VISITING SCHOLARS & RESEARCHERS

Visiting Scholars & Researchers in AY 2012-2013
 

Visiting Scholars in AY 2012-2013
 
  Nina Segre
USA
April 2013

Nina Segre has over 35 years experience as a commercial real estate attorney, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She has had sophisticated transactional real estate experience of a broad nature throughout the United States, including land use, development, zoning, housing, leasing, financing, acquisition, disposition, permitting, design, construction, and condominium law. Her experience covers commercial, industrial, institutional (principally universities and hospitals), multi-family and residential real estate. She has represented developers, national and local banks, private and institutional financial partners, merger and acquisition clients, corporations using real estate for their own purposes, and others. She has participated in many multi-state transactions. She has served as local counsel for energy-related projects, including gas, coal and nuclear-powered electric generating plants and co-generation facilities.

She was a Visiting Scholar at Hastings Law School, San Francisco, California (USA), during 2010 and (in the fall semester each year, beginning in 2009) at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, where she pursues research in several areas of comparative real estate law and, at Bocconi, teaches a course on United States law [taught in English].
 
     
  Diego Acosta Arcarazo
United Kingdom
July 2012 to August 2012

Diego Acosta is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Sheffield (UK) and holds a PhD from Kings College London in European Law. His doctoral thesis was published as The Long-Term Residence Status as a Subsidiary Form of EU Citizenship. An Analysis of Directive 2003/109/ (Martinus Nijhoff, 2011). Dr Acosta is an expert on EU migration law and has published widely in the area, including his latest co-edited book (with Peers, Guild, Groenendijk and Moreno-Lax), EU Immigration Law: Text and Commentary 2nd ed (Martinus Nijhoff, 2012). He has also been invited by several universities to give talks on the subject and he is involved in different consultancy projects. His current research looks at migration legislation in different countries in the MERCOSUR in South America and compares it with the EU and its member states.
 
     
  Gérald Goldstein
Canada
January 2013 to March 2013

Professor Gérald Goldstein graduated from the University of Paris I (Sorbonne) in 1978 and earned graduate degrees in law (LLM, DCL) from McGill University in Montreal in 1993.

He has been Professor of Law at the Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal since 1988 and he teaches Civil law, Comparative law, and Conflict of Laws. In 2006 he was a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law and taught a course, “Non Marital Cohabitation in Private International Law”.

Specializing in Conflict of Laws from a comparative perspective, Professor Goldstein has published 70 articles, a treatise and a recent book on the same topic. He has presented various reports to the Canadian Ministry of Justice and has been guest speaker in several countries. His research includes the codification of the conflict of laws, the influence on Southeast Asian countries of the Hague conventions and problems encountered by those countries from a civil or common law background when trying to accommodate Islamic institutions.
 
     
  Tan Lay Hong
Singapore
February 2013 to April 2013

Lay Hong graduated from National University of Singapore with an LLB in 1985 and started practice as a civil litigation and chancery lawyer. In 1992, she joined Nanyang Business School (NBS) as a lecturer and completed an LLM (with merit) at King’s College, University of London. She has just completed her PhD thesis at NUS and is awaiting her oral examination. She has carried out extensive research on China Business Law, Company Law and Corporate Governance. She has published in top tier journals such as the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, Australian Law Journal and the Singapore Academy of Law Journal. In 2006, she received the Researcher of the Division award from NBS.

Lay Hong currently holds an Associate Professorship with NBS. She has published two books on corporate governance, namely, Tan Lay Hong, Tan Chong Huat and Long Hsueh Ching, Corporate Governance of Listed Companies in Singapore (Sweet & axwell, 2006), and Chew Heng Ching, Tan Chong Huat and Tan Lay Hong, Casebook of Corporate Governance Best Practices in Singapore: The Good, Bad and Ugly (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010). She was an invited panelist in the SAICSA Forum which discussed the proposed revisions to the Code of Corporate Governance. She was also invited to be a panel speaker for a seminar organized by the Association of Legal Counsels to discuss the same proposed revisions. Recently, she was a panelist at the “Corporate Ethics and Governance” seminar organized by ICPAS. She is also a member of the Committee on Legal Education and Studies headed by Solicitor-General, Mrs Koh Juat Jong.
 
