Faculty Profile

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 2023
• Master of Arts (Jurisprudence), University of Oxford, 2020
• Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), 2018

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Assistant Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jan 2024 - Present

Previous Appointments:

• Lecturer of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, July 2018 - Dec 2023
• Consultant, United Nations
• Deputy Head of Tax, ZICO Insights Law LLC
• Tutor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
• Law Supervisor, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge
• Research Fellow, Centre for Cross-Border Commercial Law in Asia, Singapore Management University
• Editor-in-Chief, Editor, Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal

Honours & Awards

• MOE-START Overseas PhD Scholarship
• 31st Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association Conference Best Tax Research Paper Prize
• Knox Prize for Law
• Finals Prize
• Sally Ball European Law Prize
• 42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay Prize (2nd Prize)
• Mowat Scholarship
• Douglas Sladen Essay Prize (2nd Prize)
• Norton Rose Fulbright Prize for the Best Article in Contract, Tort, Trusts, and Land Law
• Mowat Exhibition
• Trinity College Academic Prize
• Trinity College Academic Prize II

Courses Taught in SMU

• Equity and Trusts
• Tax Law
• Contract Law

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Tax Law
• Equity and Trusts

Selected Publications

• Singapore Trusts Law, (1st Ed) (2021)(LexisNexis) (With Christopher Hare)
• Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore (Vol 16(2): Revenue and Taxation- Income Tax), (2020) (LexisNexis) (With Liu Hern Kuan)
• Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore (Vol 16: Revenue and Taxation- Other Taxes), (2018) (LexisNexis) (With Ong Ken Loon and Liu Hern Kuan)
• "CIT v AQQ: The Singapore GAAR and its Australasian Influences" (2023) British Tax Review 724-731
• “Tax Challenges in Debt Financing Involving Digital Tokens” (2022) 17(4) Capital Markets Law Journal 564-582
• “Taxation of Automation and Artificial Intelligence as a Tool of Labour Policy” (2022) 19(2) eJournal of Tax Research 273-303 (With Glendon Goh)
• “Contracts Formed by Software: An Approach from the Law of Mistake” (2022) Journal of Business Law 97-117
• “A Framework for Understanding the Taxation of Digital Tokens” (2021) 50(4) Australian Tax Review 260-269
• “Taxing All Other Income in Singapore and Malaysia” (2019) 19(2) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 204-226
• “A Reformulated Test for Unconscionability” (2019) 135(3) Law Quarterly Review 400-405 (With Walter Yong)
• "Toolkit for the Evaluation of Crypto Tax Risks (Outline)” (2 October 2023) (International Tax and Development Cooperation Branch, Financing for Sustainable Development Office, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs)
• "Report on the Challenges which Digital Assets Pose for Tax Systems with a Special Focus on Developing Countries" (13 March 2023) (International Tax and Development Cooperation Branch, Financing for Sustainable Development Office, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs)