Faculty of Law - National University of Singapore

National University of Singapore 

Faculty of Law 

Asia’s Global Law School 

FACULTY OF LAW 

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 

13 Law Link 

Singapore 117590 

Tel : (65) 6516 3604 

Fax: (65) 6779 0979 

http://law.nus.edu.sg 

GRADUATE DIVISION 

Tel : (65) 6516 3630 

Fax: (65) 6779 0979 

Email: lawgrad@nus.edu.sg 

http://grad.law.nus.edu.sg 

ASIA-PACIFIC CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (APCEL) 

Tel : (65) 6516 6246 

Fax: (65) 6873 1937 

Email: lawapcel@nus.edu.sg 

http://law.nus.edu.sg/apcel 

CENTRE FOR COMMERCIAL LAW STUDIES (CCLS) 

Tel : (65) 6516 3102 

Fax: (65) 6779 0979 

Email: lawccls@nus.edu.sg 

http://law.nus.edu.sg/ccls 

CONTACTS 

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS 

Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

Singapore Year Book of International Law 

Tel : (65) 6516 3102 

Fax: (65) 6779 0979 

http://law.nus.edu.sg/publications.htm 

ASIAN LAW INSTITUTE (ASLI) 

Tel : (65) 6516 1305 / 6516 3604 

Fax: (65) 6779 0979 

Email: asli@nus.edu.sg 

http://law.nus.edu.sg/asli 

* In July/August 2006, the NUS Faculty of Law will be moving to the Bukit Timah Campus 

at 469 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259756

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INTRODUCTION 

STAFF PROFILE 

CENTRES 

JOURNALS 

CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION PROGRAMME 

THE ASIAN LAW INSTITUTE (ASLI) 

JOURNAL AFFILIATIONS 

STAFF PUBLICATIONS 

38 • BOOKS 

38 • BOOKS EDITED 

39 • CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 

46 • JOURNAL PAPERS PUBLISHED 

52 • MONOGRAPHS 

52 • REPORTS 

53 • BOOK REVIEWS 

54 • CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS 

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67 • OTHERS 

STUDENT PUBLICATIONS 

RESEARCH PROJECTS 

GRADUATE RESEARCH DEGREES 

STUDENT RESEARCH PAPERS 

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION 

The National University of Singapore (NUS) was formally established in 1980 with the merger of 

the University of Singapore and the Nanyang University. Its history can, however, be traced back 

to 1905, when Singapore’s first centre of higher education, the King Edward VII College of Medicine, 

was established. The NUS is a comprehensive university offering a wide range of undergraduate 

and graduate studies, and has more than 30,000 students. NUS has maintained its position in the 

top quartile of the world’s best 100 universities in a global ranking by The Times of London in 

2005. 

The NUS Faculty of Law is one of the finest law schools in the world, and is widely regarded as 

Asia’s leading law school. Staffed by an outstanding permanent faculty with law degrees from 

more than a dozen jurisdictions, the law school is an institution dedicated to building a community 

and an environment in which faculty and students can discuss and reflect on the fundamental 

legal issues that affect societies in today’s globalised world. The Faculty is also the only law 

school in Singapore and is responsible for producing the majority of entrants to the legal profession. 

The LLB law degree is a four-year one, where students study a mixture of core and optional law 

subjects as well as some non-law options. A limited number of students who already have a first 

degree in another discipline are also admitted each year, and they complete their LLB degree 

in three years. Law graduates who wish to practice law have to go on to do a practical Bar course 

and serve a period of pupillage. 

The Law Faculty has attained an impressive reputation in mooting and debating, and it is the only 

law school in the world to have won the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 

four times. 

The Faculty has produced prominent judges, lawyers and legal academics. Its graduates have also 

become successful in diverse fields ranging from the civil service, diplomacy and politics, to 

drama, dance and publishing. 

In addition to the LLB programme, a range of postgraduate qualifications by coursework and 

research are also available. Apart from the general LLM coursework programme, there are also 

specialist LLM coursework programmes in the areas of Corporate & Financial Services Law; 

Intellectual Property & Technology Law; International & Comparative Law; Chinese Law; and 

International Business Law which is the first overseas degree programme offered by the Faculty 

of Law where students enrolled in the one-year programme spend the first nine weeks at NUS 

and the rest of the time in Shanghai, China. In February 2006, the NUS Faculty of Law and New 

York University School of Law signed a Memorandum of Understanding to offer a dual LLM degree 

programme which will commence in May 2007 in NUS. The postgraduate population is a cosmopolitan 

one, with students from Asia, Europe, North and South America, Africa and Oceania. 

The Faculty produces two journals, the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies and the Singapore Year 

Book of International Law, the latter formerly known as the Singapore Journal of International 

and Comparative Law. The Faculty has two centres, the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental 

Law (APCEL) and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS), and also hosts the Asian Law 

Institute (ASLI) which was established in March 2003 by a group of leading law schools in Asia. 

This research profile records Faculty works published, accepted or submitted for publication from 

1 January to 31 December 2005.

DEAN 

PROFESSOR TAN CHENG HAN, SC 

LLM (Cambridge), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Member, Securities Industry Council 

• Governor, Singapore Intellectual Property Academy 

• Member, Appeal Advisory Panel to the Minister for Finance constituted under the Securities 

and Futures Act, the Financial Advisers Act, and the Insurance Act 

• Member, Military Court of Appeal 

• Commissioner, Competition Commission of Singapore 

VICE-DEANS 

ASSOC PROF BECKMAN, ROBERT CHARLES 

LLM (Harvard), JD BBA (Wisconsin) 

• Advisor, Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) 

• Advisor, Legal Committee, Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) 

• Singapore Representative, Study Group on Capacity Building for Maritime Security Cooperation 

in the Asia Pacific, Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) 

ASSOC PROF TEO KEANG SOOD 

LLM (Harvard), LLM (Malaya), Advocate & Solicitor (Malaya) 

• General Editor, Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2005, Singapore Academy of Law 

• Member, Publications Committee, Singapore Academy of Law 

• Member, Strata Titles Board 

DEPUTY DIRECTOR, GRADUATE DIVISION 

ASSOC PROF LEE TYE BENG, JOEL 

DCH (AIH), LLM (Harvard), LLB (Hons) (Wellington), Barrister & Solicitor (New Zealand), 

Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

STAFF PROFILE 

• Principal Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre 

• Visiting Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University, Denmark 

EMERITUS PROFESSOR 

ELLINGER, PETER 

DPhil (Oxford), MJur (Israel), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Consultant, Rajah & Tann 

• Fellow, Singapore Institute of Arbitrators 

• Accredited Arbitrator, Singapore International Arbitration Centre 

• Member, Board of International Scholars of the Banking and Financial Law Unit and the Institute 

of Banking, Finance and Development of QMC's Centre for Commercial Law Studies 

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PROFESSORS 

HOR YEW MENG, MICHAEL 

LLM (Chicago), BCL (Oxford), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

JAYAKUMAR, S (ON LEAVE) 

LLM (Yale), LLB (Singapore), BBM, Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Deputy Prime Minister 

• Minister for Law 

• Member of Parliament, East Coast GRC 

KOH THONG BEE, TOMMY (ON LEAVE) 

LLD (Yale, Honoris Causa), Dip Crim (Cambridge), LLM (Harvard), LLB (Malaya), PJG, 

BBM, DUBC, Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Ambassador-at-Large 

• Director, Institute of Policy Studies 

• Chief Negotiator, US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement 

LEONG WAI KUM 

LLM (Harvard), LLB (Malaya), Advocate & Solicitor (Malaya) 

PINSLER, JEFFREY D 

LLD (Liverpool), LLM (Cambridge), LLB (Liverpool), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), 

Barrister (England and Wales) 

• Member of Working Party for Reform of the Rules of Civil Procedure. 

• Principal Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre. 

• Regional Panel member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre. 

• Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators. 

• Member of the Attorney-General’s Chambers’ Panel of Law Reform Consultants. 

SORNARAJAH, M 

LLD PhD LLM (London), LLM (Yale), LLB (Ceylon), Advocate (Supreme Court of Sri Lanka), 

Solicitor (England & Wales) 

• Professorial Fellow, Centre for Petroleum and Natural Resources Law, University of Dundee, Scotland 

• Fellow, Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration 

• Director, UNCTAD/WTO Programmes on Investment Treaties, Pretoria and New Delhi 

TAN YOCK LIN 

BCL Dip Econ Devt BA (Oxford), BSc (Eng) (London) 

• Senate Member, Singapore Academy of Law 

• Member, Law Reform Committee 

WOON CHEONG MING, WALTER (ON LEAVE) 

LLM (Cambridge), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

STAFF PROFILE 

• Ambassador to Belgium, the European Communities, Luxembourg and the Netherlands 

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PROFESSORIAL FELLOW 

KOH KHENG LIAN 

PhD LLM (Singapore), Dipl De Haute Etudes Internationales (Geneva), LLB (Malaya), 

Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law, 

National University of Singapore 

• Member, International Council of Environmental Law, Bonn 

• Member, Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC), NUS 

• Member, Advisory Committee, Nature Society Singapore 

• Member, NEA (National Environmental Agency) Focus Group Review of the Singapore 

Green Plan 2012: Air and Climate Change 

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS 

AMIRTHALINGAM, KUMARALINGAM 

LLB (Hons), PhD (Australian National University) 

• Director, International Programmes 

• Executive Committee Member for Southeast Asia, Commonwealth Legal Education Association 

• Associate, Asia Research Institute, NUS 

BELL, GARY F 

LLM (Columbia), BCL, LLB (McGill), BTh (Laval), Advocate (Québec) 

• Director, Asian Law Institute (ASLI) 

• Member, Board of Trustees, Institute of South East Asian Studies (ISEAS) 

CHAN WING CHEONG 

MA (Oxon), LLM (Cornell), Barrister (Gray's Inn, England), Attorney & Counsellor-at-Law 

(New York State), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

STAFF PROFILE 

• Member, Health Promotion Board Ethics Review Committee 

• Member, Board of Visitors (Children and Young Persons Homes) 

• Member, Elder Protection Team 

• Associate, Asia Research Institute 

• Member, Continuing Legal Education Committee, Faculty of Law 

CHIN TET YUNG 

BCL (Oxford), Dip Econ (LSE), LLB (London), Barrister (Inner Temple, England) 

• Member of Parliament, Sembawang GRC 

• Chairman, Government Parliamentary Committee on Law and Home Affairs 

• Arbitrator and Member, Permanent Court of Arbitration - The International Court of Justice 

• Chairman, Inter-Parliamentary Group (The Americas) 

• Member, Institutional Review Board, Department of Life Sciences, NUS 

CROWN, BARRY CLIVE 

MLitt (Oxford), LLM (London), LLB (Jerusalem), Solicitor (England & Wales) 

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FORDHAM, MARGARET A 

BA (Durham), Solicitor (England & Wales, Hong Kong) 

• Deputy Director, Asian Law Institute (ASLI) 

• Case and Legislation Notes Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

GIRVIN, STEPHEN DARRYL 

PhD (Aberdeen), LLM LLB BA (Natal), Advocate of the High Court of South Africa 

• Advisor, Legal Committee, Singapore Shipping Association (SSA) 

HO HOCK LAI 

PhD (Cambridge), BCL (Oxford), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Member, Committee on Legal Education and Studies, Singapore Academy of Law 

HO PENG KEE (ON LEAVE) 

LLM (Harvard), LLB (Singapore), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Senior Minister of State for Law 

• Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs 

• Member of Parliament, Nee Soon East 

HSU LOCKNIE (ON LEAVE) 

LLM (Harvard), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Member, International Trade Law Committee, International Law Association 

• WTO Study Group Coordinator, ASEAN Law Association 

KAAN SHEUNG-HUNG, TERRY 


• Member, National Medical Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health 

• Member, Bioethics Advisory Committee (Chairman, BAC Human Genetics Subcommittee (HGS)) 

• Member, Advisory Committee on Kidney Dialysis and Transplantation, Ministry of Health 

• Board member, Board of Directors, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd (SingHealth) 

• Board member, Singapore Nursing Board 

LI MEI QIN 

LLM (Columbia), LLB (Peking), Legal Counsellor (Beijing) 

• Member, China Expert Group of Network China 

• Professorial Visiting Fellow, Dongwu Comparative Law Institute, Suzhou University 

LIM CHIN LENG 

PhD (Nottingham), BCL (Oxford), LLB (Buckingham) 

• Editor-in-Chief, Singapore Year Book of International Law 

• Executive-Director, Society of International Law of Singapore 

• Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office, Timor-Lesté 

• Member, Asia WTO Research Network 

• Alternate Member, De Facto Core Group for the Creation of an Asian Society of International Law 

STAFF PROFILE 

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LOKE FAY HOONG, ALEXANDER 

LLM (Columbia), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Member, International Advisory Panel, International Journal of Disclosure and Governance (London) 

LYE LIN HENG, IRENE 

LLM (Harvard), LLM (London), LLB (Sing), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Deputy Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) 

• Chair, Program Management Committee, MSc (Env Mgt) programme, NUS 

• Board Member, Land Titles (Strata) Board, Singapore 

• Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, USA 

• Member, Singapore Green Plan Action Programme Committee for International Environmental 

Relations (APCIER), Ministry of Environment & Water Resources 

NEO SWEE SUAN, DORA 

LLM (Harvard), MA (Oxford), Barrister (Gray’s Inn, England), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Director, Continuing Legal Education Programme 

• Chairperson, Global Strategy Committee (Faculty Strategic Review) 

• Senate Member, Singapore Academy of Law 

• Member, Injunction Proposals Review Panel, Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act 

• Member, Go the Extra Mile for Service (GEMS) Working Group on Service Mindset 

NG SIEW KUAN, ELIZABETH 

LLM (Cambridge), LLB (London), Barrister (Middle Temple, England), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Consultant, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva, Switzerland 

• Tutor & Examiner, World Intellectual Property Organisation Worldwide Academy (WWA), 

Geneva, Switzerland 

• Fellow, Cambridge Commonwealth Society, University of Cambridge, England 

NG-LOY WEE LOON 

LLM (London), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Senior Fellow, IP Academy 

• Director, LLM (IP & Technology Law) Programme, NUS 

STAFF PROFILE 

ONG SIEW LING, DEBBIE 

LLB (NUS), LLM (Cantab), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Vice-Chairman, Family Law Practice Committee, Law Society of Singapore 

• Chairman, Management Board, Tampines Family Service Centre 

PHUA LYE HUAT, STEPHEN 

LLM (Tax) (London), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Director, Centre for Commercial Law Studies (until July 2005) 

• Member, Income Tax Board of Review 

• Member, Goods and Services Tax Board of Review 

• Member, Valuation Review Board 

• Member, Professional Affairs Committee, Singapore Academy of Law 

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POH CHU CHAI 

LLD LLM (London), LLB (Singapore), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

RAMRAJ, VICTOR V 

PhD LLB MA (Toronto), BA (McGill), Barrister & Solicitor (Ontario) 

• Deputy Director, Graduate Division (until July 2005) 

• Member, Faculty Search Committee (until July 2005) 

• Member, Executive Committee, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) 

• Visiting Scholar, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster (September 2005) 

• Visiting Scholar, School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast (2005-2006) 

SENG KIAT BOON, DANIEL 

BCL (Oxford), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Law Reform Consultant, Attorney-General’s Chambers, Government of the Republic of Singapore 

• Member, Technology Law Development Group Subcommittee, Singapore Academy of Law 

• Member, National Internet Advisory Committee Legal Subcommittee, 

Media Development Authority of Singapore 

• Domain Name Panelist, Singapore Domain Name Dispute Resolution Service, 

Singapore Mediation Centre 

• Member, Strategic Planning Review Committee, Singapore Academy of Law 

TAN KHEE JIN, ALAN 

JSD LLM (Yale), LLB (NUS) 

• Deputy Director, Asian Law Institute (ASLI) 

• Executive Committee, Asia Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) 

• Senior Fellow, Intellectual Property Academy (IPA) of Singapore 

TAY SEONG CHEE, SIMON 


• Chairman, Singapore Institute of International Affairs 

• Chairman, National Environment Agency 

• Expert and Eminent Person, ASEAN Regional Forum 

THIO LI-ANN 

PhD (Cambridge), LLM (Harvard), BA (Hons)(Oxford), Barrister (Gray’s Inn, England) 

• General Editor, Asian Yearbook of International Law 

TJIO, HANS 

LLM (Harvard), MA (Cambridge), Barrister (Middle Temple, England), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Consultant, Wong Partnership 

• Member, Competition Appeals Board 

• Law Reform Consultant, Attorney-General’s Chambers 

• Working Group, Governance of Clubs, Timeshares and Alternative Investments 

• Director, Centre for Commercial Law Studies 

STAFF PROFILE 

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WONG SIEW YIN, ELEANOR 

LLM (Corporate) (New York University), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), 

Attorney (New York State) 

• Director, Legal Writing Programme 

• Associate Director, Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning 

• Member, Remaking Singapore Committee 

• Legal Advisor, Advertising Standards Association of Singapore 

• Curriculum Advisor, English Language and Literature, Hwa Chong Integrated Programme 

