Faculty Profile

• LL.M., University of Sydney, 1996
• LL.B., National University of Singapore (Second Upper Honours), 1988
• Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), 1989

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Associate Professor of Law (Education), Singapore Management University, 2019-Present

Previous Appointments:

• Associate Professor of Law (Practice), Singapore Management University, 2013-2018
• Assistant Professor of Law (Practice), Singapore Management University, 2003-2012
• Assistant Professor of Law (1999-2003), Lecturer of Law (1996-1999), Lecturer of Law (on Academic Staff Development Scheme) (1993-1996), Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Business School

Other Position

• Legal Assistant, Koh & Yang, 1989-1993

Editorial Activity

• Editorial Board, Asia Business Law Review

Honors & Awards

• SMU School of Law Top 20% for teaching performance in Academic Year 2009-2010.
• Nominated to attend the International Management Teachers Academy by SMU at Bled, Slovenia (3-16 June 2006).
• SMU Teaching Honour List: Was among top-rated 20 faculty members in teaching effectiveness in both Terms 1 and 2 of Academic Year 2005-2006.
• SMU Teaching Excellence Awards 2005 – Most Innovative Teacher
• Academic Staff Development Scheme Scholarship to pursue LLM at University of Sydney (1995-1996)
• ESSO Student Vacation Employment Programme Scholarship (1987)
• KUOK Foundation Study Loan (1984-1988)
• Asean Pre-University Scholarship (1982-1983)

Courses Taught in SMU

• Business Law
• Ethics & Social Responsibility

Consulting Activities

• Programme External Examiner for SIM University for Business Law courses under the Bachelor of Science in Business programme (Contract & Agency Law and Company Law & Corporate Governance), July 2014-June 2016.
• External Examiner for the ACCA legal framework paper, June 1977-July 1999, December 2001-June 2006, June 2007, June 2009 and June 2013.
• External MBA instructor in Negotiation for the Nanyang Business School MBA Programme, January 2004.
• Mediator for CASE, 2006-2009.

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Contract and Commercial Law
• Credit and Security Law
• Consumer Law
• Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

Selected Publications

• Students conceptions of bell curve grading fairness in relation to goal orientation and motivation, by TAN, Lynette; YUEN, Brenda; LOO, Wee Ling; PRINSLOO, Christiaan; GAN, Mark. (2020). International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 14 (1), https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol14/iss1/7/ (Published)
• The 2016 amendments to Singapore’s Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act: A missed opportunity, by LOO, Wee Ling; ONG, Ee-Ing. (2017). University of Tasmania Law Review, 36 (2), 15-48. (Published)
• The application of the Morton principles in Canada Steamship Lines Ltd v The King in Singapore reconsidered, by LOO, Wee Ling. (2016). Australian Journal of Asian Law, 17 (1), 1-20. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2802374 (Published)
• Full contractual capacity: Use of age for conferment of capacity, by LOO, Wee Ling. (2010). Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, [2010] (2), 328-351. (Published)
• Control of price related terms in standard form contracts in Singapore, by LOO, Wee Ling. (2019). In Atamer, Yesim M.; Pichonnaz, Pascal (Ed.), Control of Price Related Terms in Standard Form Contracts (pp. 561-591) Springer. (Published)
• Law of credit and security by LOO, Wee Ling. (2012). Singapore: LexisNexis. https://worldcat.org/isbn/9789812369178 (Published)
• Principles of Singapore Business Law, edited by LOO, Wee Ling. (2019). Cengage Learning Asia. (Published)
• Chapter 8 Consideration & intention to create legal relations, by LOO, Wee Ling. (2019). In LOO Wee Ling (Ed.), Principles of Singapore Business Law Cengage. (Published)
• Chapter 9 Capacity & Privity of Contract, by LOO, Wee Ling. (2019). In Loo Wee Ling (Ed.), Principles of Singapore Business Law 3rd edition Cengage. (Published)
• Chapter 10 - Terms of the contract, by LOO Wee Ling. (2019). In Loo Wee Ling (Ed.), Principles of Singapore Business Law Cengage. (Published)