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SPEAKERS’ PROFILES

SMU SCHOOL OF LAW 8-9 DECEMBER 2016

Professor Yeo Tiong Min SC (Hon) Dean, School of Law, Singapore Management University

Professor Yeo Tiong Min SC (honoris causa) obtained postgraduate qualifications from the University of Oxford after completing undergraduate law studies at the National University of Singapore, where he had taught before being appointed the first Yong Pung How Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University when its School of Law was established in 2007. Currently Dean of the School, he maintains research interests in private international law, equity, restitution and contract law

Professor Ralf Michaels Duke University School of Law

Ralf Michaels is an expert in comparative law and conflict of laws, and a Professor at Duke University School of Law. His current research focuses mainly on three issues: the role of domestic courts in globalization, the role of conflict of laws as a theory of global legal fragmentation, and the status and relevance of law beyond the state. He has authored numerous articles on all three topics. Michaels is the editor or co-editor of two special volumes of the American Journal of Comparative Law: "Beyond the State? Rethinking Private Law", 2008 (also published as a book) and "Legal

Origins", 2009, as well as a book and a journal issue on conflict of laws: Conflict of Laws in a Globalized World (2007); Transdisciplinary Conflicts, Law and Contemporary Problems, 2008. Michaels has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Panthéon/Assas (Paris II), Princeton, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and the London School of Economics. He has also held senior research fellowships at Harvard and Princeton, as well as the American Academy in Berlin and the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg. In 2015, he gave a number of lectures on private international law at The Hague Academy for International Law. Professor Geraint Howells Dean, City University of Hong Kong

Professor Geraint Howells holds the position of Dean at the City University of Hong Kong and concurrently serves as the Chair Professor of Commercial Law. He is an authority in the field of consumer law writ large, with a particular interest in product liability and product safety, and has produced a voluminous body of research on these issues. Prior to taking up his current post in Hong Kong, Professor Howells held chairs at the Universities of Sheffield, Lancaster and Manchester and was offered visiting positions in Wurzburg, Munster, Paris XI, Tennessee and Sydney. He is also a member of the Board, and former President, of the International Association of Consumer Law.

Assistant Professor Mateja Durovic City University of Hong Kong

Dr Mateja Durovic is a visiting Assistant Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He holds an LL.B. degree from the University of Belgrade, LL.Ms from the University of Cambridge and the European University Institute and was conferred his PhD by that last institution in 2014. His research interests are in the field of commercial law, arbitration law, consumer and competition law. His monograph, European law on Unfair Competition and Contract Law, will be published in 2016 (Hart Publishing).

Mr. Andrew Godwin Asian Law Centre, University of Melbourne

Andrew Godwin is Senior Lecturer, Director of Transactional Law, Director of Banking and Finance Law, and Associate Director of the Asian Law Centre at Melbourne Law School. Andrew has been involved in legal practice for over 20 years, 10 of which were spent in Shanghai where he was a partner and chief representative of an international law firm. During his time in practice, Andrew acted in a wide range of finance transactions and also in the area of cross-border merger and acquisition projects. Andrew’s interests include finance and insolvency law, transactional law, financial regulation, the regulation of the legal profession and professional

and transactional skills for lawyers. Andrew is the author of a critically acclaimed bilingual book that examines Chinese and English legal terminology and concepts: China Lexicon. He is also a regular contributor to academic and professional publications and consults extensively to the profession and regulators, both in Australia and overseas, in the area of regulation, regulatory design, professional training and risk and compliance. He is currently acting as consultant to the World Bank in the area of financial institution insolvency and to the Judicial College of Victoria in the area of cultural awareness in the courts. Professor Alexander Loke City University of Hong Kong

Alexander Loke is a Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He took his undergraduate law degree from NUS (Hons) and holds postgraduate degrees from Columbia. Professor Loke’s research interests lie in the fields of contract law, international business transactions and corporate finance and securities regulations. He is one of the General Editors of a new and highly anticipated book series entitled Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia (Oxford University Press). The first volume, Remedies for Breach of Contract, was published in early 2016 and the second installment, entitled Formation and Third Party Beneficiaries, will be available in 2017.

