Munin 

PONGSAPAN

Munin Pongsapan is Dean of the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University. He is currently Chairman of the Council of Legal Education, an association of leading Thai law schools. He obtained his LLB from the Faculty of Law, Thammasat University. He went to the University of Cambridge for his LLM and the University of Edinburgh for his PhD, where he wrote his thesis “The Reception of Foreign Private Law in Thailand in 1925: A Case Study of Specific Performance”. Since 2013, he has contributed to a book project “Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia”, which aims at publishing 6 volumes on various topics of contract laws in major Asian jurisdictions, including Thailand. The books were edited by Professor Mindy Shen-Wishart and other prominent scholars and published by Oxford University Press. He contributed to Volume I on remedies for breach of contract, Volume III on contract interpretation, Volume IV on defects in consent, and Volume V on changing and ending contracts, the latter being the most recent.

He has taught, researched, and published extensively in the areas of private law, especially contract and obligations law, comparative law and Thai legal history. He has edited some of Thailand’s most authoritative texts on contracts and obligations, including two gigantic volumes on juristic acts and obligations. He has recently co-edited with Professor Andrew Harding the book “Thai Legal History: From Traditional to Modern Law” to be published by Cambridge University Press. He is Co-Editor in Chief of the Thai Legal Studies, the first English-language law journal focusing on Thai law. He is also a subject editor of Asian Journal of Comparative Law. Prior to his deanship, he was the founding Director of the International LLB Programme in Business Law at Thammasat University, which is Thailand’s first and only undergraduate programme in law entirely taught in English.