2017
Taking A Pay Cut To Start Afresh In Law
At the age of 49, SMU’s postgraduate student David Koh is among the older students at SMU’s Juris Doctor (JD) programme. He gave up a well-paying job to pursue his dream of going back to the university to study law. SMU’s JD programme is a postgraduate course that is done after a bachelor degree in some other discipline. The average work experience of its students is four years. On why he is giving up a well-paying job, Mr Koh said, "It's motivated by an interest to go back to the university - it's in some sense to fulfil an earlier wish that had been set aside for too many years. The motivation is not income.
2 November 2017
French Elections: The Effect Of Party Primaries, And Redefining The Left And Right
SMU Juris Doctor student Yvonne Guo contributed an opinion piece to The Straits Times. She is concurrently also completing a PhD at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS, and already holds a dual master's degree in International Affairs from Sciences Po, Paris and the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. Her article highlighted that the recent election in France was the first in which the two main parties chose their candidates in primaries. Traditionally reserved for party members, now any eligible voter could sign up to vote for their preferred candidate in party primary elections. This saw its two main parties choosing "hard-left" and "hard-right" candidates, which allowed Mr Macron, a centrist, to reclaim the political space vacated. She commented that the new onerous four-stage electoral process while ostensibly more democratic, may result in a lower degree of electoral coherence.
17 May 2017
He Rose To Become A Lawyer After Difficult Times
SMU Juris Doctor alumnus Mr Ahmad Firdaus Daud was featured in a Berita Harian article where he shared the challenges he had to overcome to eventually become a lawyer. He noted that his family were stuck in deep financial challenges for quite a long time but the experience has taught him resilience and gratitude. Mr Ahmad Firdaus achieved his dream when he completed the Juris Doctor Programme from SMU School of Law, which allows mid-professionals to switch career paths to law. Now, he finds his experience and ability as a lawyer to be quite useful in his efforts to give back to the community.
26 April 2017
SMU Is Champion At The 10th Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot And The Ian Fletcher International Moot
J.D. student Luis Duhart Gonzalez was part of the SMU team that won the Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot.
27 March 2017
SMU J.D. Alumni Team Wins Essex Court Chambers-SAL International Mooting Competition
J.D. Alumni Nicholas Liu and Bethel Chan win the Essex Court Chambers-SAL International Mooting Competition.
12 January 2017