Selected Publications & Presentations

Reim­burse­ment of Dam­age Pre­ven­tion Costs in Mar­itime Logis­tics in the Event of an Antic­i­pat­ed Breach of Duty Accord­ing to (Cor­rect­ly Applied) Ger­man Law; The Pro­ceed­ings of the 23rd Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress of Mar­itime Arbi­tra­tors (ICMA XXIII); Sin­ga­pore [Link]

Should a Dis­pute Be Brought to the Sin­ga­pore Inter­na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Court or to Arbi­tra­tion?, in: Zeitschrift für Zivil­prozess Inter­na­tion­al (ZZP Int) (29) 2024, p. 258 [Link]

Das Ver­trieb­srecht von Sin­ga­pur (The Dis­tri­b­u­tion Law of Sin­ga­pore), in: Martinek/Semler/Flohr, Hand­buch Ver­trieb­srecht, 5th edi­tion [Link]

SICC oder Schieds­ge­richt? Ein Ver­gle­ich des Ver­fahrens vor dem Sin­ga­pore Inter­na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Court mit den Vor- und Nachteilen inter­na­tionaler Schiedsver­fahren (SICC or Arbi­tra­tion? A Com­par­i­son of Pro­ceed­ings in the Sin­ga­pore Inter­na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Court with the Advan­tages and Dis­ad­van­tages of Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion Pro­ceed­ings) [Link]

Reviewed by Römer­mann, Ger­man Arbi­tra­tion Jour­nal (SchiedsVZ) 2025, p. 185. [Link]

Arbi­tra­tors: Bal­anc­ing Active Engage­ment and Par­ty Auton­o­my [Link]

On the Dimin­ish­ing Impor­tance of Human­i­ty in Arbi­tra­tion [Link]

Inquisi­to­r­i­al Process­es, or: Can Sin­ga­pore Courts or Arbi­tral Tri­bunals Engage in the Ami­ca­ble Set­tle­ment of Dis­putes?, in: Kluw­er Arbi­tra­tion Blog [Link]

On the Pow­ers of Courts and Arbi­tral Tri­bunals in the Ami­ca­ble Set­tle­ment of Dis­putes by the Par­ties: A Look at Sin­ga­pore and Select­ed Oth­er Coun­tries; in: Zeitschrift für Schiedsver­fahren – Ger­man Arbi­tra­tion Jour­nal (SchiedsVZ) 2023, p. 270 [Link]

Das neue Recht elek­tro­ni­scher Transak­tio­nen in Sin­ga­pur: Weg­be­rei­ter für elek­tro­n­is­che Kon­nosse­mente?; in: Trans­portrecht (TranspR) 2021, p. 313 [Link]

The New Elec­tron­ic Trans­ac­tions Law in Sin­ga­pore: Paving the Way for Elec­tron­ic Bills of Lad­ing? [Link]

Enforce­abil­i­ty of For­eign Emer­gency Awards in Sin­ga­pore [Link]

On Arbi­tra­tion, Foot­ball and Vac­u­um-Clean­ing Robots [Link]

Gild­ed with Law [Link]

Ini­tial Coin Offer­ing: an Inac­cu­rate Term and an Imper­fect Reg­u­la­tor [Link]

No, I Won’t Help You White­wash Your Token Sale Scam [Link]

The Effi­cient Breach of Smart Con­tracts [Link]

The Arts and the Law in Sin­ga­pore [Link]

The Art of Walk­ing a Fine and Gold­en Line [Link]

Smar­ti­fy­ing Blockchains, Legal­ly [Link]

Blockchain: the Roll of Deeds of the Inter­net [Link]

How Do We Resolve Dis­putes? What’s with Those Algo­rithms? [Link]

Sin­ga­purisch­er Inter­na­tionaler Han­dels­gericht­shof eröffnet (Sin­ga­pore Inter­na­tion­al Com­mer­cial Court Launched) [Link]

‘Lan­guage’ Dif­fi­cul­ties between Civ­il Law and Com­mon Law [Link]

The Mid­night Clause in Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion [Link]

A Grain of Civ­il Law – Some (Not So) New Chords for the Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion Jazz; in: Sin­ga­pore Law Gazette, Octo­ber 2014, with Respon­dek and O’Shea [Link]

Wet­tbe­werb­srecht in Sin­ga­pur (Com­pe­ti­tion Law in Sin­ga­pore); in: SGC Bizguide 2012 (with Singham)

Immo­bilien­markt Sin­ga­pur – Schw­er­punkt gewerbliche Immo­bilien (The Real Estate Mar­ket in Sin­ga­pore – Focus­ing on Com­mer­cial Real Estate); in: SGC Bizguide 2012

Overkill, Or: Free Trade Agree­ments in Asia; in: Glob­al Trade and Cus­toms Jour­nal, Issue 7/8, p. 341 [Link]

The Civ­il Law Inter­pre­ta­tion of Dec­la­ra­tions of Intent by Con­tract­ing Par­ties; in: Rodyk Reporter – Lit­i­ga­tion Brief, March 2012 [Link]

Kred­it und Kred­it­sicherung in Sin­ga­pur (Cred­it and Cred­it Secu­ri­ty in Sin­ga­pore); in: SGC Bizguide 2008