Mr. Luca Castellani UNCITRAL Regional Centre, Seoul

Luca Castellani is the secretary of UNCITRAL Working Group IV (Electronic Commerce). After graduating in law in the University of Torino, he received a doctoral degree in comparative law from the University of Trieste and a master in international law from New York University. He was admitted to the bar in Italy and held research lecturing positions in Italy (Università del Piemonte Orientale) and Eritrea (University of Asmara). He joined the Office of Legal Affairs of the secretariat of the United Nations in New York in 2001, working at its Treaty Section, and moved to its International Trade Law Division (discharging the functions of UNCITRAL secretariat) in Vienna, Austria, in 2004. Eventually, he was tasked with the promotion of the adoption and uniform interpretation of UNCITRAL texts relating to sale of goods and electronic commerce. From

March 2012 to November 2013 he was assigned as first Head of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific (UNCITRAL RCAP), located in Incheon, Republic of Korea. He has published in the fields of international trade law and comparative law, dealing, in particular, with sale of goods, electronic commerce and trade law reform in developing countries. Professor Masami Okino Tokyo University

Professor Okino Masami completed her LL.B. at University of Tokyo and her LL.M. at University of Virginia. She joined University of Tokyo as a faculty member in 2010. She is the author of “Consumer Contracts and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Japan” (Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute) and “Regulating Contract Formation” (The Journal of Private Law). She is also the co-author of Bankruptcy Law (co-authored with Prof. Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Tadashi Nakanishi, Masatoshi Kasai and Hironori Mizumoto) and contributed to the book Trustee’s Duty Loyalty as a Default Rule, in Future of Civil Law, Formation of Contracts.

Ms. Sanchita Basu Das ISEAS

Ms Sanchita Basu Das is the lead researcher for economic affairs as the ISEAS ASEAN Studies Centre. She for holds concurrent duties as the coordinator of the Singapore APEC Study Centre and co-editor of Journal of Southeast Asian Economies (formerly the ASEAN Economic Bulletin). Prior to joining the Institute in 2005, she was an economist in the private sector involved in infrastructure consulting, manufacturing and banking. Sanchita holds an MBA from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and an MA from the Delhi School of Economics (under University of Delhi), India. She is currently pursuing her doctorate in International Political Economy at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Sanchita has authored and edited numerous books and book chapters, policy papers and opinion articles. Her research interests include - economic regionalism in ASEAN and the Asia-Pacific Region; international trade; and economic development issues like connectivity

Professor Andreas Engert Universität Mannheim

Professor Andreas Engert is a Professor of Private Law, German and European Business Law and Business Tax Law at the University of Mannheim. Andreas Engert completed his First State Exam in Law at the University of Tübingen in 1997 and his Second State Exam (bar exam equivalent) in 1999. He earned an LL.M. degree from the University of Chicago School of Law in 2000 and a Doctorate in Law (Dr. jur.) at the University of Munich in 2003. Andreas Engert has taught at the University of Munich, the University of Bonn, the University of Cologne and as a guest

professor at the University of Florida. His research interests lie in corporation and financial markets law as well as business taxation, all with a special emphasis on economic and empirical perspectives. He has – among other topics – written extensively on corporate finance law, European corporation law, investment fund regulation and law and social norms. Professor Fabrizio Cafaggi European University Institute

Fabrizio Cafaggi, professor of private law university of Trento ( on leave), professor of regulation school of national administration, co-director of the center for judicial cooperation. Scientific coordinator of the project on fundamental rights and judicial dialogue ACTIONES. Founding member of the European Law Institute, member of the American Law Institute, Correspondent of Unidroit. His main research fields are transnational regulation and private standards, supply chain contracting and global governance, Contractual networks, Judicial dialogue in European private law.

