Visitors to the Centre

The Commercial Law Centre welcomes visiting researchers for visits up to one term, to advance research on a project relating to commercial law. Applications by academics are received on a rolling basis. PhD students can visit the Centre as a Junior Academic Visitor and applications for this programme are assessed in gathered fields. The Centre can also facilitate research visits by judges.

Academic Visitors

Current and future Academic Visitors​​

Professor Robert Yalden Queen’s University, Canada 

Professor Ruth Plato-Shinar Netanya Academic College, Israel 

Associate Professor Akshaya Kamalnath  Australian National University, College of Law, Australia 

Past Academic Visitors

Argentina: Professor Cecilia Danesi, University of Buenos Aires & Argentinian Judicial Branch, Civil Court

Australia: Professor Cally Jordan, Melbourne University; Dr R P Austin, University of Sydney; Associate Professor David Brown, Adelaide Law School;  Dr Jeanne Huang, Centre for Asian and Pacific Law, Sydney Law School

Canada: Professor Tony Duggan, University of Toronto; Professor Christopher Nicholls, Western University, Canada

China: Du Jun, Judge of the Supreme People's Court, China; Li Xuesong, Judge of the Shenzhen Municipal Intermediate People's Court, Corporation Liquidation and Bankruptcy Tribune; Dr Jin Man, Beijing Wuzi University

Germany: Professor Alexander Schall, Leuphana Law School; Dr Jan-Erik Schirmer, Humboldt-University, Berlin; Dr Bettina Rentsch, University of Berlin

Hong Kong: Dr Charles Zhen Qu, City University of Hong Kong

Israel: Judge Michal Agmon-Gonnen, District Court of Tel Aviv and Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv

Italy: Assistant Professor Chiara Mosca, Bocconi University; Professor Giovanni Petroboni, University of Pavia; Professor Sergio Gilotta, University of Bologna; Professor Giovanni Strampelli, Bocconi University, Milan; Professor Gaia Balp, Bocconi University, Milan; Professor Roberto Rosapepe, Univerity of Salerno; Professor Silvia Turelli and Professor Umberto Tombari, Università degli Studi di Firenze; Professor Anna Veneziano, UNIDROIT; Professor Renato Mangano, University of Palermo; Assistant Professor Federico Riganti, University of Turin

Japan: Professor Hiroyasu Ishikawa, University of Tokyo Singapore: Dr Lin Lin, NUS; Dr Burton Ong, NUS; Professor Dora Neo, NUS; Professor Christian Hofmann, NUS; Dr Wee Meng Seng, NUS; Dr Sandra Booysen, NUS; Dr Dan Puchniak, NUS; Dr Umakanth Varottil,  Singapore Management; Professor Hiroyuki Watanabe, Visiting Professor, Chubu University and Research Associate, Waseda Institute for Business and Finance

New Zealand: Associate Professor Ronán Feehily, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Norway: Dr Sjur Swensen Ellingsæter, BI Norwegian Business School

Panama: Dr Victor Chacon, Catholic University Santa Maria La Antigua and University of Panama

Spain: Alberto Manzanares, Former Partner, Clifford Chance, Spain (Visiting Distinguished Practitioner, Harris Manchester College); Professor Luis Hernando, University of València; Professor Jorge Feliu Rey, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Professor Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

The Netherlands: Dr Ben Schuijling, Radboud University

Uganda: Dr Winifred Tarinyeba Kiryabwire, Makerere University, Kampala

UK: Dr Daniele D'Alvia, IALS, University of London; Dr Chi Zhang, University of Glasgow; Dr Longjie Lu, University of Edinburgh

United States of America: Professor Andrea Coles-Bjerre, University of Oregon School of Law; Professor Edward Janger, Brooklyn Law School; Professor Carl Bjerre, University of Oregon School of Law; Professor Charles Mooney, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Professor Henry Gabriel, Elon University; Charles Mooney, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School;  Judge Jo-Lynne Lee, Superior Court of Alameda, California

​Junior Academic Visitors

Junior Academic Visitors are currently undertaking a PhD in a commercial law subject at an institution other than the University of Oxford, and come to the Centre to work on their thesis for one term. They retain their home institution supervisor, who is expected to provide a statement of support for the visit. Junior Academic Visitors typically aim to carry out a comparative aspect of their project during their visit to the Centre. Further information concerning applying to the programme can be found here.

