Institutes & Centres
Highlights
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.
Competing against students from 11 prestigious universities, Kamal Ashraf Bin Kamil Jumat '26 emerged victorious at the World Universities Public Speaking Invitational Championship 2025 hosted by the University of Macau. In the impromptu segment of the competition, Kamal impressed the judges with a speech composed in just 10 seconds, where he used the philosophical metaphor of tabula rasa to frame anecdotes of how his multicultural friendships have shaped him.
On 2 Sept 2025, Professor Damian Chalmers delivered a lecture titled “Globalisation, The Law, and ‘Making Markets Better’ in the Global South” at the Wee Chong Jin Moot Court on the Bukit Timah campus. The Geoffrey Bartholomew Professorship was established in honour of the late Professor Geoffrey Wilson Bartholomew, who was a distinguished teacher of law and served as Dean from 1966 to 1968. His pioneering research is integral to the foundational legal literature and history of both nations, significantly contributing to the development of their indigenous legal systems.
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.
