Hillary 
CHUA

 
Sheridan Fellow

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 defence and civil litigation prior to joining NUS as a Sheridan Fellow. Her research interests are in medical law, clinical ethics and disability law.

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Contact

(65) 6601-4940
TB-07-15

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 defence and civil litigation prior to joining NUS as a Sheridan Fellow. Her research interests are in medical law, clinical ethics and disability law.

She is 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 stints at the Hastings Center (Garrison, New York) and the NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics, and maintains an interest d/Deaf culture and communication in her spare time.

Journal Articles
Hillary Chua, 'Healthcare Decision Making for Children in Singapore: The Missing Chapter in Comparison with English Law' (2023) 37 (1) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family



Sabrina Haroon, Voo Teck Chuan, Hillary Chua, Tan Gan Liang and Titus Lau, 'Telemedicine and Haemodialysis Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Integrative Review of Patient Safety, Healthcare Quality, Ethics and the Legal Considerations in Singapore Practice' (2022) 19 (9) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 5445

Hillary Chua, ‘Revisiting the Vegetative State: A Disability Rights Law Analysis.‘ (Spring 2021) HMS Bioethics Journal


  • Medical Law and Ethics
  • Disability Law