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Bios of Faculty

SANDRA BOOYSEN was born and grew up in South Africa. She obtained a BA from Rhodes University, and an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand, with distinction. After a short stint as a Public Prosecutor in Johannesburg, Sandra moved to London in 1990 and underwent training as a solicitor with Lane & Partners. After admission as a solicitor in England and Wales, Sandra worked in the area of commercial litigation. She returned to South Africa in 1996 and worked for Deneys Reitz Inc in commercial litigation. During that time, Sandra was admitted as an Attorney of the Supreme Court, and later as a Notary. Sandra moved to Singapore in 1999. She completed an LLM by coursework at NUS in 2002, and received the Justice A V Winslow prize for Banking Law. In the first year of her PhD research on bank documentation, Sandra was a recipient of the President’s Research Scholarship.

SIMON CHESTERMAN is Dean of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He is also Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law and SecretaryGeneral of the Asian Society of International Law. Educated in Melbourne, Beijing, Amsterdam, and Oxford, Professor Chesterman’s teaching experience includes periods at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Southampton, Columbia, and Sciences Po. From 2006-2011, he was Global Professor and Director of the New York University School of Law Singapore Programme. Prior to joining NYU, he was a Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy and Director of UN Relations at the International Crisis Group in New York. He has previously worked for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yugoslavia and interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Professor Chesterman is the author or editor of twelve books, including One Nation Under Surveillance (OUP, 2011); Law and Practice of the United Nations (with Thomas M. Franck and David M. Malone, OUP, 2008); You, The People (OUP, 2004); and Just War or Just Peace? (OUP, 2001). He is a recognized authority on international law, whose work has opened up new areas of research on conceptions of public authority – including the rules and institutions of global governance, state-building and post-conflict reconstruction, and the changing role of intelligence agencies.

LYNETTE J. CHUA is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her Ph.D. training at the University of California, Berkeley, focusing on qualitative empirical research in law and society. Her current research examines the relationship between law and social movements, especially in Southeast Asia. She is writing a book, under contract with Temple University Press, based on an extensive qualitative study on Singapore’s LGBTQ movement. She also has forthcoming articles in Law & Society Review and other journals.

ANDREW HARDING is a Professor of Law at NUS, having spent his entire career since 1978 specialising in law, especially constitutional issues in SE Asia, as well as comparative law and law and development. He has published extensively on Malaysia, and his latest book, The Constitution of Malaysia: A Contextual Analysis, is in press with Hart Publishing, Oxford, as part of the series Constitutional Systems of the World. He co-edited with HP Lee Constitutional Landmarks in Malaysia: The First 50 Years, 1957-2007 (Kuala Lumpur, LexisNexis 2007), and have published numerous articles on the Malaysian Constitution. He has also researched the special cases of Perak and Selangor post-2008 from a constitutional perspective.

GOH YIHAN joined NUS in 2008 after his time as a Senior Justices’ Law Clerk and Assistant Registrar in the Singapore Supreme Court. Earned a LLM from Harvard Law School in 2010. In 2010, Yihan was appointed to the list of Young Amicus Curiae of the Singapore High Court and appeared before the Singapore High Court in the same year as amicus curiae. He is currently a Joint Editor-inChief of the Singapore Law website, a Visiting Academic at Rajah & Tann LLP, and also a member of some external legal committees.

HO HOCK LAI obtained his first law degree from the National University of Singapore, his postgraduate degree, the BCL, from Oxford University, and his doctorate from Cambridge University. He was called to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1990. In November 2005, he was a visiting fellow in the Law Program of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, in September 2008, he was a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, and in March 2009, he was a Parsons Visitor at Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. He currently teaches evidence law and the administration of criminal justice. His publications include A Philosophy of Evidence Law – Justice in the Search for Truth (OUP, 2008).

JACLYN LING-CHIEN NEO joined the NUS Law Faculty full time in 2007 when she was awarded the NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship to pursue her masters at Yale Law School. A graduate of the NUS Law Faculty, Jaclyn practiced with the litigation and dispute resolution department at Wong Partnership where she was involved in several significant corporate, commercial and criminal cases. She also tutored part-time at the NUS Law Faculty for Public Law. Currently a JSD candidate at the Yale Law School, Jaclyn’s research interests are primarily in the area of constitutional law, with a specific interest in women, minorities and religion.

HELENA WHALEN-BRIDGE is an Associate Professor with the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. She ran the first year Legal Skills Programme from 2003-2009 and now teaches Legal Ethics as well as advanced legal skills. Helena has received the NUS Teaching Excellence Award, and she has done teacher training in India and Hong Kong. Helena cannot leave interesting teaching issues alone, and her research interests include legal education, comparative legal skills, and legal ethics and pro bono. She has published on non-profit pro bono (Legal Ethics 2010), the connection between ethics and legal narrative (Journal of the Association of Legal Writing Directors 2010), and comparative legal analysis (Journal of Legal Education 2008 and Asian Journal of Comparative Law 2006). Helena is a founding member of the Law Society of Singapore’s Project Law Help and the Faculty Advisor for the Law Faculty’s student Pro Bono Group.