YEO HWEE YING 

LLM (London), LLB (Singapore) 

• Member, Advisory Council on Community Relations in Defence (ACCORD), MINDEF 

• Committee Member, Clarity International 

YEO TIONG MIN 

DPhil BCL (Oxford), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Chief Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

• Member, Law Reform Committee, Singapore Academy of Law 

• Member, Publications Committee, Singapore Academy of Law 

• Member, Panel of Legal Consultants, Attorney-General’s Chambers, Singapore 

• Associate External Academic Advisor, City University of Hong Kong Law School 

ASSOCIATE PROFESSORIAL FELLOWS 

PENNA, LAKSHMIKANTH R 

LLM (Stanford), DI & CHR (Strasbourg), LLM LLB BCom (Osmania), FsiArb, 

Advocate, High Court of Andhra Pradesh, India, Advocate & Solicitor, Supreme Court of Singapore 

• Consultant, Lee & Lee, Advocates & Solicitors, Singapore 

WINSLOW, VALENTINE SELVAM 

MA LLB (Cambridge), Barrister (Middle Temple, England), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

STAFF PROFILE 

ASSISTANT PROFESSORS 

CHAN WENG, TRACEY EVANS 


• Deputy Chief Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

• Secretary (Legal), Medico-Legal Society, Singapore 

EWING-CHOW, MICHAEL 


• Member, Academic Affairs Review Committee 


• Member, Company Legislation and Regulatory Framework Committee 

• Secretary, Pro-tem Committee on the International Trade Law and Policy Centre 

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LIM LEI THENG 

LLM (Harvard), LLB (Hons) (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Deputy Director, Legal Writing Programme 

• Editor, Asian Journal on Mediation 

• Principal Mediator, Singapore Mediation Centre 

• Committee Member, Clarity International 

ONG TZE EN, BURTON 

LLM (Harvard), BCL (ECL) (Oxford), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), 

Attorney & Counsellor (New York State) 


• Fellow, IP Academy 

• Member, Membership and Social Committee, Singapore Academy of Law 

• Member, LAWNET Legal Research Sub-Committee, Singapore Academy of Law 

TAN BIAN CHYE, TERENCE 

LLM (London), LLB (NUS), ACCA Associate, Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

TAN SEOW HON 

SJD LLM (Harvard), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

• Article Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

TANG HANG WU 

LLM (Cambridge), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), Solicitor (England & Wales) 

• Commissioning Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

• Pro-tem Editor, Asian Journal of Comparative Law 

WANG JIANGYU 

SJD LLM (University of Pennsylvania), MJur (Oxford), LLM (Peking University), 

LLB (China University of Politics and Law) 

• Editor, Singapore Year Book of International Law 

WHALEN-BRIDGE, HELENA MILDRED 

LLM (NUS), JD (Connecticut), Attorney at Law (California & Connecticut) 

• Deputy Director, Legal Writing Programme 

VISITING PROFESSORS 

BENNETT, HOWARD NEIL 

LLM (Corporate & Commercial Law) (London), Maitrise en Droit (Paris I), 

LLB (English & French Law) (London), AKC, Barrister 

BLAKENEY, MICHAEL 

MA (NSW), LLM BA (Sydney) 

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DWORKIN, GERALD 

Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Law, King’s College, University of London, Solicitor (England & Wales), 

LLB (Nottingham) 

FLETCHER, GEORGE 

BA (Berkeley), JD (Chicago) 

HALLAQ WAEL 

PhD MA (Washington), BA (Haifa) 

MCEWIN, ROBERT IAN 

PhD LLB (Australian National University), MCom (Newcastle), 

Legal Practitioner (Australian Capital Territory) 

• Appointed by International Bar Association to a Working Group examining China’s competition law 

MERKIN, ROBERT 

LLM (London), LLB (Wales) 

MORSE, GEOFFREY KEYNTON 

LLB (Newcastle), Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn) 

PEERENBOOM, RANDALL 

JD (Columbia), PhD (Philosophy), MA (Chinese Religions) (Hawaii), BA (Philosophy) (Hawaii) 

REYNOLDS, FRANCIS 

DCL (Oxford), Barrister and Honorary Bencher (IT), QC (Hon), FBA 

SIMESTER, ANDREW PERRY 

DPhil (Oxford), Bcom, LLB (Auckland) 

SINGH, MAHENDRA PAL 

LLD, LLM (Lucknow), LLM (Columbia), BA, LLB (Agra) 

STREHO, IMOLA 

PhD (University of Law Paris II), LLM (University of Paris II) 

STAFF PROFILE 

VAVER, DAVID 

MA, BA, LLB (Hons) (Auckland), Bcom, JD (Chicago) 

WEILER, JOSPEH 

PhD in European Law (EUI, Florence), LLB, LLM (Cambridge), BA (Hons) (Toronto) 

YEO MENG HEONG, STANLEY 

LLD PhD LLM (Sydney), LLM (Wellington), LLB (Singapore), Barrister (New South Wales) 

ZHANG QIANFAN 

PhD, MA (Texas at Austin), PhD, MS (Carnegie-Mellon), BS (Nanjing) 

ZHU LANYE 

LLB (Fudan) 

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VISITING ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS 

MORGAN, NEIL 

PhD (Western Australia), MA (Sheffield), BA (Oxford) 

OOI SU LIN, MAISIE 

DPhil BCL (Oxford), LLB (Malaya), Advocate & Solicitor (Malaya), 

Solicitor (England & Wales), Solicitor (Hong Kong) 

• ACRA Standing Law Review Focus Group 

• Article Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

VISITING SENIOR FELLOW 

LUO JIANBO 

PhD (London), LLM, LLB (Peking University) 

VISITING FELLOW 

THIRUVENGADAM, K ARUN 

JSD candidate (NYU), LLM (Public Service Law) (NYU), LLM (Public Law) (NLSIU), 

BA, LLB (Hons) (NLSIU) 

ADJUNCT ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS 

BOO GEOK SENG, LAWRENCE 

LLM (NUS) LLB, Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), Solicitor (England & Wales) 

GREGSON, NEALE RICHARD 

LLM (London), LLB (Wales) Solicitor (England & Wales) 

LAI TZE CHANG, STANLEY 

PhD (Cambridge), LLM, LLB (Leicester), Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn) 

LEA, THOMAS MARK 

Solicitor (England & Wales), Solicitor (Hong Kong) 

LEE KIAT SENG 

LLM (London), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

MOHAN S CHANDRA 

PhD (London), LLM LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), PPA (E), PBS 

PILLAY, MOHAN REVIENDRAN 

LLM (London), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), Solicitor (England & Wales) 

PINSLER, LEENA 

LLM (Cambridge), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), Solicitor (England and Wales) 

STAFF PROFILE 

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RICQUIER WILLIAM J M 

LLM (Dalhousie), MA (Oxford), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), Solicitor (England & Wales) 

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSORS 

KWEK CHOON LIN, WINSTON 

LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

LEONG CHAN FOO JAMES 

BAcc (Hons), Fellow Certified Public Accountant (Singapore), Chartered Accountant (Australia), 

Chartered Accountant (Malaysia), Certified Financial Planner CM , Fellow, Chartered Financial 

Practitioner 

LIEW LIN LIN CAROL 

LLB (NUS) 

LEGAL WRITING INSTRUCTORS 

BIGHAM, JO-ANNE 

LLB (Victoria University), BA (Victoria University), Barrister & Solicitor (New Zealand) 

BRUEGMANN, MAUREEN WATKINS 

JD (Georgetown University Law Centre), Attorney at Law (New York) 

DIXON, KAREN K 

JD (University of Notre Dame Law School), MBA (University of Missouri), 

B Educational Studies (University of Missouri) 

CHEN SHOW-YEN, SHAWN 


COOL, SIOBHAN M G 

LLM (Intell Prop) (Queensland), LLB (QUT) 

MENON, SUMYTRA 

LLM (London), LLB (Birmingham), Barrister (Lincoln’s Inn) 

STAFF PROFILE 

OR KAH KEONG, RANALD 


ORNELAS-JUNE, MARIA LUISA 

JD (Hastings), Attorney-at-Law (Texas) 

OTIS, ALEXANDRA 

BCL (McGill), LLB Attorney at Law (Québec) 

POYEN, CATHERINE MARY 

LLB (Dalhousie), BA (Mount Allison), Barrister & Solicitor (England & Wales, Upper Canada & Alberta) 

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SAUNTHARARAJAH, JOTHI 

LLB (NUS), BA, Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 

TUCKER, DIANNE HICKLEN 

JD (Chicago-Kent), BSc (Colorado), Attorney-at-Law (US Fed Trial Bar) 

YAP GEK MENG, ANGELINE 


STAFF PROFILE 

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ASIA-PACIFIC CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW (APCEL) 

Established in February 1996 by the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, at the initiative 

of the Faculty and the World Conservation Union - Commission on Environmental Law (IUCN-CEL), and 

in collaboration with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), APCEL was launched on 1 

July of the same year. The initiative was in response to the call in Agenda 21 to build capacity in 

environmental law and to promote awareness of environmental issues. APCEL has established itself 

as a centre of excellence in the region for capacity-building in environmental law, and is highly 

regarded worldwide. 

The objectives of APCEL are: 

• To serve as a regional training centre for the teaching of environmental law; 

• To organise conferences, seminars and other programmes on environmental issues; 

• To serve as a regional centre for research, including multi-disciplinary research on 

international, regional and national environmental law and policy; 

• To establish and develop a collection of materials on environmental law and policy, 

and maintain an electronic database; 

• To promote the exchange of information on international, regional and national 

environmental law and policy; 

• To publish studies, reports and course materials on international, regional and national 

environmental law and policy; 

• To cooperate and collaborate with law schools, institutes, centres and such other 

organisations to further its objectives; and 

• To undertake such other programmes and activities as the Executive Committee 

may determine from time to time. 

To further its objectives, an MOU was signed with IUCN on Capacity-Building for Environmental Legal 

Education in the Asia and Pacific Region and on Environmental Law Information System. APCEL has 

also signed MOUs with the Center for Environmental Legal Studies of the School of Law of Pace 

University, and with Macquarie University’s Centre for Environmental Law, (MU-CEL) both of which 

relate to Cooperation in Teaching and Research in the Field of Environmental Law. It has also signed 

a three-party MOU with MU-CEL and World Wide Fund for Nature-India. 

Since its establishment, it has organised numerous activities on its own as well as in collaboration with 

other international and local organisations such as the Asian Development Bank (ADB), IUCN-CEL, 

UNEP, International Maritime Organisation (IMO), United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Mekong 

Region Law Center, United Nations University (UNU), United States-Asia Environmental Partnership 

(US-AEP), Center for Environmental Legal Studies of Pace University, Southeast Asian Program on 

Ocean Law Policy and Management (SEAPOL), Regional Institute of Environmental Technology (RIET), 

Singapore Ministry of the Environment (ENV), Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Singapore 

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) and the United Nations Institute 

for Training and Research (UNITAR). These activities include conferences, seminars, forums, workshops 

and training courses on various topics such as trade and the environment, marine pollution, environmental 

legislation on sustainable development, and teaching environmental law at university level in the Asia- 

Pacific region. 

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CAPACITY BUILDING 

APCEL has continued to take a leadership role and has been recognized worldwide as a premier 

environmental law centre. In 2005, three of its members, KL Koh, LH Lye and Simon SC Tay, were 

invited to teach in leading universities in Australia, Mexico and the United States of America. The 

courses were in Comparative Environmental Law, Asia-Pacific Environmental Law, WTO and Sustainable 

Development, International Environmental Law with focus on ASEAN, and Critical Issues in Environmental 

Law in South East Asia. 

APCEL has continued to organise seminars for the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs for senior 

officials in developing countries. In 2005, APCEL organised a 5-day seminar on Urban and Industrial 

Environmental Management (19-25 April 2005). The purpose was to build capacity in urban and industrial 

environmental management. The main objective was to enable administrators and managers of urban 

and industrial environmental management from developing countries to learn and exchange skills and 

techniques in urban and industrial management. This was the eighth in a series of such courses. The 

participants were senior administrators from 15 countries: China, Indonesia, Jordon, Macedonia, Malta, 

Mauritius, Mexico, Romania, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Serbia and Montenegro, Syria, Thailand and Timor- 

Leste. This was a multidisciplinary course and the following APCEL members conducted some of the 

seminars: Prof KL Koh, Assoc Prof LH Lye, Assoc Prof P Lakshmikanth, Assoc Prof R Beckman and Assoc 

Prof V Ramraj. Prof KL Koh was the course co-ordinator. 

At the invitation of the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources (MEWR) and the Singapore 

Environment Institute (SEI), APCEL conducted a 2-day course on “Understanding Environmental Laws: 

The Singapore and International Perspectives”, 21-22 July 2005. This is a continuation of a series of 

capacity building courses which started from 1997. Prof KL Koh, Assoc Prof LH Lye, Assoc Prof KJ Tan 

and Asst Prof LT Lim conducted this course. 

In August 2005, the School of Design and Environment, NUS organized the Environmental Management 

Executive Programme. Three APCEL members, Prof KL Koh, Assoc Prof LH Lye and Assoc Prof Michael 

Ewing Chow conducted seminars on environmental law for a specially organised programme on 

Environmental Management for some thirty top officials from the MEWR, including the Permanent 

Secretary of MEWR, Mr Tan Yong Soon. The course was held at the SDE (School of Design and 

Environment), which hosts the MSc (Env Mgt) programme. The course was a great success and it was 

highly recommended by the participants, for other government agencies. The participants included 

the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, directors and deputy directors, heads of department, chief 

executives from MEWR, NEA (National Environment Agency) and PUB (Public Utilities Board). 

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On 28 October 2005, eight Singapore organisations and institutions, including APCEL, entered into a 

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to formalise their commitment to jointly promote Singapore’s 

capacity-building efforts through environmentally-related training and technology transfer to the 

region and beyond, under the Singapore Environmental Training Programme (SETP). “No single 

organisation holds all the answers to the environmental issues that we face. While sharing knowledge 

with our counterparts in other countries is important, it is also important for us to share among 

ourselves so that we can have a more integrated understanding of the Singapore’s environmental 

experience and leverage on each other’s strengths and expertise. Singapore has learnt and benefited 

from the sound environmental practices of many countries. While we still have much to learn, we are 

now in a position to share our unique experiences with our neighbours and friends,” said Mr Lee Yuen 

Hee, CEO of the National Environment Agency, in his address at the MOU signing ceremony held at 

the Singapore Environment Institute. 

Source: http://www.nea.gov.sg/cms/sei/Events.html 

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CONFERENCES 

APCEL members have been represented in numerous conferences on critical environmental issues. 

They have attended conferences not only in Singapore but also in Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cambodia, 

Hong Kong, Mexico, Japan and the United States of America (see listings by individual APCEL members 

below.) 

RESEARCH 

APCEL members have been robust in their research activities and have engaged in many cutting-edge 

issues in environmental law (see listings by individual APCEL members, infra) 

OTHER ACTIVITIES 

i. Teaching the MSc (Env Mgt) & other NUS Programmes, 2005: 

- Teaching Environmental Law in the MSc (Env Mgt) Programme 

Apart from the teaching of law students in the Law Faculty, APCEL continues to play an active 

role in this graduate programme, now in its fifth year, hosted by the School of Design and the 

Environment. APCEL members teach in the compulsory core course, “Environmental Law” 

(LX5130), and Assoc Prof LH Lye continues to chair the Programme Management Committee. 

Teaching staff involved are: Assoc Prof R. Beckman, Asst Prof Michael Ewing-Chow, Prof KL Koh, 

Asst Prof LT Lim, Assoc Prof LH Lye, Asst Prof Burton Ong and Assoc Prof Alan KJ Tan. 

- Teaching Environmental Law for Non-Law Undergraduate Students 

APCEL continues to offer an undergraduate course “Introduction to Environmental Law (LL 4040)”, 

targeted at BSc (Env Eng) students, but open to all non-law undergraduates. 

- M Med (Public Health Medicine) and M Med (Occupational Medicine), Medical Faculty 

Assoc Prof LH Lye continues to conduct a seminar on “Environmental Public Health Laws in 

Singapore” to graduate medical students. 

- M Sc (Biological Science) 

Assoc Prof LH Lye continues to conduct a seminar on “Nature Conservation and the Preservation 

of Biological Diversity Laws” for students from the Science Faculty. 

ii. Other activities 

- Prof KL Koh served as a member of the NEA (National Environmental Agency) Focus Group on 

Air and Climate Change. The Group made many recommendations and this is now contained in 

the Report of the Group. 

- Assoc Prof LH Lye continues to serve as a member of the Singapore Green Plan Action Programme 

Committee for International Environmental Relations (APCIER) and is co-chair of its Environmental 

Training Programmes Sub-Committee. She is also a Committee member of the Ministry’s Inter- 

Agency Task Force for the Singapore Environmental Training Programme, led by the Singapore 

Environment Institute. 

- Assoc Prof LH Lye continues to be a member of the Singapore Environment Council’s Committee 

on the Singapore Environmental Achievement Award. 

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- Assoc Prof LH Lye continues to be a member of the Panel of Judges for the ACCA (Association 

of Chartered and Certified Accountants) Singapore Environmental Reporting Awards. 

