Yeo Tiong Min, Yong Pung How Chair Professor of Law, joined the Singapore Management University when its law school was founded in 2007. He has published widely on private law with a focus on private international law, and has taught at the Hague Academy of International Law. He was Dean of the law school from 2012-2017. Appointed Singapore’s first honorary Senior Counsel in 2012, he has argued as amicus curiae or independent counsel before the Singapore Court of Appeal in a number of leading complex cross-border commercial cases.
Orlando Woods joined SMU in 2017. He holds BA (First Class Honours) and PhD degrees in Geography from University College London and the National University of Singapore respectively. His interdisciplinary research agenda spans social, cultural and political geography; urban studies; new media and communications; and critical infrastructure studies. Empirically, his work focuses on South and Southeast Asia.
Fiona Williamson joined SMU in 2018. She is an environmental historian with a particular interest in the history of the climate, meteorology and extreme weather in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
Tang Hang Wu is a Professor at the Yong Pung How School of Law at Singapore Management University. He has published widely in land law, restitution, equity, trusts, wealth management, and charity and non-profit law and his work has been relied over a hundred times by courts in Singapore and across the Commonwealth.
Dr Jacob Ricks joined SMU in 2013. He finished his PhD at Emory University, his MA at Northern Illinois University, and his BA at Utah State University. His research focuses on ethnic and national identities as well as the political economy of development in Southeast Asia, with a special emphasis on Thailand. He is co-author of Ethnicity and Politics in Southeast Asia (Cambridge University Press 2022) as well as articles in outlets such as World Politics, Political Behavior, World Development, and Pacific Affairs, among others.
Qualifications
- PhD (Sociology), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011
- MALD, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, 2004
- BA (Economics), Middlebury College, 1998
Research and Teaching Interests
- Development
- Urban Studies
- Political Sociology
- Democracy
- Infrastructure
- Service Learning
Course(s) Taught in SMU
- Sociology Study Mission
- Contemporary South Asian Societies
- Public Policy Task Force
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2020 |
Ph.D., Business Administration (Marketing) |
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2014 |
M.S., Business and Management: Information Systems 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). Locknie Hsu is a Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University. She received her legal training at the National University of Singapore and Harvard University and is a member of the Singapore Bar. She was previously attached to Singapore’s Ministry of Trade & Industry, assisting in free trade agreement negotiations. In 2017, she was conferred the Outstanding Service Award by the ASEAN Law Association (ALA), in which she is Coordinator of the Trade and Investment Group. Locknie is also currently President of the Society of International Economic Law (SIEL). Education
Current Position(s) Held
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