National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
| National University of Singapore Faculty of Law | |
|---|---|
| Motto | "Asia's Global Law School" |
| Established | 1956 |
| School type | National university |
| Dean | Simon Chesterman |
| Location | Singapore, Singapore |
| Enrollment | 1200 |
| Faculty | 72 |
| Website | http://law.nus.edu.sg |
The National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (NUS Law) is Singapore's oldest and largest law school. The Faculty was initially established as a Department of Law in the then University of Malaya in 1956, with its first batch of students matriculating the following year. Subsequently, it served as Singapore's only law school for half a century, until SMU was set up in 2007.
The Faculty is currently headed by Professor Simon Chesterman. Its alumni include the current and former Chief Justices of Singapore, the current and former Attorneys-General, Singapore's current and former Ministers for Law, and partners in major law firms in Singapore as well as in New York and London, Hong Kong and Shanghai. A significant number of graduates have also achieved prominence in the arts.
Dr. Lionel Astor Sheridan, then a law teacher in the United Kingdom, was appointed the first Head of the Law Department of the University of Malaya in July 1956. The Department attained Faculty status in 1959 and Dr. Sheridan was appointed its first dean, while the pioneer batch of 22 law students graduated on 10 July 1961.
In its formative years, alumni were frequently called upon to provide leadership and expertise to the law school as it slowly expanded. Grants were also secured to increase the number of books in the law library, and students were sent to international mooting competitions as part of the legal education. By the early 1990s, student exchange programmes with leading schools were established as well. Over the years, with the help of grants, donations and support from its alumni in both teaching and leadership positions, the law school grew from strength to strength, and is today recognised as a respected institution for providing quality legal education.
The Faculty of Law is now staffed by a permanent faculty with law degrees from more than a dozen jurisdictions, in line with its aim of being "Asia's Global Law School".
Students of NUS Law enjoy access to online legal databases such as LawNet, Westlaw, Lexis Nexis and HeinOnline, as well as one of the largest and most comprehensive law libraries in the region, the CJ Koh Law Library.
Undergraduate students in the 4-year LL.B. programme are required to take compulsory subjects such as contract law and tort law in the first 2 years, and are allowed to take up to 18 elective subjects in the final 2 years. Law electives include subjects on Asian legal studies and comparative law, commercial law, intellectual property and technology, maritime law, public and private international law, legal skills, and law & society. Students can also take non-law subjects for their electives, such as finance, accounting, international relations, foreign policy, and languages such as Korean, Japanese, French and German. As part of their LL.B., students can choose to take up a minor in another course of study such as economics, management, philosophy and political science.
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