Adeline Chong has published in leading peer-reviewed journals and is the co-author of Chong and Yip, Singapore Private International Law: Commercial Issues and Practice (OUP, 2023) and Hill and Chong, International Commercial Disputes: Commercial Conflict of Laws in English Courts (Hart, 4th edn, 2010). She was the Project Lead of the Asian Business Law Institute’s project on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Asia which resulted in two edited collections. Her work has been cited by appellate courts in Singapore, India, Hong Kong, New South Wales and New Zealand, the UK Law Commission and the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. She is an Editor of Hart’s Studies in Private International Law – Asia book series, as well as Journal of Private International Law, Asian Journal of Comparative Law, Chinese Journal of Transnational Law and the blog Conflictoflaws.net: Views and News on Private International Law. She delivered a Special Course at the Hague Academy of International Law in summer 2025 and taught in one of the Academy’s external courses for ASEAN judiciaries in 2026.
Qualifications
- Ph.D, University of Nottingham
- LL.B. (First Class Honours), University of Birmingham
Courses Taught in SMU
- Commercial Conflict of Laws
- Law of Equity and Trusts
Research Area
- Private International Law
- Equity and Trusts
- Restitution