TEO 
Keang Sood

 
Emeritus Professor

Professor Teo is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore. He teaches and researches on real property law and has presented papers locally and internationally in this area, among others.

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Contact

(65) 6516-4880
ETS-02-34

Education

LLM (Harvard University); LLM, LLB (University of Malaya); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore & Malaya)

Curriculum Vitae

Current Courses

Principles of Property Law

Educated at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and Harvard Law School, Prof Teo’s principal areas of research lie in real property law and strata title. The author of the leading text, Strata Title in Singapore and Malaysia (7th edn, 2023), several of his works have been cited with approval at all levels of the courts in Singapore and Malaysia as well as in local and international publications, including the New Zealand Law Commission. He has been invited to serve as amicus curiae by the Singapore Court of Appeal.

He has written extensively, and presented papers locally, regionally (including in China, Hong Kong and Macau) and in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, France, Israel, Serbia and the United States, on land law, strata title and contract law. He has also given guest lectures at the law schools of Peking University, University of Sydney, Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and Singapore Management University. He has been appointed as external examiner for universities in Australia and Malaysia for their doctoral candidates in the areas of property law, contract law and taxation. He has been named an Excellent Teacher by NUS.

Among many service contributions, he has served as Vice Dean of NUS Law’s then Graduate Division and as General Editor of the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2000-2024. He was conferred the Public Service Medal (PBM) in recognition of his contributions as the inaugural General Editor of this SAL publication. He has served as a member of the Disciplinary Panel of the Council for Estate Agencies and is a panel member of the Strata Titles Boards.

Books
Teo Keang Sood, Strata Title in Singapore and Malaysia, 7th Edition (7th edn, LexisNexis 2023)

Edited Books
Teo Keang Sood and Yip Man (eds), Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2023 (24th edn, Academy Publishing 2024)

Teo Keang Sood and Yip Man (eds), Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2022 (23rd edn, Academy Publishing 2023)

Teo Keang Sood (ed), Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2021 (22nd edn, Academy Publishing 2022)

Teo Keang Sood and Goh Yihan (eds), Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2020 (21th edn, Academy Publishing 2021)

Teo Keang Sood and Goh Yihan (eds), Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 2019 (20th edn, Academy Publishing 2020)

Journal Articles
Teo Keang Sood, 'Further Thoughts on Indefeasibility in the Land Titles Act' [2024] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies

Teo Keang Sood, 'Proprietary Estoppel and the Land Titles Act' [2020] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 323

Teo Keang Sood, 'Recent Developments in Singapore Land Law: Selected Aspects' [2020] Journal of the Malaysian Judiciary 249 (Special Edition: Andrew Phang JA, Editor)

Representative Publications
Teo Keang Sood, Harvard Research Guides to the Legal Systems of East and Southeast Asia, A Bibliographical Survey of Malaysian Legal Materials (Cambridge, Massachusetts: East Asian Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, 2000)

Teo Keang Sood, “Collective Sales of Strata Developments – the Singapore Approach” (2000) 8 The Australian Property Law Journal 157

Teo Keang Sood, “Right of Support for Buildings Revisited” (2004) 78(1) The Australian Law Journal 20


  • Land law
  • Strata title system
  • Revenue law
  • Contract law
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