About the Chairperson
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Professor Howard HunterPresident, Singapore Management University |
Former Dean of Emory Law School and Interim Provost of Emory University, Howard Hunter received his undergraduate and legal education at Yale University, and was admitted to the bar in 1971. He practised law in Washington DC and Atlanta before joining the Emory faculty in 1976. He has been a visiting professor of Law at the University of Virginia, and was an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong. He became a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Sydney Law School in 1988, and Visiting Mills E. Godwin Professor of Law at the College of William & Mary in 1989. He has lectured at numerous conferences internationally in, variously, Australia, Canada, France, Great Britain, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Sweden and the United States. Currently, he is a Recurring Visiting Professor of Law at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
He is the author of Modern Law of Contracts, now in its third edition, and is the editor or author of several other books and monographs. He is also the author of more than three dozen professional articles on contract law, the first amendment and academic freedom.
He has been an active member of the State Bar of Georgia, the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute and the Association of American Law Schools. He served on the Georgia Supreme Court Commission on Indigent Defense from 2000-2004 and the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism from 1990-2004. He received the Amicus Curiae award from the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1998 for his service to the profession. He served on the Board of Directors for the Federal Defender Program, Northern District of Georgia from 1991-1997, and has been a member of the Board of Editors of the Journal of Contract Law since 1988. He was appointed a board member of the American Arbitration Association in May 2006.
He is also an active member in the local business community and sits on the following boards: American Chamber of Commerce, Competition Appeal Board, Singapore International Chamber of Commerce and the Singapore National Research Foundation.
