Faculty Profile

• D.Phil., University of Oxford, 2002
• B.C.L., University of Oxford, 1992
• LL.B., National University of Singapore, 1990
• Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), 2002
• Honorary Senior Counsel (Singapore), 2012

Academic Position Held

Current Appointment:

• Yong Pung How Chair Professor of Law, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2007-Present

Previous Appointments:

• Dean, School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jul 2012-Jun 2017
• Associate Dean (Research), School of Law, Singapore Management University, 2009-2011
• Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 2000-2007
• Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford, 1998-2000
• Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 1997-1999
• Lecturer, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 1992-1997
• Senior Tutor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 1990-1992

Other Positions

• Member, Law Reform Committee, Singapore Academy of Law
• Co-chair, Council of Law Reporting, Singapore Academy of Law
• Member, Selection Panel for Singapore Law Reports, Singapore Academy of Law
• Member, Commissioning Panel, Academy Publishing, Singapore Academy of Law
• Chair, Advisory Board, Asian Business Law Institute

Course Taught in SMU

• Contract Law
• Commercial Conflict of Laws

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Conflict of Laws
• Equity
• Restitution
• Contract
• Remedies

Selected Publications

• Commercial Conflict of Laws (Academy Publishing, 2023)
• "Conflict of Laws", Volume 6(2) (2023 Reissue), Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore (LexisNexis, 2023)
• "Common Law, Equity, and Statute: The Effect of Juridical Sources on Choice of Law Methodology", Hague Recueil des Cours, 2023, Volume 431: 9-88
• "Exit, Stage 2, for the Plaintiff in Service Out of Jurisdiction?", Singapore Academy of Law Journal, 33, no 2, (2021): 1237-1251
• "Singapore", in Girsberger, Graziano, Neels (eds), Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts (Oxford: OUP, 2021): 633-649
• "Foreign Judgments and Contracts: The Anti-Enforcement Injunction", in Dickinson and Peel (eds), A Conflict of Laws Companion: Essays in Honour of Adrian Briggs (Oxford: OUP, 2021): 251-271