NUS Law receives $2 million gift to establish the Chan Sek Keong Professorship in Private Law

Mr Lin Tah Hwa made a $2 million donation to establish the Chan Sek Keong Professorship in Private Law. A personal friend of Mr Lin, Dr Chan Sek Keong was the third Chief Justice of Singapore in 2006. He had an illustrious career as a banking and corporate lawyer, before starting a 26-year-long career in public service until his retirement in 2012. Dr Chan has been serving as the Pro-Chancellor of NUS since 29 April 2015.

This new Professorship endowed by Mr Lin aims to help the NUS Faculty of Law attract and retain the finest academics in the field of private law, which includes contract law, equity, property, restitution, torts and trusts.

“NUS Law is deeply grateful to Mr Lin for his selfless generosity in establishing this Professorship in honour of his friend, thus enabling us to recognise Dr Chan’s far-reaching contributions to Singapore law as one of our finest legal minds. Building on his legacy, the Chair will support research and education by an esteemed academic in private law, a field that is of vital importance to Singapore’s prosperity and stability,” said Professor Andrew Simester, Dean of NUS Law.

Apart from these gifts, Mr Lin and his family also made a $6 million gift to NUS Medicine and four other professorship gifts to the National University of Singapore since 2009, the first of which was the Amaladass Professorship in Criminal Justice at NUS Law.