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Edward Ti Seng Wei is an award-winning legal academic and practitioner whose research and teaching span real property law, urban policy, and the intersection of land, rights, and social equity, with significant contributions to comparative property law and urban development.
Bridges legal scholarship and practice with interdisciplinary insights, influencing policy and legal reform in property law and urban development; recognized for comparative research on land rights, regulatory frameworks, and social equity; combines legal, financial, and valuation expertise to address complex real estate and urban issues; active in public discourse and policy advisory through media, arbitration, and consultancy roles.
Focused research areas include Comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of land law, compulsory acquisitions, regulatory incursions, and their impact on basic rights, ethnicity, and wealth; legal frameworks for urban development and heritage conservation; property law responses to social and economic challenges; building safety regulation; collective sales and strata developments.
Bridges legal scholarship and practice with interdisciplinary insights, influencing policy and legal reform in property law and urban development; recognized for comparative research on land rights, regulatory frameworks, and social equity; combines legal, financial, and valuation expertise to address complex real estate and urban issues; active in public discourse and policy advisory through media, arbitration, and consultancy roles.
Focused research areas include Comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of land law, compulsory acquisitions, regulatory incursions, and their impact on basic rights, ethnicity, and wealth; legal frameworks for urban development and heritage conservation; property law responses to social and economic challenges; building safety regulation; collective sales and strata developments.
Areas of Expertise
Property lawUrban planning lawStrata lawSustainability
Latest Publications
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- HW TANG, E TISingapore Press Holdings, 2026
- E TI, HW TANGThe Chinese Journal of Comparative Law, 1, 2025
- KS Kwong, JR Goh, SW TIInternational Real Estate Review 28 (3), 379, 2025
- ESW TIBloomsbury Publishing, 2025
- E TiJournal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 16 (1), 1-2, 2024
- E Ti, A SeeJournal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 16 (1), 68-86, 2024
- PhD (Land Economy), University of Cambridge
- MSc (Real Estate) (REDAS Gold Medalist), National University of Singapore
- LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
- Chartered Surveyor (MRICS)
- Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst (CAIA)
- Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArB)
- Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
- Attorney and Counselor-at-Law (New York)
- Solicitor (England & Wales)
Academic Positions Held
Current Appointment:
- Associate Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, July 2023-Present
- Associate Dean (Undergraduate Education), July 2024-Present
Previous Appointment:
- Assistant Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, January 2018-June 2023
- Lecturer, School of Law, Singapore Management University, July 2016-December 2017
Other Appointments
- Member, Strata Titles Board, MND
- Examination Work Group Member, Council for Estate Agencies, MND
- Consultant, WongPartnership LLP
Honours and Awards
- Lee Kong Chian Fellow (2024-2025)
- Lee Kong Chian Fellow (2021-2022)
- SMU School of Law Promising Scholar Award (2019-2020)
- MOE-SMU START Overseas PhD Scholarship, 2016
- International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) Scholarship, 2016
- Real Estate Developers Association of Singapore (REDAS) Gold Medal, National University of Singapore, 2015
- C J Koh Scholarship, National University of Singapore, 2007, 2008 & 2009
Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation
- Land & Real Estate Law
- Housing & Strata Law
- Urban Planning & Sustainability
- Property Trusts & Wealth
Selected Publications
- ‘Forsake not Foreclosure’ (2023) Conveyancer and Property Lawyer (forthcoming).
- Property Valuation as a Function of Law and Policy’ (2023) 26(1) International Real Estate Review 127-142.
- Comparative Lessons in Sectional Title Laws: Mitigating Urban Inequality in South Africa’ (2022) 42(4) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1012-1039.
- Justice as Fairness: A Rawlsian perspective in Compensating Regulatory Land Takings’ (2022) 14(2/3) Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 45-60.
- ‘Big Houses on a Small Island: Legislating Singapore’s “Good Class” Bungalows’ (2022) International Journal of Housing Policy https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19491247.2022.2105193
- ‘Strata Plan Cancellations in Australasia: A Comparative Analysis of Nine Jurisdictions’ (2022) 48(1) Monash University Law Review 209-243.
- ‘Of Landlords and Tenants: Property in the Midst of a Pandemic’ (2022) 43(3) Statute Law Review 284-303.
- 'Towards Fairly Apportioning Sale Proceeds in a Collective Sale of Strata Property' (2020) 43(4) University of New South Wales Law Journal 1494-1520.
- 'What is the Value of Built Heritage Conservation? Assessing Spillover Effects of Conserving Historic Sites in Singapore' (2020) 91 Land Use Policy https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104393 (with Tan Shin Bin).