Mr. Teemu Alexander Puutio UN ESCAP Bangkok

Teemu Alexander Puutio is Assistant Economic Affairs Officer at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for the Asia and the Pacific where he supports regional member states on several aspects of economics and law. Teemu’s research studies at University of Turku and London School of Economics and Political Science involve assessing the complex interplay between good governance and international law including in areas such as corporate finance financial markets.

Dr. Gary Low Singapore Management University

Gary Low is Assistant Professor at the Singapore Management University School of Law. He read for law at the London School of Economics (LLB, First Class) and Oxford University (BCL, Distinction) and Maastricht University (PhD). He was a Justices’ Law Clerk of the Supreme Court of Singapore as well as a shipping lawyer at a large reputable firm. Prior to joining SMU, he was associated with Tilburg and Maastricht universities in the Netherlands as well as Cornell Law School. At present, he teaches the common law as well as

international commercial law, and researches on legal integration, commercial and consumer law, and behavioural law and economics. Professor Sir Francis Jacobs King’s College London

Rt Hon. Sir Francis Jacobs KCMG, QC Education: Christ Church, Oxford; Nuffield College, Oxford. MA, D.Phil. Oxford. Professor of Law, King’s College London since 2006; Jean Monnet Professor; President, Centre of European Law and President, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. Formerly: Professor of European Law, University of London (King’s College) 1974-88. Advocate General, European Court of Justice, 1988-2006. Barrister, Middle Temple; Queen’s Counsel 1984; Bencher 1990; Reader 2009. Other appointments: First President, European Law Institute, 2011-13; member of Senate, 2013- President, Missing Children Europe, 2007-13; Patron, 2013-

President, UNIDROIT Administrative Tribunal. Governor, British Institute of Human Rights. Appointed to the Privy Council 2005. Professor Gareth Davies Free University of Amsterdam

Gareth Davies is professor of European Law at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He was previously a lecturer at the University of Groningen (2000-7) and a barrister in London. In 2006 he was an Emile Noel Fellow at New York University Law School, and in 2014 a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow at the EUI. He is an external teacher at the College of Europe, Bruges. His research concerns primarily the division of powers between the EU and Member States, particularly in the context of economic integration. He has written on the internal market, subsidiarity, the preliminary reference procedure, and the balancing of interests in economic law. He is the co-author, with Damian Chalmers and Giorgio Monti, of EU Law (3rd edn, Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Professor Fernando Gómez Universidad Pompeu Fabra School of Law

Fernando Gomez is Professor of Civil Law and Law and Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. A graduate of the University of Madrid and the University of Bologna (Italy), he has taught at several Universities in Europe (University of Madrid-Complutense, University of Wales, University of Hamburg), Israel (IDC-Herzliya) and the US (NYU, George Mason). He is currently co-editor of the Review of Law and Economics, and the European Review of Contract Law, managing editor of InDret, the leading Spanish e-journal in legal studies, and sits in the board of editors of other international and Spanish academic journals. He served in the Expert Group of the European Commission on a Common European Sales Law. His research has been published in leading journals and publications in the US, UK, Portugal, Italy, Germany, France, Colombia,

Belgium, and Argentina, as well as in Spain. His research interests lie in the application of economic methods to a broad range of legal areas and topics, especially Contracts, Consumer Finance, Torts,

Legal Harmonization, and Judicial Behavior. His most recent published paper is “Product Liability vs. Reputation”, Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (2016). Associate Professor Maartje de Visser Singapore Management University

Maartje de Visser is an Associate Professor of Law at Singapore Management University. Prior to this, she held appointments at Maastricht University and Tilburg Law School in the Netherlands. Maartje obtained law degrees from Maastricht (meester in de rechten, cum laude), Oxford University (MJur with distinction), and obtained her PhD at Tilburg University (cum laude). Her main research interests are in the fields of comparative constitutional law and regional integration. She has published widely in these areas, with her work appearing in international journals as well as edited volumes. Her monograph Constitutional Review in Europe: A Comparative Analysis was published by Hart Publishing in 2014.

