Speakers

Gary Chan is Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University.  His main research interests are Tort Law, the Singapore Legal System, Health Law and Ethics. In the field of Tort Law, Gary Chan has published a textbook and monograph, book chapters as well as articles in law journals such as Torts Law Journal, The Tort Law Review, Legal Studies, Law Quarterly Review, Melbourne University Law Review and Singapore Academy of Law Journal. His works on tort law have been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal, High Court and State Courts. He holds an LL.B from NUS and a LL.M from University of London.

Master in Wuhan Institute of International Law, the Law Faculty, Wuhan University; Phd Researcher in the Law Faculty, Ulrik Huber Institute for Private International Law, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her PhD project is titled “Tourists, Consumer Contracts and Private International Law in the Digital Age: Jurisdiction and Choice of Law Rules in China and the EU”. 

Dr. Ding Chunyan is Associate Professor at the School of Law of City University of Hong Kong. She obtained LLB and LLM at Peking University, LLM at University College London, and PhD at University of Hong Kong. She became qualified PRC lawyer in 2001. Before joining CityU in 2010, Dr. Ding was a Fulbright research fellow at Harvard Law School, where she conducted research on comparative health law and tort law during 2008-09. Her primary areas of research and teaching include tort law, medical law, and Chinese and comparative civil law. She has authored Medical Negligence Law in Transitional China (2012) and published over thirty-five journal articles and book chapters in her research fields.

Michael Fisher is a Professional Consultant who has taught Law for over 40 years in UK and Hong Kong.

Previously a Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, Michael came to Hong Kong to teach Law and manage Law courses at HKUSPACE. During his 25 years at HKUSPACE, Michael brought to Hong Kong, as visiting teachers, some of the leading academics in the common law world. Michael joined Chinese University in 2016 and has taught a wide variety of subjects in his four years with the Faculty.

Paula Giliker is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Bristol, having previously worked at the Universities of Oxford and Queen Mary University of London.  She is a former Chair of the British Association of Comparative Law and former Honorary Secretary of the SLS and is now Trustee and Vice-President Elect of the Society of Legal Scholars of the UK and Ireland.  She has published extensively on comparative private law and the law of obligations (contract and tort) in the common law and in common/civil law.  Her recent publications include: ‘Codification, Consolidation, Restatement? How best to systemise the modern law of tort’ (2021) 70 ICLQ 271; ‘Comparative law and legal culture: Placing vicarious liability in comparative perspective’ (2018) 6 Chin JCL 265 and ‘The influence of EU and European human rights law on English private law’ (2015) 64 ICLQ 237-265, and monographs: The Europeanisation of English Tort Law (Hart, 2014) and Vicarious Liability in Tort: A Comparative Perspective (CUP, 2010).  A leading comparative law scholar, she is on the editorial board of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Professional Negligence, international editorial board of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly and advisory board to the European Review of Private Law.  She contributes to renowned common law tort practitioners’ text, Clerk and Lindsell on Torts. She is also an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Professor Rick Glofcheski is a law professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong. His primary areas of teaching and research are tort law, labour law and higher education. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed Hong Kong Law Journal. He is the author of Tort Law in Hong Kong (Hong Kong: Sweet and Maxwell Asia, revised 4th edn, 2018), co-editor and co-author of Employment Law and Practice in Hong Kong (Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2nd edn, 2016), a contributing author to Hong Kong Media Law (3rd edn, forthcoming 2022) and co-editor and co-author of Scaling Up Assessment for Learning in Higher Education (Springer, 2017). In recognition of his teaching achievements, Rick was awarded the HKU University Distinguished Teaching Award (2010, 2015), and the inaugural sector-wide University Grants Committee Teaching Award (2011).

Arpita Gupta is a Professor of Law at Jindal Global Law School and an Associate Dean at the Office of the Dean of Research, O.P. Jindal Global University, India.

