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LLM (International Business Law) - Teaching Faculty

Professor Kumaralingam AMIRTHALINGAM 

Dr Kumaralingam Amirthalingam holds a doctorate in law from the Australian National University (ANU) and has twelve years’ teaching experience, first at ANU and then at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests and expertise lie in torts, criminal law and multicultural jurisprudence. He has been recognized as an Excellent Teacher by NUS and has a keen interest in international education. He is presently the Director, International Programmes at the NUS Law Faculty. He is also an alumnus of the Salzburg Seminar. While in Australia, he served as a member of the Criminal Law Committee of the Australian Capital Territory’s Law Society and was also a Director on the Board of the Australian Capital Territory’s Welfare Rights and Legal Centre. He is an active researcher with over 25 publications, mostly in top international journals; some recent pieces have appeared in (2005) 64 Cambridge Law Journal 32, (2005) 27 Human Rights Quarterly 683, (2004) 67 Modern Law Review 491, (2003) 3 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 81, (2003) 119 Law Quarterly Review 563, (2003) 11 Torts Law Journal 117, [2003] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 125. He has been invited to speak on diverse areas including criminal law, torts, multiculturalism and human rights and has presented papers at international conferences and seminars in over ten different countries across Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.  

Adjunct Professor Lawrence BOO  

Adjunct Professor Lawrence Boo obtained his LLB (Hons) and LLM degrees from the National University of Singapore, and is a Chartered Arbitrator and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London (FCIArb), the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (FSIArb), the Arbitrators and Mediators Institute of New Zealand (FAMINZ) and the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA). He is currently the Deputy Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) and is well recognised as one of Singapore’s leading international arbitrators. He has sat as arbitrator in more than 150 arbitrations and written numerous arbitral awards. He is on the Panel of International Arbitrators and Mediators of the American Arbitration Association (AAA) New York, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC), Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB), the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration (KLRCA) and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (HKIAC). He also serves as Law Reform Consultant to the Attorney-General’s Chambers and on many Government and quasi-Government bodies. Associate Professor Boo is also a frequent speaker at international conferences and seminars and has published many articles on arbitration, mediation and ADR. He is the author of Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore - Arbitration and the chapter on Singapore in the book “International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration”. He is an advisor to the China Law Reports and is Singapore’s National Correspondent to UNCITRAL’s Case Law on UNCITRAL Text (CLOUT).   

Assistant Professor LIM Lei Theng

Assistant Professor Lim Lei Theng, who has an LLB (Hons) from the National University of Singapore and an LLM from Harvard Law School, is a Deputy Director of the Legal Writing Programme in the Faculty of Law. She was a member of the Faculty’s teaching staff before becoming a litigation lawyer at Messrs Drew & Napier, which is one of Singapore’s largest and leading law firms. Her legal practice centred on civil suits and arbitrations involving cross-border transactions. She is also an active mediator. She has since returned to the Faculty and has taught a variety of legal skills courses, including trial advocacy, moots, writing, negotiation and mediation. As a Deputy Director of the Legal Writing Programme, she convenes and teaches two courses for second year law students, Introduction to Trial Advocacy and Legal Case Studies. The former allows students to do a mock trial, while the latter takes students through a corporate transaction. She also teaches in the first year Legal Analysis, Writing and Research course, and assists in coaching the NUS moots teams. In May 2004, she co-conducted a workshop on “Teaching Legal Skills” for the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong.  

Associate Professor Alexander LOKE 

Alexander F H Loke, JSD LLM (Columbia), LLB (Hons)(NUS), is Associate Professor with research interests in contract law, international business transactions, corporate finance and securities regulation. He was Visiting Associate Professor, East China University of Politics and Law (2002), Visiting Scholar, Columbia University (2000-2001), and Visiting Lecturer, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (1999). He was a contributor to Halsbury Laws of Singapore Vol 7: Contracts and Walter Woon on Company Law, 3rd ed (2005). His research interests are in the fields of Law of Contract, International Corporate Finance and  Regulating the Corporation. He has also written on insider trading, fiduciary duties and corporate governance. 

