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Associate Professor Simon Tay is the recipient of the prestigious President’s Award for the Environment, in recognition of his exemplary and sustained contributions, demonstrated through his leadership in driving Singapore's sustainable development and our green transition. As the Chairman of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs and founding Chairman of the National Environment Agency, his dedication to addressing the transboundary haze pollution and instrumental role in building regional collaborations have created significant impact at national and international levels.
For Darrell Lee '17 and Emma Gan '17, a growing friendship developed after they met on the very first day of school—with Darrell earning Emma’s admiration for holding his ground under Professor Eleanor Wong’s steely gaze. In turn, her infectious cheeriness drew his attention—"being around her felt like being close to the Sun!”. From that first meeting, they would go on to become LAWR moot partners and, united by a shared enthusiasm for campus activities and an equal dedication to their studies, the pair surmounted challenges as a team and, today, they remain the first port of call for each other.
This story is part of a People of NUS Law series, where we celebrate our time at the current Bukit Timah campus through heartwarming stories centred on the heart of NUS Law.
Most daughters share a special bond with their father. But for Elaine Low ’14, this bond extends beyond the family to her professional life as well. Like her father, veteran lawyer Peter Cuthbert Low ’77, Elaine walked the halls of NUS Law at the Bukit Timah campus before joining him at Peter Low Chambers LLC, the law firm that Peter set up. Bound not only by family ties, but also by a shared calling to the law, Peter and Elaine reflect on how their lives and the law are intertwined.
This story is part of a People of NUS Law series, where we celebrate our time at the current Bukit Timah campus through heartwarming stories centred on the heart of NUS Law.
The lifeblood of NUS Law is the energy and enthusiasm of its students, both past and present, with alumni—in the form of donors and even parents—turning up at the 2025 Dean’s List and Awards Ceremony to share in the joy of the celebratory event. Dean Andrew Simester commended the award winners for their academic excellence, while advising the students to remember that the quality of their university degree depends on what they do with it. At the annual ceremony which took place on the Bukit Timah campus this year for the final time, 167 students were recognised, with 68 awards given out. Congratulations to all!
Professor David Collins delivered a lecture titled “The Securitization of International Economic Law: Building Resilience or Exploiting Chaos?” at the Wee Chong Jin Moot Court on the Bukit Timah campus. Against a backdrop of geopolitical turmoil which has augmented the role that national security plays in international economic law, he explored some of the key manifestations of the security-backed rejection of international economic legal principles centred on open markets and private property, and considered some of the emerging legal issues arising in the administration and enforcement of economic integration treaties by international arbitration tribunals.
While climate change litigation in developed countries of the Global North is a well-studied phenomenon, few studies focus on climate case law emerging elsewhere. With Litigating Climate Change in the Global South, NUS Law's Associate Professor Jolene Lin Grad. Dip. Sing. Law ’05 sheds light on emerging and accelerating climate litigation in developing countries across the three regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America. This groundbreaking monograph co-authored with Professor Jacqueline Peel from Melbourne Law School—and published only last year—has won double distinctions.