Prof. Camilla Baasch Andersen
Camilla Baasch Andersen is a Professor at University of Western Australia. She was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, a lecturer at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London and before that she was a PhD research and teaching fellow at University of Copenhagen in her native Denmark. She has lectured externally for several universities, including SOAS in London (UK), University of Essex (UK), University of Turku (Finland) and Victoria University (Melbourne, Australia). She has worked with the CISG Advisory Council, and been the National Reporter for the United Kingdom for the International Academy of Comparative Law. She is a Trade Law Expert for UNCITRAL and sits on the UNCITRAL Australian Co-ordination Committee. She works closely with business, government and academia in pursuit of Commercial Law facilitating trade, and has written extensively on the CISG, international commerce, pro-active approaches to law and comparative commercial law. Prof Andersen was the founding co-editor of The Journal of Comparative Law and is a Fellow at the Institute of International Commercial Law at Pace Law School.
David Christie
I am an academic lawyer, with a focus on construction law and dispute resolution. I also have a leadership role within the Law School at Robert Gordon University, which includes course development, external engagement and commercialisation. Before becoming an academic, I was a construction and engineering disputes lawyer in Glasgow and Edinburgh, with international experience.
Dr. Jessica Viven-Wilksch
Dr Viven-Wilksch is an legal academic researching in private law. Her primary research interests are international and comparative studies and reflections on morality in contract law with a focus on good faith and relational contracting. Jessica is currently researching regulatory regimes and procurement methods in the construction Industry. In November 2023, The Society of Construction Law Australia awarded the Brooking Prize to Jessica and her co-author Dr Jeremy Coggins,for their research on the regulaiton of contracts in the construciton industry. Jessica’s research interests are reflected in her degrees and research paths up to today. Her PhD in Law examined the concept of good faith in Australian Contract law and EU Contract law. Jessica has a law degree from Universite Toulouse Capitole in France as well as a Diploma in Common law at the University College Dublin in Ireland.She holds two masters degrees recognised in three jurisdictions, namely, Germany, France and Australia.
Prof. Manasi Kumar
As a Professor at Jindal Global Law School she teaches foundational contract law courses, and a self-designed, highly popular elective on commercial contract drafting. Prior to entering academia, she worked as a commercial dispute resolution attorney with well-known law firms in India and the United States, where she was admitted to the Oregon state bar. She had a diverse commercial practice that included construction, oil and gas, government procurements, insurance, and maritime law.
In 2020, she received the O.P. Jindal Global University Research Excellence Award. In 2021, she convened an ambitious series of conferences on contract law in common law countries. This project was in collaboration with the London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law (in cooperation with the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London), and convened experts from across four continents in a detailed comparative study of contract law in the common law world. The conferences resulted in a series of papers being published in a special double-issue of the Liverpool Law Review, which is a Scopus-indexed journal.
Her research is focused on contract law and alternate dispute resolution. She has also served as Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs in JGLS and later Controller of Examinations for O.P. Jindal Global University, a role she stepped down from to focus on her research in 2018.
She has a Juris Doctor from Lewis and Clark Law School in the United States, where she was inducted into the Cornelius Honour Society upon her graduation in 2008, an honour given to select graduates by the law school faculty. She is currently working on completing her dissertation on objectivity and contextualism within the Indian law of contracts from Deakin Law School.
Prof. Séverine Saintier
Séverine joined Cardiff as a Professor in commercial law in January 2023. Prior to that, she held position at Exeter University, Sheffield and Liverpool.
Séverine studied law in France until 1993 before coming to the UK to read for an LLM (Staffordshire University) and a PhD (Sheffield University) under the late Professor Bradgate.
Séverine’s primary research interest is in the field of contract/commercial law, broadly defined. Her research is comparative in nature. Her PhD was in the field of commercial agency contracts where she has published two monographs (one co-authored) and numerous journal articles.
More recently, Séverine has published on good faith and relational contract and she has collaborated with David Christie and Dr Jessica Viven-Wilksch on the topic of construction contract and relationality. Séverine is also co-author of the forthcoming 4th edition of Bradgate’s Commercial law with Dr Sean Thomas (York University) and Dr Reza Beheshti (Nottingham University).
Séverine has taught in France at the Université Jean Moulin (professor invité), Université Bordeaux IV and Strasbourg University.
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