LAU 
Jia Jun, Jeremiah

 
Sheridan Fellow

Jeremiah is a Sheridan Fellow. In 2022 he was elected a Prize Scholar of Merton College, Oxford, where he is completing a doctorate in law. He works in commercial law and legal history. He also researches and teaches equity and trusts.

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Contact

(65) 6601-5971
TB-07-16

Education

BCL (Oxford); LLB (NUS); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Curriculum Vitae

Current Courses

Principles of Property Law

Equity & Trusts (B)

Equity & Trusts (F)

Equity & Trusts (G)

Jeremiah is a Sheridan Fellow. In 2022 he was elected a Prize Scholar of Merton College, Oxford following a competition across all postgraduate research students at Merton, regardless of discipline and funding. The scholarship is awarded to research students of the ‘highest academic distinction’. He has also held the position of Stipendiary Lecturer at Merton, where he taught trusts on the Final Honour School.

His research is at the intersection of commercial law and legal history. He also researches and teaches equity and trusts. His work has been cited by the High Court of Singapore. He contributed to the 11th and 12th editions of James Penner’s The Law of Trusts (2019 & 2022), published by Oxford University Press.

Jeremiah read for the BCL (Distinction) at the University of Oxford, and the LL.B. (1st) at the National University of Singapore.

He has been called to the Singapore Bar (2016).

Books
James E. Penner, The Law of Trusts (Contributor: Jeremiah Lau, 12th edn, Oxford University Press 2022)

Journal Articles
Jeremiah Lau, 'Pre-judgment Interest on Liquidated and Unliquidated Sums' [2024] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 136

Jeremiah Lau, 'Limitation In Bank Fraud Claims: Effect of Account Closure' (2023) 82 (2) The Cambridge Law Journal 224

Jeremiah Lau, 'Interest in the Shape of Damages for Loss of Use' [2023] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 203

Jeremiah Lau, 'That New Chestnut - The Proprietary Status of Bitcoins' [2020] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 378

Jeremiah Lau, James E. Penner and Benjamin Wong, 'The Basics of Private and Public Data Trusts' [2020] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 90

  • Commercial law
  • Equity & Trusts
  • Legal History
  • Private Law Theory
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