Appointments and MovementsIn June <strong>2003</strong>, Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Dora Neo relinquished her dutiesas Vice-Dean, Graduate Division. The <strong>Faculty</strong> records itsappreciation to Dora, who is succeeded by Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> TeoKeang Sood, formerly Deputy-Director <strong>of</strong> the Graduate Division,while Asst Pr<strong>of</strong> Victor Ramraj assumes Keang Sood’s role asDeputy-Director. Meanwhile, Asst Pr<strong>of</strong> A. Kumaralingam, backfrom his stint at the Asia Research Institute, has beenappointed Director <strong>of</strong> International Programmes. Kumar takesover from Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Joel Lee, who is on overseas leave.As for new appointments, the <strong>Faculty</strong> welcomes Maisie Ooiand Wang Jiangyu. Maisie is a graduate <strong>of</strong> the Universities<strong>of</strong> Malaya and Oxford, and specialises in corporate law.Jiangyu is a graduate <strong>of</strong> Peking University and theUniversity <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania, and joins us as a Chineseand world trade law specialist.16The <strong>Faculty</strong> bids farewell to Marcia Glickman, Deputy Director<strong>of</strong> the Legal Writing Programme. Marsha has returned to theU.S. with her family, and taking over her role are HelenaWhalen-Bridge LLM ’01 and Lim Lei Theng ’92. The <strong>Faculty</strong>also welcomes back Visiting Pr<strong>of</strong>essors Adrian Briggs andGe<strong>of</strong>frey Morse from St Edmund Hall, Oxford and <strong>No</strong>ttinghamrespectively. Adrian will teach International CommercialLitigation and Principles <strong>of</strong> Conflict <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong>s while Ge<strong>of</strong>freywill teach Company <strong>Law</strong> and an intensive course in ComparativeTakeover Regulation. Also joining us for the semester isVisiting Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Richard <strong>No</strong>lan from St John’s College,facultyupdateCambridge. Richard will teach Company <strong>Law</strong> and anintensive course in Comparative Corporate Governance.Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Gary Bellin Ho Chi Minh Citywith Anne Doyle,Executive Director <strong>of</strong>the FulbrightEconomics TeachingProgram at theFulbright SchoolWe also welcome the following adjunct colleagues (with theircourse specialities in brackets): <strong>Law</strong>rence Boo ’80, CharteredArbitrator (International Commercial Arbitration); Neale Gregson,Partner, Watson, Farley & Williams (Carriage <strong>of</strong> Goods by Seaand Admiralty <strong>Law</strong> & Practice), Lee Kiat Seng ’89, Partner,Wee Swee Teow & Co (<strong>Law</strong> <strong>of</strong> Marine Insurance); Mohan RPillay ’85, Partner, Wong Partnership (Construction <strong>Law</strong>);WJM Ricquier, Partner, Tan, Rajah & Cheah (<strong>Law</strong> <strong>of</strong>Property I); Kevin Tan ’86, Director, Equilibrium Consulting(Singapore Legal History); Stanley Lai, Partner, Allen & Gledhill(Principles <strong>of</strong> IP <strong>Law</strong>), Shamini Mahadevan Flint (Company<strong>Law</strong>); Tey Tsun Hang, State Counsel, Attorney-General’sChambers (Evidence & Procedure); and part-timers JasonChan ’02 (International Legal Process); Davinia Filza AbdulAziz ’02 (Public <strong>Law</strong>), Christopher De Souza (Evidence &Procedure) and David Lee ’02 (Evidence & Procedure).
