National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law

Established over sixty years ago, the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (NUS Law) is widely regarded as Asia’s leading law school. It has been consistently ranked amongst the top 20 law schools in the world by Quacquarelli Symonds (#11 in 2022 and #10 in 2021) and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (#8 in 2022 and #12 in 2021).

Founded in 1956 as the Law Department of the University of Malaya in Singapore, the faculty accepted its first undergraduate cohort in 1957 — including Ambassador-at-large Professor Tommy Koh, Singapore’s former Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong and Emeritus Professor Koh Kheng Lian, who went on to play important roles in shaping Singapore’s laws and legal practices. For over six decades, NUS Law has made a tremendous impact on the study and the practice of law in Singapore.

Despite its humble beginnings, the faculty’s student population has expanded from its pioneer batch of 22 students to an intake of 250 undergraduate students and almost 200 graduate students per year today. These students are taught by over 70 full-time faculty members, as well as adjuncts and visitors, representing most of the major jurisdictions around the world.

To date, NUS Law has produced more than 10,000 law graduates, who have gone on to occupy the senior ranks of the judiciary, government, private practice, business, the arts and media communities as well as almost every niche of professional life in Singapore. Prominent NUS Law alumni include Singapore’s first female President Madam Halimah Yacob ’78, Minister for Law K. Shanmugam ’84, Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon ’86, actor and playwright Ivan Heng ’88, co-founder and CEO of Razer Inc, Tan Min-Liang ’02, and fashion designer Priscilla Shunmugam ’06.

NUS Law is dedicated to building a vibrant community and creating an environment that facilitates critical thinking and reflection on the fundamental legal issues confronting our interconnected world. It houses the following research centres:

Asian Law Institute
Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law
Centre for Asian Legal Studies
Centre for Banking & Finance Law
Centre for Maritime Law
Centre for Legal Theory
Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence & the Law
EW Barker Centre for Law & Business

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International Association of Legal Ethics

The mission of the International Association of Legal Ethics is to promote teaching, research, vocational training programs, and policy initiatives concerning legal ethics.

In support of that mission, the Association:

advances efforts to enhance the study, teaching, and awareness of ethical issues in law schools, legal practice and continuing legal education programs;
sponsors a rotating international conference;
sponsors and collaborates with other conferences and colloquia concerning legal ethics;
links scholars with international journals such as Legal Ethics that publish in the field;
actively promotes national or local legal ethics initiatives in countries where the field is an emerging or underdeveloped discipline; and
collaborates with lawyers’ professional associations, nonprofit groups, and funding agencies to further Association priorities.

For more information, please visit IAOLE

Organising Committee

Associate Professor Helena Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore
Amy Salyzyn, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Francesca Bartlett, University of Queensland
Helen Kruuse, Rhodes University
Iris van Domselaar, Amsterdam Law School
Kyoko Ishida, Waseda University
Matthias Kilian, Universität zu Köln
Renee Knake Jefferson, University of Houston Law Center
Scott Cummings, UCLA

Conference Secretariat