EW Barker Centre for Law & Business

Year 2015

Date	Event
9 December 2015	Law, Trust & Institutional Variation: Evidence From Interviews In China Speaker: Professor Mathias Siems (Professor of Commercial Law, Durham University) Chairperson: Assistant Professor Lin Lin (NUS Law)
1 October 2015	Corruption in China Speaker: Professor Bernard Yeung (Dean, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore) Chairperson: Professor Tan Cheng Han (NUS Law)
25 August 2015	ASEAN IP Public Conference 2015: Intellectual Property Interoperability: ASEAN & BEYOND PI: Associate Professor Elizabeth Ng Siew Kuan (NUS Law)
21 August 2015	Relational Contracts: A Legal Concept? Speaker: Professor Hugh Collins (Vinerian Professor, English Law, All Souls College, Oxford) Jointly organised with Singapore Academy of Law
13 August 2015	The Concept Of A Remedy Speaker: Professor Stephen Smith (Faculty of Law, McGill University) Convenor: Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart (NUS Law)
23-24 July 2015	Conference on Comparative Takeover Regulation * By Invitation Only * PI: Assistant Professor Umakanth Varottil (NUS Law) Jointly organised with NUS Centre for Banking & Finance Law and SMU Centre for Cross-Border Commercial Law in Asia
29 June 2015	Do Auction and Mandatory Bid Matter? Assessing Chinese Takeover Law from Value-maximizing Perspective Speaker: Professor Charlie Xiao-chuan Weng (KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Chairperson: Assistant Professor Umakanth Varottil (NUS Law)
28-29 May 2015	Conference on the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration in Asia * By Invitation Only * PI: Associate Professor Gary Bell (NUS Law)
7 May 2015	Book Launch - Cartels in Asia: Law & Practice * By Invitation Only * PI: Associate Professor Burton Ong (NUS Law)
23-24 April 2015	UNCITRAL-Singapore Seminar on 35 Years of the CISG: Achievements & Perspectives PI: Associate Professor Gary Bell (NUS Law) Jointly organised with United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, UNCITRAL - Regional Centre for Asia and the Pacific, Attorney-General's Chambers of Singapore, Singapore Management University, Ministry of Law and Singapore Academy of Law
5 March 2015	Shareholders Agreements as a Control-Enhancing Device Speaker: Assistant Professor Marilena Filippelli (School of Economic and Management, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Chairperson: Assistant Professor Umakanth Varottil (NUS Law)
26-27 February 2015	Independent Directors in Asia * By Invitation Only * PI: Dan Puchniak (NUS Law) Jointly organised with the NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies
24 February 2015	EU Asia Corporate Governance Dialogue 2015 Jointly organised with European Corporate Governance Institute
12 February 2015	Fiduciary Law and Entrepreneurial Action Speaker: Professor Gordon Smith (J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University) Chairperson: Assistant Professor Christian Hofmann (NUS Law)
9 February 2015	Zealous Advocates or Self-interested Actors? Assessing the Value of Plaintiffs' Law Firms in Merger Litigation Speaker: Professor Randall Thomas (John S. Beasley II Professor of Law & Business, Vanderbilt University Law School) Chairperson: Professor Tan Cheng Han (NUS Law)
29 January 2015	Insights to Singapore Tax Law Practice PI: Associate Professor Stephen Phua (NUS Law) Jointly organized with Australian Singapore Law Students Association, Practitioners from the Singapore Tax Law Practice and Contact Singapore
26 January 2015	Double Tax Agreements and Expatriate Professional: Perspectives on Tax Competition and Human Capital Speaker: Winthrop Professor Nolan Sharkey (Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia) Chairperson: Associate Professor Stephen Phua (NUS Law)