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- At NUS, Assoc Prof LH Lye continues to chair the Executive Committee of the multi-disciplinary 

programme, the MSc (Env Mgt), hosted by the School of Design and the Environment. The 

programme is into its fifth year. Assoc Prof LH Lye is also Vice-Chair of the Campus Green 

Committee, and heads its Environmental Education Sub-Group. 

- She continues to be Consultant-Trainer to the Regional Institute of Environmental Technology 

for its courses on Environmental, Health and Safety Laws. 

- Assoc Prof LH Lye was visiting Associate Professor at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental 

Studies during the Spring Semester 2005, where she taught a course on Comparative Environmental 

Law. She also taught an intensive course on Asia-Pacific Environmental Law at the Faculty of 

Law, University of Sydney in October 2005. 

- Assoc Prof Simon Tay continues to be the Executive Director of the National Environmental Agency. 

- Prof KL Koh was visiting Professor at the Universidad Metropolitana de Mexico where she 

conducted a course on Critical Issues of Environmental Law in Southeast Asia. She was also 

visiting Professor at the William S Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii from November 

to December 2005, where she conducted an intensive course on International Environmental 

Law: Focus on ASEAN. 

PENNA LAKSHMIKANTH AND SIMON SC TAY 

APCEL would like to record its thanks to the above two past members for their valuable contributions. 

VISITORS 

There were two distinguished visitors in 2005. 

i. Prof Gus Speth, Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. 

Prof Speth was Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor to NUS in January 2005. Dean Speth met the 

Dean of the Faculty of Law and also members of APCEL, and gave three distinguished public lectures, 

at NUS, NTU and the Singapore Environment Council. Prof Speth commented that “APCEL is carrying 

out essential work - very important and very impressive”. 

ii. Prof Philippe Sands, QC, University College London and Director, Centre for International Courts 

and Tribunals at University College London. 

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Prof Sands played a leading role in the negotiation of the Climate Change Convention. Prof Sands 

was in Singapore to promote his book, Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of 

Global Rules (Penguin. Allen: 2005). APCEL jointly organised with the Singapore Environment 

Institute a talk by Prof Sands on the Kyoto Protocol, held on 24 June 2005. 

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CENTRE FOR COMMERCIAL LAW STUDIES (CCLS) 

Since its inauguration on 17 January 1998, the Centre for Commercial Law Studies continually builds 

on the Faculty’s extensive experience to offer practical and valuable comparative and regional 

commercial law research and dialogue to practitioners, legislators and businessmen. 

EVENTS ORGANISED IN 2005 

LUNCHTIME SEMINAR ON AUSTRALIAN-CHINA DTA 

On 9 March, CCLS organised a seminar which presented the findings of a paper to be published by the 

International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in their April Bulletin. It dealt with differences in the 

taxpayer definitions employed in the Income Tax Laws of Australia and China and how these operate 

in the context of the Double Tax Agreement. The impact of the differences in creating tax arbitrage 

opportunities and incongruent tax outcomes were investigated. The findings are relevant to Singapore 

and any other jurisdiction that adopts standard international income tax definitions such as Australia. 

ASIA EXCISE TAXATION CONFERENCE 

To establish CCLS as a focal point for comparative and regional commercial law research and dialogue 

which would be of practical value to key government tax policy makers, legislators and businessmen, 

the 1st Asia Excise Taxation Conference was organised by the Centre for Commercial Law, Maastricht 

University of The Netherlands and the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) of Washington, 

DC on 2-4 March 2005 at the Grand Plaza Parkroyal Hotel. 

The aim of the conference was to engage scholars, policy makers and other stakeholders in an open 

debate on excise tax policy and administration in Asia. The honorable Mr Teo Eng Cheong, Director- 

General of Singapore Customs addressed the conference as the Guest of Honour. The Conference 

brought together leading public finance scholars from Asia, Europe, North America and Australia to 

discuss these timely issues with senior Government officials charged with the responsibility for excise 

tax policy and administration in their countries. Representatives from Asia-based academic institutes, 

experts from the IMF and World Bank and the various industries also participated at the Conference. 

The Conference also included the presentation of the just published Oxford University Press book, 

“Theory and Practice of Excise Taxation: Smoking, Drinking, Gambling, Polluting and Driving”, edited 

by Professor Sijbren Cnossen, who also served as the Conference Co-Chairman. Specifically commissioned 

papers on excise taxes affecting alcohol, tobacco, and petroleum products were presented and these 

issues were discussed from an Asian perspective. 

The proceedings of this conference, the third in the series, will be published as a book by end 2005. 

The conference co-chairman, Assoc Prof Stephen Phua will serve as the editor. 

DELEGATION OF JAPANESE PROFESSORS 

On 27 July 2005, Assoc Prof Hans Tjio and Asst Prof Michael Ewing-Chow met with Prof Massahiro 

Maeda of Kyoto University, Prof Hiroshi Sano of Okayama University and Assoc Prof Yasushi Ito of 

Doshiya University to update them on changes to company law in Singapore. The delegation of Japanese 

Professors was conducting research in the field of international corporate law under the auspices of 

the Research and Training Institute of the Ministry of Justice, Japan and International Civil and 

Commercial Law Centre, Japan. 

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OTHER AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT WITHIN CCLS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: 

i. Research Project - “Admiralty Law”, by Mr Toh Kian Sing 

Mr Toh Kian Sing is currently working on this research project with CCLS. The research findings will 

be published as the 2nd edition of his book on Admiralty Law. 

ii. LLM (Corporate and Financial Services Law) programme 

The CCLS has agreed to take on an advisory role to the Graduate Division. It would assist in the 

curriculum development and content review, and recommend experts to enhance the delivery of 

the programme objectives. To that end, CCLS has created a new subgroup on Training headed by 

Emeritus Prof Peter Ellinger as the Programme Director. Being a former Director of CCLS and an 

eminent member in his field, EP Ellinger provides the requisite credibility to the specialised 

programme and will build up the necessary capacity for its long term contributions to the Faculty 

of Law and NUS. 

The LLM (Corporate & Financial Services Law) includes electives in banking (domestic and 

international), company law and corporate finance, financial services and securities, and taxation. 

This specialisation will enable students to acquire the theoretical base and practical expertise in 

these subjects. CCLS aims to attract applicants from all over the world to enroll for the academic 

year beginning 2003. 

Amongst the new courses that have been introduced for the programme are: Business & Finance 

for Lawyers, Comparative Corporate Governance, Comparative Takeover Regulation, International 

Corporate Finance, International Trusts and Topics in Financial Law. Recent visitors that have 

taught in the programme include Profs Geoffrey Morse (Birmingham) and Paul Ali (Melbourne). 

iii. Undergraduate Double Degree programmes 

Members of the CCLS have also been actively involved in planning and implementing the two new 

undergraduate double honours degree programmes in Economics and Law and Business Administration 

and Law. 

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SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES 

The journal is in its 47th year of publication from its inception as the Malaya Law Review in 1959. It 

continues to publish quality peer reviewed pieces discussing legal issues of particular relevance to 

Singapore law, as well as issues of general interest to Asia, the common law world, and comparative 

law scholars generally. This year, the journal published the public address of the inaugural Yong Shook 

Lin Visiting Professor David Vaver in “Unconventional and Well-Known Trade Marks” [2005] SingJLS 

1. Articles published in the journal continued to be found useful and cited by the Singapore courts. 

In 2005, citations included Lee Eng Beng, “The Avoidance Provisions of the Bankruptcy Act 1995 and 

Their Application to Companies” [1995] SingJLS 597, Debbie Ong, “Making No Custody Order: Re G 

(Guardianship of an Infant)” [2003] SingJLS 583 and “Parents and Custody Orders - A New Approach” 

[1999] SingJLS 205, Victor V Ramraj, “Murder Without an Intention to Kill” [2000] SingJLS 560, Daniel 

Seng, “Another Clog on the Construction of Contracts? The Parol Evidence Rule and the Use of Extrinsic 

Evidence” [1997] SingJLS 457, David Vaver, “Unconventional and Well-Known Trade Marks” [2005] 

SingJLS 1, and TM Yeo, “Unilateral Mistake in Contract: Five Degrees of Fusion of Common Law and 

Equity” [2004] SingJLS 227. In the same year, the Australian High Court also took notice of A 

Kumaralingam, “The Sunrise Crane - Shedding New Light or Casting Old Shadows on Duty of Care?” 

[2004] SingJLS 551. Apart from its paper circulation, the journal is also available electronically through 

Lawnet, Westlaw, Heinonline, Proquest and SSRN. The Wilson Index to Legal Periodicals and Scholar 

Google are linked to the SSRN database. 

SINGAPORE YEAR BOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 

The aim of Volume IX of the Singapore Year Book of International Law continued to be the publication 

of timely and significant pieces of international law scholarship from within and outside the Asian 

region. Our outlook is international despite a specially felt responsibility to foster and promote Asian, 

Southeast Asian and Singapore scholarship in the field. In that regard, the Year Book continues to 

seek, review and accept writings from some of the best scholars the world over for our Articles, Notes 

and ASEAN Features sections. 

JOURNALS 

This year, we also put aside a new section for notable speeches given in the field which came to our 

attention in the previous year. We also expanded the Regular Features section to include coverage 

of two new features - “Private International Law in the Malaysia Courts”, and “Recent Developments 

in Singapore on International Commercial Arbitration”. The first is intended to complement our regular 

feature on “Private International Law in the Singapore Courts” and the second is intended to increase 

the scope, coverage and usefulness of the Year Book. The overriding aim of the Regular Features 

section continues to be that of keeping our readers informed about developments in Singapore state 

practice in the public international law field, and about private international law and international 

commercial arbitration decisions in the Singapore courts. Beyond our special interest in Singapore, 

and also Malaysia, we continued to invite scholars worldwide to submit their work for inclusion in our 

ASEAN Features section. Our aim is for that section to become the leading forum for the very best 

writings on ASEAN and the sub-region. Our book reviews section continues to accept a relatively small 

number of reviews of a substantive nature each year. Selected articles were again pre-published on 

our website and they continue to be made available on our website following hard copy publication. 

SYBIL continues to receive requests from various bodies for permission to reproduce our articles either 

in hard copy form or on various websites. These range from scholarly bodies such as the British Institute 

of International & Comparative Law to NGOs and others and we believe this testifies to the timeliness, 

importance and relevance of the kind of work we publish. 

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ACTIVITIES FOR 2005 

The following papers were delivered and discussed at faculty seminars held at the NUS Law Faculty, 

attracting speakers and participants from within and outside the NUS community: 

• 19 January: V Vijayakumar, UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), 

“Judicial Activism in India: A Critique” 

• 20 May: Wee Meng Seng, Nanyang Business School, NTU, “Validity of Contractual Clauses 

in Corporate Insolvency Proceedings” 

• 5 July: Tey Tsun Hang, District Judge, Subordinate Courts, “Recent Constitutional Reforms 

In Brunei Enhancing Democratic Legitimacy Or Entrenching The Status Quo?” 


• 3 August: William E Kovacic, Law School, George Washington University, “The Intellectual 

Infrastructure of Competition Policy: The Role of the Academy and Research Centers” 

• 31 August: Andrew Simester, Faculty of Law, Nottingham University, “Complicity: Concept 

and Criminalisation” 

• 2 September: Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, European University Institute and Robert Schuman 

Centre for Advanced Studies, “Future Challenges for the WTO Dispute Settlement System” 

• 14 September: Gergor Urbas, Faculty of Law, Australian National University, “Criminalising 

Computer Misconduct: Some Legal and Philosophical Concerns” 

• 28 September: Tang Hang Wu, Faculty of Law, NUS, & Jeff Ooi, Screenshots Blog 

(www.jeffooi.com), “Digital Speech in Malaysia” 

The following public seminars, lectures, and intensive-courses were organised: 

• 27 January: Prof Robert Merkin, Asst Prof Tang Hang Wu & Mr Quentin Loh conducted a 

seminar on “Recent Developments in Insurance Law” (jointly organised by NUS Faculty 

of Law & Singapore Academy Of Law) 

• 3 & 4 February: Asst Prof Burton Ong conducted 2 intensive workshops on “Practical 

Applications of Competition Law Principles to Commercial Transactions” 

• 2 March: Prof David Vaver conducted a seminar on “Protection of Well-Known & 

Unconventional Trademarks” (jointly organised by NUS Faculty of Law & Singapore 

Academy Of Law) 

• 23 March: Prof Francis Reynolds and Assoc Prof Hans Tjio conducted a seminar on 

“The Duty of Directors to Disclose Their Own Wrongdoing: A Discussion of Item Software 

(UK) Ltd v FASSISHI (2004) EWCA CIV 1244” (jointly organised by NUS Faculty of Law & 

Singapore Academy Of Law) 

• 14 April: Prof Adrian Briggs conducted a seminar on “What Statutes Do In The Conflict 

of Laws & What Statutes Do To the Conflict of Laws” (jointly organised by NUS Faculty 

of Law & Singapore Academy Of Law) 

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• 3,15, 20 & 22 April: Assoc Prof Li Mei Qin conducted a mini-course on “Legal Chinese & 

Traditions” (in Mandarin) 

• 27 & 28 April: Asst Prof Burton Ong conducted two seminars on “Understanding the 

Competition Commission’s Draft Guidelines (Part 1)” 

• 28 June: Asst Prof Burton Ong conducted a seminar on “Understanding the Competition 

Commission’s Draft Guidelines (Part 2)” 

• 6 October: Prof Michael Blakeney conducted a seminar on “Intellectual Property Rights 

Enforcement The European Response” (jointly organised by NUS Faculty of Law & 

Singapore Academy Of Law) 

• 21 October: Prof Tan Cheng Han SC conducted a seminar on “Rethinking the Law of Agency” 

(jointly organised by NUS Faculty of Law & Singapore Academy Of Law) 

• 15 November: Dr Wee Meng Seng conducted a seminar on “The Companies (Amendment) 

Act 2005: Law Reforms and Doctrinal Implication” (jointly organised by NUS Faculty of Law 

& Singapore Academy Of Law) 

In addition, two certificate courses were run: the Graduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law 

course (jointly conducted with the Intellectual Property Academy) and the Graduate Certificate in 

International Arbitration course. On 23 July 2005, a joint certificate-conferring ceremony was held 

for these two courses. 2005 also saw the continued administration of the auditing program, which 

allows legal practitioners to participate as observers in some of the faculty’s elective subjects. The 

New York Bar Review course, jointly run with the leading American provider of such courses (Barbri), 

was re-offered. 


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The Asian Law Institute (ASLI) was established in March 2003 by a group of leading law schools in Asia. 

Its goal is to facilitate academic exchanges as well as research and teaching collaboration among 

colleagues from the thirteen founding institutions. 

The establishment of ASLI stems from the recognition that the diversity of legal traditions in Asia 

creates an imperative for Asian legal scholars to foster greater engagement with each other through 

collaborative research and teaching. 

The acronym “ASLI”, which means “indigenous” in the Malay and Indonesian languages, represents 

the commitment of the founding institutions to establish a truly home-grown law institute in Asia. 

The founding institutions of ASLI are: 

• Faculty of Law, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) 

• East China University of Politics and Law (Shanghai, People’s Republic of China) 

• Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, People’s Republic of China) 

• Faculty of Law, University of Indonesia (Jakarta, Indonesia) 

• Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah of Laws, International Islamic University Malaysia 

(Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 

• Faculty of Law, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) 

• Faculty of Law, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan) 

• National Law School of India University (Bangalore, India) 

• Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (Singapore) 

• College of Law, National Taiwan University (Taipei, Chinese Taipei) 

• Peking University Law School, Peking University (Beijing, People’s Republic of China) 

• College of Law, University of the Philippines (Manila, the Philippines) 

• College of Law, Seoul National University (Seoul, Republic of Korea) 

The Board of Governors, which maps out ASLI’s goals and activities, is chaired by Prof Hikmahanto 

Juwana of the University of Indonesia. The Deputy Chairperson is Prof Nik Ahmad Kamal Nik Mahmod 

of the International Islamic University Malaysia. Prof He Qinhua of the East China University of Politics 

and Law is the immediate past Chairperson of the Board of Governors. The Director of ASLI is Assoc 

Prof Gary F Bell and the two Deputy Directors are Assoc Profs Alan Tan Khee Jin and Margaret A 

Fordham. 

ASLI is not technically an NUS institute or research centre but it is physically situated at the Faculty 

of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS) which provides administrative and financial 

support for its activities. The Faculty of Law has invested time and efforts to ensure that there can 

be research collaborations between Asian scholars. We are therefore pleased to report on the research 

activities of ASLI during its third year of existence. 


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THE ASLI FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME 

Every year, each member institution of ASLI sends one faculty member to ASLI as a Visiting Fellow 

for one to three months. While at NUS, the ASLI Fellows conduct collaborative research on legal issues 

of interest to their respective countries and to Asia in general. In addition, they may help with the 

teaching of some comparative law aspects of courses offered at the NUS Faculty of Law. In particular, 

they have the opportunity of sharing the experiences of their respective countries in dealing with 

relevant legal issues and challenges. In this way, the member institutions of ASLI hope to cultivate 

greater interest, collaboration and comparative scholarship in common legal issues facing the nations 

of Asia. 

