Wayne Courtney joined NUS Law in 2015. He had previously been an Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney.
Wayne specialises in contract law and has broader interests in commercial law and private law. He is the author of two books, Contractual Indemnities and The Modern Contract of Guarantee (now in its fourth edition), and co-editor of Punishment and Private Law. His work has been cited by the apex courts of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom, by the Hong Kong Court of Appeal, and by various other courts. 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.
Wayne is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where he teaches regularly. 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.
