Dean’s List & Awards Ceremony 2022

After being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we were finally able to celebrate our students’ hard work and academic achievements with the in-person Dean’s List and Awards ceremonies on Thursday, 24 February 2022.

“It is an absolute delight to be able to welcome you to the 2022 Dean’s List and Awards ceremony where we can honour the achievements of our wonderful students. If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that these rituals of celebration and congratulation, of community and congregation, are very precious,” said Vice Dean of Student Affairs and Global Relations, Associate Professor Eleanor Wong ’85 in her opening remarks.

Close to a hundred students made it onto the Dean’s List and close to 50 awards were given out, with some students winning multiple awards.

Addressing all the guests present at the ceremony in his welcome speech, Professor Simon Chesterman, Dean of NUS Law said, “I want to thank three groups of people. Most importantly, I want to thank all the parents who are here, without you we wouldn’t have the students. But parents also support their students in many other ways, particularly over the last two years, we know how challenging it has been, to be a parent and to provide a safe nurturing environment to protect your children, so thank you for the support that you have given the students these years in particular. The second group I want to thank are my colleagues. We have had a ride over the last few years, changing of safe distancing measures, the ability to adapt on the fly both in terms of the academic programme to keep those classes going, and our administrative colleagues to adapt and overcome the challenges of running a law school at a time like this, and to be able to have events like today. And thirdly, and most importantly, I want to thank the students. You have done extremely well. Do keep in mind the reason we have an annual Dean’s List is that you do not need to expect to be honoured every single year. So, if this is the only year which you are at one of these ceremonies, don’t stress, you have still done extremely well. If you are a repeat player, even better. I want to thank you for the work that you have done that has brought you here today.”

Some of this year’s winners also had the privilege of being presented their awards and prizes by the respective donors. The donors who attended the ceremony include:

1. Mr Lam Chung Nian ’97 (President of Asian Patent Attorneys Association c/o Wong Partnership LLP)
2. Mr Paul Sandosham ’95 (Partner at Clifford Chance Asia and Managing Partner at Cavenagh Law)
3. Mr Joseph Liow ’92 (Managing Partner of Joseph Liow Chambers)
4. Mr Loh Guo Wei, Melvin ’11
5. Emeritus Professor Leong Wai Kum, NUS Law
6. Associate Professor Tracey Evans Chan ’97, NUS Law
7. Assistant Professor Benny Tan ’12, NUS Law
8. Ms Chloe Wong (Senior Marketing Manager in SEA, LexisNexis)

Associate Professor Eleanor Wong ’85 (Vice Dean (Student Life & Global Relations)) kicking off the ceremony

Professor Simon Chesterman (Dean, NUS Law) delivering the welcome speech

Mr Lam Chung Nian ’97 (President of Asian Patent Attorneys Association c/o Wong Partnership LLP) presenting the APAA Patent Law Prize for Law of Intellectual Property to Zhao Junning ’21

Mr Paul Sandosham ’95 (Partner at Clifford Chance Asia and Managing Partner at Cavenagh Law) presenting the Clifford Chance Prize in International Commercial Arbitration to Hemaka Yohan Perera ’21

Mr Joseph Liow ’92 (Managing Partner of Joseph Liow Chambers) presenting the Joseph Liow Prize in Construction Law to Seah Ding Hang ’22

Emeritus Professor Leong Wai Kum (NUS Law) presenting the Leong Wai Kum Prize in Family Law to Charis Sim ’22

 
 
Assistant Professor Benny Tan ’12 (NUS Law) presenting the Most Improved Student Award to our students.
L to R (Top): Chee Wei Chang, Gabriel ’23, Phoon Yi Hao ’23.
L to R (Bottom): Tan Jun Quan ’23, Thomas Benjamin Lawrence ’23.

Mr Loh Guo Wei, Melvin ’11 presenting the Peacemakers’ Prize in Mediation to Faye Ng Jo Xuan ’21

 
Ms Chloe Wong (Senior Marketing Manager in SEA, LexisNexis) presenting the Peter English Memorial Prize for Criminal Law to our students.
L to R (Top): Chua Kang Le ’24, Goh Cheng Wei, Benjamin ’24.
L to R (Bottom): Lim Jia Rong ’24, Tan Ying Qian ’24.

Professor Simon Chesterman presenting the Law Society of Singapore prize, Oxford University Press Law Prize, Tan Keng Feng Prize in the Law of Torts to Chua Kang Le ’24

Professor Simon Chesterman presenting the Chief Justice Prize, Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and Leow Chia Heng Prize to the Class of 2021 Valedictorian, Wang Qiyu ’21

 
Some of our Dean’s Listers for Academic Year 2020/21

Our heartiest congratulations to our students!