Arising out of their collaboration, the ASLI Fellows also prepare papers for presentation at the annual 

ASLI conference to be hosted by a member institution on a rotating basis in April or May the following 

calendar year. Members of ASLI also do their best to facilitate student as well as faculty exchanges 

among themselves. 

At this point, the ASLI Fellowship programme is open only to faculty members from the founding 

institutions. ASLI is looking into having more member institutions in the future and also the possibility 

of allowing individuals not associated with any member institution to participate in its programmes 

and activities. 

In the academic year 2003-2004, seven scholars from the ASLI participating institutions came to 

represent their institution as an ASLI Fellow. In the academic year 2004-5, we had a total of ten 

scholars. In the academic year 2005-6, we had four Fellows in the first semester and six Fellows in 

the second semester. 


The scholars for academic year 2005-6 are: 

• Sheldon Zhang Xuezhong, East China University of Politics and Law 

• Herminio Harry L. Roque, Jr, University of the Philippines 

• Suharnoko, University of Indonesia 

• Nora Binti Abdul Hak, International Islamic University Malaysia 

• Song Seog-Yun, Seoul National University 

• Hwang Jau-Yuan, National Taiwan University 

• Manit Jumpa, Chulalongkorn University 

• Gan Chao Ying, Peking University 

• Caslav Perjovic, Kyushu University 

• Douglas Arner, The University of Hong Kong 

ANNUAL ASLI CONFERENCE 

ASLI organises annual academic conferences hosted by its member institutions on a rotating basis. 

These conferences examine contemporary legal issues of interest to Asian countries and gather scholars 

and experts from the member institutions as well as from Asia and beyond. 

A suitable theme of relevance to Asia is decided for each annual conference by ASLI’s Board of 

Governors. For the inaugural conference held on 27th and 28th May 2004 hosted by the Faculty of 

Law, National University of Singapore, the theme was The Role of Law in a Developing Asia. The 

second conference was hosted by Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on 26th and 27th May 2005 and 

carried the theme Asia and the Challenges of Law: From Globalisation to Regionalisation? Being one 

of the anchor activities of ASLI, the conference provided a platform for scholars to share on the legal 

developments of relevance to Asia. 

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The second conference saw a total of 185 participants from 24 countries and close to 70 law schools 

and research institutes from Asia, Europe, North America and Australasia. In all, 12 panel titles that 

included Environmental Protection, Human Rights and Social Impact, Operationalising WTO System 

in the Region, International Business Law and Practice, Challenges of International Law, The FTA 

Effect, Bankruptcy Law and Post 1997 Scenario, Competition and Consumer Protection, Corporate 

Governance, Intellectual Property IT/E Commerce and the Law, Commercial Law and Building Inter- 

State Taxation Regime and Overcoming Transnational Crime provided a wide scope of discussions. 

There were also 3 Open Forums to accommodate interests in other legal issues. A total of 110 papers 

were presented. 

For the first time, an afternoon networking session was set up after the plenary session ended on the 

second day, in response to some participants’ feedback at the inaugural conference to allow further 

discussions on partnerships for exchange programmes and ideas. It also gave rise to an opportunity 

for non-ASLI members and non-Asian institutions to mingle with the ASLI members to promote 

understanding and cooperation. 

At the ASLI Board of Governors’ meeting, held a day before the conference, the Governors agreed 

to convene the next conference in Shanghai. To be hosted by the East China University of Politics and 

Law (ECUPL), the conference is scheduled for 25th and 26th May 2006 and bears the theme The 

Development of Law in Asia: Convergence versus Divergence? 

The ECUPL and ASLI welcome legal scholars to attend and present papers at its annual conference, 

both from ASLI founding institutions as well as other institutions within and outside Asia. The conference 

is open to all whether or not they present a paper and provides excellent opportunities for scholars 

in Asian law to meet and exchange ideas and to form closer working and personal relationships. 

ASLI SYMPOSIUM - REFLECTIONS ON LEGAL EDUCATION 

IN ASIA 

Building on the success of its conference series, ASLI launched a complementary symposium series on 

10th and 11th November 2005 for smaller groups of scholars to gather and discuss specific topics in 

greater depth and detail. 

The inaugural ASLI Symposium was jointly organised by member institutions International Islamic 

University Malaysia (IIUM) and National University of Singapore (NUS). NUS hosted the event, which 

brought together more than 40 scholars from 18 institutions to consider topics under the theme of 

Reflections on Legal Education in Asia. It was particularly gratifying to welcome participants from as 

far away as America and England to this two-day gathering. The symposium included two country 

survey panels that surveyed the state of legal educations in specific countries in Asia as well as two 

panels that discussed the challenges of teaching certain subjects in Asia. 

With the relatively intimate symposium setting and the richness of the issues raised, discussions were 

frank and challenging. Asian law schools faced many common issues and challenges: finding the right 

balance between academic and professional learning objectives, between law and non-law subjects; 

considering whether law education should be a graduate endeavour rather an undergraduate degree; 

funding and autonomy. At the same time, the symposium gave participants a valuable opportunity 

to learn about different developments in other jurisdictions. Judging from the animated discussions 

that continued into tea breaks and meals, most participants would welcome the prospect of more ALSI 

symposia on topics of common interest. Some of the symposium papers may be published in the 

inaugural issue of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law. 


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ASIAN JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LAW 

When Asian scholars want to publish their research on Asian law in English, they usually have to turn 

to law journals published outside of Asia. Whether they be general journals, comparative law journals 

or journals about Asia, most of their audience is outside of Asia. 

At its first meeting, the Board of Governors discussed the possibility of an ASLI journal. The NUS has 

pursued this and it was decided that the Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 

would split its mission and the comparative law aspect would now be continued in an Asian law journal. 

Hence, the Editorial Board of the journal – Asian Journal of Comparative Law, comprising members 

from the founding institutions, has been set up under the auspices of ASLI. It is currently in the process 

of putting together the inaugural volume in time for the ASLI conference in Shanghai in May 2006. The 

Journal aims to maintain the highest academic standards, and all papers will undergo an independent 

peer-review process before publication. Besides a print format, an electronic format will be published 

by the Berkeley Electronic Press (“BEPRESS”), an online publisher set up by academics from the law 

and business schools and the department of economics of the University of California, Berkerley. 

BEPRESS will host the Journal free of charge. 


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BECKMAN, ROBERT CHARLES 

Member, Editorial Committee, Singapore Maritime & Port Journal 

(Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore) 

CHAN WENG, TRACEY EVANS 

Deputy Chief Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

ELLINGER, PETER 

Member, Editorial Board/Committee 

Australian Business Law Review 

Transnational Studies of Commercial Law (Bielefeld University) 

Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (UK) 

Journal of Business Law (UK) 

Banking and Finance Law Review (Canada) 

International Trade and Business Law Journal (Queensland) 

Letters of Credit Insight (ICC) 

Documentary Credit World (US) 

EWING-CHOW, MICHAEL 

Editor, Singapore Year Book of International Law 

FORDHAM, MARGARET A 

Case and Legislation Notes Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

GIRVIN, STEPHEN DARRYL 

Member, Editorial Committee, International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook (LLP) 

HSU LOCKNIE 

Referee, Melbourne Journal of International Law, July 2005 


KOH KHENG LIAN 

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental 

Law 

LEE TYE BENG, JOEL 

Member, International Advisory Panel, The Law Teacher: The International Journal of Legal Education 

Deputy Editor in Chief, Singapore Year Book of International Law 

Associate Editor, Asian Journal on Mediation 

LIM CHIN LENG 

Editor-in-Chief, Singapore Year Book of International Law 

Board of Editors, Non-State Actors & International Law 

Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Philosophy of International Law 

Southeast Asia Reporter, Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts 

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LIM LEI THENG 

Editor, Asian Journal on Mediation 

LYE LIN HENG, IRENE 

Member, International Advisory Board, The Comparative and International Law Journal 

of Southern Africa 

OOI SU LIN, MAISIE 

Member, Editorial Board, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

RAMRAJ, VICTOR V 

Editor-at Large, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

SORNARAJAH, M 

Member, Editorial Board 

Journal of Asian Law, Melbourne 

Manchester Journal of International Trade, UK 

Journal de Droit International (Paris) 

Singapore Yearbook of International Law 

TAN CHENG HAN 

Member, Editorial Board, LAWASIA journal: Journal of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific 

TAN KHEE JIN, ALAN 

Board of Editors, Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law (Australia) 

TANG HANG WU 

Commissioning Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

Pro-tem Editor, Asian Journal of Comparative Law 

TAN SEOW HON 

Article Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

TAY SEONG CHEE, SIMON 


THIO LI-ANN 

General Editor, Asian Yearbook of International Law 

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, New Zealand Yearbook of International Law 

Advisory Board Member, Human Rights & International Legal Discourse Journal 


Editorial Correspondent (Singapore), Blaustein & Flanz, Constitutions of the Countries of the World 

Contributor (Administrative & Constitutional Law), Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review 

Developments Correspondent (Singapore), International Journal of Constitutional Law 


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TJIO, HANS 

Banking Editor, Journal of Business Law 

WANG JIANGYU 


External referee, Singapore Academy of Law Review 

YEO TIONG MIN 

Chief Editor, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

Editor (Private International Law), Singapore Year Book of International Law 

Regional Digest Editor (Asia-Pacific), Restitution Law Review 


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BOOKS 

BANKING LAW 

• ELLINGER, PETER 

Ellinger's Modern Banking Law, (Oxford University Press, 4th ed, 2006) 

(co-authored with Eva Lomnicka and Richard Hooley) pp 886 

CIVIL PROCEDURE 

• PINSLER JEFFREY D 

Singapore Court Practice 2005 (General editor and main author) (Lexis Nexis) + on line updates 

Singapore Precedents of Pleadings (Sweet and Maxwell, 2006) 

24th-27th Re-issues to Civil Practice in Singapore and Malaysia (Lexis Nexis) 

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE 

• TAN YOCK LIN 

Criminal Procedure: 13th Issue (Butterworths Asia, July 2005) pp 358 

Criminal Procedure: 14th Issue (Butterworths Asia, December 2005) pp 434 

FAMILY LAW 

• LEONG WAI KUM 

Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore Volume 11: Family Law (2006 ed) (in press) 

INSURANCE LAW 


• POH CHU CHAI 

Law of Life, Motor and Workmen’s Compensation Insurance, 

(LexisNexis, 6th ed, 2006) pp 928 (in press) 

Principles of Insurance Law (LexisNexis, 6th ed, 2005) pp 1302 

INTERNATIONAL LAW/HUMAN RIGHTS 

• THIO LI-ANN 

Managing Babel: The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the Twentieth Century, 

International Studies on Human Rights Vol 81 (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2005) pp 366 

BOOKS EDITED 

COMPANY LAW 

• TAN CHENG HAN 

Walter Woon on Company Law, (Singapore: Thomson Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 3rd ed, 2005), 

pp cvii + 876 

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CONTRACT LAW 

• TEO KEANG SOOD 

Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore, Vol 7: Contract (Singapore: LexisNexis, reissue ed, 2005) 

CRIMINAL LAW 

• RAMRAJ, VICTOR V 

Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law: Cases and Materials (Singapore: LexisNexis, 2005) 

(co-editor with Chan Wing Cheong and Hor Yew Meng, Michael) 

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 

• LYE LIN HENG 

Land-Use Law for Sustainable Development, Proceedings of the 2nd Colloquium of the IUCN 

Academy of Environmental Law, 4-7 October 2004, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa; co-editor with 

John Nolon, Nathalie Chalifour and Patricia Kameri-Mbote (to be published by Cambridge 

University Press, 2006) 

FAMILY LAW 

• ONG SIEW LING, DEBBIE 

The Art of Family Lawyering (Singapore: The Law Society of Singapore, 2005) pp xi + 177 

INTERNATIONAL LAW 

• LIM CHIN LENG 

Singapore Year Book of International Law, Vol 9 (2005) 

PUBLIC LAW 


Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2005) 

(co-editor with Michael Hor and Kent Roach) 

OTHERS 


Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Singapore: Singapore Academy of Law, 2005) 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 

AGENCY LAW 


“Rethinking Apparent Authority” in Developments in Singapore and Malaysian Law, 

National University of Singapore – University of Malaya Centennial Law Symposia Papers 

(Alan Tan Khee Jin & Azmi Sharom eds) (forthcoming 2006) (with Tjio Hans) 


39

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION 

• LIM LEI THENG 

“Singapore” in Dispute Resolution in Asia (Michael Pryles ed) (Kluwer Law International, 2006) 

AVIATION LAW / TERRORISM LAW 

• TAN KHEE JIN, ALAN 

“Recent Developments Relating to Terrorism and Aviation Security”, in Comparative 

Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (Michael Hor, Victor V Ramraj & K Roach eds) 

(United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2005) pp 225-247 

BANKING LAW 

• ELLINGER, PETER 

Chapters 22 (Negotiable Instruments) and 23 (Documentary Credits) of Benjamin's Sale of 

Goods (AG Guest gen ed) (forthcoming September 2006) 

• POH CHU CHAI 

“Banking Law” in Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Teo ed) 

(Singapore, Singapore Academy of Law, 2005) 63 

COMPANY LAW 

• LOKE FAY HOONG, ALEXANDER 

“Directors and other Corporate Officers” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 

(Singapore: Thomson Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 3rd ed, 2005) pp 225-274 

“Directors’ Duties and Liabilities” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 




“Company Law” in Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Teo ed) 

(Singapore, Singapore Academy of Law, 2005) pp 125-144 

“Incorporation and its Consequences” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 


“Corporate Personality” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 


“Debentures and Charges” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 


• OOI SU LIN, MAISIE 

“Shares” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 


“Maintenance and Reduction of Capital” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 


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• YEO HWEE YING 

“Introduction and Business Organisations” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 


CONTRACT LAW 

• LOKE FAY HOONG, ALEXANDER 

“Remedies” in Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore, Vol.7: Contract (Teo ed) 

(Singapore: LexisNexis, reissue ed, 2005) pp 533-583 

“Discharge by Breach and Repudiation” in Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore, Vol.7: Contract (Teo ed) 

(Singapore: LexisNexis, reissue ed, 2005) pp 483-505 

COMPARATIVE LAW / CONTRACT LAW / INDONESIAN LAW 

• BELL, GARY F 

“The Importance of Developing Private Law Doctrine - Restructuring Debts in Indonesia 

Without a Developed Civil Law Doctrine of Novation” in Indonesia - Law and Society 

(Tim Lindsey ed) (2nd ed, in press) 

CONFLICT OF LAWS 

• LEE TYE BENG, JOEL 

“Conflict of Laws” in Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Teo ed) 



“Choice of Court Agreement: From a Viewpoint of Anglo-Commonwealth Law” in Evolution 

of Party Autonomy in International Civil Disputes (Akira Saito ed) (LexisNexis, 2005) 41 

• YEO TIONG MIN 

“Party Autonomy in International Civil Litigation: Singapore Law” (Japanese Translation) in 

Akira Saito ed, Progress of Party Autonomy in International Civil Litigation (Hobun, 2005) 13 

“Party Autonomy in International Civil Litigation: Singapore Law” in Evolution of Party Autonomy 

in International Civil Disputes (Akira Saito ed) (LexisNexis, 2005) 1 

“Choice of Law for Equity” in Equity in Commercial Law (Simone Degeling & James Edelman eds) 

(Law Book Co, 2005) 147 

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW 


“Singapore” in Gerhard Robbers, ed, Encyclopedia of World Constitutions 

(New York: Files on Fact, forthcoming 2006) (with Po-Jen Yap) 


41


“A Bill of Rights without a ‘Rights culture’? Fundamental Liberties and Constitutional Adjudication 

in Singapore”, in Comparative Constitutional Law: A Feshshrift in honour of Professor PK Tripathi 

(Mahendra Pal Singh ed) (Lucknow, India: Eastern Book Co., 2nd ed, forthcoming 2006) 

“Beyond the Four Walls’ in an Age of Transnational Judicial Conversations: Civil Liberties, 

Rights Theories and Constitutional Adjudication in Malaysia and Singapore” (Asian Forum 

of Constitutional Law, Seoul National University, 2005) (forthcoming) 

CONTRACT LAW 

• TJIO, HANS 

“Assignment of Choses in Action” in Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore Vol 7: Contract 

(2005 Reissue) pp 464-481 

CREDIT AND SECURITY 


“Personal Property Security Interests in Singapore” [submitted to Prof John de Lacey (ed)] 

CRIMINAL LAW 

• AMIRTHALINGAM, KUMARALINGAM 

“Culture, Crime and Culpability: Perspectives on the Defence of Provocation” in Multicultural 

Jurisprudence: Comparative Perspectives on the Cultural Defense (AD Renteln & MC Foblets 

eds) (Oxford: Hart Publishing, forthcoming 2006) 

• CHAN WING CHEONG 

“The Development of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice” in Essays in Singapore Legal History 

(Kevin YL Tan ed) (Marshall Cavendish Academic and Singapore Academy of Law, 2005) 

pp 245-277 (co-authored with Andrew BL Phang) 


