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Synopsis
This paper seeks to compare the consumer protection laws of Asian common law countries and to contrast these to European and International standards. It will reflect on the influences there have been in developing consumer policy from a comparative law perspective and start a debate upon the nature of consumer needs in Asia and the ability of the legal and regulatory structures to deliver meaningful protection at the appropriate level.
Speakers
Professor Geraint Howells
Geraint Howells is Chair Professor of Commercial Law and Dean of the Law School at City University of Hong Kong; barrister at Gough Square Chambers, London (though not currently practising) and former President of the International Association of Consumer Law. He previously held chairs at Sheffield, Lancaster and Manchester and has been head of law schools at Lancaster and Manchester. His books include Comparative Product Liability, Consumer Product Safety, Consumer Protection Law, EC Consumer Law, Product Liability, European Fair Trading Law, Handbook of Research on International Consumer Law and The Tobacco Challenge. He has undertaken extensive consultancy work for the EU and UK government as well as for NGOs.
Dr Andre Janssen
André Janssen is an associate professor at the City University Hong Kong. He has previously held positions at the Universities of Bayreuth, Göttingen, and Münster in Germany. Furthermore he was (with the support of the European Commission) a visiting scholar at the Universities of Nijmegen, Oxford and Turin and member of several research networks. He published more than 100 books and articles in the field of Private, European and Comparative Law. His latest books are ‘International Sales Law: Contract, Principles & Practice’ (edited together with DiMatteo, Magnus and Schulze, publisher: C.H. Beck, Hart and Nomos 2016) and his German ‘Habilitation’ (his second PhD in law) with the title ‘Präventive Gewinnabschöpfung’ (‘Preventive disgorgement of profits’). The latter was awarded the Marie Curie Award in 2015 by the European Commission. He is the chief-editor of the European Review of Private Law (ERPL) and the head of the German redaction committee of the Italian law journal Contratto e impresa / Europa.
Dr John Ho
John Ho began his academic career at City University of Hong Kong in 2009 as an Assistant Professor, where he served for 3 years until 2012. After that, he was a Lecturer in Law at the University of Surrey for a year. In 2013, he became Senior Lecturer of Newcastle Law School, Australia. he returned to City University of Hong Kong in August 2015 to serve as Associate Professor. He has published extensively at top law journals based in the UK and Commonwealth in various legal disciplines such as Company Law, Labour Law, Environmental regulation and Public Law.
Dr Mateja Durovic
Dr. Mateja Durovic is a Lecturer in Commercial and Contract Law at King’s College London, UK. Until 30 June 2017, Mateja was an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He holds a PhD and LLM degrees from the EUI, Florence, LLM degree from the University of Cambridge, and LLB degree from the University of Belgrade, where he graduated as the first and best student of his class. Dr. Durovic was a Post-doc Research Associate at the EUI, Visiting Scholar at Stanford Law School, and at the MPI of Private International and Comparative Private Law, Hamburg. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Universities in Macau, Florence, Passau, Shanghai and Belgrade. Dr. Durovic worked for the International law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel and the Legal Service of the European Commission, as well as a legal consultant for the European Commission, BEUC and the United Nations. He speaks fluently Serbian, English, Croatian, French and Italian and basic Spanish and Greek. Dr. Durovic performs research in the areas of Contract Law, Consumer Law, International Commercial Law, Comparative Law, Arbitration Law and Competition Law. His work has been published in leading law journals (European Review of Private Law, European Review of Contract Law, Journal of Consumer Policy, Journal of European Consumer and Market Law) and by most prominent law publishers (Oxford University Press, Hart Publishing, Springer).
Chair
Dr Gary Low is Assistant Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University School of Law. He has held academic appointments at Tilburg and Maastricht Universities in the Netherlands, and visiting positions at Cornell Law School (US), the Central European University (Hungary) and Keio Law School (Japan). He is a former Justice’s Law Clerk of the Supreme Court of Singapore, and practised shipping law in one of the largest law firms in Singapore. He researches and publishes in the areas of commercial and consumer law. Gary has taught courses on (English) common law, the Singapore legal system, comparative contracts, and international commercial law. Aside from his academic engagements, he sits on the Central Committee of the Consumers Association of Singapore (CASE) and heads its Products Safety and Testing committee.
Event Details
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Date:
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18 August 2017 (Friday)
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Time:
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12.30pm to 2.00pm
(Bento lunch will be served from 12pm onwards)
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Venue:
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Singapore Management University
School of Law
55 Armenian Street
Level 5, SOL-5.04-MR
Singapore 179943
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Registration
This is an invitation-only event. Admission is free and by registration only. Please register by Tuesday, 15 August 2017.
We look forward to seeing you at the event.
With warm wishes
School of Law
Singapore Management University
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