LOW 
Kelvin F.K.

 
Professor

Kelvin Low taught at the University of Hong Kong, Singapore Management University, and City University of Hong Kong prior to rejoining National University of Singapore. Kelvin’s research interest spans the field of private law but with a particular interest in property. He has published with leading journals such as Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, International & Comparative Law Quarterly, American Journal of Comparative Law, Melbourne University Law Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and Legal Studies. He is a co-author of The Law of Personal Property (now in its 2nd edition) and Tan Sook Yee’s Principles of Singapore Land Law (now in its 4th edition). His works have been cited by the courts in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong SAR, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore as well as law commissions and law reform bodies in Australia, England and Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and Singapore

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Contact

(65) 6601-2963
FED 02-34

Education

BCL (University of Oxford); LLB (Hons) (NUS)

Current Courses

Principles of Property Law

Equity & Trusts (A)

Equity & Trusts (F)

Equity & Trusts (G)

Kelvin F.K. Low read law at the National University of Singapore and Oxford University and started his academic career at the National University of Singapore. Prior to rejoining his alma mater, he taught at the University of Hong Kong, Singapore Management University, and City University of Hong Kong. Kelvin’s research interest spans the field of private law but with a particular interest in property, broadly defined. He has published internationally with leading journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, the Modern Law Review, the International & Comparative Law Quarterly, the American Journal of Comparative Law, Melbourne University Law Review, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and Legal Studies. He is a co-author of the 2nd edition of The Law of Personal Property, the leading personal property text in the Commonwealth and co-author of the 3rd and 4th editions of Tan Sook Yee’s Principles of Singapore Land Law, the leading Singapore land law text. His works have been cited by the courts in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong SAR, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Singapore as well as law commissions and law reform bodies in Australia, England and Wales, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, and Singapore. His article on legal taxonomy is a prescribed reading in the Legal Research Method Seminar for Oxford’s DPhil. He has previously held editorial positions with the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, the Singapore Year Book of International Law, Hong Kong Law Journal, and Property Law Review and is presently a Co-Editor of Trust Law International and is the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Asia Pacific Law Review. He has served as a referee for leading journals across the Commonwealth, including Law Quarterly Review, Modern Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal, Legal Studies, Journal of Equity, Melbourne University Law Review, Sydney Law Review, and the Hong Kong Law Journal, as well as for the Leverhulme Trust. In 2019, he was inducted as an Academician into the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. He has served in various key administrative roles since 2005, including Acting Director of Student Exchange and Director of Mixed Degrees at the University of Hong Kong, Associate Dean (External Relations) at Singapore Management University, and LLB Programme Director at City University of Hong Kong. He also served as the External Member for the University of Hong Kong’s Juris Doctor Programme Review Panel in 2018.

Books
Michael G. Bridge, Louise Gullifer, Gerard McMeel and Kelvin F.K Low, The Law of Personal Property (3rd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2021)

Book Chapters
Kelvin F. K. Low, Wan Wai Yee and Ying-Chieh Wu, 'Property/Personhood and AI' in Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press 2024) 307

Kelvin F.K. Low, Edmund Schuster and Wan Wai Yee, 'The Company and Blockchain Technology' in Martin Petrin and Christian Witting (eds), Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023) 447

Journal Articles
Timothy Chan and Kelvin F.K. Low, 'DeFi Common Sense: Crypto-backed Lending in Janesh s/o Rajkumar v Unknown Person (“CHEFPIERRE”)' (2023) 86 (5) Modern Law Review 1278

Timothy Chan and Kelvin F.K. Low, 'Post-Scam Crypto Recovery: Final Clarity or Deceptive Simplicity?' [2023] Law Quarterly Review

Hu Jianfeng, Kelvin F.K. Low and Zhang Wei, 'The Value of Fiduciary Duties: Evidence from en bloc sales in Singapore' (2022) 72 International Review of Law and Economics

Kelvin F K Low, Wai Yee Wan and Alwin Chan, 'Private Takings of Land for Urban Redevelopment: A Tale of Two Cities' (2021) 69 (2) The American Journal of Comparative Law 295

Kelvin F.K. Low and Eliza Mik, 'Lost in Transmission: Unilateral Mistakes in Automated Contracts' (2020) 136 Law Quarterly Review 563

Kelvin F.K. Low, 'Confronting Cryptomania: Can Equity Tame the Blockchain' (2020) 14 Journal of Equity 240

Kelvin F.K. Low and Eliza Mik, 'Pause the Blockchain Legal Revolution' (2020) 69 (1) International & Comparative Law Quarterly 135

  • Land Law,
  • Law of Trusts,
  • Personal Property,
  • Contract,
  • Commercial Law