External Appointments, Fellowships and PrizesDean Tan Cheng Han ’87 has been appointed to thefollowing positions: Governor, Singapore IntellectualProperty Academy (January <strong>2003</strong>); Member, LegalServices Inter-Agency Committee established by theMinister for <strong>Law</strong> (April <strong>2003</strong>); Member, Appeal AdvisoryPanel to the Minister for Finance constituted under theSecurities and Futures Act, the Financial Advisers Act,and the Insurance Act (June <strong>2003</strong>). Congratulations toAssoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Simon Tay ’86, who has been appointedVisiting Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Harvard <strong>Law</strong> School - thefirst Singaporean to achieve this honour. He will beteaching International Environmental <strong>Law</strong>. Simon hasalso been appointed to the International Advisory Board<strong>of</strong> the New York University Centre for InternationalCooperation. On 1 February <strong>2003</strong>, Vice-Dean RobertBeckman was appointed to a 2-year term as Advisor tothe Maritime and Port Authority <strong>of</strong> Singapore (MPA) onMaritime <strong>Law</strong>. Arising out <strong>of</strong> his fellowship with theAssociation <strong>of</strong> Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) in2002, Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Alan Tan ’93 is involved in a majorcollaboration with 5 other APRU Fellows to study theproblem <strong>of</strong> air pollution in Pacific Rim megacities.Alan’s doctoral thesis on the regulation <strong>of</strong> shippinghas also been awarded the Yale <strong>Law</strong> School AmbroseGherini prize for best paper in International <strong>Law</strong>.Student Exchange Agreement withFudan University <strong>Law</strong> School, ShanghaiOn 27 February <strong>2003</strong>, the NUS <strong>Faculty</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong> and FudanUniversity <strong>Law</strong> School entered into a student exchangeagreement. Under its terms, each law school may sendone student on exchange for a year, or two students fora semester each. The agreement was signed in Shanghaiby Dean Tan Cheng Han ’87 and Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Li ChangDao, Dean <strong>of</strong> the Fudan University <strong>Law</strong> School. Alsopresent at the signing ceremony were Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Li MeiQin from the NUS <strong>Faculty</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong>, Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Lu Zhi-an,Deputy Director <strong>of</strong> the Foreign Affairs Office <strong>of</strong> FudanUniversity, Associate Research Fellow Sun Rui, the PartySecretary General and Vice-Dean Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Dong MaoYun. This is the third student exchange agreement enteredinto by the <strong>Faculty</strong> with a top Chinese university. The twoprevious agreements were entered into in 2002 with theEast China University <strong>of</strong> Politics and <strong>Law</strong> in Shanghaiand Peking University in Beijing. During their visit toShanghai, Cheng Han and Mei Qin also visited the EastChina University <strong>of</strong> Politics and <strong>Law</strong> and the ShanghaiInstitute <strong>of</strong> Foreign Trade to discuss future collaboration.Interviews were also conducted for Chinese nationalsfrom Shanghai and its surrounding areas who haveapplied for admission to the NUS <strong>Faculty</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong>'sgraduate programmes.Closer Links with <strong>Law</strong> Schools in France and BelgiumIn <strong>December</strong> 2002, Vice-Dean Dora Neo visited severallaw schools in Belgium and France to promote the<strong>Faculty</strong>’s graduate programmes as well as to explorepossibilities for student exchange and other collaborations.In Belgium, she visited the Katholieke UniversiteitLeuven in the city <strong>of</strong> Leuven, with which the <strong>Faculty</strong> isnegotiating a student exchange agreement, and also theUniversité Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve.The French leg <strong>of</strong> the trip was done as part <strong>of</strong> a team organized by theNUS International Relations Office, and five law schools were on theitinerary: Université Paris 2 – Panthéon Assas; Université Jean-Moulin,Lyon 3; Université de Poitiers; Université Pierre Mendès France –Grenoble 2; and Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne. A studentexchange agreement