Current and future Junior Academic Visitors​​​​​​

Michaelmas Term 2024: Meltem Ece Oba, Koç University, Istanbul 

Michaelmas Term 2024: Arwin Tavakolnia, University of Amsterdam 

Michaelmas term 2024: Leon Theimer, Humboldt University, Berlin 

Past Junior Academic Visitors

• 2023- 2024 Michele Chierici, Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali, Guido Carli, Rome; Matthias Kneissel, University of Augsburg; Yaoqi Zheng, Durham University; Enrico Dorio, Bocconi University; Tim Kuhmann, Hamburg University; Marleen Och, KU Leuven

• 2022-2023 Floris Mertens, Ghent University; Joeri De Smet, KU Leuven; Lavinia Palombo, University of Turin; Louise Van Marcke, Financial Law Institute, Ghent University; Sara Pietra Rossi, Bocconi University; Fabio Cavalcante, University of Bremen; Paola Merli, University of Bergamo; Jonas Schwarting, Hamburg; Kerstin Stritzke, Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck

• 2021-2022 Magda Aref, University of Zurich; Elena Ratti, University of Turin; Lennard Michaux, KU Leuven; Christophe George, University of Lausanne; Max Höflich, University of Frankfurt; Pablo Tretow, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg; Michelle van Haren, Radboud University; Francesca Bichiri, University of Turin, Italy; Ilya Kokorin, KU Leuven, The Netherlands; Daniël Stein, Radboud University, The Netherlands

• 2019-2020 Alvaro Pereira, UC Berkeley School of Law; Saad Almohammed, Belfast; Lukas Vossen, Frankfurt University; Lillian Jewell von Seggern, University of Hamburg; Dimitrios Kafteranis, University of Luxembourg; Luca Kenel, University of Basel; Katarzyna Parchimowicz, University of Wroclaw; Michele Rossi, University of Bologna

• 2018-2019 Sara Addamo, University of Trento, Italy; Bianca Kremer, University of St Gallen, Switzerland; Nadia Kreileman, Radboud University; Ana Taleska, Financial Law Institiute, Ghent; Maria Lucia Passador, Bocconi University, Milan; Joseph Lee, Australian National University; Albana Karapanço, CEU, Budapest; Anabel Guntermann, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg; Frederik de Leo, KU Leuven; Lidija Simunovic, Faculty of Law Osijek, Croatia; Han Gulyás, Radboud University, Nijmegen; Lennart Reber, University of Heidelberg; Sebastian Zeyns, University of Hamburg; Frederik de Leo, KU Leuven

• 2017-2018 Jochem Dousi, Radboud University,Nijmegen; Blanka Batschwaroff, University of Basel; Pauline Ribbers, Leiden University; Tianyu Yuan, University of Heidelberg; Benedikt Straubinger, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Univesity, Bonn; Anne Mennens, Radboud University, Nijmegen; Carina Schwarz, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich; Tom Vos, KU Leuven, Belgium; Sanford U Mba, Central European University, Budapest; Sebastián Gamero, University of Seville; Gina Leisten, University of Frankfurt; Suzanne Kali, Radboud University, Nijmegen

• 2016-2017 Georgi Georgiev, Sofia University; Fernando Filizzola del Río, CEU Escuela Internacional de Doctorado; Christoph Simmchen, Institute of German & European Corporate Business Law, Heidelberg; Sirui Han, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Andreas Tarde, Institute of German & European Corporate Business Law, Heidelberg; Julio César Betancourt, University of Salamanca; Haroun Rahimi, University of Washington; Paula del Val Talens, University of Valencia; Giulia Giordano, University of Bologna, Diletta Lenzi, University of Venice; Marloes van de Moosdijk, Radboud University, Nijmegen; Laura Rodés Saldaña, University of Leicester; Michael Kanu, Central European University; Charlotte Baumanns, University of Passau; André Luís Monteiro, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo; Andreas Tarde, University of Heidelburg

• 2015-2016 Marie-Thérèse Hoelscher, University of Hamburg; Maria Leura Gomez; Toshiaki Yamanaka, University of Tokyo; Paolo Mammola, University of Salerno; Dennis Roy Schwaninger, University of Basel