Arpita earned her LL.M. and S.J.D from the University of Wisconsin Law School, US. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University, a Bachelor of Laws from Delhi University, and a LL.M./ Bologna Master of Laws from the Católica Global School of Law, Lisbon.

At Jindal Global Law School, she teaches Administrative Law (core), Law of Torts & Consumer Protection (core) and Advanced Tort Law (elective).

Sirko Harder is a Reader at the University of Sussex, UK.

His research interests focus upon two main areas. One is the law of obligations, comprising of contract, tort and unjust enrichment. He is particularly interested in remedies for civil wrongs, and in comparing the law of different jurisdictions. A major publication of his in the area of civil remedies is the monograph Measuring Damages in the Law of Obligations: The Search for Harmonised Principles (Hart, 2010). He is also the co-author of several books on the Australian law of torts and private law remedies.

The other main area of his research interests is private international law (or conflict of laws). He is particularly interested in those rules of private international law that are relevant to international commercial transactions. He has published a number of journal articles in this area.

Mr. Raymond Ho is a Barrister-at-Law at the Chambers of Andrew Liao SC, Hong Kong.

Dr. Ridoan Karim is a Lecturer at School of Business, Monash University, Malaysia. He has taught and researched in the fields of Technology and Law, Comparative Law, Data Protection and Privacy, Human Rights and Energy Regulations. His published work extends to numerous articles, book chapters and other contributions.

Dao Trong Khoi is a lecturer in law at FPT University, Hanoi, Vietnam and a teaching assistant at the Civil Law Department, School of Law, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam. He took his bachelor’s degree at School of Law, Vietnam National University and graduated the Honors Program in 2017 with distinction. He worked for Leadco Legal Counsel, Hanoi, Vietnam before doing a LLM at Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam in 2020. His studies focus on contract law, property law, tort law, comparative law, economic analysis of law and legal education.

Daria Kim is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Competition and Innovation (Munich). She holds MA (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), LLM (Munich Intellectual Property Law Center), and Dr iur (the University of Augsburg) degrees and worked as a research associate at The Chinese University of Hong Kong before joining Max Planck Institute. Apart from AI, she has worked and published on the topics related to intellectual property, regulation of medical research, and data-driven innovation.

Nicholas Liu is a Lecturer at the Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law. He previously clerked at the Supreme Court of Singapore and practiced in the dispute resolution department of a leading Singapore law firm. He is currently reading for an LLM at Harvard Law School.

Dr. Abdul Majid is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Business, Monash University, Malaysia. He was at one time a Professor of English and then a legal practitioner before taking up an academic appointment at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, which he left in 2009. He was a Visiting Fellow (Commercial and Business Laws) at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University until he joined MUSC. He has co-authored texts in law and has published extensively in business law areas.

Dr Sara Migliorini is Assistant Professor of Global Legal Studies at the University of Macau (UM) and Research Associate at the Centre of AI and Data Governance at Singapore Management University (SMU).

In 2021, she co-authored BIICL’s study for the European Commission on the Law Applicable to Torts, which specifically deals with the impact of AI on cross-border torts.

Before joining UM, Sara held the position of Research Fellow in Private International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) for 3 years, and other research and teaching positions at the Universities of London, Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Lausanne and Florence.

Sara is widely published in the fields of private international law and comparative law and her works have been cited with approval by the Court of Justice of the EU.

She holds a Ph.D from the EUI, a Master’s degree with distinction and a double degree in Italian and French Law (summa cum laude) from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne. She is admitted to practice law in France.

Do Giang Nam is a lecturer at the Civil Law Department, School of Law, Vietnam National University, Ha Noi, Viet Nam. He graduated from Viet Nam National University as a Valedictorian for undergraduate class of 2005-2009. He continued his LLM in Comparative Law in SMU Dedman School of Law, the USA in 2012 before earning his PhD degree at Utrecht University, the Netherlands in 2017. His research interest includes tort law, contract law, property law, comparative law, consumer protection law and legal education.

