VISITING SCHOLARS & RESEARCHERS

Visiting Scholars & Researchers in AY 2011-2012
 

Visiting Scholars in AY 2011-2012
 
  In Hyeon Kim
Republic of Korea
February 2012 to April 2012

In Hyeon Kim is a full time professor at the Korea University School of Law. He specializes in maritime law and marine insurance. He is a former master (Captain) of Sanko Steamship Co Ltd and is a holder of a valid Master’s license. He has worked for Kim & Chang, a law firm in Korea, as a maritime consultant.

He studied nautical science at Korea Maritime University and law at Korea University. He obtained his Master of Law and his PhD in Law at Korea University, and an LLM from the University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Kim is a Vice Chairman of the Korea Maritime Law Association. He has acted as a legal advisor to the Korean government on the Rotterdam Rules and acts as a legal advisor for the Korean government at the Legal Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO).

He has published an English textbook, Transport Law in South Korea (Wolter Kluwer, 2011) and several articles on Korean Supreme Court maritime cases in the Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce.

While at NUS, he will undertake a comparative study of Singapore maritime law and Korean maritime law.

 
     
  Kate Galloway
Australia
October 2011 to November 2011

Kate Galloway is a senior lecturer in the School of Law at James Cook University. Kate has a BEcon and an LLB from the University of Queensland and an LLM by research from the Queensland University of Technology. She is a solicitor admitted to practice in Queensland and has previously specialised in property law in private practice, and in a land council. Kate teaches and researches in property law and researches also in legal education. She is presently director of teaching and learning in the School of Law, and faculty curriculum scholar, working on approaches to curriculum design through the thematic lens of ‘the tropics’; Indigenous perspectives in curriculum; and student pastoral care. Her current legal research is analysing the context of legal concepts and systems relating to property, particularly land, and whether they fit contemporary social norms.
 
     
  Frédéric Bachand
Canada
August 2011 to October 2011

Frédéric Bachand is an Associate Professor of Law at McGill University, where he teaches in the areas of extrajudicial dispute resolution, international investments, civil procedure and civil evidence. Professor Bachand came to McGill after having practiced law for several years with the law firm of Ogilvy Renault in Montreal. He holds doctoral degrees from Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) and Université de Montréal, as well as an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge, where he spent a year after clerking for Justice Gérard V. La Forest of the Supreme Court of Canada. His award-winning scholarship focuses on domestic and international arbitration, with a particular emphasis on the role national courts play in the arbitral process. An active member of McGill's Private Justice and Rule of Law research team he also co-directs the McGill Summer Program in Arbitration and is the general editor of a bilingual website on consensual arbitration in Quebec, which he launched in 2004.
 
     
  Holger Spamann
Germany

Holger Spamann is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where his research and teaching focuses on the law and economics of corporate governance and financial markets, as well as comparative law.

Before embarking on his academic career, he practiced with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York and clerked for two years in Europe. He holds an A.M. in economics from Harvard University, a B.Sc. in economics from the London School of Economics, a doctorate in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School, and basic law degrees from the Sorbonne and the University of Hamburg.

At NUS, he will work on the methodology of legal system comparison, in particular the comparison of civil and common law legal systems.
 
     
Visiting Researchers in AY 2011-2012
 
  Jhuma Sen
India
January 2012 to May 2012

Jhuma Sen is a lawyer and the Founder Director of Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies in Kolkata. She specializes in human rights, constitutional law and international criminal law with an interest bordering on Postcolonial Theory and Law, Gender and Law and Law and Society. She has been a legal researcher with organisations like Lawyers Collective and Amnesty International India and interned with the Law Commission, National Human Rights Commission and a Supreme Court Judge’s chamber. She pursued her legal education at Symbiosis Law School in Pune and later read for her LL.M at University of California, Berkeley as an American Association of University Woman’s International Fellow. While at NUS, she will attempt to understand Human Rights as a post-colonial subject by questioning the vocabulary of 'Rule of Law' and 'Justice' in the Third World Approach to International Law and Human Rights.
 
     
  Manuela Malandri
Italy
August 2011 to December 2011

Manuela is a PhD candidate at University College London’s Faculty of Laws, specializing in Public International Law. Her research is about the significance and impact of the legal principle of self-determination in the context of post-conflict state-building. The project aims to identify and map out how this principle is used to orchestrate post-war reconstruction processes through an analysis of Security Council practice. Manuela holds a BA in Philosophy from Università di Bologna, Italy; an MA in Human Rights from University College London and an LLM in International Law and International Relations from Lancaster University, for which was awarded an HRH Princess Alexandra Medal for academic excellence. She has interned with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva; Amnesty International in London and with the United Nations University in Tokyo.
 
     
  Anne-Catherine Hahn
Switzerland
August 2011 to September 2011

Anne-Catherine Hahn is a senior associate with Baker & McKenzie in Zurich and a part-time lecturer at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. She earned her law degree (license) from the University of Fribourg, where she also completed her doctorate on unjust enrichment and pre-contractual liability in comparative law. At Baker & McKenzie, her practise focuses mainly on international commercial arbitration and commercial contracts. These are also the areas in which she does research, most recently on the treatment of bribery allegations in arbitration. While at NUS, she will be studying commercial disputes potentially arising from the cross-border investments of sovereign wealth funds and other state-owned entities, including in particular sovereign immunity issues.

 
     
  Michiel Spanjaart
Netherlands
July 2011 to August 2011

Michiel Spanjaart is a partner at Kneppelhout & Korthals Advocaten and a lecturer at the Universities of Utrecht and Rotterdam. Prior to joining Kneppelhout & Korthals Advocaten, Michiel was a partner and co-founder of Padberg Spanjaart Advocaten. His practice areas include trade, transport and insurance. He is a also member of the Dutch Association for Sea and Transport Law, Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats (AIJA). He has several publications on maritime law and insurance law, including some for English legal periodicals. At NUS, he will be continuing his dissertation on the title to sue under Bill of Lading.

 
     
 

Olivia Johanna Erdelyi
Germany
May 2011 to August 2011

Olivia Johanna Erdelyi is a PhD candidate at Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf. Her researches concern International Financial Regulation and Supervision with emphasis on the treatment of cross-border groups in the European Solvency II Framework Directive.

She holds two post-graduate law degrees from the Eoetvoes Lorand University in Budapest and the Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf, and an LL.M. from the University of Cologne. Besides International Financial Regulation and Supervision, her expertise centers on Private International and Corporate Law. She has worked at the international law firm Hogan Lovells and at several European Institutions such as the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Commission.

At NUS, she will continue to work on her PhD thesis, focusing her researches in particular on the international aspects of Financial Regulation and Supervision.
 
     
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