LAU 
Jia Jun, Jeremiah

 
Assistant Professor

Academic Fellow

Jeremiah writes in commercial law and legal history, and teaches trusts and the law of property.

FULL BIOGRAPHY

Contact

(65) 6601-5971
TB-07-16

Education

BCL, DPhil (Oxford); LLB (NUS); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Curriculum Vitae

Current Courses

Principles of Property Law

Equity & Trusts (F)

Jeremiah took his undergraduate degree at NUS. He later read for the Bachelor of Civil Law and the DPhil at University of Oxford. While completing the DPhil he was elected to a Prize Scholarship at Merton College. The scholarship is awarded to research students of the ‘highest academic distinction’. He has also held the position of Stipendiary Lecturer at Oxford, where he taught trusts on the Final Honour School.

He works at the intersection of commercial law and legal history. His recent work has focused on law of pre-judgment interest and the common law’s understanding of the time value of money, both historically and at present. He has published on these and other topics in the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, the Cambridge Law Journal, the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, and the Banking and Finance Law Review. He also researches and teaches equity and trusts, and is one of the contributing editors of Snell’s Equity.

His work has been cited by the High Court of Singapore. He has acted as a consultant in commercial litigation in the High Court of England & Wales.

Admitted to the Singapore Bar (2016).

https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/prize-scholar-jeremiah-lau

Books
James E. Penner, The Law of Trusts (Contributor: Jeremiah Lau, 12th edn, Oxford University Press 2022)

Book Chapters
Jeremiah Lau and Kelvin F.K. Low, 'Reforming the Singapore Trust: Pushing or Breaking Boundaries?' in Liew Ying Khai and Masayuki Tamaruya (eds), Asia-Pacific Trusts Law Volume 3: Boundaries in Context (Hart Publishing 2025)

Journal Articles
Jeremiah Lau, 'Pre-judgment Interest on Liquidated and Unliquidated Sums' [2024] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 136

  • Commercial law
  • Equity & Trusts
  • Legal History
  • Private Law Theory