“Criminal Law” in Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Teo ed) 

(Singapore Academy of Law, 2005) pp 208-230 


• KOH KHENG LIAN 

“ASEAN Agreement on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1985: A Study in 

Environmental Governance” in Governance Stream of the Vth World Parks Congress (Diane 

Pansky ed) (Ottawa, Canada: Parks Canada and IUCN/WCPA, 2005) (in CD-Rom) 

“Landscape/Seascape Protection in ASEAN: Challenges and Opportunities” in Landscape, 

Nature and Law, (Antonio Herman Benjamin, ed) (Law for a Green Planet Institute, 2005) 

pp 103-118 

“Singapore” in 2005 Top News on Environment in Asia 

(Institute of Global Environmental Strategies) (in press) 

“Land Stewardship and the Law: ASEAN Heritage Parks and Transboundary Biodiversity 

Conservation” in Land Use for Sustainable Development (Chalifour, Nolon, Lye and Kameri- 

Mbote, eds) (Cambridge University Press) (in press) 

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ENVIRONMENTAL LAW / LAND-USE PLANNING LAW 


“Landscape Protection Laws in the Evolution of Modern Singapore” in Landscape, 

Nature and Law, A Tribute to Prof Alexander Kiss, Vol 1 (Antonio Herman Benjamin ed) ( 2005) 

(Law for a Green Planet Institute) pp 119-134 

“Land-use Planning, Environmental Management and the Garden City as an Urban 

Development Approach in Singapore” in Land Use Law for Sustainable Development, 

(Cambridge University Press, 2006) (in press) 

“Urban Governance and Sustainability – Environmental Management Systems for Cities” 

(Yale University Press) (in press) 

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW / REVENUE LAW 


“Recent Developments in the Use of Energy & Environmental Taxes in the Asia-Pacific” in 

The Promotion of Renewable Energy Resources Through Tax & other Market-Based Measures 

-Challenges & Obstacles, proceedings of the 6th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation 

(Leuven, Belgium: Kluwer, forthcoming 2005) 

FAMILY LAW 


“A Communitarian Effort in Guardianship and Custody of Children After Parents' Divorce” 

in The International Survey of Family Law (Andrew Bainham ed) (Bristol: Family Law, 

forthcoming 2006) 


“Family Law” in Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Teo ed) 

(Singapore, Singapore Academy of Law, 2005) (with Valerie Thean) pp 281-301 

HUMAN RIGHTS 


“Taking Development Seriously: Beyond the Statist Rhetoric of the Human Right to Development 

in ASEAN states” in Human Rights and Development: Approaches to the Reform of Governance 

in Asia (DK Srivastava & C Raj Kumar eds) (Butterworths: LexisNexis, forthcoming 2006) 

INSOLVENCY LAW 

• CHAN WENG, TRACEY EVANS 

“Schemes of Arrangement and Judicial Management” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 



“Winding-up” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 


43

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

• NG-LOY WEE LOON 

“Intellectual Property” in Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Teo ed) 

(Singapore, Singapore Academy of Law, 2005) (with Tan Tee Jim, SC) pp 374-388 

“Trademark Protection for Personalities and Characters” in Intellectual Property Law: 

Articles on Crossing Borders between Traditional and Actual (Grosheide & Brinkhof eds) 

(Intersentia, 2005) pp 331-341 



“The Question of a Generic Definition of Terrorism under General International Law” in Global 

Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy: Regional Perspectives (Victor V Ramraj, Michael Hor Yew Meng, 

Kent Roach eds) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) pp 37-64 


“International Law and Secession in the Asia-Pacific Region” in Secession: A Contemporary 

International Law Perspective (Marcelo G Kohen ed) (Cambridge University Press, 2005) 

pp 297-394 

• HSU LOCKNIE 

“Towards an ASEAN Charter - Some Thoughts from the Legal Perspective” in “Framing the ASEAN 

Charter” (Institute of Southeast Asia Studies, December 2005) pp 45-51 

LEGAL PROFESSION 


“Legal Profession” in Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Teo ed) 



MARITIME LAW 

• BECKMAN, ROBERT CHARLES 

“Legal Implications of the Proliferation Security Initiative” in The Best of Times, The Worst of 

Times: Maritime Security in the Asia-Pacific (Joshua Ho & Catherine Zara Raymond eds) 

(Singapore: Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2005) pp 215-227 

“National Security Frameworks for Maritime Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific” in 

Capacity Building for Maritime Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (Peter Cozens & 

Joanna Mossop eds) (New Zealand: Centre for Strategic Studies, 2005) pp 49-66 

PROPERTY LAW 


“Land Law” in Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Teo ed) 


“Immunity of Registered Title and Interests from Attack by Adverse Claims: Some Recent 

Developments” in Developments in Singapore and Malaysian Law, National University of 

Singapore - University of Malaya Centennial Law Symposia Papers (Alan Tan Khee Jin & Azmi 

Sharom eds) (forthcoming 2006) 

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PUBLIC LAW 


“Terrorism, Risk Perception, and Judicial Review” in Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy 

(Victor V Ramraj, Michael Hor Yew Meng and Kent Roach eds) (Cambridge: Cambridge 

University Press, 2005) pp 107-126 

“Introduction” in Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (Victor V Ramraj, Michael Hor Yew 

Meng, and Kent Roach eds) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) pp 1-10 

“Postscript: Some Recent Developments” in Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (Victor V 

Ramraj, Michael Hor Yew Meng, and Kent Roach eds) (Cambridge: Cambridge University 

Press, 2005) pp 625-633 

RESTITUTION 


“Restitution” in Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2004 (Teo ed) 


SECURITIES REGULATION 


“Raising Finance” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 


“The Stock Market” in Walter Woon on Company Law (Tan ed) 


TERRORISM LAW 


“International Responses to Maritime Terrorism: Multilateralism vs Coalitions of the Willing” 

in Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (Victor V Ramraj, Michael Hor Yew Meng, and Kent 

Roach eds) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005) pp 248-269 

TORT LAW 


“Medical Negligence Law: What Options for Singapore and Malaysia?” in Developments 

in Singapore and Malaysian Law, National University of Singapore - University of Malaya 

Centennial Law Symposia Papers (Alan Tan Khee Jin & Azmi Sharom eds) (forthcoming 2006) 

TRADE LAW 


“Applicability of WTO Law in Regional Trade Agreements: Identifying the Links” in forthcoming 

publication (Oxford University Press) (in press) 


45

• WANG JIANGYU 

“The Legal and Policy Considerations of China-ASEAN FTA” in China and Southeast Asia: 

Economic Statecraft and Strategic Engagement (Ho Khai Leong & Samuel C Y K eds) 

(Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2005) pp 42-79 

“China-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: An International Law Perspective” in China and ASEAN: 

New Dimensions, EAI and World Scientific (John Wong & Ze Keyuan ed) (Singapore: World 

Scientific, 2006) pp 111-131 

JOURNAL PAPERS PUBLISHED 


• PINSLER, JEFFREY D 

“Is Discovery Available Prior to the Commencement of Arbitration Proceedings?” [2005] 

Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 64 

COMMERCIAL LAW 

• NEO SWEE SUAN, DORA 

“Fixed & Floating Charges Over Book Debts: A Post Mortem on the Debate” (2005) 17 

Singapore Academy of Law Journal 617 

COMPANY LAW 


“The Rationalisation of Directors’ Duties in Singapore” (2005) 17 Singapore Academy 

of Law Journal 52 

“Abolition of Ultra Vires” (2005) 20 Butterworths Journal of International Banking 

and Financial Law 78 


COMPARATIVE LAW 

• FORDHAM, MARGARET 

“Comparative Legal Traditions - Introducing the Common Law to Civil Lawyers in Asia”, 

Asian Journal of Comparative Law (accepted for publication) 

COMPARATIVE LAW / CONTRACT LAW 


“Good Faith and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)”, 

Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) 

(accepted for publication) 

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COMPARATIVE LAW / CONTRACT LAW / CONFLICT OF LAWS 


“Why Singapore Should Withdraw Its Reservation to the United Nations Convention on 

Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)” (2005) 9 Singapore Yearbook of 

International Law 55 

“Harmonisation of Contract Law in Asia - Harmonising Regionally or Adopting Global 

Harmonisations - The Example of the CISG”, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 

(accepted for publication) 

COMPETITION LAW 

• ONG TZE EN, BURTON 

“Building Brick Barricades and other Barriers to Entry: Abusing a Dominant Position by 

Refusing to Licence Intellectual Property Rights” (2005) 26(4) European Competition 

Law Review 215 

“Competition Law in Singapore” LV [2005] Kobe Law Journal 51 



“Private International Law in the Singapore Courts” (2005) 9 Singapore Yearbook 

of International Law 243 


“The Hague Securities Convention: A Critical Reading of the Road Map” [2005] Lloyd’s 

Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 467 


“Choice of Law for Director’s Equitable Duty of Care and Concurrence” [2005] Lloyd’s 

Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 144 

“The Contractual Basis of the Enforcement of Exclusive and Non-Exclusive Choice 

of Court Agreements” (2005) 17 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 306 

“Statute and Public Policy in Private International Law: Gambling Contracts and Foreign 

Judgments” (2005) 9 Singapore Year Book of International Law 133 

“Natural Forum and the Elusive Significance of Jurisdiction Agreements” [2005] 




“‘Beyond the Four Walls’ in an Age of Trans-national Judicial Conversations: Civil Liberties, 

Rights Theories and Constitutional Adjudication in Malaysia and Singapore” (2005) 18(2) 

Columbia Journal of Asian Law (accepted for publication) 


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CONTRACT LAW 


“Contract Modifications, Consideration and Moral Hazard” (2005) 17 Singapore 

Academy of Law Journal 566 


“Great Peace: a Distant Disturbance” (2005) 121 Law Quarterly Review 393 

CRIMINAL LAW 


“What’s Wrong with Section 300(c) Murder” [2005] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 462 

• CHIN TET YUNG 

“Presumption of Death - As Good As Dead” [2005] Singapore Journal 

of Legal Studies (forthcoming) 


“Revisiting Section 300(c) Murder in Singapore” (2005) 17 Singapore Academy 

of Law Journal, 693. 

EVIDENCE 

• HO HOCK LAI 

“Similar Facts in Civil Cases”, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (accepted for publication) 

“Justice in the Pursuit of Truth - A Moral Defence of the Similar Facts Rule” (2006) 

35 Common Law World Review 51 


• PINSLER, JEFFREY D 

“New Issues of Professional Privilege for a Singapore Court to Decide” [2005] 


• TANG HANG WU 

“Legal Professional Privilege and Restitution for Mistake of Law” (2005) 

24 Civil Justice Quarterly 246 

FAMILY LAW 


“Protection of Underaged Workers in Singapore: Domestic and International Regulation” 

(2005) 17 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 668 

“Custody Orders, Parental Responsibility and Academic Contributions” [2005] 



“The Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction - A Case for Singapore 

to be a Member State” (July 2005) The Singapore Law Gazette 15 

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“The Next Step in Post-Divorce Parenting” (2005) 17 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 648 

“A Grandparent’s ‘right’ to Guardianship, Custody and Access?” (June 2005) 

The Singapore Law Gazette 16-19 

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 


“Women’s Rights, International Norms and Domestic Violence: Asian Perspectives” (2005) 

27 Human Rights Quarterly 683 


“School Dress Codes, Religious Freedom and Human Rights” (2005) 

121 Law Quarterly Review 572 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LAW 

• SENG KIAT BOON, DANIEL 

“Reverse Engineering the New Reverse Engineering Provisions in the Copyright (Amendment) 

Act 2004” [2005] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 234 

INSOLVENCY LAW 


“A Falcon Takes Flight: The Anti-Deprivation Principle and Corporate Groups” [2005] 


INSURANCE LAW 

• YEO HWEE YING 

“Impact of Good Faith on Waiver of Disclosure” [2005] Journal of Business Law 394 

“Insurance Interpretation and Waiver of Disclosure” [2005] Journal of Business Law 751 



“Protecting Well-Known Trade Marks: Perspectives from Singapore” (2005) 

95 Trademark Reporter 1221 


“The Polo Match in Singapore: England vs Europe? The Polo/Lauren Co LP v Shop in 

Department Store Pte Ltd” European Intellectual Property Review 

(forthcoming April 2006 issue) 


INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW 

• SORNARAJAH, M 

“A Law for Need or a Law for Greed: Restoring the Lost Law in the International Law on 

Foreign Investment” Journal of International Agreements (accepted for publication) 

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“MFN and Dispute Settlement: When the Twain Meet” Journal of World Investment (forthcoming) 


“The Asian WTO Members and the Amicus Brief Controversy: Arguments and Strategies” 

(2005) 1 Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law & Policy (forthcoming) 

“The Uses of Pacific Settlement Techniques in Malaysia-Singapore Relations” 

(2005) 6 Melbourne Journal of International Law 313 

“Non-Recognition of Putative Foreign States (Taiwan) under Singapore’s State 

Immunity Act” (2004) 11 Asian Year Book of International Law (forthcoming) 

“Singapore: Review of Major Policy Statements” (2005) 9 Singapore Year Book 

of International Law 221 (with Simon Tay) 

“The Constitution and the Reception of Customary International Law: Nguyen Tuong Van v 

Public Prosecutor” (2005) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 218 

“The Amicus Brief Issue at the WTO” (2005) 4 Chinese Journal of International Law 85 


“The ASEAN Agreement on Transboundary Haze Pollution: Prospects for Compliance and 

Effectiveness in Post-Suharto Indonesia” (2005) 13 New York University Environmental Law 

Journal 647 

LEGAL EDUCATION 


“Teaching Students” (2005) 9(2) CDTLink pp 3-4, 13 


• WONG SIEW YIN, ELEANOR 

“In Praise of Mahjong (Mahjong Paper, that is) - enhancing reporting structures for 

effective small-group teaching” (2005) 9(3) CDTLink 4 


“Plain English in Singapore: Preparing the Next Generation of Lawyers” (2005) 53 Clarity 51 


“Legal Education in Asia” (2006) Asian Journal of Comparative Law (accepted for publication) 

(with Gary Bell, Xuan Hop Dang, Kim Joongi, Teo Keang Sood, Arun Thiruvengadam, 

V Vijayakumar, and Wang Jiangyu) 


“Facilitating Independent Inquiry, Critical Thinking and Writing: An Integrated Teaching 

Methodology Applied in Human Rights Education” (2005) 12 International Journal of Learning 

(forthcoming) 

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PARTNERSHIP LAW 


“Limited Liability Partnerships” (2005) 20 Butterworths Journal of International Banking 


PROPERTY LAW 

• CROWN, BARRY C 

“Death and the Central Provident Fund Revisited” [2005] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 426 

PUBLIC LAW 


“Multiculturalism and Accommodative Liberalism Revisited” [2005] Singapore Journal 

of Legal Studies 159 


“Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: Digital Speech in Malaysia” (2006) Asian Journal 

of Comparative Law (forthcoming) 


“Control, Co-optation and Co-Operating: Managing Religious Harmony in Singapore’s 

Multi-Ethnic, Quasi-Secular State”, (2005) 32 (4) Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 

(forthcoming) 

TORT LAW 


“Causation and the Gist of Negligence” (2005) 64 Cambridge Law Journal 32 

“Pure Economic Loss in a Commercial Context: Perspectives from Singapore” 

(2006) 14 Torts Law Journal (forthcoming) 


“Loss of Chance - A Lost Opportunity?” [2005] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 204 

“A Life Without Value?” [2005] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 395 

TRADE LAW 


“Financial Liberalization in East Asia: Lessons from Financial Crises and the Chinese Experience 

of Controlled Liberalization” (2006) Journal of World Trade (forthcoming) 

TRUSTS LAW 



“Lending to a Trust” (2005) 19 Trust Law International 75 

“Business Trust Act” (2005) 20 Butterworths Journal of International Banking 


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“Dishonest Assistance: A Restatement from the Privy Council” (2006) 

122 Law Quarterly Review (accepted for publication) 

MONOGRAPHS 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW 


Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Singapore (IP Academy) 



“State Contracts” UNCTAD Series on Multilateral Investment Agreements (2005) 

REPORTS 



Pre- and Post-Judgment Interest, Law Reform Committee, Singapore Academy of Law, 

August 2005 (100 pp) (with WY Wan, J Chao, J Huan, V Leow and S Chakravarthi) 

CONFLICTS OF LAWS 


Report on Enforcement of Foreign Judgments for the Law Reform Committee, 

Singapore Academy of Law 

HUMAN RIGHTS / PUBLIC LAW 



Academic Freedom in Singapore, commissioned Confidential Report prepared 

for the University of Warwick, Singapore Feasibility Project (2005) 



“Investment Laws and Investment Treaties in ASEAN” (with A Rajenthiran) 

Chapter in Report on FTAs in ASEAN (Institute of South East Asian Studies 

for the ASEAN Secretariat) (in press) 

RESTITUTION 


“Regional Digest: Asia Pacific” [2005] Restitution Law Review 110 

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WORLD TRADE LAW 


Concept Report for the Asian Development Bank “Economic Integration in Asia: 

Defining Priorities for Legal Reforms” (2005) (in press) 

