen Lei is an Associate Professor, Associate Dean and Director of Centre for Chinese and Comparative Law at the City University of Hong Kong. In July 2020, he will join Durham University as the Chair of Chinese Law.

Dr Chen’s research areas are property theory, contract law, comparative private law, and dispute resolution (Mediation and Arbitration). His writings on these subjects appear in internationally referred law journals, edited volumes of multidisciplinary scholarship and legal monographs. He obtained two LLB degrees in Chinese law and common law respectively, together with two postgraduate degrees from two mixed jurisdictions, Scotland and South Africa. As a principal investigator, he obtained three General Research Funds (GRFs) from the Hong Kong Research Grant Committee. He has published journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Hart Publishing, Springer, Edward Elgar Publishing and Brill. He has also held visiting professor and visiting scholar positions in Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Private Law, KU Leuven, Columbia, Emory, Cornell, Hawaii, Catholic University of Lyon, and IDC Herzliya.

Paul Czarnota (Sports Law)
Visiting Senior Fellow

Mr Paul Czarnota practises as a Barrister of the Victorian Bar in Australia. He is also admitted as an Attorney to the New York State Bar. As a Barrister, he maintains a broad and varied common law, commercial litigation and arbitration practice, with a particular focus on torts (personal injury and insurance) and sports law. He regularly advises and appears for athletes and sports governing bodies in sports-related disputes including anti-doping, match-fixing, and disciplinary matters. He regularly sits on sporting tribunals and arbitration panels convened to hear disciplinary matters, and was a former board member of BMX Victoria. He is also a Senior Fellow of the law faculties of both the University of Melbourne and Monash University, where he teaches Sports Law units in their respective LLM programmes. Paul has Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) degrees from Monash University, and a Master of Laws degree from the University of Melbourne, where he specialised in sports law. He is widely published on various sports law issues.

Ran Hirschl (Comparative Constitutionalism)
Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor

Professor Ran Hirschl is a Professor of Political Science & Law at the University of Toronto. As of 2016, he also holds the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Comparative Constitutionalism at the University of Göttingen, having been granted a coveted AvH International Research Award (the most highly-endowed research award in Germany) by the Humboldt Foundation. He is the author of several award-winning books, including Towards Juristocracy (Harvard University Press, 2004), Constitutional Theocracy (Harvard University Press, 2010), Comparative Matters (Oxford University Press, 2014) and City, State: Comparative Constitutionalism and the Mega-City (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019), as well as over 100 articles and book chapters on constitutional law and its intersection with comparative politics. From 2006 to 2016 he held the Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development at the University of Toronto. In 2014, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC)—the highest academic accolade in that country. The official citation describes him as “one of the world’s leading scholars of comparative constitutional law, courts and jurisprudence.”

Sandy Steel (Advanced Torts)
Visiting Associate Professor

Dr Sandy Steel is Lee Shau Kee’s Sir Man Kam Lo Fellow in Law at Wadham College and Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at Oxford. He read law (BA, PhD) at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. From 2010 to 2014, he was a Lecturer in Law at King’s College London.

His research interests are in the English, French, and German law of obligations and in philosophical questions about that area of law. He has written mainly about torts. He also maintains an interest in general jurisprudence and has co-authored (with Nick McBride) a critical guide to the subject: Great Debates in Jurisprudence (Palgrave, 2014, 2nd edition 2018).

In 2016, he was awarded the Modern Law Review’s Wedderburn Prize for his article “Justifying Exceptions to Proof of Causation in Tort Law” and won joint second prize in the Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship for his book, Proof of Causation in Tort Law (Cambridge University Press, 2015, paperback edition 2017). His work has been cited by the UK Supreme Court and the High Court of Australia.

Jeffrey Waincymer (Comparative Evidence in International Arbitration)
Visiting Professor

Professor Jeffrey Waincymer’s research is primarily in the fields of international trade and investment law, international dispute settlement, arbitration and taxation. 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 edition) 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 edition).

Professor Waincymer is also a qualified legal practitioner. He is an Australian Government Nominee as a non-governmental panellist for the WTO and has acted as a panellist. He has also been a nominated ICSID panellist and has been an ICC, SIAC and HKIAC as well as an ad hoc appointed arbitrator.