     
  Arad Reisberg
United Kingdom
March 2013

Arad Reisberg is a Reader in Corporate and Financial Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL). He is also the Director of the UCL Centre for Commercial Law. Between 2009-2012 he acted as the Faculty’s Vice Dean (Research). He was formerly a Senior Arts Scholar (2001-2003) and a Tutor at Pembroke College Oxford and also taught law at 6 colleges at Oxford University between 2001-2005. He has been a Visiting Lecturer at Oxford University (2005), a Lecturer at Warwick Law School (2005-2006) and, most recently, a Visiting Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School (Fall Tern 2012) where he taught an advanced course in corporate law. Arad is the recipient of numerous academic scholarships and awards and has written widely on shareholder remedies and directors’ duties. He is an Academic Member of ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute). He is author of Derivative Actions and Corporate Governance (Oxford University Press, 2007), the first book to provide a detailed and theoretical explanation of the law governing derivative actions, co-editor of Pettet's Company Law 4th ed (Pearson, 2012), and a contributing author to Annotated Companies Legislation 2nd ed (Oxford University Press, 2012). Arad also sits on the Editorial Boards of the Journal International Corporate Rescue and the Journal of Corporate Ownership and Control.
 
     
  Oei Shu-Yi
USA
June 2013 to July 2013

Shu-Yi Oei is an Associate Professor at Tulane Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 2003 and also holds a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Prior to Tulane, Professor Oei practiced tax law at Bingham McCutchen in Boston, Massachusetts, from 2003 until 2009. Her practice involved advising clients on a wide variety of federal, state, and international tax matters. From 2008 to 2009, Professor Oei also held a post-graduate research fellowship at Harvard Law School.
Professor Oei’s research interests are in taxation, tax policy, bankruptcy law, and commercial law. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the UC Davis Law Review, and the American Bankruptcy Law Journal. Her current research projects explore the role that tax policy may play in promoting economic security or managing financial risks. She has presented her work at various workshops and conferences, including the Indiana University Maurer School of Law Tax Policy Colloquium, the Northwestern University School of Law Colloquium on Advanced Topics in Taxation, and the Tulane Tax Roundtable.
Professor Oei teaches Federal Income Tax, Corporate Tax, International Tax, and Tax Policy at Tulane.
 
     
     
     
     
Visiting Researchers in AY 2012-2013
 
  Ebenezer Oahimire Imonitie Adodo
Nigeria
June 2012 to December 2012

Dr Ebenezer Adodo is a Solicitor and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He holds LLB and LLM degrees from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, and an LLM (by research) and a PhD from the National University of Singapore (NUS). Ebenezer’s doctoral dissertation, The Problem of Compliance in Letter of Credit Transactions, was nominated for the Professor Wang Gungwu Medal as the best PhD thesis in the Social Sciences/Humanities, and for the World Future Foundation PhD Prize.

Ebenezer’s primary areas of practice, teaching, and research are banking and international banking law, the conflict of laws, and international commercial litigation. He is also fascinated by questions relating to the feasible means of attaining significant levels of democratisation, good governance and human rights protection in Africa.

Ebenezer is engaged in preparing a practitioner’s textbook substantially based on his doctoral thesis for publication with Oxford University Press in summer 2013.
 
     
  Maximilian Clasmeier
Germany
January 2013 to February 2013

Maximilian is a J.D. candidate at the law school of the University of Münster in Germany and has also studied at the University of Barcelona. He obtained a Diploma in Common Law Studies and specializes in International and European Law. He interned with Bird & Bird and Clifford Chance in Germany as well as with the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Singapore, where he worked on human rights within the ASEAN community. He received scholarships from the German Bundestag and American Congress and has worked for former US Congressman Ralph S. Regula in Canton, OH. Previously, he examined the role of the European Court of Justice and its interaction with national courts. While he is at At NUS, Maximilian will analyze state sovereignty in context with the enforcement of arbitral awards. He is a member of Young ICCA and the YIAG of the London Court of International Arbitration.
 
     
  Priya Pillai
India
May 2013 to June 2013

Priya Pillai has a law degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and an LLM in international law from NYU. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Priya has international and domestic experience in the areas of International law and Human rights. She has worked with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, and has taught and undertaken research in international law, transitional justice and international criminal law.
 
     
  Raphaël Denis Chabaneix
France
June 2013 to July 2013

Raphaël Chabaneix trained as an industrial engineer at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (NY) and as an international lawyer at the Sorbonne Law School (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne.) As an engineer, he worked in Paris in the finance and information technology sectors before commencing study of the law.
He is now a master’s student at the Comparative Law Institute of Paris (IDC - Université Panthéon-Assas) and president of its Comparative Law Student Association, where he helps organise conferences across Europe and promote comparative research. His studies have focused on international governance and dispute resolution involving intellectual property, information technology and engineering aspects, notably in the context of international commercial arbitration, WTO dispute settlement and transnational litigation.
His thesis on comparative data privacy protection brings him to NUS where he will be researching Asian data privacy laws as a distinct model from US and EU approaches, as well as Asian jurisprudence on internet jurisdiction and conflict of laws issues.
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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