VISITING SCHOLARS & RESEARCHERS

Visiting Scholars & Researchers in AY 2015-2016
 

Visiting Scholars in AY 2015-2016
 
  Juliana Cardinale
United Kingdom
July 2015 – December 2015

Juliana Cardinale’s research lies at the intersection of economics and philosophy. Her main interests are in Decision Theory, Rationality, Normativity, Practical Reason and Moral Psychology.

Juliana’s current research tries to identify the role of reasons and argument in decision making and attempts to characterize the notion of rationality implicit in reason-based accounts of choice. She assesses the implications of developing a more integrated analysis of normative and descriptive models of judgment and decision making, and looks at whether descriptive statements derived from empirical sciences can offer normative insights into the notion of rational agent found in economics, philosophy and law.

Juliana’s early background is in economics. She has a Masters in Economics from Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and worked as an economist for seven years, mostly in UNDP projects at the Argentinian Ministry of Economy. She then became interested in philosophical questions concerning the foundations of economics, completing a PhD in Philosophy at King's College London. Before coming to NUS Juliana was Associate Director of the Forum for European Philosophy.
 
     
  Susan Marks
United Kingdom
August 2015 – August 2016

Susan Marks is Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics. She previously taught at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London. Her research seeks to bring insights from critical social theory to the study of international law and human rights. She is the author of The Riddle of All Constitutions and, with Andrew Clapham, International Human Rights Lexicon, and she has also edited International Law on the Left. She is currently working on the history of human rights in radical thought.
 
     
  Yap Po Jen
Hong Kong
January 2016 – March 2016

Dr Po Jen Yap is an Associate Professor at The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, where he specializes in Constitutional and Administrative law. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB degree and he obtained LLM qualifications from both Harvard Law School and University College London. He also has a PhD degree from the University of Cambridge. He is an Advocate and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore and an Attorney at Law in the State of New York (USA). He has over 45 publications, which include his sole-authored monograph Constitutional Dialogue in Common Law Asia, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2015.
     
  Sabine Gless
Switzerland
February 2016

Sabine Gless has been a Professor of 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), examining 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 2015-2016
 
  Ayelet Berman
Geneva
August 2015 – January 2017

Dr. Berman is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Trade and Economic Integration at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Her research is in the area of law and global governance, and she is currently involved in a research project on 'Rethinking Stakeholder Participation in International Governance'.
Before embarking on an academic career, Dr. Berman was a practicing lawyer with Sidley Austin in Geneva, working on WTO litigation, and at Herzog, Fox & Neeman in Tel Aviv. She holds a PhD in International Law, summa cum laude with congratulations of the committee, from the Graduate Institute. The thesis received the Swiss Network of International Studies (SNIS) 2015 Award for Best Thesis in International Studies. She also holds a D.E.A. in International Law (minor in political science) from the Graduate Institute and a L.L.B magna cum laude from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been admitted to the Israeli bar.
 
     
  Haliza A.Shukor
Malaysia
August 2015 – October 2015

Haliza graduated from the International Islamic University of Malaysia with an LL.B (Hons) in 2004 and a Masters in Business Law (MBL) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 2008. She joined Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM) in 2008 as a lecturer and is currently pursuing her Ph.D in competition law from the Faculty of Law, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) under the guidance of Associate Professor Dr Nazura Abdul Manap. She has presented her research in Japan and Indonesia and has published several journal articles.
Her main research interests lie in the field of competition law and patent law. She is currently working on a research paper entitled “Patent Licensing Issues from Competition Law Perspectives In Malaysia.” Part of the discussion will include EU and US to approaches implementing competition law in the area of patent licenses as well as challenges encountered by both jurisdictions in implementing competition law.
 
     
  David Frydrych
United Kingdom
January 2016 – March 2016

David Frydrych is a doctoral candidate in the University of Oxford's Faculty of Law. His thesis concerns models and theories of legal rights. He holds an Honours BA with distinction in Philosophy & Political Science from the University of Toronto, a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City, and a LLM in Legal Theory from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. A member of the New York State Bar, David also earned a Certificate of Qualification from Canada's National Committee on Accreditation (a committee of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada).
     
  Luca Weskott
Germany
February 2016 – April 2016

Luca Weskott is a PhD candidate in the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Tietje. His thesis concerns the rights of shareholders in the field of international investment law.
Luca obtained an LL.B. from Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. During that time he attended NUS as an exchange student. He specialized in International and European Law. During his pupilage he worked for international law firms and the German Embassy in Manila. He passed the Second German Bar exams at the top of his class. As a German qualified lawyer he previously worked for CORVEL LLP. For his thesis, Luca received a scholarship from the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
 
     
  Pawee Jenweeranon
Japan
March 2016 – April 2016

Formerly a legal officer at the National Anti-Corruption Commission of Thailand, a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Thailand for more than three years, and a legal assistant of the Senate Committee on Banking for one year, Pawee is currently a Graduate School Student in the Program for Leading Graduate Schools Cross Border Legal Institution Design. He is supported by Japan’s Ministry of Education (MEXT) and a scholarship from Nagoya University. His research concerns the regulatory framework for pharmaceutical patents, focusing on mechanisms for preventing of the abuse of patent continuations in ASEAN countries, with particular reference to Thailand. Other research interests include internet finance law, in particular the regulatory framework for facilitating the establishment of equity crowdfunding in ASEAN countries as a means of promoting small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
 
  Shreya Atrey
USA
June 2016 – July 2016

Shreya is currently a Hauser Postdoctoral Global Fellow at NYU School of Law at the Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice. Her research explores how poverty remains at the vestiges of social rights adjudication.

Shreya pursued B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, India and graduated at the top of her class in 2011. She came to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and completed the BCL with distinction in 2012. She completed her DPhil in Law in 2015 under the supervision of Prof. Sandra Fredman. Her thesis was titled: ‘Realising Intersectionality in Discrimination Law’.

At Oxford, Shreya served as the Chairperson of Oxford Pro Bono Publico, and taught on the European Human Rights Law Course. Shreya coached the University of Oxford team for the 54th Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, which was declared the U.K. National Champion in 2013. She has served as the Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal and the Editor-in-Chief of the Nalsar Student Law Review.

Shreya’s research and teaching interests are in international and comparative human rights law, discrimination law, disability law, public law and feminist jurisprudence.

She will be a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence in 2016-17 and will be working on her project which explores how intersectional identities matter in the experience of human rights violations.
 
     
     
     
     
     
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