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[ Visiting professors ] Andrew James Harding Dang Xuan Hop Joseph Weiler Kurt Deketelaere Professor Andrew James Harding is Professor of Asia-Pacific Legal Relations at the Faculty of Law of the University of Victoria and a member of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. He is a former Head of Department and Professor of Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and Chair of the SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies. He returned to the Faculty to teach Law, Governance and Development in Asia. Senior Fellow, Dang Xuan Hop, has an LLB from Vietnam as well as an LLB from Bond University and an LLM from Melbourne He is currently a doctoral candidate at Oxford University. Hop Dang has several years of experience in international commercial practice in Australia and Vietnam. He offered an intensive course, Foreign Investment Law in Vietnam. Professor Joseph Weiler is University Professor and Jean Monnet Chair at the NYU Law School. He is Chairman of the NYU Global Law School Program and Director of the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law & Justice. He is also an Honorary Professor at London University and University of Copenhagen. He writes on international law, the law of the European Union, and comparative constitutional law. Professor Weiler returned to the Faculty to teach an intensive course, World Trade Law. Professor Kurt Deketelaere is a Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Leuven in Belgium. He is an expert on EC Energy Policy and Environmental Law and a member of the Brussels Bar. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne. He participated in a symposium on Climate Change at the Faculty of Law in August 2007 and taught Energy Law & Climate Change. Bruce Chapman Franco Ferrari Kevin Gray Lionel Bently Professor Bruce Chapman is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto, where he teaches Tort Law and Rational and Social Choice Theory. He is an expert in tort law and economic analysis of law. He has held visiting appointments at, among others, Oxford, Yale, and ANU. Professor Chapman offered an intensive course on Topics in Law & Economics: Rational Social Choice & Law. Professor Franco Ferrari is currently a Professor of International Law at the Verona University School of Law in Italy. He was a Global Hauser Visiting Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law in 2005. Professor Ferrari taught two consecutive intensive courses, Comparative Law of Torts & Contracts and European Private International Law. Professor Kevin Gray is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge and Dean and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. Professor Gray has published widely on land law and property law. He returned to the Faculty of Law for two months to co-teach Principles of Property Law. Professor Lionel Bently is the Herchel Smith Professor of Intellectual Property at the University of Cambridge. He is also the Director of the Centre of Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge and holds a Professorial position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He taught an intensive course, Topics in IP Law. 30 LawLink
[ Visiting professors ] Ronald K. Noble Stephen Girvin Zhu Lanye Ziba Mir-Hosseini Professor Ronald K. Noble is a tenured Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, on leave of absence while serving as Interpol’s Secretary General. He was elected Secretary General by the 69th Interpol General Assembly in Rhodes, Greece, in 2000, and was unanimously reelected to a second five-year term by the 74th Interpol General Assembly in Berlin, Germany in 2005. Professor Noble co-taught International Police Enforcement Cooperation with Professor Martha. Professor Stephen Girvin is a Professor of Maritime Law at the School of Law of the University of Birmingham. He is an expert in maritime law and company law. Professor Girvin joined Birmingham in January 2006 after two years as an Associate Professor at NUS. He remains a regular visitor to NUS. He cotaught two intensive courses, Admiralty Law & Practice and Carriage of Goods by Sea and he is the MPA Professor in Maritime Law to the Faculty. Professor Zhu Lanye is a Professor of Law at East China University of Politics and Law (ECUPL) in Shanghai and an arbitrator with the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). She is an expert in intellectual property law and returned to NUS to teach Chinese Intellectual Property Law on an intensive basis. Professor Ziba Mir-Hosseini is a Hauser Visiting Professor for the Global Law Program at the NYU Law School. She is a legal anthropologist with interests in Islamic Law, women’s rights and legal development. She also has extensive research and consultancy experience in Iran, Morocco, Malaysia, and Indonesia. She taught two intensive courses, Islamic Law and Human Rights and Legal Anthropology: How Culture Shapes Law. Lim Yee Fen Rutsel Martha Professor Lim Yee Fen is a Senior Consultant at Galexia Consulting and a Research Associate at the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at the Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales. She is the author of a leading Australian textbook on IT Law. Professor Lim taught Torts in Semester 1. She taught Topics in IT Law: Crime & Security and Topics in IT Law: Legal Issues in Virtual Worlds in Semester 2. Dr. Rutsel Martha, currently General Counsel at the International Criminal Police Organization in France, and an adjunct Professor of Law at the Washington College of Law (American University, Washington, DC) from 1988 to 1989, cotaught International Police Enforcement Cooperation with Professor Noble. Visiting Professors LawLink 31
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