Asia’s Global Law School
Name

CHEAH Wui Ling
Full C.V.  		  
Designation

Assistant Professor 
Qualifications

LL.M (Harvard), LL.M LL.B (NUS) 
Appointment(s)
Email Address: lawcwl@nus.edu.sg
Office Tel: (65) 6516-3629 
Office Fax: (65) 6779-0979 
Office Address

Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Eu Tong Sen Building
469G Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259776
 
Research Interests

Criminal Justice
Human Rights Law and Constitutional Liberties
Transitional Justice (Southeast Asia) 
Subjects Taught

International Criminal Law
Singapore Criminal Law
Singapore Public Law 

Brief Biodata

Wui Ling holds an LLM from Harvard Law School. For her Harvard studies, she was recipient of a National University of Singapore Scholarship and the Kathryn Aguirre Worth Memorial Scholarship. She also holds an LLB and an LLM (by research) from the National University of Singapore. She is currently on study leave, and is reading for a DPhil in Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford.

Her research interests lie in the areas of criminal justice, human rights law, and constitutional liberties, and she is particularly interested in transitional justice issues related to Southeast Asia. She teaches at the National University of Singapore, and has conducted fieldwork in Cambodia, Timor Leste, Indonesia, and Japan. Prior to joining academia, Wui Ling served as a legal officer at Interpol (General Secretariat, Lyon) and as a legal trainee at the Serious Crimes Unit (Timor Leste).

For her doctorate, she is studying post-WWII trials conducted by the British in Singapore.
Representative Publications

1. "Post-WWII British ‘Hell-ship’ Trials in Singapore: Omissions and the Attribution of Responsibility", Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press), Volume 8.4, 2010.

2. "Policing Interpol: the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files and the Right to a Remedy", International Organizations Law Review (BRILL), Volume 7.2, 2010.

3. "Mapping Interpol’s Evolution: Functional Expansion and the Move towards Legalization", Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press), Volume 4.1, 2010.

4. "Private Defence", Collection of Essays marking the 150th Anniversary of the Indian Penal Code (Ashgate), upcoming in 2011.

5. "Walking the Long Road in Solidarity and Hope: a Case Study of the "Comfort Women" Movement's Deployment of Human Rights Discourse", Harvard Human Rights Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, 2009.

6. "Forgiveness and Punishment in Post-conflict Timor", UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Volume 10, No.1, 2005.
Publication List 

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