VISITING SCHOLARS & RESEARCHERS

Visiting Scholars & Researchers in AY 2019-2020
 

Visiting Researchers in AY2019-2020
 
  Tang Xia
China
August – November 2019

Xia Tang is currently a Ph.D. candidate in International Law at Xiamen University. Her thesis concerns legal issues of third party funding in international investment arbitration. Prior to her doctoral study, she had obtained LL.B. and LL.M from Henan University. Xia’s research interests include International Commercial Arbitration law and International Investment law. She has participated in the project “Legal Issues of the Mediation of Commercial Disputes” by the Chamber of Commerce funded by the Chinese National Philosophy and Social Science Fund Project. She has also published 4 academic articles at prestigious journals.
     
  Francisco Arthur de Siqueira Muniz
Brazil
November – December 2019

Francisco Muniz is a PhD candidate in the University of Coimbra, Faculty of Law, under the guidance of Professor Mafalda Miranda Barbosa at Maurício de Nassau University Center Faculty of Law - UNINASSAU (Brazil). His thesis proposes an investigation on Access to Justice and Liability for Abusive Litigation in Comparative Perspective between Singaporean, Brazilian, United States, and European Union legal systems.
 
He is a lawyer enrolled in the Portuguese Bar Association and at the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB-PE), holds a Master of Laws and Bachelor of Laws from the Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE (Brazil), as well as a Graduate Degree in Maritime and Port Law from UNINASSAU. Francisco is Academic Director of the Higher School of Law of OAB Pernambuco (2019-2021), Founder Member of IBERC (Brazilian Tort Law Studies Institute) and Researcher of Institute for Legal Research of University of Coimbra.
 
     
  Hew Wai-Meng, Jonathan
Singapore
December 2019 – January 2020

Jonathan Hew is an international lawyer with an interest in how media coverage impacts legal decision-making within the humanitarian sphere. He previously practised corporate law at Latham & Watkins in London and refugee law at Asylum Access in Kuala Lumpur. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Law and Sociology from Warwick University and a Master in Advanced Global Studies, cum laude, from the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po. He has published work in academic journals including Legal Ethics and the Indian Journal of Arbitration Law.
 
     
  Caroline Alix Lasthaus
Germany
January – March 2020

Caroline is a doctoral candidate at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany. Her thesis – inter alia – concerns the comparison of procedural aspects of three different International Commercial Courts – including the Singapore International Commercial Court – and is supervised by Professor Dr Karsten Thorn.
 
Caroline graduated with an LLB from Bucerius Law School in 2016 with her chosen specialist subject being “International Trade Law”. During her legal studies, she also spent a trimester abroad at Brasenose College, Oxford University in 2014. In 2017, she passed the First State Examination in Hamburg, Germany. Afterwards, she started to work as a research and teaching assistant at her alma mater in Hamburg.
 
     
    Fabricio Fortese
Sweden  
January - February 2020
 
Fabricio is a doctoral candidate and Lecturer at the Department of Law, Stockholm University.

He has a multicultural legal training and expertise from Argentina, England and Sweden. He has experience in the resolution of cross-border disputes, focusing on international trade, trade finance and trade insurance, finance, project finance and disputes involving insolvent entities. His research focuses on international arbitration law, particularly, on the allocation of  jurisdictional  competence  between  national courts  and  arbitral  tribunals,  the  timing,  and  the character of judicial review of jurisdictional decisions made by arbitrators. 
     
     
     
     
     
     
 
 
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
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