VISITING SCHOLARS & RESEARCHERS

Visiting Scholars & Researchers in AY 2018-2019
 

Visiting Researchers in AY2018-2019
 
  Nathalie Suemi Tiba Sato
Brazil
August 2018 – September 2018

Nathalie Sato is a PhD candidate in international law at the University of São Paulo. She received her Master’s degree in International Relations from the same institution, with a merit-based scholarship from the Brazilian government. She has a BA in law from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), where she worked as a researcher at the Global Law department, focusing on international trade law and preferential trade agreements. From 2013 to 2016, she coached the FGV’s team to the ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition. She is currently an associate lawyer on leave at Nasser Sociedade de Advogados, specializing in international trade and WTO law. Since 2018, she has been a contributor to the “Law and economic relations between Brazil and China: Empirical evidences in contrast” project at FGV.
     
  Olga Chetverikova
United Kingdom
September 2018

Olga is a PhD candidate with the School of Law at the University of Manchester under the guidance of Prof. Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu. Her thesis focuses on Global Value Chains/Global Production Networks and International Investment Law.

Olga holds LLM in International Law with distinction from Oxford Brookes University, which was recognised by the Blake Morgan International LLM Prize (2015). Her main research interests are in regional trade and investment regulation, intellectual property and technology transfer in high-tech Global Value Chains.
 
     
  Quentin Herold
Switzerland
September – October 2018

Quentin Herold is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel. His thesis concerns the comparative study of defensive measures in the context of takeovers under Swiss, American & Singaporean law.

Quentin obtained an LL.B. from the University of Neuchâtel, as well as a bilingual LL.M. with a focus on business and tax law from the same university. During his LL.M., he attended the Columbia Law School as an exchange student. While doing his PhD, Quentin visited Harvard University as an independent visiting researcher.
Since 2014, Quentin has worked as jurist in a renowned law firm in Lausanne.

Quentin served as a research assistant in the Chair of International and Business Transactions at the Columbia Law School, and still serves as a research and teaching assistant in the Chair of Corporate Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Neuchâtel and teaches on the Introduction of Corporate Law course at both the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Neuchâtel and the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Swiss Distance Learning University.
 
     
  Tebello Thabane
South Africa
October – December 2018

Tebello is a Senior Lecturer in commercial law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is also a doctoral candidate in the same department. His thesis focuses on the impact of the ownership and control architecture of state-owned companies and its impact on their corporate governance. Tebello holds a BA (Law), LLB, LLM (Human Rights) and LLM (Commercial Law). He further holds postgraduate certificates in corporate compliance and commercial dispute mediation. He is an advocate of the High Courts of South Africa and Lesotho with 6 years litigation experience. After exiting legal practice, he served as the Principal Secretary and Chief Advisor to the Minister of Law and Constitutional Affairs in the government of Lesotho, before joining the academy. Tebello lectures and researches in company law and corporate governance.
 
     
  Annabel Rozario
Australia
November 2018 – February 2019

Annabel Rozario is a former criminal lawyer from Australia. She graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Bachelor of Science (Psychology) and a Bachelor of Laws, and also from the National University of Singapore with Master of Laws degree. Her current research interests are in the General Data Protection Regulation and how it can keep up with the increasing use of technology in every day life.
 
     
  Abenaa Owusu-Bempah
United Kingdom
November 2018

Abenaa Owusu-Bempah is an Assistant Professor of criminal law and criminal evidence at the London School of Economics. She has previously taught at City, University of London, the University of Sussex, and University College London. Abenaa holds a PhD from UCL, an LLM in Criminology and Criminal Justice from UCL, and an LLB from the University of Bristol. Abenaa’s research interests lie primarily in the areas of criminal procedure, the law of evidence and criminal law. Her current research focuses on fair trial rights and the participatory role of defendants in criminal proceedings. She is the author of Defendant Participation in the Criminal Process, which examines requirements placed on defendants to actively participate in the criminal process, despite defendants holding rights not to participate. Abenaa also has expertise in hate crime legislation, having most recently worked on a two-year EU funded project on hate crime and the legal process. 
     
  Marianne Lombard
South Africa
May 2019

Marianne Lombard is a senior lecturer in corporate law at the School of Law, University of South Africa. She is an LLD candidate under guidance of Prof Philip Stoop at the same university. Marianne holds BLC, LLB and LLM (commercial law) degrees. She also has twenty-nine years’ experience as an attorney, specialising in conveyancing. Her thesis deals with the interaction between contract law and consumer protection legislation.
     
  Choky R. Ramadhan
Indonesia
July 2019

Choky R. Ramadhan is a lecturer at Faculty of Law University of Indonesia who teaches anti-corruption clinic and criminal procedure law. He is one of the pioneers of clinical legal education that he learned and experienced experience while he was studying Master in Asian and Comparative Law at the University Of Washington School Of Law. Choky is also a chairman of Indonesia Judicial Monitoring Society Faculty of Law University of Indonesia (MaPPI FHUI), which focusses on criminal justice reform, anti-corruption, and judicial reform. As an Asian University Alliance scholar, Choky is researching about the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Court.
 
 
Visiting Scholars in AY 2018-2019
 
  Yuan Dujuan
China
January - February 2019
 
Yuan graduated from Law School of Peking University with a Master degree in International Economic Law in 2004, and a PH.D in International Economic Law from Law School of University of International Business and Economics in 2007. She joined Law School of Shanghai University in 2007 as a lecturer and then an Associate Professor in 2009. She had been a Visiting Scholar in Law School of University of California, Berkeley from September 2014 through August 2015. She has published more than twenty journal articles and several books.

Her research interests focus on the field of international arbitration law and international commercial transaction law. She will make some research on whether China has developed into an arbitration-friendly from the perspective of empirical research on the judicial review and supervision of arbitration in China.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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