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About the Event
Stanley Yeo will share his personal journey as a legal academic from a young inexperienced lecturer in the early 1980s to the present day as a visiting research professor at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), NUS. He will show how his teaching and research of the Indian Penal Code (“IPC”) has borne much fruit over the years, both in terms of personal satisfaction as a teacher, and witnessing the impact of his research on legal change. Stanley will highlight some lessons from his long academic career with the aim of benefitting his listeners. This lecture will be directed as much to law students as to emerging academics and researchers, and anyone who may be curious to know what legal academics in their ivory towers think and do in their working lives.

About the Speaker

Stanley Yeo is a visiting scholar at CALS, NUS. He has made legal academia his life-long career spanning 45 years during which time he has held permanent positions at law schools in Australia and Singapore, and short term visitorships to law schools in Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bhutan and India. He has published extensively in the fields of criminal law and criminal justice, with special leaning towards comparative criminal law. He has served as a consultant to law commissions in Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland.