Institutes & Centres
Highlights
We warmly congratulate these NUS Law graduates who are serving in Singapore’s 15th Parliament, joining a list of distinguished alumni who have taken public office in Singapore: Christopher de Souza Grad Dip ’02, Gho Sze Kee Grad Dip ’02, Cassandra Lee ’16, Desmond Lee ’01, Sylvia Lim ’88, Vikram Nair Grad Dip ’05, Murali Pillai ’92 LLM ’2000, Rahayu Mahzam ’03, Indranee Rajah ’86, K Shanmugam ’84, Patrick Tay ’95 LLM ’99, Edwin Tong ’94 and Zhulkarnain Abdul Rahim ’05. The first session of the 15th Parliament takes place today, on 5 September 2025.
On 19 August 2025, Professor Eva Micheler delivered a lecture titled “Institutional Theory for Corporate Law” at the Wee Chong Jin Moot Court on the Bukit Timah campus. She proposed a narrative model of the company in terms of nested levels of governance, following economist Oliver Williamson’s call for a “law, economics, and organisation” approach, and building on political scientist Elinor Ostrom’s ”institutional analysis and development” framework. The Jernal Singh Khosa Professorship was established in memory of the late litigator Jernal Singh Khosa (1932-1988), and celebrates his strong sense of justice.
We congratulate our alumnus, Yang Arif Tuan Ong Chee Kwan ’88 LLM ’92, on his elevation to Judge of the Court of Appeal in Malaysia on 28 July 2025. Prior to this, YA Tuan Ong was appointed to the position of High Court Judge in April 2022. With over 30 years of experience in commercial and shipping litigation practice, YA Tuan Ong’s law career started after he graduated from NUS Law with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) in 1988. He worked at Drew & Napier in Singapore from 1988 to 1992, and obtained his masters in 1992, before returning to Malaysia.
NUS Law Assistant Professor Kenneth Khoo’s paper, “Expanding Shareholder Voice: The Impact of SEC Guidance on Environmental and Social Proposals”, won the Best Paper Award for Junior Scholars at the Asian Law and Economics Association 2025 Annual Conference (AsLEA) in August 2025. This is the second time the strength of the paper has been acknowledged. It won the Best Academic Paper award on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) in the Junior category at the 2024 Berkeley-ECGI Forum on Corporate Governance in November last year.
Kwa Zhi Cheng graduated this year with an LLB from NUS Law and an LLM from the University of Toronto (UoT), made possible by NUS Law’s notable Exchange Plus Programme. He talks about the initially daunting early days of his fourth year of study in Canada, where he was the only Singaporean law student there. Embracing the challenge, he grew to enjoy the incredibly rich cultural exchange, refreshing academic lessons, and new experiences that only being immersed in a new environment can afford. While the Exchange Plus Programme made this possible for Zhi Cheng, it was also his spirit of adventure that made his time in Canada incredibly fulfilling.
Congratulations to all of NUS Law’s Long Service Award recipients! In total, 15 recipients were honoured by the Faculty for their dedication and hard work. At the Start of Term Welcome Lunch held on 13 August 2025, Professor Andrew Simester, Dean of NUS Law, presented the recipients with a certificate in recognition of their dedication.