Wayne Courtney has been promoted to full Professor

We are delighted to share the news that Wayne Courtney has been promoted to full Professor.

Wayne holds a PhD and undergraduate degrees in law and science from the University of Sydney, and a degree in computer science from the University of Tasmania. He joined NUS Law four years ago from Sydney, where he had been an Associate Professor and Associate Dean. Before entering academia, he practised as a commercial lawyer in a leading Australian law firm.

His field of expertise is the law of contract in common law jurisdictions. He takes a doctrinal approach to his research, finding new insights and connections in the law as it stands, and also challenging conventional thinking about contract doctrine. He draws on theory and policy to contextualise and illuminate his doctrinal analysis. He has published extensively in three areas of contract law in particular: on indemnities and guarantees; on implied terms and contract construction; and on contract damages and penalty clauses. He is now arguably the leading academic of his generation in the common law world on the specialist law of guarantees and indemnities, as well as being very well known in the field of contract law generally. He is the author of two books, Contractual Indemnities and The Modern Contract of Guarantee (now in its fourth edition) and co-editor of a forthcoming collection entitled Punishment and Private Law.

Wayne’s work has been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal, the UK Supreme Court, the High Court of Australia, the New Zealand Supreme Court, the Irish High Court and by lower courts in those jurisdictions. He was also recently cited in argument before the Supreme Court of Canada (judgment pending). He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contract Law, section co-editor (SE Asia) for the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, and a past member of the editorial board of the Sydney Law Review. He has been a visiting scholar at Osgoode Hall, York University, the Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and the Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Please join us in congratulating Wayne on this recognition of his many contributions to NUS and the wider academic and professional community!