KHOO 
Chian Yian, Kenneth

 
Lecturer

Academic Fellow

Kenneth is a Lecturer at the NUS Faculty of Law. Kenneth graduated from NUS in 2014 with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Economics) (First Class Honours), from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a Master of Science in Economics in 2018, from Yale Law School with a Master of Laws in 2019, from Yale Law School with a Doctor of the Science of Law in 2024, and received the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Economist Service) Prize for Best Thesis in Economics from NUS. In 2022, Kenneth also visited Harvard Law School as a research fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance. Kenneth has research and teaching interests in hybrid areas where Law and Economics intersect, especially in commercial subjects like Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Regulations, and Competition Law. His work has been published in international journals like the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics and the American Business Law Journal.

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Contact

(65) 6601-3609
ETS -02-03

Education

JSD (Yale University); LLM (Yale University); MSc (Economics) (London School of Economics); LLB (Hons), BSocSci (Economics) (Hons) (NUS)

Curriculum Vitae

Current Courses

Company Law (B)

Company Law (C)

Company Law (D)

Kenneth is a Lecturer at the NUS Faculty of Law. Kenneth graduated from NUS in 2014 with a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Economics) (First Class Honours), from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a Master of Science in Economics in 2018, from Yale Law School with a Master of Laws in 2019, from Yale Law School with a Doctor of the Science of Law in 2024, and received the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Economist Service) Prize for Best Thesis in Economics from NUS. In 2022, Kenneth also visited Harvard Law School as a research fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance. Kenneth has research and teaching interests in hybrid areas where Law and Economics intersect, especially in commercial subjects like Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities Regulations, and Competition Law. His work has been published in international journals like the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics and the American Business Law Journal.

Book Chapters
Kenneth Khoo, 'Common Ownership and ESG Performance: Evidence from Institutional Mergers' in Iris H-Y Chiu and Hans-Christoph Hirt (eds), Investment Management, Stewardship and Sustainability: Transformation and Challenges in Law and Regulation (Hart Publishing 2023)

Journal Articles
Kenneth Khoo and Jaclyn Neo, 'Gender Gaps in Legal Education: The Impact of Class Participation Assessments' (2023) 20 (4) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1070

Kenneth Khoo, 'Transaction Costs in Common Ownership' (2023) 25 (1) University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business and Employment Law 209

Kenneth Khoo, 'Anti-Competitive Mergers in Two-Sided Digital Platform Markets: The Case of Uber-Grab' (2021) 33 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 202


Kenneth Khoo and Jerrold Soh, 'The Inefficiency of Quasi–Per Se Rules: Regulating Information Exchange in EU and U.S. Antitrust Law' (2020) 57 (1) American Business Law Journal 45

  • Law & Economics
  • Competition Law
  • Company Law
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Securities Regulations