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Faculty Announcements

2008

14 Aug	Faculty members receive National Day Awards
31 Jul	Kumaralingam Amirthalingam promoted to Professor
28 Jul	Faculty of Law hosts prestigious biennial Obligations Conference
24 Jun	Assoc Prof Simon Tay chairs World Cities Summit Session
13 Jun	Assoc Prof Simon Tay chairs ASEAN Regional Mechanism on Human Rights Workshop
28 May	Assoc Prof Chan Wing Cheong appointed as member of the Tribunal for the Maintenance of Parents
23 May	The Fifth ASLI Conference returns to its roots in Singapore
23 May	NUS Faculty of Law hosts symposium on Emergency Powers in Asia
22 May	Diploma Ceremony of the 2nd World Trade Organisation Regional Trade Policy Course for Asia-Pacific
10 Apr	NUS Faculty of Law congratulates our alumni Walter Woon ’81 on his appointment as Attorney-General and Mrs Koh Juat Jong ’88 on her appointment as Solicitor-General
31 Mar	NUS Law Advisory Board member and alumnus, K. Shanmugam, SC ’84 appointed Minister for Law
20 Mar	New Publication - Guarantees and Performance Bonds by Professor Poh Chu Chai
19 Mar	Three faculty members receive Teaching Excellence Award
19 Mar	New Publication - A Philosophy of Evidence Law - Justice in the Search for Truth by Assoc Prof Ho Hock Lai
18 Mar	NUS Law students chalk up wins at prestigious international mooting competitions
12 Mar	Associate Professor Michael Ewing-Chow lectures at Japan’s Ministry of Justice seminars
12 Mar	New Publication – Law of Intellectual Property of Singapore by Associate Professor Ng-Loy Wee Loon
28 Feb	Michael Ewing-Chow ’95 appointed Associate Professor
4 Feb	New Publication - Criminal Law in Malaysia and Singapore by Stanley Yeo, Neil Morgan and Chan Wing Cheong
4 Feb	New Publication – Elements of Family Law in Singapore by Leong Wai Kum
21 Jan	New Publication – Land Law Third Edition by WJM Ricquier
6 Jan	Professor Jeffrey Pinsler appointed as Senior Counsel

2007

22 Nov	LexisNexis renews Family Law Prize with a new prize of $500 cash
22 Nov	Assistant Professor Helena Whalen-Bridge and second-year law undergraduate Ms Bernice Lim conferred the “Friend of the Law Society” award
18 Nov	Associate Professor Kumaralingam Amirthalingam appointed to the International Review and Assessment Committee for the Sultan Qaboos University College of Law
2 Nov	Professor A.P. Simester elected to a fellowship at Cambridge University’s Wolfson College
16 Oct	NUS Law School Post-Doctoral Fellowships 2008
18 Sep	President S R Nathan launches Scales of Gold: 50 years of Legal Education at the NUS Faculty of Law
3 Sep	NUS Faculty of Law congratulates our alumni recognised at the 2nd NUS Entrepreneurship Awards 2007
1 Sep	50th Anniversary Gala Dinner – Celebrating 50 Years of Legal Education in Singapore
16 Aug	Professor Teo Keang Sood awarded the Public Service Medal and Associate Professor Robert Beckman awarded the Public Administration Medal
14 Aug	NUS Law Co-Organises Infrastucture and Construction Law Arbitration Moot Competition in India
13 Aug	NUS Faculty of Law’s Professor Jeffrey Pinsler appointed District Judge
30 Jul	2007 Annual Survey of Letter of Credit Law & Practice dedicated to Emeritus Professor Peter Ellinger of NUS Faculty of Law
20 Jul	NUS law undergrad achieves a first for Singapore
Jul	A warm welcome to our Visiting Professors
17 May	NYU@NUS: Official launch of new ground-breaking Law programme for globally-minded students
30 Apr	Visiting Associate Professor awarded the 2007 Hart Socio-Legal Article Prize
19 Apr	Conferment of the Emeritus professorship on Professor Koh Kheng Lian ’61
17 Apr	Emeritus Professor Koh Kheng Lian honoured at NUS University Awards 2007
Apr	Asian Society of International Law holds inaugural conference at NUS; NUS Law chosen as Secretariat
Mar	Prof. Thio Li-ann & Siew Kum Hong ' 00 appointed Nominated Members of Parliament
Mar	NUS to launch double degree in Law and Life Sciences
Feb	Launch of NUS-WTO Regional Trade Policy Course
Feb	Alan Tan '93 awarded Diederiks-Verschoor Prize for Aviation Law
Jan	NUS Law Welcomes Back Comparative Criminal Law Scholar Stanley Yeo '76
Jan	NUS Law Welcomes Prof. Simon Chesterman
7 Jan	NUS Law Alumni Toh Kian Sing '90 and Harpreet Singh Nehal '91 appointed Senior Counsel

