Hillary CHUA
Hillary does research in medical law, clinical ethics, and disability law. She teaches the law of torts and is on doctoral study leave from 2023 to 2027. She practised medical law and civil litigation before being appointed as a Sheridan Fellow in 2021.
Education
Master of Bioethics (Harvard); LLB (King’s College London); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
Current Courses
Law of Torts
Law of Torts (JD)
Hillary holds an LLB from King’s College London and a Master of Bioethics from Harvard Medical School, where she was awarded the annual Beecher Prize in Medical Ethics in 2019. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 2018, and practised medical law and civil litigation before joining NUS as a Sheridan Fellow.
She is on study leave from 2023 to 2027, while pursuing a doctorate in law at the University of Oxford.
Her research is in medical law, clinical ethics, and disability law. She has taught the law of torts to JD students and undergraduates.
She has been a member of the National University Hospital’s Clinical Ethics Committee and the Singapore Ministry of Health’s Advisory Committee on Restricted Human Biomedical Research. She has done short-term research at the Hastings Center (Garrison, New York) and the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics.
Journal Articles
Hillary Chua, ‘Revisiting the Vegetative State: A Disability Rights Law Analysis.‘ (Spring 2021) HMS Bioethics Journal
- Medical Law and Ethics
- Disability Law