Der Staatliche Aufwen­dungser­satzanspruch nach der erfol­gre­ichen Befreiung ent­führter Deutsch­er im Aus­land (The State’s Claim for Refund of Expens­es After the Suc­cess­ful Release of Kid­napped Ger­mans Abroad); in: Neue Zeitschrift für Ver­wal­tungsrecht 2005, p. 172 [Link]

Unverbindlich verbindlich – Zur Selbst­reg­u­lier­ung durch Ver­hal­tenskodizes und Güte­siegel (Not Bind­ing­ly Bind­ing – on Self-Reg­u­la­tion by Codes of Prac­tice and Seals of Approval); in: Daten­schutz und Daten­sicher­heit 2002, p. 412

Auf dem Weg zur europäis­chen Infor­ma­tion­s­ge­sellschaft – Zu Über­trag­barkeit und Pfänd­barkeit von de- und eu-Domains (Towards a Euro­pean Infor­ma­tion Soci­ety – on Trans­fer­abil­i­ty and Attach­a­bil­i­ty of de- and eu-Domains); in: Wert­pa­pi­er-Mit­teilun­gen 2001, p. 1135 (with Lwowski)

Pre­sen­ta­tion and pan­el dis­cus­sion: Reim­burse­ment of Dam­age Pre­ven­tion Costs in Mar­itime Logis­tics in the Event of an Antic­i­pat­ed Breach of Duty Accord­ing to (Cor­rect­ly Applied) Ger­man Law; 23rd Inter­na­tion­al Con­gress of Mar­itime Arbi­tra­tors (ICMA XXIII); Singapore

Webi­nar: The Cur­rent Arbi­tra­tion Prac­tice in Japan (Die aktuelle Schiedsver­fahren­sprax­is in Japan); Uni­ver­si­ty of Hagen

Pod­cast episode: SICC or Arbi­tra­tion?; Deep­dive – Arbi­tra­tion, Inter­na­tion­al Pri­vate and Com­par­a­tive Law

Pan­el dis­cus­sion: Glob­al Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Due Dili­gence: Prac­ti­cal Lead­er­ship Strate­gies for a New Reg­u­la­to­ry Land­scape; Sin­ga­pore Inter­na­tion­al Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion Academy/Singapore Man­age­ment Uni­ver­si­ty School of Law; Singapore

Pan­el dis­cus­sion: The Tri­bunal Secretary’s Evolv­ing Role – From Note­tak­er to Tech Facil­i­ta­tor; Guangxi Uni­ver­si­ty; Nanning

Debate: The Extent and Lim­i­ta­tions of Arbi­tra­tors’ Dis­cre­tionary Pow­ers – This House believes that arbi­tra­tion is main­ly a par­ty-dri­ven task and that arbi­tra­tors may rely on the coop­er­a­tion of the par­ties to improve the over­all effec­tive­ness of arbi­tra­tion; Asia Inter­na­tion­al Arbi­tra­tion Cen­tre; Kuala Lumpur

Debate: This House believes that ‘human­i­ty’ is dis­pens­able in arbi­tra­tion, and arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence will sup­plant arbi­tra­tors in the future; Asian Insti­tute of Alter­na­tive Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion; Kuala Lumpur

Webi­nar: Tech­nol­o­gy Dis­putes – How Does ADR Play a Role?; Asian Insti­tute of Alter­na­tive Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion; Kuala Lumpur

Pre­sen­ta­tion: Elek­tro­n­is­che Kon­nosse­mente – Zur Recht­slage in Deutsch­land und Sin­ga­pur (Elec­tron­ic Bills of Lad­ing – On the Legal Sit­u­a­tion in Ger­many and Sin­ga­pore); Ger­man Mar­itime Arbi­tra­tion Asso­ci­a­tion; Hamburg

(Mod­er­a­tor) Webi­nar on an Inter­na­tion­al Per­spec­tive: Dis­putes on Law Gov­ern­ing the Arbi­tra­tion Agree­ment; Asian Insti­tute of Alter­na­tive Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion; Kuala Lumpur/Hyderabad

Pan­el dis­cus­sion: Ad Hoc Arbi­tra­tion as an Elas­tic Rub­ber: Flex­i­bil­i­ty and Cost Effi­cien­cy; Asian Insti­tute of Alter­na­tive Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion; Kuala Lumpur

Pan­el dis­cus­sion: Intro­duc­ing Libra: Facebook’s Brain­child; The Spar­tan Group; Singapore

Debate: This House Believes That Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence Will Have Replaced Arbi­tra­tors with­in Twen­ty-Five Years; Sin­ga­pore Insti­tute of Arbi­tra­tors; Singapore

Pre­sen­ta­tion: Com­pu­ta­tion­al Law & Blockchain Fes­ti­val, glob­al broad­cast (#clbfest2018); Legal Hack­ers; Singapore

Pan­el dis­cus­sion: Lawyers for tech­ni­cal start-ups; Singapore

The poten­tial of the ASEAN Eco­nom­ic Com­mu­ni­ty; Hamburg

Pre­sen­ta­tion: Free Trade Agree­ments in Asia; Inter-Pacif­ic Bar Asso­ci­a­tion; New Delhi

Pre­sen­ta­tion: Allianz SpA v West Tankers – The Final Cur­tain for Anti-Suit Injunc­tions in Europe; The Law Soci­ety of Singapore