Assistant Professor Kwan Ho Lau

Overview

Kwan Ho is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU). He is also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Commercial Law in Asia. His main research areas are in contract law and private law. He writes as well on judicial decision making in the common law and on the development of the legal profession. His work has been cited by courts in Singapore (High Court and Court of Appeal) and Hong Kong (Court of Appeal), by sitting Commonwealth judges in extra-judicial speeches, by regulatory bodies and in academic treatises and articles regularly. He has given expert evidence on Singapore law in foreign court proceedings. Prior to joining SMU, he was a Senior Associate at Allen & Gledhill LLP and a Justices’ Law Clerk with the Supreme Court of Singapore.

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Other School and University responsibilities

• Assistant Professor of Law, Singapore Management University
• Deputy Director, Centre for Commercial Law in Asia
• Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School
• Lee Kong Chian Fellow, Singapore Management University
• Professorial Fellow, AGC-Legal Service Academy
• Course Coordinator for Part A Bar Examinations Course, Singapore Institute of Legal Education
• Special National Rapporteur, International Academy of Comparative Law

Memberships and affiliations

• Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore
• Member, Singapore Academy of Law