NGUYEN Thai Ngan is an LL.B. candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Economics and Law (UEL), Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Vietnam. In 2021, she got the UEL Young Researchers Prize and the Best Papers Award at the FTU-Law Conference for Law Students. Her research interests include commercial law, banking law, and the legal challenges imposed by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

NGUYEN THE Duc Tam is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Economics and Law (UEL), Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Vietnam. He earned his LL.B. and B.B.A. from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law (Vietnam) and his LL.M. from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (France). In 2020, he received the National Outstanding Young Teachers Award from the Ministry of Education and Training (Vietnam). His research focuses on commercial dispute resolution, including arbitration and mediation. He has contributed blog posts to the Global Arbitration Review, the Kluwer Arbitration Blog, and the Kluwer Mediation Blog. In early 2021, he became a Singapore International Mediation Institute (SIMI) Accredited Mediator Level 1.

Joel Slawotsky is a former law clerk to the Hon. Charles H. Tenney, (U.S.D.J., S.D.N.Y.) and AV peer-review rated (pre-eminent rating) litigator at Dentons. Joel teaches at the IDC Herzliya, Israel, (Reichman University) where his primary areas of research and teaching focus on corporate and economic governance; international economic law; national security and global governance. He has taught, lectured and presented at conferences in Asia, Europe, and both North and South America. Joel has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters. Publication venues include; Chinese Journal of Comparative Law; Chinese Journal of International Law; Delaware Journal of Corporate Law; Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law; Fordham International Law Journal; Georgetown Journal of International Law; Hong Kong Law Journal; Journal of World Trade; Review of Banking and Financial Law; Tsinghua China Law Review; Virginia Law and Business Review; Virginia Journal of International Law; and U.Penn. Business Law Journal. 

Shaun Star is an Associate Professor & Assistant Dean at Jindal Global Law School and Executive Director, Centre for India Australia Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, India.

Passionate about promoting the Australia-India relationship, Shaun has been working in India since 2010. Shaun is an Australian qualified lawyer and has worked at various top-tier law firms in Australia and India, and was recently named as one of 30 people to watch in the business of law in Asia.

Shaun researches and teaches in the fields of Tort Law and Consumer Protection, Sports Law and Governance and Legal Research Methodologies.

Dr. Haemala Thanasegaran is Senior Lecturer with the Department of Business Law and Taxation at Monash University, Australia. She has taught primarily international trade law, business law, Malaysian income tax law, and Malaysian company law, amongst other subjects. Her research interests are in insurance and takaful (Islamic insurance), and legal culture and contracts (with an emphasis on comparative law).

Assistant Professor, School of Law, Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Areas of interest- Tort law, Law of Insurance, Interpretation of Statutes

Christian Witting is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. He is author of Street on Torts (OUP, 16^th edn, 2021), Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks (CUP, 2018) and Liability for Negligent Misstatements (OUP, 2004). He has published in leading journals in the UK and Australia. His current research concentrates on organisational liability and tort theory. 

Normann Witzleb joined CUHK Law in 2021. He was previously an Associate Professor and Associate Dean (International and Engagement) in the Faculty of Law of Monash University Australia.

His research focus is on privacy and data protection law, the law of torts and remedies, as well as comparative law. His recent book publications include Big Data, Political Campaigning and the Law: Democracy and Privacy in the Age of Micro-Targeting (Routledge, 2020), with M Paterson & J Richardson (eds) and Remedies: Commentary and Materials, 7th ed (Thomson Reuters, 2020), with E Bant, S Degeling & K Barker. Some of his recent research is available from SSRN and ResearchGate.

Prof Witzleb maintains an adjunct position at Monash Law, where he teaches an LLM course on Privacy and Surveillance in the age of AI. He is admitted to practice in the Australian Capital Territory, a barrister of the High Court of Australia and a fully qualified German lawyer. In 2019 and 2020, he consulted with the Australian Attorney-General’s Department and the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner on law reform projects in privacy and information law.

Prof Witzleb is an experienced PhD supervisor, who welcomes expressions of interest from higher degree research students in his areas of expertise.