Associate Professor Dora NEO 

Dora Neo started her career as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore before joining the NUS Law Faculty. She teaches contracts, world trade law, secured transactions and international banking, and retains research interest in the law of sale of goods, which she taught previously. In 2005, she chaired a committee to examine and recommend global strategies for the law faculty's strategic planning review. She was Vice-Dean (Research & Graduate Studies) from 2001-2003, after which she took her sabbatical as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in 2003. She holds a first class honours degree from Oxford University and an LLM from Harvard Law School, and is to the bar in England and Singapore. She was a consultant to the Ministry of Law in Singapore and was seconded there in 1993-94. She has researched at institutions such as the UN Commission for International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) in Vienna, Austria, presented papers in the UK, USA, Europe and Asia, was a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Aix-Marseille III, France. In addition to having contributed to educational policy in university-level committees, she has served on government and professional committees in areas including censorship, law journal publication and law reform, is a member of the Injunctions Review Panel under the Consumer Protection (Fair Trading) Act, and is a Senate member of the Singapore Academy of Law.  

Associate Professor Maisie OOI

Dr Maisie Ooi graduated with Firsts from the University of Malaya (LLB) and University of Oxford (BCL) and has a doctorate in law (DPhil) from the University of Oxford (Merton College). She has been awarded, amongst others, the British High Commissioner's Chevening Award 1997/98, the British High Commissioner's Chevening Citibank Oxford Award 1998/99, the Freshfields Scholarship 1999/2000 and the Merton Prize Scholarship 1999/2000. Dr Ooi practised law for many years (with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Zain & Co) prior to joining the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. She has extensive experience in cross-border corporate and corporate finance matters, and has advised governments, governmental agencies, major financial institutions and multinational corporations on numerous and very wide ranging corporate, regulatory and financial law matters. She is qualified to practise law in England and Wales, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and is currently seeking admission as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore. Dr Ooi is the author of Shares and other Securities in the Conflict of Laws (OUP, 2003), which deals with the choice of law and insolvency issues that arise when shares and other securities are traded (or given as collateral) across borders. She currently teaches and is the convener for Company Law and International Corporate Finance in the NUS Faculty of Law.  

Associate Professor Stephen PHUA

Associate Professor Stephen Phua, who has an LLB from the National University of Singapore, was formerly the Director of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. Since obtaining his LLM (Tax) from the University of London where he won the coveted Speechley Bircham prize in the tax program, he has devoted himself to teach and research in Tax Planning, Goods and Services Tax, Corporate Taxation and International Tax Law at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore over the last 15 years. He has delivered and published many articles in international conferences and journals in the various areas of taxation laws. He has organised many international and local conferences/seminars on tax and commercial laws. His most recent work is: Editor of the “Current Developments in Financial Regulation and Capital Markets” (2003) and is currently editing a book on “Excise Taxation in Asia” due end 2005. His contributions extend beyond the academia. Besides being a tax consultant to public institutions and leading private law firms, he is a member of all three tax tribunals in Singapore where all tax appeals are heard at first instance: Income Tax Board of Review, Goods and Services Tax Board of Review and Valuation Review Board. In those capacities, he has co-authored several landmark decisions on income tax and property tax laws. He is also a member of the Tax Advisory Group of the Ministry of Finance, Singapore. In 2005, he became a member of the Steering Group of the International Network of Tax Researchers formed under the prestigious Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, OECD. Over the years, he has also taken up various visiting positions in different capacities at leading universities such as Harvard University, New York University, University of British Columbia and Kyushu University. 

Professor SI Pingping 

Professor Si Pingping obtained his LLB and LLM degrees from East China University of Politics and Law. He is also a lawyer at Trust Justice Law Firm in Shanghai, China. He teaches both international law and anti-monopoly law at ECUPL. He taught international law as a visiting professor at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in 2004 and conducted a course on the Chinese legal system at the University of San Francisco Law School in 2001. He was also previously a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan Law School and King’s College, London. He lectured at the London Headquarters of Linklaters and Alliance as well as on the reform of Chinese contract law at the British China Law Association. He co-coached the ECUPL moot team which participated in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Washington DC in 2004. He has published articles in China’s leading journals such as Legal Jurisprudence and Legal Studies. He has also co-authored several books, namely, Jurisprudence on International Law (Law Publications, 1998) and International Anti-Monopoly Law (Shanghai People’s Publications), as well as contributed to A Great Dictionary of International Legal System (Law Publications 1994).  

Professor TAN Cheng Han, S.C.  

