Lau Kwan Ho is an Associate Professor at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU). He is a graduate of the National University of Singapore and the New York University School of Law. Prior to joining SMU, he was a Senior Associate at Allen & Gledhill LLP and a Justices’ Law Clerk with the Supreme Court of Singapore. He was also in-house counsel at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC).
Kwan Ho’s main research areas are in contract law and private law. He writes as well on judicial decision making in the common law and on the development of the legal profession. He has given expert evidence on Singapore law in foreign court proceedings. Between 2021 and 2024 he served as the Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia.
His work has been cited by courts in Singapore and Hong Kong; by sitting Commonwealth judges in extra-judicial speeches (including the Chief Justice of Singapore and the Judge in Charge of the English Commercial Court); by regulatory bodies (including the Legal Services Regulatory Authority of Ireland); and in academic treatises and articles (including Treitel on the Law of Contract and Clerk & Lindsell on Torts).
Qualifications
- LL.M., New York University
- LL.B. (First Class Honours), National University of Singapore
- Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
Courses Taught in SMU
- Law of Contract
- Business Law
- Corporate Law
Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation
- Contract Law
- Legal Profession
- Private Law