VISITING SCHOLARS & RESEARCHERS

Visiting Scholars & Researchers in AY 2014-2015
 

Visiting Scholars in AY 2014-2015
 
  Arjya B. Majumdar
India
January 2015 – January 2015

Arjya B. Majumdar is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) and also serves as its Assistant Dean (Academic Affairs). Prior to joining JGLS, he worked as a corporate lawyer with Indian law firms, Economic Laws Practice, FoxMandal Little and Desai & Diwanji. As a corporate lawyer, Mr Majumdar advised large corporate houses and public sector units on matters relating to corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, foreign investment into India, joint ventures and private equity. In addition, he has considerable experience in advising companies in sectors such as telecom, renewable energy and infrastructure.

Mr Majumdar’s research interests include corporate and securities law and governance, property law, and the economic analysis of law.
 
     
  Marilena Filippelli
Italy
February 2015 – March 2015

Marilena Filippelli is Assistant Professor of Business Law at the Free University of Bozen (IT), where she teaches Corporate Law and Bankruptcy Law. She graduated cum laude at the University of Rome La Sapienza and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from IMT-Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca Italy.

Marilena’s research interests include corporate law and governance, competition law and the economic analysis of law. Her current research is mainly focused on the role and effect of controlling shareholders in corporate governance.
Marilena has published extensively on competition law and corporate governance.
 
     
Visiting Researchers in AY 2014-2015
 
  Matteo D’Agostini
Italy
August 2014 – September 2014

Matteo D’Agostini is a JD candidate at the University of Trento. He holds an LLM in US Law from Washington University in St Louis Law School and was the first student to join the Transnational Law Program, a joint degree program partially sponsored by the European Commission and the US Department of Education, aimed at providing a transnational legal education in both civil and common law systems. He also studied at the London School of Economics and at the University of Salzburg. In the past, he has interned for the public defender office in Durban, South Africa.

His areas of interest include international business law and ADR. His research thesis will focus on the future of investment arbitration in Asia. During his research period at NUS he will study the legal framework, practice and prospects of investment arbitration in the region.
 
     
  Tang Haozhen
People’s Republic of China
October 2014 – November 2014

Tang Haozhen is a Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Commercial Law at the East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai. He obtained an LLM in International Business Law from the National University of Singapore in 2012, and passed the PRC bar exam in 2009. He has interned with the Shanghai office of the US China Business Council and is currently an intern at Baker & McKenzie LLP Shanghai Office, where he practices Chinese Employment Law and Intellectual Property Law.

His research interests are in Chinese Company Law, Chinese Property Law, Intellectual Property Law and Comparative Corporate Governance. At NUS, he will work on his PhD thesis, focusing on a comparative study of Chinese Company Law and Singapore Law, in particular on reverse piercing of the corporate veil and the balance of interests of corporate law.
 
     
  Vinoli Thampapillai
Australia
August 2014 – September 2014

Ms Vinoli Thampapillai’s current research examines the interaction between foreign investment law, environmental law and the human right to water in India and Bolivia.

She recently submitted her PhD thesis in water law and new institutional economics for examination at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University. Her research examines the limits of market-based water governance and the need for public institutional and legal reform for the recovery of water for environmental flows from private water right holders. During her PhD candidature, she held visiting research positions in Sweden, Singapore, and Canada.

She has undergraduate degrees in law and economics from the Australian National University and holds an LLM from the University of Toronto in the area of Law and Development and New Institutional Economics. Her Master of Diplomacy and Trade from Monash University considered Swedish and Australian refugee law with reference to post-conflict economic development.
 
  Lee Ying-Ying Michelle
Singapore
January 2015 – March 2015

Michelle graduated with an LLB (Honours) from the National University of Singapore in 2009 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 2010. She spent a year at Utrecht University on exchange studies and was an International Clerk at the Melbourne office of Baker & McKenzie. Michelle completed her practice traineeship with Baker & McKenzie in Singapore and was part of its Dispute Resolution team for a number of years.

Michelle's scholarly research interests lie in the role of the courts in international commercial arbitrations and the tension between arbitral and curial review at different stages of an arbitral life cycle. She recently published in the Asian International Arbitration Journal on the role of the courts in a stay application, and plans to explore these themes in relation to other stages of the arbitral life cycle while at NUS.
 
     
  Rimantas Daujotas
United Kingdom
April 2015

Rimantas Daujotas has extensive experience in disputes arising under bilateral investment treaties and high-value commercial agreements, having served as a consultant or representative to company claimants and respondents as well as government claimants and respondents. Rimantas advises global energy companies as well as major law firms.

In addition to arbitration work, Rimantas has worked on a number of high profile international disputes in the Baltics as well as in the Court of Justice of the European Union. He has also advised major companies on trade, investment, national security, regulatory, and transactional matters.

Rimantas is consistently listed as a leading expert on international investment law and investor-state disputes, WTO law and international arbitration in the Baltics. Currently, Rimantas is a PhD scholar at Queen Mary University’s School of International Arbitration in London supervised by Prof. L. Mistelis and a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School’s Center for International Commercial & Investment Arbitration, supervised by Prof. G. Bermann.

Rimantas was awarded an LL.M. in Commercial Law from the University of Edinburgh. Further, Rimantas' studies include international trade finance at the New York Institute of Finance, international commercial arbitration at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London, and international commercial and investment arbitration at the International Academy for Arbitration Law in Paris.

Rimantas is also a prolific author on international investment law and chief editor of the Eurasia Arbitration Journal.
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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