Professor Tan Cheng Han, S.C., a graduate of the National University of Singapore and the University of Cambridge, is a well known international scholar for his work in corporate and commercial law and has published many articles in leading international law journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, the Company Financial and Insolvency Law Review, the Journal of Corporate Law Studies, and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, and is an Editorial Board member of the LAWASIA journal. Currently the Dean of the NUS law school, he is also a leading litigation lawyer and arbitrator and was one of the youngest persons to have been appointed to the rank of Senior Counsel by the Chief Justice of Singapore. He is also on the Panel of Arbitrators of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC). He holds numerous academic and public appointments including being a Vice-President of the Singapore Academy of Law, Vice-Chairman of the Asian Law Institute, a Governor of the Intellectual Property Academy, a Board member of the East Asian Institute and the Asian Research Institute, a member of the Securities Industry Council, a member of the Appeal Advisory Panel to the Minister for Finance constituted under the Securities and Futures Act, the Financial Advisers Act, and the Insurance Act, a member of the Panel for the Singapore Armed Forces Military Court of Appeal, and a member of the Board of Legal Education. He is also a director of various companies in Singapore and Hong Kong. 

Professor TAN Yock Lin  

Professor Tan is an engineering graduate of the Imperial College, London and a law graduate of Oxford University. He has had a varied career, in the Economic Development Board of Singapore, the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Faculty of Law where he became a professor in 2000. Reflecting his varied interests, he has taught in and written on diverse areas of the law. He has a book on the legal profession, The Law of Advocates and Solicitors in Singapore and West Malaysia, which is in the second edition. His other books include a loose-leaf reference text, Criminal Procedure, which has been well received and has been updated 10 times since its first appearance, and Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore: Evidence (with Professor Pinsler), which has enjoyed a good measure of success. His latest book is Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore: Equity and Trusts (with others). In the fields of commercial law and private international law, he has published a book, Conflicts Issues in Family and Succession Law, and presented numerous papers on aspects of commercial law and on conflicts issues in international commerce. His other publications appear in leading international journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, Legal Studies, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. As a result of his strong interest in law reform, he continues to serve in the Law Reform Committee of the Singapore Academy of Law where he is also a member of the Senate. Law reform papers which he has prepared for the Law Reform Committee include reform of private international law, the Bills of Sale Act, contractual illegality and aspects of trust law. He has provided legal advice to various government ministries, has been consulted by lawyers in Singapore, Brunei, and Malaysia, and has acted as amicus curiae.  

Associate Professor TEY Tsun Hang 

Tsun Hang joined the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore in 1997. He is a former District Judge of the Subordinate Courts, and a former State Counsel at the Legislation Division of the Attorney-General's Chambers, Singapore. He also practiced law in a leading Singapore law firm. He has been a member of the Editorial Committee of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies and the Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law, and the Executive Committee of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies. His teaching and research specializations are in the areas of trusts and equity, personal property and tort.

Professor Hans TJIO  

Professor Hans Tjio has an MA from Cambridge and an LLM from Harvard. He is well known internationally for his work in corporate and commercial law and was a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Auckland in June 2004 where he taught a course on Comparative Securities Regulation. He was also previously a Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s Program on International Legal Studies and Melbourne’s Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation. In various stints during his career, Associate Professor Tjio has also been seconded to Singapore’s Ministry of Law and was an Assistant Director in Singapore’s de facto central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He was a member of the Ministry of Finance’s Company Legislation and Regulatory Framework Committee which made sweeping recommendations to reform Singapore’s Companies Act, and has published in leading international journals such as the Journal of Business Law, Law Quarterly Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Journal of Contract Law and Company Lawyer. He is also a contributor to Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore in the areas of securities regulation and contract law, and has recently completed a book on the Principles and Practice of Securities Regulation in Singapore (LexisNexis Butterworths, May 2004).  

Assistant Professor WEE Meng Seng 

After graduating from the NUS Law School, Wee Meng Seng practiced law for a few years before joining the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) as a senior tutor. He went on study leave for a few years where he obtained his BCL (First Class) and D Phil from the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis is on contracts and corporate insolvency proceedings. His research interests are in the fields of Corporate Insolvency and Company Law. 

Professor ZHU Lanye

Professor Zhu Lanye graduated from Fudan University with an LLB degree and has since been a faculty member of the East China University of Politics and Law. She was a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School from 1985 to 1986 and 1990 to 1991 respectively. She is also an arbitrator with the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Shanghai Arbitration Commission and Shenzhen Arbitration Commission. In February 2004, she was nominated by the Chinese government and accepted by the World Trade Organisation as a panelist for dispute settlement under the WTO. Since 1987, she has taught the course on intellectual property law to both undergraduates and graduate students at the East China University of Politics and Law. As a visiting professor, she has taught at the University of San Francisco School of Law, St. Louis University School of Law, Groningen University Law School and Sydney University Law School. She is the author or co-author of more than 10 books in the fields of intellectual property and international economic law.