NYU@NUS Faculty
Alan Tan
Director, NYU School of Law and NUS Dual Degree Program (NYU@NUS)
Alan Khee-Jin Tan is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Law School and Director of the NYU@NUS Dual Degree Program. His teaching and research interests are in Aviation Law, Maritime Law, Criminal Law and Environmental Law. Born in Penang, Malaysia, Alan was educated at the Penang Free School and Raffles Junior College, subsequently obtaining an LL.B from NUS and an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale Law School. He was the winner of the Koh Han Kok Prize for International Law at NUS, and his doctoral thesis on the law and politics of shipping regulation won the Ambrose Gherini International Law Prize at Yale Law School. Alan has also been a Justices' Law Clerk for the Supreme Court of Singapore and interned at the International Maritime Organization in London. He has published widely on Maritime Law, Aviation Law and Environmental Law, particularly in the context of Asian countries. In 2006, his book "Vessel-Source Marine Pollution: The Law and Politics of International Regulation", was published by Cambridge University Press. In the same year, his article in the Air & Space Law journal - "Liberalizing Aviation in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Impact of the E.U. Horizontal Mandate" - won the Diedriks-Verschoor Prize for best law article. Alan was Vice-Dean for Graduate Studies and Research at NUS Law (2006 to 2010), and was a Hauser Global Visiting Professor at New York University (NYU) School of Law in 2009, where he taught global aviation law and policy. He has also taught at the University of Sydney and served as a consultant to various governments and donor agencies, including the Vietnamese and Indonesian governments and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). He has also been engaged as a consultant on aviation liberalization in Asia by the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
NYU Faculty
Listed below are some NYU professors who are teaching in Singapore during the 2011-12 academic year:
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Robert Howse is the Lloyd C. Nelson Professor of International Law at NYU School of Law. Professor Howse received his B.A. in philosophy and political science with high distinction, as well as an LL.B., with honours, from the University of Toronto, where he was co-editor in chief of the Faculty of Law Review. He also holds an LL.M. from the Harvard Law School. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem…read more. |
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Professor Stanley Siegel is a graduate of the NYU Stern School and Harvard Law School. Following three years of practice with the Air Force General Counsel's Office, he joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty. There he was the draftsman of the Michigan Corporation Law…read more. |
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Stephen Choi joined the NYU faculty in 2005. He taught as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School from 1996 to 1998. From 1998 to 2005, Choi taught at the UC Berkeley Law School where he was the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law. While in law school, Choi served as a legal methods instructor and supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. He graduated first in his class…read more. |
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Stephen Gillers has been a professor of law at the New York University School of Law since 1978 and Vice Dean from 1999-2004. He holds the Emily Kempin chair. He does most of his research and writing on the regulation of the legal profession. His courses include Regulation of Lawyers, Evidence, Media Law…read more. |
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Barbara S. Gillers practices and teaches in the area of professional responsibility, legal ethics and the Law Governing Lawyers. Ms. Gillers teaches Professional Responsibility and Legal Ethics for Corporate Lawyers in New York and has also taught at the school’s graduate law program based in Singapore. She is also currently...read more. |
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Barry Adler is the Charles Seligson Professor of Law and has just completed a term as Vice Dean. He joined the New York University School of Law faculty in 1996, leaving his position as the Sullivan & Cromwell Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Adler's course offerings have included Bankruptcy, Commercial Law, Contracts, Corporate Finance, and Corporations...read more. |
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Among the nation’s leading legal scholars on tax policy, Daniel Shaviro is a graduate of Princeton University and Yale Law School. Before entering law teaching, he spent three years in private practice at Caplin & Drysdale, a leading tax specialty firm, and three years as Legislation Attorney at the Joint Congressional Committee on Taxation...read more. |
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Samuel Estreicher is Dwight D. Opperman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, director of its Center for Labor and Employment and co-director of its Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration. He has published several books including casebooks in labor law and employment discrimination and employment law; written treatises in employment law and in labor law; edited global issues in labor law, global issues in employment law, global issues in employment discrimination law...read more. |
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Harry First is the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, Director of the law school's Competition, Innovation, and Information Law Program, and Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. From 1999-2001 he served as Chief of the Antitrust Bureau of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York...read more. |
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J.H.H. Weiler is University Professor as well as holder of the European Union Jean Monnet Chair at New York University School of Law, Director of the Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, and Co-Director of the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. Weiler is also Professor at the National University of Singapore; Honorary Professor at University College, London; Honorary Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen…read more. |
Robert Howse
Stanley Siegel
Stephen Choi
Stephen Gillers
Barbara S. Gillers
Barry E. Adler
Daniel N. Shaviro
Samuel Estreicher
Harry First
J.H.H. Weiler
NUS Faculty
Listed below are some of the NUS professors with whom students may take classes in Singapore or Shanghai in order to complete the NUS LL.M. degree:
Peter ELLINGER
Emeritus Professor
Director, LLM (Corporate & Financial Services Law)
Professor Peter ELLINGER is a Professor Emeritus of the National University of Singapore and a Consultant of Messrs Rajah & Tann, Advocates & Solicitors of Singapore. Previously, he held chairs of law at the Victoria University of Wellington (NZ) and at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. From the beginning of his career, Professor Ellinger has specialised in commercial law with particular emphasis on banking law…read more.
