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About the Faculty
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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
strength of the NUS law school is seen in the broad and diverse range of
subjects that it offers. Students at the law school can choose subjects from
many clusters including Asian legal studies, banking and finance, biomedical
law, commercial law, comparative law, corporate law, criminal law,
intellectual property, international law, law and social justice, legal
jurisprudence, legal process and skills, public law, and transportation law,
just to name a few. While the subjects range from the theoretical to the
practical, the overriding objective is to provide students with a liberal
education through the medium of law that will allow them to maximise their
potential to the fullest degree.
Located
in Singapore, which for almost 200 years has been a major international
commercial centre and a cosmopolitan city, the NUS law school is very much
Asia’s Global Law School. Ever since its establishment in 1957, the
teaching of law at NUS has been conducted against the backdrop of legal
developments in other parts of the world. Today, virtually all faculty at
the NUS law school incorporate global perspectives from civil law or other
common law jurisdictions in their teaching. In addition, each year the law
school plays host to around a dozen visiting faculty who add to the
cosmopolitanism of the law school by bringing their own unique perspectives
to legal education. All this reflects the strong belief of the law school
that with the increasing demands placed on legal practice by globalisation,
it is essential for legal professionals to approach the study of law from a
broader, multi-jurisdictional perspective.
Global
perspectives are also very much evident in the cutting edge research
produced by faculty at the NUS law school. In the constant search for better
legal solutions to the issues that confront all societies, faculty often
incorporate comparative material in their articles and monographs. Writing
as they do for a global audience, articles from NUS faculty are published
regularly in leading academic journals. In recent years the journals faculty
have published in include the Australian Law Journal, Butterworths
Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, Cambridge Law
Journal, Canadian Foreign Policy, Columbia Journal of Law and
the Arts, Connecticut Journal of International Law, Harvard
International Law Journal, Human Rights Quarterly,
International and Comparative Law Quarterly, International
Constitutional Law Journal, International Journal of Evidence and
Proof, International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook,
Journal of Business Law, Journal of Contract Law, Journal of
Corporate Law Studies, Journal of World Investment, Law
Quarterly Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly,
Legal Studies, Modern Law Review, Oxford University
Commonwealth Law Journal, Regent University Law Review,
Restitution Law Review, Singapore Academy of Law Journal,
Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law, Singapore
Journal of Legal Studies, South African Law Journal, The Law
Teacher, Torts Law Journal, Tort Law Review, and UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal.
Reflecting the cosmopolitan
nature of the law school, our undergraduate and graduate students come from
over 40 countries and territories, representing all the continents in their
diversity. In the 2008/09 academic year, our students hail from: Australia,
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China,
Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Maldives, New Zealand,
Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Rwanda, Singapore, Sri Lanka,
South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Uganda, the United
Kingdom, the United States, Venezuela and Vietnam. In addition, the law
school plays host each year to students from more than 40 student exchange
partners all over the world, including law schools in Australia, Canada,
China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, New
Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The diversity of students at NUS adds to a vibrant and stimulating
intellectual environment.
The city
and country of Singapore also provides a wonderful environment for a legal
education. Singapore is a gracious Asian city that has long been regarded as
a meeting point between the East and the West. It is a natural place to live
in to understand Asia better. There are also internship opportunities with
public and private organisations in Singapore or other parts of Asia.
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