Andrew 

SIMESTER

Professor Andrew Simester is currently Amaladass Professor of Criminal Justice at the National University of Singapore’s Faculty of Law (NUS Law). He has been the Dean of NUS Law since 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. In 2015 he was elected to the Edmund-Davies Chair in Criminal Law at King’s College London, where he taught on a part-time basis prior to becoming Dean at NUS Law.

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 Doctorate 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 journal symposia.

• Legal Philosophy
• Criminal Law