YEO 
Meng Heong, Stanley

 
Adjunct Research Professor

Academic Fellow

Professor Yeo joined the Faculty in late 2006 from Southern Cross University, Australia, where he was Head of the School of Law and Justice. His main teaching and research interests lie in the area of criminal law, especially comparative criminal law.

During his academic career spanning over 35 years, Professor Yeo has taught in Australia, Bhutan, Canada, India, Japan, the United Kingdom and Singapore. He has published extensively in the fields of criminal law and criminal justice, and has been a consultant to various law reform commissions. He is the recipient of teaching excellence awards in Australia and Singapore.

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Contact

lawyeos@nus.edu.sg

Education

LLD, PhD, LLM (University of Sydney); LLM (Victoria University of Wellington); LLB (National University of Singapore); LLD (Honoris Causa) (Southern Cross University); Barrister (New South Wales)

Current Courses

Professor Yeo joined the Faculty in late 2006 from Southern Cross University, Australia, where he was Head of the School of Law and Justice. His main teaching and research interests lie in the area of criminal law, especially comparative criminal law.

During his academic career spanning over 35 years, Professor Yeo has taught in Australia, Bhutan, Canada, India, Japan, the United Kingdom and Singapore. He has published extensively in the fields of criminal law and criminal justice, and has been a consultant to various law reform commissions. He is the recipient of teaching excellence awards in Australia and Singapore.

In 2003, Professor Yeo was awarded a Doctor of Laws by Sydney University for his substantial contribution to legal scholarship in the area of criminal defences in the common law world. While in Australia, Professor Yeo was co-editor of the Criminal Law Journal, the leading Australian journal on criminal law, evidence and procedure. He was Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies from 2008 to 2011.

Books
Stanley Yeo, Neil Morgan and Chan Wing Cheong, Criminal Law in Singapore (LexisNexis 2022)

Stanley Yeo and Dema Lham, Criminal Defences under the Penal Code of Bhutan (JSW Law Research Paper Series No. 20-05, Kuensel 2020)

Journal Articles
Stanley Yeo and Dema Lham, 'The Penal Code of Bhutan: Broken from the Start?' (2020) 15 (1) Asian Journal of Comparative Law 1

Stanley Yeo, 'A Review of the Defence of Mental Disability in the Penal Code of Bhutan' (2020) 13 Bhutan Law Review 41

  • Criminal Law