BOOK REVIEWS 



Essential Business Guide to the Law of International Trade and Commercial Transactions by 

Apisith John Sutham (Hong Kong: Sweet & Maxwell Asia 2004) (accepted for publication) 



Asian Discourses on Rule of Law: Theories and Implementation of Rule of Law in Twelve 

Asian Countries, France and the United States by Randall Peerenboom (ed) [2004] 


Constitutional Monarchy, Rule of Law and Good Governance by His Royal Highness 

Sultan Azlan Shah, edited by Dato’ Seri Visu Sinnadurai [2004] Singapore Journal 

of Legal Studies 591 

CRIMINAL LAW 


Criminal Defences in Malaysia and Singapore (Malaysia: LexisNexis Malayan Law Journal, 

2005) by Stanley Yeo [2005] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (forthcoming) 



Towards Integrated Environmental Law in Indonesia? by Adriaan Bedner & Nicole Niessen 

(eds) (2005) 7(2) Australian Journal of Asian Law 201 

EVIDENCE LAW 


The Trial on Trial (volume 1), Truth and Due Process by Antony Duff, Lindsay Farmer, 

Sandra Marshall and Victor Tadros (eds), Modern Law Review (forthcoming) 




“Ordering Chaos: Regulating the Internet” [2005] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 475 

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Beyond the Age of Innocence: Rebuilding Trust between America and the World by Kishore 

Mahbubani (2005) 9 Singapore Year Book of International Law 284 

The Law of State Immunity by Hazel Fox and State Immunity: Selected Materials & Commentary 

by Andrew Dickinson, Rae Lindsay and James P Loonam, (2004) 4 Non-State Actors and 

International Law 303 

TRADE LAW 


The World Trade Organisation: Law, Practice, and Policy by Mitsuo Matsushita, 

Thomas J Schoenbaum & Petros C Mavroidis (2005) 9 Singapore Year Book 

of International Law 277 

TORT LAW 


Essentials of Medical Law (Singapore: Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2004) by KQ Yeo et al, 

[2005] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (forthcoming) 

CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS 



“Negotiating Success” Workshop for Economic Development Board, 8-9 December 2005 


“Negotiating Leadership” Faculty Member for Masters of Public Policy Executive Programme, 

National University of Singapore in conjunction with Kennedy School of Government, 

Harvard University and Conflict Management Partners, 24-27 May 2005 

“Attribution Bias and Mediation: An NLP Perspective” Workshop for Post Graduate 

Programme for Masters in Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Copenhagen University, 

Denmark, 5 March 2005 

“Mediation and NLP” Presentation for Association for Mediation in Denmark, 

Faculty of Law, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 9 February 2005 

“Negotiating Leadership” Presentation for Junior Chamber International, Copenhagen, 

Denmark, 16 June 2005 

AVIATION LAW 


“In Fits and Starts: Liberalising the Aviation Industry in the Asia-Pacific”, Institute of Air 

and Space Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1 November 2005 

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BIOTECHNOLOGY LAW 

• NG SIEW KUAN, ELIZABETH 

“Selected Patent Issues and their Impact on Biotechnology Law”, paper presented at 

Developments in Patent Law in Singapore at the Meritus Mandarin, Singapore, 28 July 2005. 

BIOMEDICAL LAW AND ETHICS 


“Minor Consent in Human Subject Research”, paper presented at NUS-UM Centennial 

Law Seminar, Law Faculty, NUS, Singapore, 16 April 2005 



“Rethinking Apparent Authority” (with Tan Cheng Han) at University of Malaya 

- NUS Symposia Centennial Law, April 2005 

COMPANY LAW 


“Developments in Company and Corporate Laws”, paper presented at Developments in 

Singapore Law between 2001 and 2005 - Singapore Academy of Law Conference 2006, 

Supreme Court Auditorium, Singapore, 12-14 January 2006 


“The Duty of Directors to Disclose their Own Wrongdoing” (with FMB Reynolds) 

at the Singapore Academy of Law, March 2005 


“Modelling an Effective Corporative Governance System for China’s Listed State-owned 

Enterprises: Problems and Prospects”, paper presented at the international symposium on 

Corporate Governance in East Asia, jointly organised by the University of British Columbia 

and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, 18 July 2005 

COMPARATIVE LAW 


“Comparative Legal Traditions - Introducing the Common Law to Civil Lawyers in Asia”, paper 

presented at the 2nd ASLI Conference, “The Challenge of Law in Asia - From Globalisation to 

Regionalisation?”, Bangkok, Thailand, May 2005 

COMPARATIVE LAW / FAMILY LAW 


“Division of Matrimonial Assets upon Divorce: Lessons from Singapore for Malaysian Practice”, 

paper presented at NUS-UM Centennial Law Symposia ‘Developments in Singapore 

and Malaysian Law’ at University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 23 April 2005 


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COMPETITION LAW 


“The Extra-territorial Application of Singapore Competition Law: How Will Traders in Malaysia 

be Affected?”, paper presented at the NUS-UM Centennial Law Symposia 2005, 

Singapore, 16 April 2005 

“Understanding the Competition Commission’s Draft Guidelines”, workshops organised by 

NUS Faculty of Law Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Committee, Singapore, 

27-28 April 2005 (Part I) and 28 June 2005 (Part II) 

“Building Competition Law and Policy into the Legal Curriculum: Pedagogical Issues for Law 

Students and Teachers”, paper presented at ASEAN Consultative Forum for Competition 

Conference on Competition Law and Policy: “How to Make Competition Law and Policy 

play a greater role in ASEAN Economies”, organised by US Federal Trade Commission and 

ASEAN Secretariat, Bangkok, 17-19 August 2005 

“Competition Law in Singapore”, paper presented at workshop on “Competition Law and 

Policy” organised by the Competition Advisory Group (COMPAG) to the Hong Kong 

Government and the Hong Kong Economic Development Board, Hong Kong, 

22 August 2005 

“Exporting Article 82 EC to Singapore: Prospects and Challenges”, paper presented at the 

6th Workshop of the Competition Law Scholars’ Forum (CLaSF), City University Law School, 

London, 8 September 2005 

“The Origins, Objectives and Structure of Competition Law in Singapore”, paper presented 

at the inaugural Asian Competition Forum, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 

12 December 2005 

CONFLICT OF LAWS / SECURITIES 



“The Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Certain Rights in Respect of Securities 

Held with an Intermediary: Shall we Ratify?”, paper presented at NUS-UM Centennial Law 

Symposium Developments in Singapore and Malaysian Law, National University of Singapore 

16-23 April 2005 

“Choice of Law Issues in Securities Transactions and the Solution Provided by the Proposed 

Hague Securities Convention”, paper presented at London Forum for International Economic 

Law and Development 2005, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, 

China, May 2005 



Speaker, Seminar on Singapore Constitutional Law, Straits Times Political Desk, October 2005 

Speaker, ‘A Tale of 2 Experiments: Religious Pluralism in Malaysia and Singapore’, 

Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Conference, Faculty of Law, University of Liverpool, 

UK, 29-31 March 2005 

Speaker, Legal System and Good Governance in Singapore, Civil Service College, 

Singapore, Feb 2005 

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CONTRACT LAW 


“Unjust Enrichment within Contract: An Anglo-Australian View”, paper accepted for presentation 

at the International Contracts Conference at Forth Worth, Texas, 24-25 February 2006 

“Unjust Enrichment within Contract”, paper accepted for presentation at the Justifying 

Remedies in the Law of Obligations, Obligations III Conference at TC Beirne School of Law, 

University of Queensland, 13-14 July 2006 

CRIMINAL LAW 


“Asian and Australian Perspectives on the ‘Cultural Defence’”, invited paper presented at 

Multicultural Jurisprudence: Comparative Perspectives on the Cultural Defence, International 

Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, June 2005 


“Overview of the Criminal Justice System in Singapore”, paper presented at the Training Visit 

on Singapore’s Legislative and Anti-corruption Management by Officials from Suzhou, China, 

February 2005 


"Revisiting Section 300(c) Murder in Singapore and Malaysia", National University of Singapore 

- University of Malaya Centennial Law Symposium, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 

Malaysia, 23 April 2005 



“One World, One Health: Avian Flu and SARS – The Policy and Legal Challenges of Zoonotic 

Diseases”, seminar on Environment and Public Health MSc (Environmental Management) 

programme, School of Design and Environment, NUS, 5 February 2005 

“The Role of the Media in Greening International Cooperation: Some Case Studies in Asia”, 

the EU-Japan-Asia Journalists Conference on the Greening of International Cooperation, 

Nagoya, Japan, 17-20 April 2005 

“The Role of ASEAN in Urban and Industrial Environmental Management and Governance”, 

the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore/Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law 

Seminar on Urban and Industrial Environmental Management, Peninsula Excelsior Hotel, 

Singapore, 19-25 April 2005 

Presented a series 12 hour-seminars on “Critical Issues of Environmental Law in South East Asia” 

to PhD students at the University of Mexico. Also, presented 7 lectures on Environmental Law 

to Certificate of Environmental Law students at the same university, 24-30 May, 2005 


“Curbing Vehicular Air Pollution in Singapore”, University of Mexico Public Lecture, 

Mexico, 27 May 2005 

“Landscape/Seascape Protection in ASEAN: Challenges and Opportunities”, the 10th Brazilian 

Conference on Landscape, Nature and Law”, 31 May-3 June 2005 

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Presented keynote speech entitled “The Role of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental 

Law (APCEL) in Capacity Building in the Implementation, Compliance and Enforcement of 

Natural Resources in Asia”, the International Symposium on Environmental Law in Asia, 

Nagoya University, Japan 9-10 July 2005 

“Animal and Human Health: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Development: A Case 

Study on Avian Flu and SARS”, the 3rd Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental 

Law, 10-16 July 2005, Sydney; also at the East West Centre, 18 November, 2005 and to the 

Natural Resources of the Bar Association, Hawaii 

Presented seminar on “ASEAN Cooperation in Environmental Management” at the 2-day 

course on “Understanding Environmental Laws: The Singapore and International Perspectives 

(3rd Run)”, Ministry of the Environment Singapore, 21-22 July 2005 

“ASEAN Cooperation on the Environment”, the Executive Programme for the Ministry of 

Environment and Water Resources seminar, School of Design and Environment, NUS, 

4-13 August 2005 

Presented keynote address on “Capacity Building for Environmental Law in the Asian and 

Pacific Region, and Research on Avian Flu” ADB seminar - the participants in this seminar 

included government officials, (including judges) and members of the civil society, 

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 16-19 August 2005 

“Avian Flu and SARS: Biosecurity, Conservation and Sustainable Development - the Role of 

ASEAN and other Organisations”, the International Conference on Legal Issues Relating to 

the Protection of Bio-safety, Hong Kong, 22-25 August 2005 

“Law Faculty, National University of Singapore”, Public Lecture, William Richardson School 

of Law, University of Hawaii, 11 November 2005 

“Capacity Building in Environmental Law: The Role of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental 

Law (APCEL)”, William Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, 2 December 2005 


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Presented paper on “Transport-based Pollution Management in Singapore”, Ministry of Foreign 

Affairs of Singapore/Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) Seminar on Urban and 

Industrial Environmental Management, Peninsula Excelsior Hotel, Singapore, 19-25 April 2005 

Presented paper on “The Implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity - the 

Regulation of Access to Biological Resources and Benefit-Sharing in Singapore, Malaysia 

(Sarawak) and the Philippines” 3rd Colloqiuim, IUCN Academy of Environmental Law, 

Sydney, Australia, 10-16 July 2005 

Presented 2 papers “Introduction to Environmental Law in a National, International and 

Regional Context” and “Nature Conservation Laws” in APCEL-SEI (Singapore Environment 

Institute, Ministry of Environment & Water Resources [MEWR]) workshop on Understanding 

Environmental Laws - the Singapore and International Perspectives, 21 July 2005 

Presented seminar on “Introduction & Overview to Environmental Law” at Special Executive 

Programme on Environmental Management for top officials from the National Environment 

Agency and the Public Utilities Board, Ministry of Environment & Water Resources, 

4-13 August 2005 

Conducted intensive 1 day workshop on Environmental Health & Safety Laws for the Regional 

Institute of Environmental Technology (RIET) on 10 March 2005, 12 May 2005, 27 July 2005, 

8 September 2005, 8 December 2005

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW / LAND-USE PLANNING LAW 


“Landscape Protection Laws in the Evolution of Modern Singapore”, Paper presented 

at Conference on “Landscape, Nature and Law”, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Law for a Green 

Planet Institute, June 2005 

ENVIRONMENTAL LAW / REVENUE LAW 


“Recent Developments in the Use of Energy & Environmental Taxes in the Asia-Pacific”, 

Paper presented at the 6th Global Conference on Environmental Taxation, The Promotion 

of Renewable Energy Resources Through Tax & other Market-Based Measures - Challenges 

& Obstacles, Leuven, Belgium, 2005 

EVIDENCE 


“The Legitimacy of Legal Fact-Finding: Truth and Justification”, Paper presented at the 22nd 

World Congress on the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Granada, Spain, May 2005 

“Legal Fact-Finding and the Internal Commitment to Truth”, Paper given at a Law Programme 

Seminar held at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 

Canberra, Australia, November 2005 

FAMILY LAW 


“Legal Provisions Relating to Elder Abuse”, paper presented at the Management of Family 

Violence Cases: Prevention, Protection and Possibilities in Elder Abuse Work, Social Service 

Training Institute, January 2005 and November 2005 

“Non-Muslim Divorces in Singapore 1984-2003: What the Numbers Tell Us”, paper presented 

at the NUS-UM Centennial Law Symposia: Developments in Singapore and Malaysian Law, April 2005 

“Child Protection Orders in Singapore: The New Law”, paper presented at the 6th ISPCAN Asian 

Regional Conference, Singapore, November 2005 


“An Approach to Post-divorce Parenting”, paper presented at the LAWASIA Conference on 

“Children & the Law” (LAWASIA and the Law Society of Singapore), Singapore, 27-28 May 2005 

HUMAN RIGHTS / PUBLIC LAW 


Chairperson, Panel on “Women’s Rights in Asia”, Inaugural Conference of the 

Asian Law Institute, Singapore, 27-28 May 2004 



Speaker, Forum on Academic Freedom, Arts Centre, University of Warwick, 

United Kingdom, September 2005 

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Speaker, ‘Beyond the Four Walls’ in an Age of Transnational Judicial Conversations: Civil 

Liberties, Rights Theories and Constitutional Adjudication in Malaysia and Singapore, Opening 

Conference, Asian Forum for Constitutional Law: Constitutionalism and Constitutional 

Adjudication in Asia, Seoul National University College of Law & Korea Legislation Research 

Institute, September 2005 

Speaker, Control, Co-optation and Co-Operation: Managing Religious Harmony in Singapore’s 

Multi-Ethnic, Quasi-Secular State, Panel: Religion in the Multiethnic State and Society, Institute 

for Strengthening Democracy in Bosnia, Konjic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 8th International Seminar: 

‘Democracy and Human Rights in Multi-ethnic societies”, 11-15 July 2005 

INSURANCE LAW 


“What Restitution Can Do for the Insurance Lawyer: Recent Developments on Mistake and 

Settlement Agreements” paper presented at Recent Developments in Insurance Law Seminar 

at the Singapore Academy of Law, 27 January 2005 



“Open-source Software: An Introduction”, presented at the IP Academy Seminar on 

“Open-source Software: Viable Alternative or Risky Venture? Lessons for Singapore”, 

Singapore, 9 March 2005 

“Information Technology: Copyright Protection for Software”, “Information Technology: 

Computer-related Patents”, “Information Technology: Layout Designs for Integrated Circuits”, 

“Information Technology: Open Source Software” 4 papers presented at IP Engineers Training 

Course, organised by IP Academy, 4 March 2005 

Primer on Information Technology Law, Santa Clara University Summer Programme, 

22, 23, 27, 28 June 2005 


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Computer-related Patents”, “Information Technology: Layout Designs for Integrated Circuits”, 

“Information Technology: Open Source Software” 4 papers presented at IP Engineers 

Training Course, organised by IP Academy, 14 September 2005 

“The Validity of the ‘Copyleft’ Model”, joint paper with Ms Xu Le presented at the Academia 

Sinica Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, 14 October 2005, 40 pp + presentation 

“Secondary Liability for Peer to Peer Software Networks - A Singapore Prespective”, paper 

presented (in absentia) at the Fordham/Queen Mary/Singapore IP Academy Seminar, 

14 November 2005 (27 pages) 

“The New Right of Communication: Copyright in the Digital Age”, presentation to the 

Technology Law Core Group, Singapore Legal Service, 30 August 2005 

“A Review of IT Law Developments in Singapore”, Developments in Singapore Law between 

2001 and 2005, Singapore Academy of Law, 29 December 2005 (27 pp) 


Computer-related Patents” and “Information Technology: Layout Designs for Integrated 

Circuits”, 3 papers presented at IP Engineers Training Course, organised by IP Academy, 

26 June 2004



“The Convergence and Divergence in the Intellectual Property Laws of Malaysia and 

Singapore in the Post WTO/TRIPs Era”, Paper presented at the NUS-UM Centennial Law 

Symposia on Developments in Singapore and Malaysia Law, Malaysia and Singapore, 

April 2005 

“Parallel Importation of Pharmaceuticals: DOHA vs Free Trade Agreements”, Paper presented 

at the Institute of European Studies of Macau’s conference on Intellectual Property & Free 

Trade Agreements: Multilateralism versus Bilateralism, Macau, June 2005 


“Protecting Well Known Trade Marks in Singapore”, paper presented at “Recent Developments 

in and Enforcement of Asian IP Law”, organised by IP Academy, Singapore and the Fordham 

University School of Law in conjunction with the 13th Annual Fordham Conference International 

Intellectual Property Law & Policy, New York City, 30 March 2005. 