Stephen D GIRVIN
Professor
Vice-Dean, International Programmes & Research
Director, LL.M. (Maritime Law)
Dr Stephen Girvin is a Professor of Law at NUS. He has held faculty positions at the University of Aberdeen, the University of Nottingham, NUS, and the University of Birmingham, where he was Professor of Maritime Law from 2006-2008. He is the author of Carriage of Goods by Sea (Oxford, 2007) and a co-author of Charlesworth's Company Law 17th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2005)…read more.
Alexander LOKE Fay Hoong
Associate Professor
Editor-in-Chief, The Asian Journal of Comparative Law (AsJCL)
Alexander F H Loke J.S.D., LL.M. (Columbia), LL.B. (Hons) (NUS) is Associate Professor with research interests in contract law, international business transactions, corporate finance and securities regulation. He was Visiting Associate Professor, East China University (2002), Visiting Scholar, Columbia University (2000-2001), and Visiting Lecturer, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (1999)…read more.
Dora NEO Swee Suan
Associate Professor
Director of Continuing Legal Education
Dora Neo started her career as an advocate and solicitor before joining the NUS Law Faculty. She teaches contract law, credit & security and international banking law, and researches in these areas as well as in world trade law and the law relating to sale of goods. She has served several terms as Director of the faculty's Continuing Legal Education Program, and was Vice-Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) from 2001-2003. A first class honours graduate from Oxford University, UK, she also holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a Certificate in Private Banking from the Wealth Management Institute, Singapore, and has been called to the bar in England and Singapore…read more.
Stephen PHUA Lye Huat
Associate Professor
Stephen Phua teaches Income Tax, Goods and Services Tax, Corporate Taxation, International Tax Law and Business & Finance for Lawyers in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He has delivered and published several articles in international conferences and journals in various aspects of taxation laws…read more.
M. SORNARAJAH
Professor
M Sornarajah is CJ Koh Professor at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore and the Tunku Abdul Rahman Professor of International Law at the University of Malaya at Kuala Lumpur. He was, previously, Head of the Law School of the University of Tasmania, Australia. He studied law at the University of Ceylon, the London School of Economics, King’s College, London and the Yale Law School. He was Sterling Fellow at the Yale Law School, Research Fellow at the Centre for International Law, Cambridge and at the Max Planck Institut fur Offentliches Auslandisches Recht at Heidelburg, Germany…read more.
Hans TJIO
Professor
Hans Tjio is a Professor in the Faculty of Law, NUS. He has an M.A. from Cambridge and an LL.M. from Harvard, was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Program on International Legal Studies, and lectures in securities regulation, company law, commercial and contract law, trusts and equity…read more.
WANG Jiangyu
Associate Professor
Wang Jiangyu specializes in Chinese law, international economic law, and international commercial law. He graduated from the China University of Political Science and Law (CUPL) in 1994 with an LL.B. degree. He holds his doctorate degree (SJD) from University of Pennsylvania and M.Juris. degree in European and Comparative Law from University of Oxford. He also obtained LL.M. degrees from Peking University and University of Pennsylvania…read more.
Walter WOON Cheong Ming, S.C.
David Marshall Professor
Dean, Singapore Institute of Legal Education
Deputy Chairman, Centre for International Law
Walter Woon is an authority in the areas of company law and securities regulation. Between 1998 and 2006 he was Singapore’s Ambassador to Germany, Greece, the European Union, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the Vatican; from 2008 to 2010 he served as Attorney-General …read more.