Faculty Profile

• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Cambridge, 2023
• Master of Arts (Jurisprudence), University of Oxford, 2020
• Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), 2018

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

• Assistant Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, Jan 2024 - Present
• Deputy Director, Centre for Commercial Law in Asia, Jul 2024 - Present

Previous Appointments:

• Rapporteur, International Law Association
• Consultant, United Nations
• Deputy Head of Tax, ZICO Insights Law LLC
• Tutor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
• Law Supervisor, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
• Research Fellow, Centre for Cross-Border Commercial Law in Asia, Singapore Management University
• Editor-in-Chief, Editor, Oxford University Undergraduate Law Journal

Honours & Awards

• Most Promising Teacher Award (2023-2024)
• MOE-START Overseas PhD Scholarship
• 31st Australasian Tax Teachers’ Association Conference Best Tax Research Paper Prize
• Knox Prize for Law
• Finals Prize
• Sally Ball European Law Prize
• 42 Bedford Row Disability Law Essay Prize (2nd Prize)
• Mowat Scholarship
• Douglas Sladen Essay Prize (2nd Prize)
• Norton Rose Fulbright Prize for the Best Article in Contract, Tort, Trusts, and Land Law
• Mowat Exhibition
• Trinity College Academic Prize
• Trinity College Academic Prize II

Courses Taught in SMU

• Equity and Trusts
• Tax Law
• Private Wealth Law
• Contract Law

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Tax Law
• Equity and Trusts

Selected Publications

• Singapore Trusts Law, (1st Ed) (2021) (LexisNexis) (With Christopher Hare)
• Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore (Vol 16(2): Revenue and Taxation- Income Tax), (2020) (LexisNexis) (With Liu Hern Kuan)
• Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore (Vol 16: Revenue and Taxation- Other Taxes), (2018) (LexisNexis) (With Ong Ken Loon and Liu Hern Kuan)
• "CIT v AQQ: The Singapore GAAR and its Australasian Influences” (2023) British Tax Review 724-731
• “Tax Challenges in Debt Financing Involving Digital Tokens” (2022) 17(4) Capital Markets Law Journal 564-582
• “Taxation of Automation and Artificial Intelligence as a Tool of Labour Policy” (2022) 19(2) eJournal of Tax Research 273-303 (With Glendon Goh)
• “Contracts Formed by Software: An Approach from the Law of Mistake” (2022) Journal of Business Law 97-117
• “A Framework for Understanding the Taxation of Digital Tokens” (2021) 50(4) Australian Tax Review 260-269
• “Taxing All Other Income in Singapore and Malaysia” (2019) 19(2) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 204-226
• “A Reformulated Test for Unconscionability” (2019) 135(3) Law Quarterly Review 400-405 (With Walter Yong)