“Software, Music and Movie Piracy: The Consumer Perspective” (with Lim Sun Sun), 

IP Academy Seminar, Singapore, 6 January 2005 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY / ENVIRONMENTAL LAW 


“The Regulation of Access to Biological Resources and Benefit Sharing in the Philippines, 

Malaysia and Singapore”, Paper presented at the 3rd Colloquium of the IUCN Academy 

of Environmental Law, Biodiversity Conservation, Law & Livelihoods - Bridging the 

North-South Divide, Sydney, July 2005 


“Accommodating Traditional Medicine Systems within the Intellectual Property Framework”, 

paper presented at the International Congress on Complementary and Alternative Medicines 

(ICCAM) 2005, organised by the NUS-John Hopkins Consortium for Botanical Drug 

Development, Raffles City Convention Centre, Singapore, 28 February 2005 

“Biotechnological Innovations, Genetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge: Current 

Developments at the World Intellectual Property Organisation”, paper presented at the 

“Third Colloquium of the IUCN Academy of Environmental Law: Biodiversity Conservation, 

Law + Livelihoods” and chaired plenary session on “Benefit Sharing, Transfer of Technology, 

Intellectual Property Rights and the North-South Divide”, Macquarie University, 

Sydney, 10-15 July 2005 



“A Law for Need or a Law for Greed: Restoring the Lost Law in the International Law on 

Foreign Investment”, Keynote Address at the Von Moltke Seminar on Sustainable Development 

and Global Governance at the Free University of Amsterdam, February 2006 


“Expansionary Trends in Investment Arbitration” Commonwealth Law Conference, 

London, November, 2005 

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“Japan-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement: The investment Provisions”, Conference of the 

Japan-ASEAN Secretariat, Tokyo, 2005 

Workshop on Drafting Investment Treaties, ASEAN Secretariat, Yogjakarta and Bangkok, 2005 



“ASEAN - Regionalism and Legal Issues”, paper presented at the Tilburg Centre for Law 

and Economics, the Netherlands, April 2005 

“Trends in International Dispute Settlement”, paper presented in International Workshop 

at the Attorney-General’s Chambers, June 2005 

Chairperson, CLE Seminar on “Future Challenges for the WTO Dispute Settlement System”, 

September 2005 


“The Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction - A Case for 

Singapore to be a Member State” presented at Lawasia ‘Children And the Law 

Conference’ in Singapore 28 May 2005 


Chairperson, Workshop on Trends in International Dispute Settlement, Attorney-General’s 

Chambers, Singapore, 23 June 2005 

Chairperson, Tête-á-Tête on “Lawless World” by Prof Philippe Sands, Singapore Institute 

of International Affairs, Singapore, 22 June 2005 

Guest Speaker, “Singapore’s FTA Programme: Legal and Policy Challenges”, with Ms Margaret 

Liang (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Singapore), Asia WTO Research Network 

Conference 2005, Korea Development Institute, School of Public Policy and Management, 

Seoul, Republic of Korea, 26 April 2005 


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Speaker, “The Uses of Techniques of Pacific Settlement in Malaysia-Singapore Relations”, 

National University of Singapore-University of Malaya Centennial Law Symposia, National 

University of Singapore, 16 April 2005, Singapore 

Guest Speaker, “Asian Scholarship and the Universality of International Law”, Symposium 

on The Asian Contribution to the Universality of International Law, Tsinghua University Law 

School, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 25 March 2005 

Guest Speaker, “An Asian Society of International Law”, American Journal of International 

Law-Indian Journal of International Law Joint-Meeting, Indian Society of International Law, 

New Delhi, India, 15 November 2004 

Speaker, “The Question of a Generic Definition of Terrorism under General International Law”, 

Symposium on Comparative Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy, Singapore, 24-26 June 2004 


“Institutional and Political Challenges for Air Pollution Control”, Urban Environmental 

Governance in Global Perspective - An International Workshop, Center for International 

Business Education and Research, the College Initiative in Internationalisation and 

Urbanisation and the Center for International Studies and the Department of Political 

Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, 23-24 September 2005

“Regional Autonomy in Indonesia: Decentralising Natural Resource (Mis)management”, 

Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 9 November 2005 

“Protected Area Management in Indonesia and Malaysia”, Workshop on Conservation 

for/by Whom? Social Controversies and Cultural Contestations regarding National Parks 

and Reserves in the Malay Archipelago, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and 

Social Sciences; Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science; Asia-Pacific 

Centre for Environmental Law, Faculty of Law and the Asia Research Institute, National 

University of Singapore, Singapore, 16-18 May 2005 

INTERNATIONAL LAW / HUMAN RIGHTS 


Speaker,‘Taking Development Seriously? Beyond the Statist Rhetoric of the Human Right 

to Development in ASEAN Countries’, International Conference on Human Rights and 

Development: Approaches to the Reform of Governance in Asia, organised by the School 

of Law, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 9-10 May 2005 

LEGAL EDUCATION 


“Interactive Teaching for Law Teachers, Getting Students to Speak Up”, A Workshop for the 

National University of Laos, Vang Vieng, Laos, September 2005 


“Legal Education in Asia”, First ASLI Symposium “Reflections on Legal Education in Asia”, 

Singapore, 10-11 November 2005 


“Teaching Equity and Trust: Reflections of a New Lecturer”, paper presented at the 

Association of Law Teachers 40th Annual Conference at Edinburgh University, 

Enhancing the Student Experience, 20-22 March 2005 


Virtual paper presentation, “Facilitating Independent Inquiry, Critical Thinking and Writing: 

An Integrated Teaching Methodology Applied in Human Rights Education”, The Twelfth 

International Conference on Learning, Faculty of Education at the University of Granada, 

Spain from 11-14 July 2005, supported by the University of Granada, Spain and Globalism 

Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia 

• WONG SIEW YIN, ELEANOR 

“From a New Known to a Familiar New: Reflections from the Singapore Legal Writing 

Programme”, Biennial Conference of the Association of Legal Writing Directors, Chicago, 

USA, 21-23 July, 2005 

“Pedagogical Challenges for En-culturing the Law Classroom: Reflections on the Legal 

Writing Program at NUS”, Conference organised by the Centre for the Study of Law and 

Culture, Bangalore, India, 12-13 August, 2005 


“Teaching Legal Skills” First ASLI Symposium “Reflections on Legal Education in Asia”, 

Singapore, 10-11 November 2005 

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MARITIME LAW 


“Safety and Security of Seaborne Trade: Relevance of Global Instruments and Initiatives 

to Cooperation among CSCAP Member Countries”, Second Meeting of CSCAP Study 

Group on Capacity Building for Maritime Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, New Delhi, 

India, 6-7 April, 2005 [organised by the Council for Security and Cooperation in the Asia 

Pacific (CSCAP)] 

“Joint Cooperation Zones to Enhance Maritime Security” Conference on Security of 

Sealanes, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11-14 July 2005 [Third Meeting of Indian Ocean Research 

Group (IROG)] 

“The 2005 SUA Protocol as a Tool to Combat Maritime Terrorism”, Maritime Law Seminar, 

Swissotel, Singapore, 28 November 2005 [organised by the Singapore Shipping Association 

(SSA) in association with the Maritime Law Association of Singapore (MLSA)] 

“Archipelagic Sea Lanes Passage in Southeast Asia – Developments and Uncertainties”, 

2nd IDSS-NUPI Workshop, Maritime Security in Southeast Asia, Traders Hotel, Singapore, 

29-30 November 2005, [organised by the Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS), 

Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and the Norwegian Institute for International 

Affairs (NUPI)] 

“The 2005 SUA Protocol and Maritime Security in Asia”, Fourth Meeting of CSCAP Study 

Group on Capacity Building for Maritime Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, Changi 

Village Hotel, Singapore, 2-3 December 2005 [organised by Council for Security and 

Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP)] 


“The Legal Implications of the ISPS Code on Commercial Shipping”, LAWASIA Downunder 

2005 Conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 21-25 March 2005 

PROPERTY LAW 



“Legal and Other Issues in Strata Developments”, paper presented at LexisNexis seminar on 

Recent Development and Legal Issues in Strata Development, JW Marriott, Kuala Lumpur, 

Malaysia, 22 February 2005 

“Law on Management Corporations”, paper presented at LexisNexis seminar on Recent 

Development and Legal Issues in Strata Development, JW Marriott, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 

22 February 2005 

“Overview of Singapore Strata Title Law”, paper presented at seminar on Owners’ 

Association and Property Management organised by Center for Real Estate Law, 

Peking University Law School, Peking University, Beijing, China, 12 April 2005 

“Legal Service in Real Estate Market: Singapore and Malaysian Experiences”, paper presented 

at conference on Real Estate Development and Transaction: Regulators and Participants 

jointly organised by Peking University Law School, American Bar Association and American 

Community Association Institute, Hangzhou, China, 15 April 2005 

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“Indefeasibility of Title and Interests in Singapore and Malaysia: Some Recent Developments”, 

paper presented at NUS-UM Centennial Law Symposia on Developments in Singapore and 

Malaysian Law organised by the Law Faculties of NUS and the University of Malaya, University 

of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23 April 2005 

“Real Estate Trading Law in Singapore”, paper presented at seminar on Laws on Real Estate 

Trading in ASEAN jointly organised by the Office of the National Assembly, Vietnam and 

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Hanoi, Vietnam, 14-15 September 2005 

PUBLIC LAW 


“Anti-Terrorism Legislation in Comparative Perspective: Some Policy Concerns”, presented 

at a Libertas/ABA-Asia Law Initiative symposium, The Terrorism Threat: Balancing State Interests 

and the Protection of Individual Liberties, Manila, Philippines, October 2005 

“Terrorism and the Limits of the Law”, presented at a roundtable on Human Rights, Terrorism, 

and National Security at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, 

Northern Ireland, October 2005 

“Contemporary Anti-Terrorism Policy in the United Kingdom: Some Legal and Social Dimensions”, 

presented at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland, December 2005 

“Preserving the Rule of Law in Times of Crisis: A Critique of the Extra-Legal Measures Model”, 

presented at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster, Jordanstown, 

Northern Ireland, December 2005 


“Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom: A Malaysian Case Study on Blogging Towards a Democratic 

Culture”, paper presented at the following conferences: (a) British, Irish, Law, Education and 

Technology Association Conference 2005 at Queen’s University, Belfast, 6-7 April 2005; (b) 

3rd Annual Malaysian Research Group in UK and Eire at Manchester Conference Centre, 

University of Manchester, 4 June 2005; (c) Digital Communities Conference at Universita' degli 

Studi del Sannio a Benevento, 5-9 June 2005; and (d) Annual Association of Legal and Social 

Philosophy Conference, Free Expression: Counting the Costs, at University of Strathclyde, 

23-25 June 2005 

SECURITIES REGULATION 


“Securities and Futures - Latest Developments”, Law Society of Singapore, April 2005 

TORT LAW 


“Medical Negligence Law: What Options for Singapore and Malaysia?”, paper presented 

at The National University of Singapore (NUS) – University of Malaya (UM) Centennial Law 

Symposia, Singapore, April 2005 


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TRADE LAW 


“Compliance in WTO Proceedings”, paper presented at the WTO Conference, 

London, England, May 2005 


Guest Speaker, “Free Trade Agreements in Asia and Some Common Legal Problems”, WTO at 

10 Conference, United Nations University, Tokyo, 25-27 October 2005 (by invitation of the Japan 

External Trade Organisation and the Japan Fair Trade Centre) 

Speaker, “The Environmental Lobby at the WTO”, Singapore Environment Institute-Ministry 

of Environment-Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (SEI-ENV-APCEL) Environmental Law 

Course, Ministry of the Environment, Singapore, 21 July 2005 

Guest Speaker, “The Prospect and Challenges of the Doha Round at the Coming Sixth WTO Ministerial 

Conference in Hong Kong, China”, Research Centre for International Organisation and Trade Law, 

College of Commerce, National Cheng-chi University, Taipei, 10 July 2005 

Chairperson, Panel on “New Issues and the Asian WTO Members”, Conference on Policy and Law 

Aspects of Asia and the WTO: Challenges and Opportunities, National Taiwan University College 

of Law WTO Research Centre, Taipei, 8-9 July 2005 

Guest Speaker, “The Asian WTO Members and the Amicus Brief Controversy: Arguments and 

Strategies”, Conference on Policy and Law Aspects of Asia and the WTO: Challenges and Opportunities, 

National Taiwan University College of Law WTO Research Centre, Taipei, 8-9 July 2005 


“Financial Liberalisation in East Asia: Lessons from Financial Crises and the Chinese Experience 

of Controlled Liberalisation”, paper presented in Law, Culture and Financial Sector Development 

- A Colloquium of the London Forum for International Economic Law and Development”, 

Shanghai, China, 14 May 2005 


“China’s Exchange Rate Regime in the Context of International Economic Law and Relations”, 

paper presented at the 2nd ASLI Conference “The Challenge of Law in Asia: from Globalisation 

to Regionalisation”, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 27 May 2005 

“China’s Foreign Trade Policy: Lessons from the Recent Sino-US and Sino-EU Trade Disputes”, 

paper presented at the 7th Annual Conference of PKU-HKU Legal Research Centre, the University 

of Hong Kong, 21-22 December 2005 

“ASEAN-China Free Trade Area: Trade or Tribute?”, seminar presented at the Asia Research 

Institute (ARI), National University of Singpore, 29 March 2005 

“China’s Exchange Rate Regime”, seminar presented at the East Asian Institute, 

National University of Singapore, 25 November 2005 

OTHERS 


“Civil Remedies”, paper submitted for the Conference on Developments in Singapore Law 

from 2001-2005, Singapore Academy of Law, 2006 

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OTHERS 



Case Notes, [2005] Asian Journal on Mediation 25 



“Chapter 9: Domestic Sale of Goods”, (2006) Singapore Law web-site (www.singaporelaw.sg), 

Committee on Singapore Law, Singapore Academy of Law and the Ministry of Law, 

Republic of Singapore 

COMPARATIVE LAW / CONTRACT LAW 


“The Application in Singapore of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the 

International Sale of Goods (CISG)”, chapter 10 of “An Overview of the Singapore Legal 

System” published by http://www.singaporelaw.org.sg and reproduced at 

http://www.singaporelaw.org.sg/content/CISG.html 



“Conflict of Laws”, (2006) Singapore Law web-site (www.singaporelaw.sg), Committee on 

Singapore Law, Singapore Academy of Law and the Ministry of Law, Republic of Singapore 



ASEAN Law Association, Chapter 3, ‘Government and the State’ in Legal Systems in ASEAN 

available at http://www.aseanlawassociation.org/papers/sing_chp3.pdf [2005] 



Chaired seminar, Dr Giam Choo Hoo, “Bird-Nest Soup and the Politics of CITES”, School of Design 

and Environment, NUS, 18 February 2005 

Chaired session, “Legal and Governance Frameworks for Conservation and Human Rights: 

Challenges of Federation” during the Workshop on Conservation for/by Whom? Social 

Controversies & Cultural Contest regarding National Parks Reserves in Malay Archipelago, 

NUS, 16-18 May 2005 

Organised a seminar jointly with Singapore Environment Institute for Prof Sands on Kyoto 

Protocol, Ministry of the Environment, Singapore, 24 June 2005 


Taught a 25-hour course on “International Environmental Law: Focus on ASEAN” at the 

William Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii, 8 Nov-5 Dec 2005 

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Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, 

New Haven, USA, 15 February to 2 March 2005 – taught intensive course on Comparative 

Environmental Law 

Visiting Associate Professor, Sydney University Faculty of Law, 6-11 October 2005 - taught 

intensive course on Asia-Pacific Environmental Law 

Presented seminar “Environmental Health Laws” to graduate medical students, School of 

Family & Community Health, Faculty of Medicine, National University of Singapore, 

23 August 2005 

EQUITY AND TRUSTS 


“Equity and Trusts”, (2006) Singapore Law web-site (www.singaporelaw.sg), Committee on 


FAMILY LAW 


Chairperson of session, “Children and the Law Conference” organised by LAWASIA and Law 

Society of Singapore, May 2005 


Invited Speaker at the Book Launch of “Teens and the Law”, published by Singapore 

Association of Women Lawyers, 23 April 2005 

Speaker and Panelist at news radio programme on “Women’s Rights” which aimed to 

educate the public on family law issues (8 March 2005, International Women’s Day, 

The Living Room, News Radio 93.8) 




