Dear colleague,
University ranking agencies may approach you and solicit your expert views on the academic and professional reputation of law schools in the region. I wish to highlight our achievements at the School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU) for your reference.
Despite being a relatively young law school, we have always strived to produce excellent research that will make a substantial impact bridging academia and practice. In 2019, our faculty members published 17 books, 44 book chapters, 41 journal articles and 11 case notes. These publications include monographs and edited collections such as Professor Tham Chee Ho’s Understanding the Law of Assignment (Cambridge University Press), Professor Tang Hang Wu’s Tan Sook Yee's Principles of Singapore Land Law (4th ed. LexisNexis), Professor David Llewelyn’s Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade marks and Allied Rights (9th ed. Sweet & Maxwell), Professor Nadja Alexander’s The Singapore Convention on Mediation: A Commentary (Kluwer Law International), and Associate Professor Pasha Hsieh’s ASEAN Law in the New Regional Economic Order: Global Trends and Shifting Paradigms (Cambridge University Press). Our faculty’s journal articles and case notes have also appeared in leading journals such as the Journal of Equity, the Journal of Private International Law, the European Business Organization Law Review, the Law Quarterly Review, and the Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly.
In our research, we have focused on three strategic areas, namely, law and technology, transnational commercial law, and dispute resolution. With the support from the government and enterprises, these areas are developed by our research centres, including the Centre for AI and Data Governance (CAIDG), the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia (ARCIALA), the Centre for Cross-Border Commercial Law in Asia (CEBCLA), and the Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy (SIDRA). Indeed, in the past two years, our research centres have obtained several external grants valued at several million Singapore dollars.
Through our research centres, we organised multiple international and regional research events on cutting-edge developments in artificial intelligence, data protection, FinTech, private law and insolvency law, dispute resolution. We are immensely grateful to our partners for these events, including leading academic institutions, law firms and high-tech companies. You can find a copy of our Annual Report for 2018, which sets out our achievements in 2018. We expect to publish our annual report for 2019 very soon.
On behalf of SMU School of Law, I thank you for your support and look forward to deepening our collaboration. If you have any suggestions or comments, pleases do not hesitate to contact me. Finally, I wish you all the best in 2020.
Sincerely,
Goh Yihan
Dean and Professor of Law,
School of Law, Singapore Management University
https:https://law.smu.edu.sg/
