Name
AMIRTHALINGAM Kumaralingam
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Designation
Professor |
Qualifications
PhD LLB (Hons) (Australian National University) |
Appointment(s)
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Email Address: lawka@nus.edu.sg |
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Office Tel: (65) 6516-1518 |
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Office Address
Dean's Office, FED-01-01B
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Eu Tong Sen Building
469G Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259776
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Research Interests
Criminal law (especially issues related to blameworthiness, international human rights, cross border crimes, vulnerable classes and multiculturalism)
Torts (especially issues related to the general principles of negligence, medical malpractice and economic loss).
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Subjects Taught
Criminal Law
Law of Torts
Common Law Obligations
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Brief Biodata
Kumaralingam Amirthalingam began his teaching career at the Australian National University in 1994 where he received his undergraduate and doctoral training in law, before joining the National University of Singapore Law School in 2000 where he is now a Professor and Vice Dean (International Programmes). In addition, he is also the Director of the Asian Law Institute. Professor Amirthalingam is on the International Editorial Boards of the Commonwealth Law Bulletin and the Journal of Law and Development. He has also served as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Sultan Qaboos College of Law, Oman. His research is primarily in the areas of criminal law and tort law, with a related interest in public law, human rights and international law.
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Representative Publications
1. "Culture, Crime and Culpability: Perspectives on the Defence of Provocation" in AD Renteln & MC Foblets, Multicultural Jurisprudence: Comparative Perspectives on the Cultural Defense (Portland: Hart Publishing, 2009) 35
2. "Criminal Law and Private Spaces: The Regulation of Homosexual Acts in Singapore" in S Bronitt, B McSherry & A Norrie (eds), Regulating Deviance: The Redirection of Criminalisation and the Futures of Criminal Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2008) 185
3. "Pure Economic Loss in a Commercial Context: Perspectives from Singapore" (2006) 14 Torts Law Journal 1
4. "Women's Rights, International Norms and Domestic Violence: Asian Perspectives" (2005) 27 Human Rights Quarterly 683
5. "Caldwell Recklessness is Dead, Long Live Mens Rea's Fecklessness" (2004) 67 Modern Law Review 491
6. "The Shifting Sands of Negligence: Reasonable Reliance to Legitimate Expectation?" (2003) 3 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 81
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