2006

Nov	NUS Law Launches New LLM in Asian Legal Studies
Nov	NUS Law Launches New Maritime Law Programmes
2 Nov	Class of '86 Donates $100,000 for Class of ’86 Bennett Lam Scholarship Fund
Oct	Prof. Walter Woon '81 appointed Second Solicitor-General
Oct	Book by Mr Ngiam Tong Dow and edited by Assoc Prof Simon Tay '86 launched
30 Oct	Visit of Vietnamese Senior Officials from Various Government Ministries
4 Oct	Book by Mr Ngiam Tong Dow and edited by Assoc Prof Simon Tay '86 launched
2 Oct	NUS Law Faculty Launches New Concurrent Degree In Law And Public Policy
Sept	NUS Law School Post-Doctoral Fellowships
21 Sept	Mallal Moots Final - Revisiting Jasbir Singh v. PP - 21 Sept. 2006
Aug	Jeffrey Pinsler and Simon Tay '86 awarded the Public Service Medal (PBM)
Aug	NUS Law Faculty wins bid to host WTO Regional Trade Policy Course
Aug	Simon Tay '86 to serve as charter member of Yale University's Center for Environmental Law & Policy
13 Aug	New Professors Teo Keang Sood and Thio Li-ann
13 Aug	Legal philosopher Andrew Simester joins NUS Law
3 Aug	Dean Tan Cheng Han S.C. ’87 appointed Specialist Judge
28 Jun	Research Gallery: Wang Jiangyu and M Sornarajah on China, India and the International Economic Order
23 Jun	M. Sornarajah appointed C. J. Koh Professor
1 Jun	New Vice-Deans Victor V. Ramraj and Alan Tan '93 appointed
31 May	Research Gallery: Chan Wing Cheong on Victims of Crime
Apr	First NUS graduate to be appointed Chief Justice
20 Mar	NUS is one of top 5 teams in 4th Asia-Pacific Red Cross IHL Competition
10 Mar	NUS makes its mark in the 2006 Jean-Pictet International Humanitarian Law Competition
15 Feb	NYU and NUS to offer dual graduate degree programme in Singapore
17 Jan	New Publication - Vessel-Source Marine Pollution by A/P Alan Tan
4 Jan	IP Academy to Sponsor NUS Team in IP Moot at Oxford

2005

9 Dec	A/P Thio Li-ann is appointed a General Editor of the Asian Yearbook of International Law
9 Nov	Singapore Red Cross to sponsor NUS Teams to two mooting competitions
1 Nov	A/P Gary Bell is appointed to ISEAS Board
20 Oct	NUS performs well at Space Moot Finals
10 Oct	2006 NUS International Moot Teams
31 Aug	Law professors edit book on Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy
24 Aug	NUS wins the Asia Cup International Law Moot Court Competition for the third time
30 May	Bukit Timah Campus to belong to NUS; its law and business schools to move there
18 Apr	NUS Wins Asia Pacific Regional of Space Moot Competition
13 Apr	A/P Robert Beckman wins award at Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Competition
21 Mar	Faculty Legal Writing Team is appointed International Consultants to the Laos Government
17 Mar	A/P Chan Wing Cheong is re-appointed to the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports (MCYS) Elder Protection Team
11 Mar	Law School mourns the loss of Professor Geoffrey Wilson Bartholomew
13 Jan	Tan Cheng Han SC ’87 to represent Singapore as Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum

2004

30 Sep	Implementation of the 5-Day work week
9 Sep	NUS tops 2004 Asia Cup International Law Moot Court Competition
2 Sep	NUS Faculty of Law collaborates with the World Trade Institute (WTI)
25 Aug	Prof S Jayakumar ’63 appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Law
10 Jul	NUS is Runner-Up in Maritime Arbitration Competition
5 Jul	Singapore’s Maritime Arbitration Community Provides Strong Support for Moot Competition Hosted by NUS
25 Jun	Top Legal Scholars to Meet at NUS to Discuss Asian Legal Issues
12 May	Former Dean Tommy Koh ’61 Receives NUS Outstanding Service Award
12 May	Law Faculty Professor clinches NUS Young Researcher Award
May	Exchange Agreements signed with New Partner Universities
4 Apr	NUS Law School Team is 7th-time Runners-up in Prestigious International Mooting Competition
17 Mar	Student symposium on Singapore-Malaysia relations draws wide-ranging papers
3 Mar	LL.D for Law Faculty Professor
Mar	NUS Faculty of Law Moot Team Wins International Humanitarian Law Moots
16 Jan	NUS Law Faculty staff appointed as advisors to Timor-Leste
4 Jan	A/P Tan Cheng Han is appointed Senior Counsel and re-appointed as Dean

2003

Dec	Law Student exchange agreement with Tsinghua University Law School
05 Jun	Maritime and Port Authority Endows $4m Professorship in Maritime Law
May	Student exchange agreements with NYU and Northwestern
27 Feb	NUS Law Faculty signs agreement with Fudan University School of Laws

2002

Oct	Deanery Visit to U.S. Law Schools
Apr	Law Academic To Head New Statutory Board
1 Apr	Moots Victory in Vienna

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