VISITING SCHOLARS & RESEARCHERS

Visiting Scholars & Researchers in AY 2013-2014
 

Visiting Scholars in AY 2013-2014
 
  Anne Scully-Hill
Hong Kong
January 2014 – February 2014

Anne Scully-Hill was a legal academic in London for ten years before moving to Hong Kong where she has continued to teach and research in Family Law, Public Law and Legal Theory. She is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was the founding Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies there. Her current research interest lies in family law, specifically fairness and equality in ancillary relief and the reform of child custody laws in Hong Kong.

Anne is a member of the Hong Kong Law Society’s Family Law Committee, the Editorial Board of the Hong Kong Lawyer, the Organizing Committee for the Children’s Issues Forum, the Hong Kong Collaborative Practice Group, the CEDR Asia Pacific Practice Group and is a qualified mediator in Hong Kong and London. She is also an adviser to the Hong Kong Ombudsman.
 
     
  Suppiah Murugesan
Australia
January 2014 – February 2014

Dr Suppiah Murugesan Senior Lecturer LLB (Hons) (University of London), LLM (University of Qld), PhD (University of Qld) Dr Murugesan, better known as Muru, was in legal practice for over 15 years in Singapore and Brisbane, Australia. He joined the University of South Australia after 8 years as a member of the teaching faculty at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. His teaching experience includes the Law of Tort, Legal Theory, Land Transactions Law, the Law of Succession, Business Law, Employment Law and the Legal Environment of Business for commerce students, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

His areas of research include Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Australian Employment Law, and he has published articles in all three areas. His doctorate thesis was titled "Singapore’s Constitutional Model of Pragmatic Governance – A study of its emergence, its institutional structure and its sustainability." He is continuing to research into various aspects of Australian Employment Law, and is currently involved in a collaborative project on public interest litigation in employment law with Dr Arun Kumar of the National University of Singapore.
 
     
  Sabine Gless
Switzerland
March 2014 – April 2014

Sabine Gless is a Professor for Criminal Law and Criminal Proceedings at the University of Basel (Switzerland) since 2005. From 1997 to 2005 she worked at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg/Br (Germany). Professor Gless earned a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn (Germany) and completed her habilitation at the University of Münster (Germany), substantiating principles for evidence transfer across different criminal justice systems.
Her research and writing encompasses various fields of criminal law and criminal procedure law as well as international criminal law. In particular, she is interested in matters of judicial assistance and European criminal law. A key focus is on general principles of cross border co-operation, namely the effect of Human Rights on criminal procedure from a national and international perspective.
 
     
     
Visiting Researchers in AY 2013-2014
 
  Jodi Simone Gardner
United Kingdom
August 2013 – September 2013

Jodi is currently completing an MPhil/DPhil in consumer protection and contract law at Oxford University, where she previously also completed the BCL. She graduated with an LLB/BIntRels (International Economics) at Griffith University, Brisbane, and an LLM (Government and Commercial Law) at Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, and worked as a lawyer for a number of years in Brisbane. Jodi’s research will compare the theoretical justifications for consumer protection against the actual protection provided by consumer credit regimes. This will provide the basis for an analysis of whether the current regimes are adequate and reflective of the theoretical justifications and what, if any, reforms are necessary.
 
     
  Senthil Sabapathy
United Kingdom
July 2013 – October 2013

Senthil is a Singaporean graduate law student at Balliol College, Oxford currently on the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) course. He was previously at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford as an undergraduate student and was graduated 4th in his year.
He is immensely privileged to take part in the NUS Visiting Researcher Programme this Summer. He has a keen academic interest in the law of contract and in the area of commercial remedies in particular. He will be undertaking comparative research on the law of remoteness, examining in particular the legal rules of Singapore and England on this doctrine, which appear to have diverged.
 
     
  Ayelet Liza Berman
Switzerland
October 2013 – April 2014

Ayelet is a PhD Candidate in international law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. Her research concerns the accountability of transnational regulatory networks. During her studies, Ayelet has been a Research Associate at the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration at the Graduate Institute on the "Informal International Law-making" research project, funded by the Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law. Before her PhD studies, Ayelet practiced law at Herzog, Fox & Neeman in Tel Aviv and at Sidley Austin in Geneva, where her work focused on commercial and regulatory law, and on WTO litigation, respectively. Previously, she also held teaching and research assistantship positions in public law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds an LLB (magna cum laude) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and a DEA in International Law from the Graduate Institute. Ayelet is also a member of the Israeli bar.
 
     
  Marie-Ange Coll
France
August 2013 – June 2014

Marie-Ange graduated from the Law School of the University Panthéon-Assas Paris 2. She obtained her DEA de Droit Public de l’Economie at the University Panthéon-Assas Paris 2, and an LLM in Information Technology Law from the University of Hong Kong. She has submitted her PhD thesis at the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales. Her doctoral dissertation analyzed the legal authority of the US Department of Commerce over the Internet Address System from the perspective of a legal distinction, made in US constitutional and administrative law, between a federal regulator and a federal operator.
While at NUS, her research will focus upon an historical analysis of the legal authority of the US federal agencies over the Internet Name and Address Space.
 
     
  Paul David Mora
United Kingdom
November 2013 – December 2015

Paul Mora holds a research interest in public international law and human rights. He has published several articles in edited collections and academic journals, which include the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the German Yearbook of International Law, and the Canadian Yearbook of International Law. His work on universal jurisdiction was recently cited by an amicus curiae brief submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States in Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum.

During his time with NUS, Paul will be researching the barriers imposed by international law on transnational human rights litigation. He has delivered a research seminar on Kiobel, and has made the following publications:
  • Campbell McLachlan, Foreign Relations Law, reviewed for [2015] 5(2) Asian Journal of International Law (forthcoming).
  • "The Alien Tort Statute after Kiobel: The Possibility for Unlawful Assertions of Universal Civil Jurisdiction still Remains" [2014] 63(3) International & Comparative Law Quarterly 699-719.
  • "Jones v. The United Kingdom: Article 6(1) ECHR and the Immunities of States and their Officials for Acts of Torture" [2014] 3(2) Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law 608-615.
     

Paul completed both his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Durham University. He presently works for a global asset management company in Singapore but has previously held academic positions at Durham University, the University of Birmingham, and BPP University.
 
     
  Wei Shuai
Hong Kong
January 2014 – March 2014

WEI Shuai is the J.S.D. candidate and Senior Research Associate in the City University of Hong Kong. He advises P.R.C. law in the capacity of registered attorney in China. He is the "Graduate Scholar Award" recipient from Common Ground Publishing, U.S.A. in 2012. Mr. WEI focuses his research in socio-legal studies of Chinese judicial system. He is an invited speaker on numerous international conferences as the 8th Cornell Inter-University Graduate Student Conference and Conference on Rethinking State-Society Relations in Contemporary China, organized by the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Mr. WEI published an article in the Asian Journal of Women’s Studies (September 2013 Vol. 3 No. 3) on Chinese women judges’ divorce mediation techniques. While at NUS, he will focus upon Chinese women judges’ voting behaviors in criminal lawsuits. Mr. WEI intends to discover if a difference voice exists in the Chinese courtroom.
 
     
     
     
     
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