Professor Andrew Simester is currently Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice and Co-Director of the Centre for Legal Theory at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law (NUS Law). He is the Dean of NUS Law from 1 January 2023.
A world-leading researcher in criminal law and theory, Prof Simester joined NUS in 2006 from the UK, where he taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Nottingham.
Prof Simester’s main interests lie in the fields of legal philosophy, criminal law, and restitution. He has published in these areas in every major common law jurisdiction and his writings in criminal law and theory have been cited by senior appellate courts throughout the world.
In recognition of his research in criminal law and theory, Prof Simester was elected in 2007 to a fellowship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge; he has also held an honorary professorship at the University of Oxford. In 2019, Prof Simester received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden. Since 2015, he has held the Edmund-Davies Chair in Criminal Law at King’s College London, where he has taught on a part-time basis.
Prof Simester graduated from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, with a Bachelor of Commerce (1987) in Accounting, Finance, and Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Laws (1989). He received his PhD in 1994 from the University of Oxford, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar.
Among other previous international appointments, Prof Simester was a Member of the Advisory Board at the Centre for Penal Law and Penal Theory, University of Cambridge (2000–12). He also sits on various editorial boards, notably the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Criminal Law and Philosophy. His latest book, Fundamentals of Criminal Law, has been the subject of multiple international conferences, including a forthcoming special issue of Criminal Law and Philosophy.
