Brief Biodata

Dora Neo started her career as an advocate and solicitor before joining the NUS Law Faculty. She teaches contract law, credit & security and international banking law, and researches in these areas as well as in world trade law and the law relating to sale of goods. She has served several terms as Director of the faculty's Continuing Legal Education Program, and was Vice-Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) from 2001-2003. A first class honours graduate from Oxford University, UK, she also holds an LLM from Harvard Law School and a Certificate in Private Banking from the Wealth Management Institute, Singapore, and has been called to the bar in England and Singapore. In the 1990s, she was a consultant to the Minister of Law and was also seconded to the Ministry of Law. She has conducted training for professionals and government officials in areas including contract law, banking law and world trade law, and since 2007, has taught in the World Trade Organisation's Regional Trade Policy Course in Singapore. She has researched at institutions such as the UN Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in Vienna, Austria and has presented papers in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia. Her past appointments include being a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School and at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille III, France. In addition to having an interest in university administration and organizational management by virtue of her past membership in faculty and university-level committees, she has served on government and professional committees (in areas including censorship, publications, conferences, service improvement and law reform) and was a Senate member of the Singapore Academy of Law. She is a member of the Injunctions Review Panel constituted under the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act in Singapore, and an external examiner for the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong.