Seminar - Corporate Purpose Beyond Borders: A Key to Saving Our Planet or Colonialism Repackaged?
Contact: ccla@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: Roza Nurgozhayeva is an Assistant Professor of Law at Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. From 2018 to 2020, Roza held the position of a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Asian Legal Studies, the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. She holds a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) degree from Cornell University. Dr. Nurgozhayeva is a member of the American Society of International Law. Her research interests include comparative law, corporate governance, corporate law, state-owned enterpris… RSVP: . Type: Seminars & Workshops. Subject: Law. Business. Audience: Public. Professionals. SMU Faculty & Staff.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Meeting Room 5.04
Yong Pung How School of Law
Singapore Management University
55 Armenian Street
Singapore 179943.
Yong Pung How Professorship of Law Lecture 2024: Past, Present, and Future Tensions: Jurisdiction Over Absent Defendants
This lecture considers the historical backdrop to the current law in Singapore on when overseas defendants may be subject to the in personam jurisdiction of the court, with a view to understanding the old and new issues arising from the overhaul of the rules for service out of jurisdiction in 2021 and the amendments in 2023 to accommodate the Hague Service Convention. The future-readiness of these rules will also be considered.
Contact: ccla@smu.edu.sg. Speaker Details: Yeo Tiong Min graduated with an LLB from the National University of Singapore (NUS), and post-graduate degrees (BCL and DPhil) from the University of Oxford, where he was a Senior Research Fellow for a time. He taught at NUS before taking up the appointment as the first Yong Pung How Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University in 2007.
His research interests are mainly in private law, with a large concentration on the conflict of laws, and include contract law, the law of restitution, equity… RSVP: . Type: Lectures. Subject: Law. Audience: Public. Partners.
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Mochtar Riady Auditorium
Singapore Management University
81 Victoria Street
Singapore 188065.
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