Visiting Professors Spring Semester 2025

Angus Johnston is (as of August 2014) Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, and the Hoffmann Fellow in Law at University College, in the University of Oxford. He arrived in Oxford in September 2010 as Senior Law Fellow in college and CUF Lecturer for college and Faculty. He read for the B.A. (Law with Law Studies in Europe) and the B.C.L. at Brasenose College and was elected to the Vinerian Scholarship in 1999. He read for the LL.M. in European Union Law and was also Lecturer at the Institute for Anglo-American Law at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1997-8. He was a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (from 1999) and University Lecturer (from 2004) and then Senior Lecturer at Cambridge University (from 2008) until his appointment to Oxford. He has been a visitor to Harvard Law School, the Max Planck Institutes for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg; and Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He was also an affiliated lecturer at Cambridge University and at the Jacobs University, Bremen until 2012-13, and an Adjunct Professor at the Scandinavian Institute for Maritime Law in the University of Oslo. He has been a regular contributor to the Florence School of Regulation (at the EUI) Summer School on EU Energy Law. His current research focuses on the interaction between EU law and national law, in particular the phenomenon of ‘spillover effects’, and on EU Energy law. He has published widely in the fields of EU law, Tort Law, Comparative Private Law, Energy Law and Competition Law.

Dr Mary Keyes is Professor of Law at Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia, where she was also Director of the Law Futures Research Centre from 2020-2024. She teaches and researches in private international law, with specific interests are in jurisdiction, international family law, and the use of agreements. She was elected as the inaugural President of the Australasian Association of Private International Law in 2024. She has been a member of the Australian delegation to the Working Group of the Hague Conference on Private International Law’s Jurisdiction Project since 2020, and was a member of the HCCH Experts’ Group on Family Agreements Involving Children. She gave a special course at the Hague Academy of International Law in summer 2021 on the topic of The Intentions of the Parties in Private International Law. Her recent publications include co-authorship (with R Mortensen and R Garnett) of Private International Law in Australia (5th ed, LexisNexis 2023), ‘Feminist Approaches to Private International Law’ in X Kramer & L Carballo Piñeiro (eds), Research Methods in Private International Law (Edward Elgar 2024), and ‘Surrogacy in the Anglo-World – the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand’ in K Trimmings, S Shakargy & C Achmad (eds), Research Handbook on Surrogacy and the Law (Edward Elgar 2024).

Gregory Shaffer is Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center and is the immediate past President of the American Society of International Law.  He has served as a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law and the Journal of International Economic Law, among a dozen others. He received his JD from Stanford Law School, his BA from Dartmouth College, and practiced law in Paris with Coudert Brothers and Bredin Prat for over seven years. His publications include twelve books and over one hundred articles and book chapters, including The Rule of Law under Pressure: A Transnational Challenge (with Sandholtz, CUP); His book Emerging Powers and the World Trade System: The Past and Future of International Economic Law won the 2022 Chadwick F. Alger Prize of the International Studies Association for the best book on international organizations.

Dr. Sivan Shlomo is an Associate Professor of Law at Bar-Ilan University. She holds a PhD in law from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an LLM from Northwestern University, and an LLM and LLB from Tel Aviv University. Her research and teaching focus on public international law, international economic law, international courts and dispute settlement, international organizations, global governance, international legal theory, and empirical legal studies. Dr. Shlomo Agon was an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Centre for International and Regional Economic Law at New York University. She was also a Visiting Scholar at the World Trade Organization (WTO) and a Visiting Professor at various universities, including the Technical University of Munich, University of Graz, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and Oslo University. Dr. Shlomo Agon has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Fattal Prize for Excellence in Legal Research, the Heshin Prize for Academic Excellence in Law, ICON-S-IL Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship, the Fulbright Alumni Prize, the Jean Monnet Scholarship, and the Sarah Wolf Foundation Award. Her scholarly publications appear in top-tier journals such as the American Journal of International Law, University of Toronto Law Journal, University of California Law Journal, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Berkeley Journal of International Law, World Trade Review, and the Journal of World Trade. She is also the author of International Adjudication on Trial: The Effectiveness of the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement System (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Professor Naoshi Takasugi is a renowned scholar in the field of private international law and currently a professor at the Faculty of Law at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. He was born in 1963 in Tamano City, Okayama Prefecture, and completed his legal studies at Osaka University, where he earned both his bachelor's and master's degrees. After his studies, he worked for three years at Sumitomo Trust Bank in Osaka. He then transitioned to an academic career, holding positions as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law at Kagawa University and as an associate professor at the Faculty of Law and Politics at Tezukayama University before joining Doshisha University in 2004. Throughout his career, Professor Takasugi has made significant contributions to private international law, particularly in the harmonization of private international law in the Asian region, as well as in international commercial arbitration and mediation. He collaborates with scholars and practitioners worldwide and is involved in institutions such as the Kyoto International Mediation Center and the Japan Association of Arbitrators to promote international arbitration and mediation in Japan. In addition to his academic work, Professor Takasugi served as an examiner for the Japanese National Bar Examination Commission from 2018 to 2022 and was a member of the working group on arbitration law reform in the Legislative Council of the Japanese Ministry of Justice from 2020 to 2022. In 2022, he was appointed as a member of the Legislative Council. From 2018 to 2024, he also served as Vice President of Doshisha University. Professor Takasugi has also contributed to international academic collaboration, such as with his lecture The Resort to Reason (Jori) in Modern Japanese Law at the University of Oxford in September 2022.

Professor Karel Van Hulle lectures as emeritus professor at the Economics and Business Faculty of the KU Leuven. He is honorary professor of the Goethe University in Frankfurt and fellow of the International Centre of Insurance Regulation (ICIR). He is a non-executive member (Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee) of the Board of the Bermuda Monetary Authority and Chairman of the Conflicts of Interest Oversight Committee of the European Money Markets Institute. He served as head of insurance and pensions at the European Commission (EC) from October 2004 until March 2013. In that capacity, he was responsible for the development of a new solvency regime for (re)insurers (Solvency II) and represented the EC in the Board of Supervisors of the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and in the Technical Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS). After his retirement from the EC, he was appointed as a member of the Public Interest Oversight Board from March 2016 until April 2021. He joined the EC in 1984 after serving eight years with the Belgian Banking Commission, with specific responsibility for the secretariat of the newly created Belgian Accounting Standards Committee. Before becoming head of insurance and pensions at the EC in 2004, he was head of financial reporting, auditing, corporate governance and company law. Van Hulle is a lawyer by training. He graduated (magna cum laude) from the KU Leuven and obtained a postgraduate degree in American commercial and corporate law from the Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee (USA). In 2000, Van Hulle was appointed distinguished international lecturer in accounting by the American Accounting Association. He was nominated distinguished fellow of the IAIS in 2013 and in 2014 he was elected honorary fellow of the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. In 2019, he summarised his experience with the development of Solvency II in a book Solvency Requirements for EU Insurers. Solvency II is good for you, Intersentia, Cambridge, Antwerp, Chicago, ISBN 978-1-78068-177-1, 727 p.