is currently being negotiated with Universitéde Poitiers, whose Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Françoise Thibaut visited the NUS <strong>Law</strong><strong>Faculty</strong> both before and after Dora's visit to France.Collaboration with Columbia and Stanford in Vietnam Fulbright LegalEducation ProgrammeIn January <strong>2003</strong>, Dean Tan Cheng Han ’87 and Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Gary Belljoined Pr<strong>of</strong>essors Lance Liebman from Columbia <strong>Law</strong> School andThomas Heller from Stanford <strong>Law</strong> School in presenting seminars onLegal Institutions for Economic Development in Vietnam. The delegation’svisits to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City were hosted by the VietnameseMinistry and Justice and organised by the Fulbright School. It representeda landmark collaboration among NUS, Columbia and Stanford, withDean Tan Cheng Han presenting seminars on “Corporate Governanceafter Enron” and Gary Bell presenting on “The <strong>Law</strong> <strong>of</strong> Contracts in theCommon <strong>Law</strong> and the Civil <strong>Law</strong> System”. Among the institutions whichthe delegation visited were the Hanoi <strong>Law</strong> University, the Institute <strong>of</strong> Stateand <strong>Law</strong>, the Central Institute for Economic Management, the Ministry<strong>of</strong> Justice and the Ho Chi Minh City College <strong>of</strong> <strong>Law</strong>.Journals, Publications and CitationsThe Singapore Journal <strong>of</strong> Legal Studies (SJLS) released its <strong>December</strong>2002 issue, featuring diverse articles ranging from limited liability andpartnership law reform to insider trading, genetically-modified food andthe independence <strong>of</strong> the criminal justice system. On its part, the SingaporeJournal <strong>of</strong> International and Comparative <strong>Law</strong> (SJICL) dedicated its <strong>December</strong>2002 issue to the issue <strong>of</strong> implementing sustainable development, adecade after the Rio Summit on Environment and Development. Thewebsites <strong>of</strong> the journals can be found at http://law.nus.edu.sg/sjls andhttp://law.nus.edu.sg/sjicl respectively. An article by Tan Keng Feng ’72,“Nervous Shock to Primary Victims” [1995] SJLS 649 was cited by theScottish <strong>Law</strong> Commission in its Discussion Paper on Damages for PsychiatricInjury. Meanwhile, an article by Tang Hang Wu ’95 – “The Right <strong>of</strong> LateralSupport <strong>of</strong> Buildings From the Adjoining Land” (2002) 66 Conv 237, wascited by the Irish <strong>Law</strong> Reform Commission in its Report On The Acquisition<strong>of</strong> Easement and Pr<strong>of</strong>its A Prendre (LRC-66, 2002). Pr<strong>of</strong> Tan Yock Linedited the Halsbury's <strong>Law</strong>s <strong>of</strong> Singapore: Equity and Trusts <strong>Vol</strong>. 9(2),which was published recently. Contributors to the publication includedYock Lin, Asst Pr<strong>of</strong> Tang Hang Wu ’95, Daniel Tan ’96 and DharmanandaKanaga. The Singapore Court Practice <strong>2003</strong> was published in March <strong>2003</strong>,with Pr<strong>of</strong> Jeffrey Pinsler being the General Editor and primary author.The 2nd edition <strong>of</strong> Jeffrey’s book Evidence, Advocacy and the LitigationProcess is due out in <strong>July</strong> <strong>2003</strong>. Meanwhile, Assoc Pr<strong>of</strong> Stephen Girvin’sarticle, ‘English Maritime <strong>Law</strong> 2000’ in [2002] Lloyd's Maritime &Commercial <strong>Law</strong> Quarterly pp. 76-115, was cited by several Judgesin the U.K. House <strong>of</strong> Lords in Homburg Houtimport BV v. AgrosinPrivate Ltd (The Starsin) [<strong>2003</strong>] U.K.H.L. 12; [<strong>2003</strong>] 2 W.L.R. 711.The Alumni Seminar SeriesThe Alumni Seminar Series continued its objective <strong>of</strong> bringing illustriousalumni back to campus to speak to students on their work and interests.In January <strong>2003</strong>, Alexander Ee ’93, who is with the Boston ConsultingGroup, spoke on “The Competitive Advantage <strong>of</strong> Cities” and drewcomparisons between Singapore and other leading cities <strong>of</strong> the world.In February, International Partner at Baker & McKenzie Hong Kong& China, Tan Loke Khoon ’87, spoke on “Intellectual Property <strong>Law</strong>and Practice in China” and detailed the challenges <strong>of</strong> IPR enforcementin the Middle Kingdom.
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