Faculty Profile

• Bachelor of Civil Law, University of Oxford, 2015
• Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence) (First Class), University of Oxford, 2014
• ACCA Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business, 2012

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Assistant Professor of Law, Singapore Management University, Jan 2019-Present
• Director, Undergraduate Admissions (Sep 2020-Present)

Previous Appointment:

• Lecturer of Law, Singapore Management University, July 2017-Dec 2018

Honours and Awards

• SMU School of Law Teaching Awards – Top LGST Teacher Award (Academic Year 2018-19)
• Singapore Law Gazette Awards - Best Feature Article by a Young Lawyer, 2017
• MOE-START Early Career Award, 2017
• Singapore Law Gazette Awards – Best Feature Article by a Young Lawyer, 2015
• Slaughter & May Prize for Legal History, 2014
• Wronker Prize for Tort, 2014
• St Edmund Hall Open Scholarship, 2012-2014 

Courses Taught in SMU

• Constitutional and Administrative Law
• Business Law

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Constitutional law
• Administrative Law

Current Projects

• Judicial review of executive action on substantive grounds
• False statements and the law
• The constitutional right to profession of religion

Selected Publications

• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "Removing an Unmeritorious Distinction from Singapore Administrative Law" (2021) Asian Journal of Comparative Law (forthcoming)
• Eugene KB Tan, Kenny Chng Wei Yao and Benjamin Joshua Ong (contributors), Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore: Volume 6(3) – Constitutional Law (2020, LexisNexis)
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "Proportionality in Malaysia: new dawn or ‘merely obiter’?", in Po Jen Yap (ed), Proportionality in Asia (2020, Cambridge University Press), pp 105-139
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "Case Note – Compensation for Abused Foreign Domestic Workers: A Problem of Enforcement: Tay Wee Kiat v Public Prosecutor [2018] 5 SLR 438; Tay Wee Kiat v Public Prosecutor [2019] SGHC 224" (2020) 32 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 1200-1218
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "The ouster of Parliamentary sovereignty?" (case note on R (Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal) (2020) Public Law 41 – 49
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "Standing Up for Your Rights: A Review of the Law of Standing in Judicial Review in Singapore" [2019] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 316 – 350
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "Government Funding of Town Councils: The Role of Private Law" (2019) 31 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 944 – 986
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "The Doctrine of Severability in Constitutional Review: A Perspective from Singapore" (2019) 40 Statute Law Review 155 – 174
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "The constitutionality of ouster clauses: Nagaenthran a/l K Dharmalingam v Attorney-General [2018] SGHC 112" (2019) 19 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 157 – 178
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "Enforcing Town Councils’ Duties of Financial Prudence: Problems Addressed by the Town Councils (Amendment) Act 2017" (2018) 30 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 923 – 948
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "Premature Service of Payment Claims Under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act: Audi Construction Pte Ltd v Kian Hiap Construction Pte Ltd" [2018] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 128 – 139
• Benjamin Joshua Ong, "Case Note – New Approaches to the Constitutional Guarantee of Equality Before the Law: Lim Meng Suang v Attorney-General [2015] 1 SLR 26 (CA); [2013] 3 SLR 118 (HC); Tan Eng Hong v Attorney-General [2013] 4 SLR 1049 (HC); [2012] 4 SLR 476 (CA)" (2016) 28 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 320 – 353