Dr. Michael Hwang S.C. Michael Hwang Chambers LLC

Dr Michael Hwang S.C., a Senior Counsel of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and Chief Justice of the Dubai International Financial Centre Courts, received his undergraduate and postgraduate legal education at Oxford University where he was a College Scholar and Prizewinner. Dr Hwang is active in international dispute resolution as arbitrator (under the auspices of all the major arbitration institutions) as well as mediator. Based in Singapore but associated with Chambers in London and Sydney, he is active both in commercial as well as investment treaty arbitration. He has conducted arbitrations in over 25 cities and spoken at conferences in over 50 cities. He has also conducted arbitrations under the auspices of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and ICSID. Dr Hwang has served in various capacities, including as a Judicial

Commissioner (High Court Contract Judge) of the Supreme Court of Singapore; Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Switzerland and Argentina; President of the Law Society of Singapore; Vice Chairman of the ICC International Court of Arbitration; Vice-President of ICCA; Court Member of LCIA; Trustee of DIAC; Council Member of ASA; Council Member of ICAS; and Commissioner of the United Nations Compensation Commission. In 2014, he was conferred an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Sydney. Associate Professor John Ho City University of Hong Kong

John Kong Shan Ho is an Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He obtained his doctorate from the University of Dundee (2009) and holds degrees from the University of East Anglia and Central Michigan University. He has previously worked as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Surrey (UK) and as a Senior Lecturer at Newcastle Law School (UK). Associate Professor Ho’s research intersts are in the fields of corporate and commecial law, environmental law and labour law and he publications have inter alia appeared in the Journal of Comparative Law and the Common Law World Review.

Professor (Practice) David N Smith Singapore Management University

David Smith is Practice Professor of Law at Singapore Management University. He holds a B.A. degree from Harvard College and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. David served for 15 years as Vice-Dean at Harvard Law School and earlier as Assistant Dean for International Legal Studies. He is a former Assistant Attorney-General of New York State. At Harvard David taught courses on foreign investment in natural resources and transnational companies. Prior to his appointment at Singapore Management University, he served as Acting Dean of the School of Law and Acting Director of the

School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong and Vice-Rector at Macao University of Science and Technology. David has served as advisor on natural resource policy, foreign investment policy and legal education to over 30 governments in Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Middle East. His recent publications include “Ethics and Social Responsibility in International Business” (with Professor Mahdev Mohan) “Ethics and Technology” (with Professor Gary Chan) and “Finance Ethics” in Ethics and Social Responsibility – Asian and Western Perspective (Chan/Shenoy, eds, 2016) and “Trouble Is My Business: Ethics, Risk Management and Transnational Companies,” in A Revolution in the International Rule of Law, Juris Publishing, 2014). Associate Professor André Janssen City University of Hong Kong

André Janssen is a Visiting Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He holds undergraduate degrees from North Rhine-Westphalia and was conferred his PhD by Münster university. His research interests are in international sales law, commercial law writ large, law and economics and comparative law and he has published widely in these fields, in English as well as German. His recent publications include International Sales Law: Contracts, Principles and Practice (Nomos, 2016, co-edited with Larry DiMatteo, Ulrich Magnus and Reiner Schulze) and CISG Methodology (Sellier, 2009, co-edited with Olaf Meyer). He has been the recipient of numerous scholarships awarded by the European Commission, among which the Marie Curie Prize. He is the chief editor of the European Review of Private Law.

Associate Professor Charles Qu City University of Hong Kong

Charles Qu is an Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He was conferred his PhD by the Australian National University and has been admitted to the New South Wales bar. His research interests are in corporate law, corporate insolvency law, schemes of arrangement and Chinese corporate law and he is a prolific writer in these areas. Together with Stefan HC Lo, he is the author of one of the leading Law of Companies in Hong Kong (Sweet and Maxwell), currently in its second edition.