Highlights
PLDG Convenor James Penner awarded the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize
The Private Law Discussion Group (PLDG) congratulates Professor James Penner on being awarded the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize for his research into property rights. The Brigham-Kanner Prize is given annually to a scholar, practitioner or jurist whose work affirms the fundamental importance of property rights. It is named for the late Toby Prince Brigham, a leading property rights attorney, and the late Professor Gideon Kanner, a devoted scholar of property rights at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
HSF-PLDG Seminar: The Variety of Anti-Suit Injunctions
The Private Law Discussion Group (PLDG) at NUS Law is pleased to collaborate with Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Prolegis LLC Alliance and Singapore Management University to organise a panel discussion on “The Variety of Anti-Suit Injunctions”. The event was held at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer’s Singapore office on 30 September 2025, and was attended by over 60 practitioners and academics. The event was also supported by the Singapore Chapter of the International Law Association and brought together leading voices to explore the evolving landscape of anti-suit injunctions in international commercial litigation and arbitration.
[Blog post] Corporate Liability and Systems Theory
Current models of the company derived from agency theory and its off-shoot team production theory are not satisfactory in thinking through liability problems. Agency theory is not satisfactory because it is reductionist and sees the company as a nexus of contracts centred upon the shareholder-manager relationship. Team production theory is not satisfactory because it sees the company’s internal hierarchy as having the main task of resolving intra-corporate disputes (that is, among input providers). The theory has no purpose when there are no such disputes and is not concerned with external claims.
Torts Day 2025
This PLDG Conference will feature speakers from Hong Kong University and the National University of Singapore discussing their current research projects, which span important areas of modern tort law. Papers will be delivered on the important torts/doctrines of negligence and vicarious liability, including a paper on the nascent topic of procuring torts.