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Hillary CHUA
Hillary holds an LLB from King’s College London and a Master of Bioethics from Harvard Medical School, where she was awarded the annual Beecher Prize in Medical Ethics in 2019. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 2018, and practised medical defence and civil litigation prior to joining NUS as a Sheridan Fellow. Her research interests are in medical law, clinical ethics and disability law.
Education
Master of Bioethics (Harvard); LLB (King’s College London); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
Current Courses
Law of Torts
Law of Torts (JD)
Hillary holds an LLB from King’s College London and a Master of Bioethics from Harvard Medical School, where she was awarded the annual Beecher Prize in Medical Ethics in 2019. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 2018, and practised medical defence and civil litigation prior to joining NUS as a Sheridan Fellow. Her research interests are in medical law, clinical ethics and disability law.
She is a member of the National University Hospital’s Clinical Ethics Committee and the Singapore Ministry of Health’s Advisory Committee on Restricted Human Biomedical Research. She has done short-term research stints at the Hastings Center (Garrison, New York) and the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics, and maintains an interest d/Deaf culture and communication in her spare time.
Journal Articles
Hillary Chua, ‘Revisiting the Vegetative State: A Disability Rights Law Analysis.‘ (Spring 2021) HMS Bioethics Journal
- Medical Law and Ethics
- Disability Law