LEE 
Tye Beng, Joel

 
Professor (Professional Practice)

Professor Joel Lee co-pioneered the teaching of Negotiation and Mediation in the Singapore Universities and has played a significant role in furthering the development of mediation in Singapore, not just in education, but also in practice. A graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law Schools, Joel is an associate partner with CMPartners (USA) and a principal mediator with and the Training Director of the Singapore Mediation Centre.

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Contact

lawleej@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516-3571
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Education

DCH (American Institute of Hypnotherapy); LLM (Harvard); LLB (Wellington); Solicitor & Barrister (New Zealand), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Curriculum Vitae

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Current Courses

Singapore Law in Context

Negotiation

Mediation

Professor Joel Lee co-pioneered the teaching of Negotiation and Mediation in the Singapore Universities and has played a significant role in furthering the development of mediation in Singapore, not just in education, but also in practice. A graduate of Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law Schools, Joel is an associate partner with CMPartners (USA) and a principal mediator with and the Training Director of the Singapore Mediation Centre.

He is an adjudicator with the Financial Industry Disputes Resolution Centre and was a member of the International Mediation Institute’s Independent Standards Commission and Intercultural Taskforce. He was also a key member of the Ministry of Law’s Working Group on International Commercial Mediation. Joel is presently the founding Chair of the Board of the Singapore International Mediation Institute.

Joel has taught overseas at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Law, Economics and Science of Aix‐Marseille (Aix-en-Provence France) and Anglia Law School (UK) and is the co-editor and co- author of the book An Asian Perspective on Mediation and the General Editor for the Asian Journal on Mediation. In 2011, Joel was awarded the Outstanding Educator Award which is the National University of Singapore’s highest teaching award.

Edited Books
Joel Lee, Marcus Lim, Isabella Tan and Alvin Cheng (eds), Contemporary Issues in Mediation Volume 6 (World Scientific 2021)

Joel Lee, Marcus Lim and Dorcas Quek-Anderson (eds), Contemporary Issues in Mediation Volume 5 (World Scientific 2020)

Book Chapters
Joel Lee, 'The Promise of Mediation' in Sadhana Ramachandran and Sudhanshu Batra (eds), Mediation and Its Promise (Samadhan, Delhi High Court Mediation and Conciliation Centre 2023) 14

Jonathan Rodrigues and Joel Lee, 'Role and Approach of the Mediator' in Gracious Timothy Dunna (ed), Conciliation and Mediation in India (Wolters Kluwer 2022) 37

Joel Lee and M. Lim, 'The Singapore International Mediation Institute' in D McFadden & G Lim (ed), Mediation in Singapore: A Practical Guide (3rd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2020) 285

Joel Lee, 'Culture and Its Importance in Mediation' in D McFadden and G Lim (eds), Mediation in Singapore: A Practical Guide (3rd edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2020) 165

Journal Articles
Joel Lee, Joel Leow and Marcus Teo, 'Conflict Of Laws' (2021) 22 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 268

Joel Lee and Mark Lim, 'THE DREAM INDEX: A Cost-Benefit Analysis Model for Dispute Resolution Options' [2020] Asian Journal on Mediation 68

Joel Lee and Choong Jia Shun, 'Legislation Update: Singapore Convention on Mediation Act' [2020] Asian Journal on Mediation 87

Joel Lee, J Leow and Marcus Teo, 'Conflict Of Laws' (2020) 21 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 314

Representative Publications
Joel Lee and Teh Hwee Hwee (eds),  An Asian Perspective on Mediation (Academy Publishing, Singapore, 2009)

Joel Lee, ‘Overcoming Attribution Bias in Mediation: An NLP Perspective’ (2004) 15 ADRJ 48 – 58.


  • Teaching methodology
  • Appropriate Dispute Resolution
  • Negotiation
  • Mediation
  • Conflict of Laws
  • Neuro-Linguistics