Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World

SPEAKER

Professor Ngoc Son Bui
Professor of Asian Laws
University of Oxford

Ngoc Son Bui is Professor of Asian Laws at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. He has previously held an academic position at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, a research position at the National University of Singapore, and visiting positions at Chulalongkorn, Harvard, Melbourne, Nagoya University, Singapore Management University, University of Hong Kong, and Tsinghua law schools. He works on comparative & constitutional law in Asia. He is the author of Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World (OUP 2020) and Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia (Routledge 2016).

COMMENTATORS

Professor Andrew Harding 
National University of Singapore
Faculty of Law

Professor Andrew Harding is a leading scholar in the fields of Asian legal studies and comparative constitutional law. He commenced his academic career at NUS before moving to SOAS, University of London, where he became Head of the School of Law. He joined NUS from the University of Victoria, BC Canada, where he was Professor of Asia-Pacific Legal Relations and Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. At NUS he held the positions of Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Director of the Asian Law Institute, and Chief Editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law.

Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart 
National University of Singapore
Faculty of Law

Mindy Chen-Wishart was Professor of the Law of Contract and Dean of Law at Oxford University, Fellow of Merton College until September 2023. She has joined the National University of Singapore full time after many years as a fractional appointment. Mindy is also an Honourary Professor at Otago University and was awarded an Honourary Doctorate in 2023. She has also taught in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, New Zealand, Thailand, and Germany. She will remain a Visiting and Emeritus Professor at Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow at Merton College. Mindy will receive the Conference’s Lifetime Achievement Award at KCON in July 2024 (KCON is the largest annual international academic conference dedicated to contract and commercial law). Mindy has delivered many international keynote lectures around the world, is a respected teacher, and a leader in legal education, and diversity and inclusion.

Professor Yip Man  
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law 

Yip Man is a Professor of Law and the Associate Dean (Faculty Matters & Research) at Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law. In recognition of her research on family wealth, private trusts and family disputes, she was appointed the V3 Group Professor in Family Entrepreneurship on 1 July 2023. She is also the co-head of the Trusts, Wealth and Philanthropy Initiative housed under SMU Centre for Commercial Law in Asia and a co-convener of the biennial conference series, ‘Modern Studies in the Law of Trusts, Wealth Management and Philanthropy’. She is regularly invited to present her research at international conferences organized by leading institutions. Her research has been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal, the Singapore High Court, and the High Court of England and Wales, as well as in international treatises and journal articles.

CHAIR

Professor Maartje De Visser
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law 

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