CHAN Wing Cheong is Professor of Law at Singapore Management University’s Yong Pung How School of Law. He read law at Oxford and completed an LLM at Cornell and is qualified in three jurisdictions: as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, a barrister of Gray’s Inn (England & Wales), and an attorney of New York State (USA). He began his academic career at the National University of Singapore in 1993 and is recognised for making criminal law and family law rigorous, relevant, and engaging, an approach that has earned him faculty- and university-level teaching awards. He co-authored Criminal Law in Singapore, a leading text frequently cited by Singapore courts, and his scholarship has been translated into Japanese, Burmese, and Lao. Beyond teaching and research, he contributes to the legal community through law review and inter-agency committees and was named a Friend of the Law Society (2016) and appointed amicus curiae by the Singapore Court of Appeal (2019). His public service spans adult and child protection, family services, mediation and probation, and he received national volunteer awards in 1999 and 2014.
Qualifications
- Graduate Diploma in Social Work, National University of Singapore
- LLM, Cornell University
- BA (Jurisprudence) (Second Class Upper Honours), Oxford University
- Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore)
- Barrister-at-Law (Gray’s Inn) (England & Wales)
- Attorney and Counselor (New York)
Courses Taught in SMU
- Criminal Law
- Family Law
Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation
- Criminal Law
- Family Law
- Child Law
- Elder Law