“Response to Joint IDA-AGC Review of ETA Stage III: Remaining Issues”, joint paper with 

Yeo Tiong Min, submitted to IDA/AGC, 17 August 2005 (19 pp) 

“A Copyright Policy for NUS”, paper written for the NUS Copyright Policy Review 

Committee, 28 January 2005 (6 pp) 

“Some Copyright Issues for NUS Libraries”, paper written for the NUS Copyright Policy 

Review Committee, 7 July 2005 (4 pp) 



“Free Trade Agreements: Singapore Legal Developments” in the “Promotion of Singapore 

Law” website project organised by the Singapore Academy of Law, August 2005 

(published under “Articles” at www.singaporelaw.sg) 

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“Chapter 5: Singapore and International Law”, (2006) Singapore Law web-site 

(www.singaporelaw.sg), Committee on Singapore Law, Singapore Academy of Law 

and the Ministry of Law, Republic of Singapore 

PUBLIC LAW 


Invited Op-Ed: ‘Is Singapore heading for a selected presidency?’ Insight, Straits Times, 

19 Aug 2005, at 31 

RESTITUTION 


“Conflict of Laws”, (2006) Singapore Law web-site (www.singaporelaw.sg), Committee on 


TAX LAW 

• PHUA LYE HUAT, STEPHEN 

The Income Tax Board of Review, in DWTH v Comptroller of Income Tax (2005) 

MSTC 5347-5358 (co-author) 

The Valuation Review Board, in Management Corporation Strata Title Plan Nos 1298 and 

1304 v Chief Assessor and Comptroller of Property Tax (2005) MSTC 5528-5538 (co-author) 

TORT LAW 


“The Law of Negligence”, published in February 2006 on the Singapore Academy of Law 

website for the International Promotion of Singapore Law 


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BOOK EDITED 

COMMERCIAL & PUBLIC LAW 

EBENEZER O I ADODO 

Current Legal Developments in Nigeria: Essays in Memory of Professor J D Ojo (Obafemi Awolowo 

University Press, Ile-Ife, Nigeria) (with J O Anifalaje & A O Popoola) (in press) 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS 

INSURANCE LAW 


“The Basis of the Contract Clause: An Ogre in Insurance Law” in Anifalaje, Popoola & Adodo, Current 

Legal Developments in Nigeria: Essays in Memory of Professor J D Ojo (Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo 

University Press) (in press) 

EBENEZER O I ADODO & JACOB OKPERIN 

“The Duty of Utmost Good Faith under Insurance Act 2003: Insured’s Worst Nightmare” in Anifalaje, 

Popoola & Adodo, Current Legal Developments in Nigeria: Essays in Memory of Professor J D Ojo 

(Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo University Press) (in press) 

JOURNAL PAPERS PUBLISHED 

BANKING & FINANCE LAW 


“Where is the Protection of Bankers under Universal Banking in Nigeria?” [2004] 

Nigerian Journal of Banking & Finance Law (accepted for publication) 

LU HAITIAN 

“A Financial Innovation for the Third World Debt - China as a Major Case for Study” [2004] 

China-USA Business Review USA (accepted for publication) 

BIOMEDICAL LAW AND ETHICS 

DARYL LIM TZE WEI 

“Developing Professional Nursing in Singapore: A Case for Change” (2005) Vol 32 

No 1 Singapore Nursing Journal 34 


YU ZHENG 

“Managing Commercial Litigation In China”, [2004] 6 LawLines 34 (online): Rajah & Tann 

http://eoasis.rajahtann.com/eoasis/ll/pdf/VOL6IS4FA.pdf 


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SUKANDA HUSIN 

“Compliance and Dispute Settlement Under the Transboundary Atmospheric Pollution Regimes”, 

[2004] UNPAD Journal of International Law 30 

HUMAN RIGHTS LAW 

STRAUB, PETER 

“Farmers in the IP Wrench - How patents on gene-modified crops violate the right to food in developing 

countries” (2005) Hastings International & Comparative Law Quarterly (forthcoming) 


ORIOLA TAIWO AYODELE 

“Against the Plague: Pharmaceutical Patents Exemption Right as Biosecurity Strategy” (2005) 

Biotechnology Law Report (accepted for publication) 

“Regulating Unsolicited Electronic Mail in the United States and the European Union: Challenges and 

Prospects” (Spring 2005) Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property (accepted for publication) 

“Electronic Database Protection and the Limits of Copyright: What Options for Developing Countries?” 

(March 2004) Vol 7 No 2 Journal of World Intellectual Property 201-228 


LU HAITIAN 

“Dirty Industry Migration in China - Lessons for Corporate Social Responsibility”, paper presented at 

the Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility in China, Columbia University, USA, April 2004 

(accepted for publication by Columbia University Press) 


PUBLIC LAW 

YAP PO JEN 

“Four Models of Equality” (2005) 27 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative 

Law Review 63-100 

OTHERS 

ORIOLA TAIWO AYODELE 

“Advance Fee Fraud on the Internet: Nigeria’s Regulatory Response” (2005) 

Computer Law & Security Report (accepted for publication) 

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CONFERENCES / WORKSHOPS 

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY / COMPETITION LAW 

DARYL LIM TZE WEI 

“Regulating Access to Databases through Competition Law: A Missing Perspective in the Database 

Debate”, Roundtable Conference on ‘The Case For and Against Database Rights’ jointly organised 

by the IP Academy of Singapore, Fordham University Law School, Queen Mary Intellectual Property 

Research Institute and the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, Singapore, 

22 November 2004 


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AIR POLLUTION IN PACIFIC-RIM CITIES 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: ASSOC PROF TAN KHEE JIN, ALAN 

Research Project under the auspices of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) 

CHINA, INDIA AND THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: PROF M SORNARAJAH 

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: ASST PROF WANG JIANGYU 

(to be conducted in the period May 2005-June 2006) 

NEW MEDIA PIRACY AND PERCEPTIONS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: ASSOC PROF TAN KHEE JIN, ALAN 

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: ASST PROF LIM SUN SUN 

(Communications and New Media Programme, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) 

Research Project under the auspices of the Intellectual Property Academy, Singapore 

REGIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION IN ASIA 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: PROF M SORNARAJAH 

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: ASST PROF WANG JIANGYU 

Research project under the auspices of the Asian Development Bank 

RENDERING UNTO CAESAR: SECULARISM, PLURALISM 

AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN MULTI-ETHNIC SOCIETIES 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: ASSOC PROF THIO LI-ANN 

(to be conducted in the period 2005-2007) 

SUPPORTING VICTIMS OF CRIME IN THE ASIAN REGION 

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: ASSOC PROF CHAN WING CHEONG 

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: ASSOC PROF NGIAM TEE LIANG 

(Dept of Social Work, NUS) 

The study of victims of crime is a relatively new field. It was only in the last thirty years or so that 

attention has been focused on the relevance of victims in the criminal justice process and their needs. 

In many jurisdictions, this has led to compensation schemes for victims of crime, assistance schemes 

for victims of crime to recover from their ordeal, and guidelines to the police and courts as to how 

they should treat victims of crime to prevent a “second victimisation” to name a few. 


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Although there have been developments in Singapore in the last ten years or so to address the needs 

of victims of crime, large numbers of victims such as the elderly and victims of property offences may 

not be adequately assisted in having their needs met and guided through the legal process. The state 

of victim services in Singapore is not well developed or well co-ordinated. Therefore, there is much 

to be learnt from other jurisdictions, particularly those from around the region, on how victim needs 

are met, their recovery enhanced, and justice secured. 

This project aims to bring together leading academics and social service providers to assess the support 

given to victims of crime in the Asian region. In doing so, policy makers and field workers in Singapore 

can be made more aware of the themes and developments in other parts of the world relating to 

victim services, as well as opportunity given to showcase the successful efforts in Singapore in this 

respect. 

A collection of essays stemming from the papers delivered at the symposium is planned to be published 

which will document and analyse the support available to victims of crime in the Asian Region. This 

will also be the first time that such victim services in Singapore will be identified and analysed, which 

is an essential prerequisite for future co-ordination and networking to develop an integrated system 

of victim services. 


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DEGREES AWARDED 

LLM BY RESEARCH 

• LENKA PAVLASOVA (CZECH REPUBLIC) 

Supervisors : Assoc Prof Daniel Seng Kiat Boon 

Topic : Development and Regulation of Telecommunications Markets in India, 

Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand 

• LIU WEI (PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA) 

Supervisors : Assoc Prof Li Mei Qin 

Topic : Transformation of Chinese Foreign Investment Law in the Post-WTO Age: 

Current Problems and Future Prospects 

• SOICHER MIHAELA ECATERINA (ROMANIA) 

Supervisors : Prof Tan Sook Yee 

Topic : The Applicability in Singapore of the Principle of Reasonable Access 

to Land Open for Public Use 

THESES SUBMITTED FOR EXAMINATION 

PhD 

GRADUATE RESEARCH DEGREES 

• TAN SEU MEE (MALAYSIA) 

Supervisors : Prof Andrew Phang Boon Leong, Singapore Management University 

Mr Soh Kee Bun, Ministry of Law 

Topic : A Codified Law of Restitution - The Malaysian Experience 

LLM BY RESEARCH 

• OMER FAROOQ ALVI (PAKISTAN) 

Supervisors : Assoc Prof Hsu Locknie 

Topic : World Trade Organisation and the Regulation of International Trade 

• YU ZHENG (PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA) 

Supervisors : Assoc Prof Yeo Hwee Ying 

Topic : The Pre-Contract Utmost Good Faith in Insurance Law - A Comparative 

Study of the Chinese Law and the Common Law 

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UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PAPERS 

LAW 3 

• CHUA WEI LING, BRENDA 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Michael Hor 

Topic : Whether The Claims of Entrapment Should Be Recognised In Singapore 

• CHAN BAIHUI, ADRIAN 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Margaret Fordham 

Topic : Protecting the Right to be Let Alone. A Case for the Judicial Recognition 

of a Tort of Privacy in Singapore 

• CHANG PEIQI, REBECCA 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Eleanor Wong 

Topic : Commercial Law Clinic 

• CHER SUI LIN, ANNE 

Supervisor : Asst Prof Lim Lei Theng 

Topic : The Peer Mediation Legal Clinic 

• LIM ZI YUAN 

Supervisor : Asst Prof Burton Ong 

Topic : Registration of Non-Visual Trade Marks in Singapore: Making Sense of It All 


• PRISCILLA TSU-JYEN SHUNMUGAM 

Supervisor : Emeritus Prof EP Ellinger 

Topic : Islamic Banking in Malaysia: A Critical Assessment of Bai Bithaman Ajil 

and Its Implications of the Industry 

• TAN TZE KIAC, CLAIRE 



LAW 4 

• CHAN LAI HING 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Li Mei Qin 

Topic : Comparison of the Laws of Contract in China, Common Law 

& Civil Law Jurisdiction (In Mandarin) 

• CHIA KEN LI, ALVIN 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Robert McEwin 

Topic : Legislating Competition: Lessons from the Japanese Anti-monopoly Law 

• CHUA WEI LING, BRENDA 

Supervisor : Asst Prof Tracey Evans Chan 

Topic : Neonatal and Child Euthanasia 

• CHIA HSIUNG WEN, DANIEL 



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• CHIA YIJUAN, GERMAINE 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Daniel Seng 

Topic : The Impact of the Convention on Cybercrime on Electronic Criminal Investigations 

• CHEW, EUNICE 


Topic : Is Wrongful Conception Conceivable in Singapore? 

• CHNG AI LING, MELANIE 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof RC Beckman 

Topic : Jurisdictional Issues in the Timor Gap Dispute 

• FU SIMIN, CHARMAINE 

Supervisor : Dr Stephen Girvin 

Topic : Liability for Marine Oil Pollution from Bunkers - The Need 

and the Application of the Bunker Convention 

• KOH JIAYING 

Supervisor : Prof John Devereux 

Topic : My Body, My Property 

• LEE CHIEH SHI, JESSICA 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Yeo Hwee Ying 

Topic : Limited Liability Partnership - The New Business Model In Singapore. 

• LEE JU LIN, AUDREY 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Ng Siew Kuan 

Topic : Gene Patents and the Implications in Singapore 

• LEONG ZHI JIA, JEREMY 

Supervisor : Dr Lim Chin Leng 

Topic : Singapore and Malaysia: Recent Bilateral Developments 

• LIM KE XIU 

Supervisor : Dr Tan Seow Hon 

Topic : Are Unjust Laws Still Law? Investigating the Interaction between Moral 

and Legal Obligations 

• MEYGHAN MCCREA 

Supervisor : Dr Lim Chin Leng 

Topic : Competing Conceptions of Accountability in East Timor 

• OOI ZHAO RONG 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Alan Tan 

Topic : The Legal Implications of the ISM & ISPS Code on Private Obligations 

in International Seaborne Trade 

• QUEK EVANGELINE 


Topic : Assessing The Balance of Power of the Timor-Lesté/Australia Negotiation 

Regarding the Timor Gap Dispute - Has Timor-Lesté Succeeded in Overcoming 

the Asymmetrical Balance of Power? 


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• SARALA KUMARI D/O SUBRAMANIAM 

Supervisor : Dr Lim Ching Leng 

Topic : Humanitarian Intervention - Scope, Limits and an ASEAN Perspective 

• SITI ALIA BTE ABDUL RAHIM MATTAR 



• TAN BENG HWEE, PAUL 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Victor Ramraj 

Topic : The Right to Differ in Intimate Life: Constitutional and Political Toleration 

in a Pluralistic Singapore 

• TEO ZHU-EN, JOEL 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Stephen Phua 

Topic : IRAS and the Right to a Refund of Overpaid Taxes: The Taxpayer Strikes Back 

- The Law of Taxation 

• TEO ZHU-EN, JOEL 

Supervisor : Prof M Sornarajah 

Topic : Manipulating Corporate Nationality for Shareholder Protection under 

International Investment Treaties - The International Law on Foreign 

Investment 

• WONG KEE WEN 




• YEO CHUAN TAT 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Ho Hock Lai 

Topic : Is Inclusive Positivism a Defensible Position in Light of the Challenges 

Posed by Exclusive Positivism? 

EXCHANGE 

• EMELIE MARGARETA FRANCK 


Topic : The Function and Mandate of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision 

• RUSSELL WILLIAM WALLACE 


Topic : Market Access to the Banking Industry in the People’s Republic of China: 

International Legal and Economic Issues 

• VILI LEHDONVIRTA 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Daniel Seng 

Topic : EU Data Protection Directive: Adequacy of Data Protection in Singapore 

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GRADUATE RESEARCH PAPERS 

LLM BY COURSEWORK 

• CHENG YULIN 

Supervisor : Prof Tan Yock Lin 

Topic : Characteristics and the Choice of Law for Trusts 

LLM (CHINESE LAW) 

• DIETER JA DE SMET 

Supervisor : Dr Wang Jiangyu 

Topic : The Slowly emerging Anti-monopoly in China: Getting Closer to 

the Long Awaited Anti-monopoly Law 

• DIETER JA DE SMET 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Li Meiqin 

Topic : Corporate Governance with Chinese Characteristics: Issues with regard 

to the Chinese Company Law 

• LAU YAN WAI 


Topic : Rooting the Cause: Analysing the Minority Shareholder’s rights in China 

• MD ALY HAMED ELGHATIT 


Topic : The Sequel to Orwell’s “Animal Farm”: The WTO and Developing Countries 

• TIN KENG SENG 


Topic : Is Judicial Independence Possible in the People’s Republic of China? 

• VICTORIA CHNG WEILY 


Topic : China’s Accession to the WTO and Its Infrastructure Reforms 

• VICTORIA CHNG WEILY 


Topic : Discussing the Situation of Third Sector Organisations and Their Effects 

on Charity in China 

LLM (CORPORATE & FINANCIAL SERVICES LAW) 

• DING ZHENYU 


Topic : Legal Problems of Management Buyouts in China 


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LLM (INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW) 

• EMILY OHLER 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Thio Li-ann 

Topic : Why, in the Face of Widespread Assertion by the International Community of Women’s 

Right to Equality, Gender Discrimination & Apartheid Are Not Taken as Seriously as 

Racial Discrimination & Apartheid & Are Even at Times Condoned 

GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN SINGAPORE LAW 

• HO WEN LI (MS) 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Ng Siew Kuan 

Topic : Tackling the Growing Health Issues in the Developing World: A Challenge 

for Patent Law and the TRIPs Agreement 

• LIN SHUWEN, JOLENE (MS) 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Lim Chin Leng 

Topic : Establishing an Emissions Trading Scheme in Singapore 

• LOW JUNRUI 

Supervisor : Prof Ian McEwin 

Topic : Antitrust and the B2B Venture 

• TAN HUIYI, VALERIE 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Tjio Hans 

Topic : Importance of Rules of Engagement in the Battle for Corporate Control 


• WONG HUIWEN, DENISE (MS) 

Supervisor : Prof Ian McEwin 

Topic : Competition Law Issues in Network Industries 

• YAP WEI-MING, ALEXANDER 

Supervisor : Assoc Prof Tjio Hans 

Topic : The Singaporean LLP: An Evaluation 

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