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Bringing Justice Across Borders, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

Professor Mark Findlay highlights the need to study how criminal justice systems can better serve the victims of war crimes and calls for more crossdisciplinary research in the legal field.

See his books:

• International and comparative criminal justice: A critical introduction
• Contemporary challenges in regulating global crises

Mergers & Acquisitions: The Asian Way, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

Professor Wan Wai Yee studies the laws that govern mergers and acquisitions in Asia’s fast-changing landscape.

See the related publications:

• Mergers and Acquisitions in Singapore: Law and Practice
• Independent financial advisers' opinions for public takeovers and related party transactions in Singapore
• Regulating squeeze-out techniques by controlling shareholders: The divergence between Hong Kong and Singapore

China: Rule-Taker, Rule-Shaker Or Rule-Maker?, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

Despite its ascent on the world stage, Professor Henry Gao’s research shows that China may prefer to keep a low profile in global organisations.

See his papers:

• Selected issues in TPP negotiations and implications for China
• China's ascent in global trade governance: From rule taker to rule shaker and, maybe rule maker?
• Saving the WTO from the risk of irrelevance

Guiding Economic Growth Through National Action Plans: Protect, Respect And Remedy, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

A unique United Nations-commissioned academic research collaboration has issued recommendations on the prevention and mitigation of business-related human rights abuses in the Global South.

See the CALS-SMU reports to UN

See the book: Business and human rights in Southeast Asia: Risk and the regulatory turn

See the paper: A domestic solution for cross border human rights harm: Singapore’s haze pollution law

Asia’S Legal Tiger, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

The growing globalisation of Singapore’s legal profession presents both opportunities and challenges, says Professor Goh Yihan.

See his books:

• Singapore Chronicles: Law;
• Singapore Law: 50 years in the making

Who’S Wrong, Whose Liability, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

Determining who is legally answerable for a wrong in the civil context can be complicated, but research being done by Professor Lee Pey Woan is helping to clear the air.

See the papers:

• Accessory liability in tort and equity
• The enigma of veil-piercing
• The company and its directors as co-conspirators

Research@Smu: Connecting The Dots, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

The word “Management” in the name of our university was carefully and deliberately chosen to address the needs of institutions and decisionmakers across all segments of society: business enterprises and the private sector, government and the public sector, and civil society and the people sector. Unless you are already familiar with the breadth and depth of research output from Singapore Management University (SMU), you would naturally assume that we were a “management” university that was focusing exclusively on business – in essence, a large business school. The reality is quite different.

Through this book, you will gain a more complete …

Making Sense Of Virtual Assets, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

Professor Kelvin Low’s research shows that the legal rights of people who own some intangible assets are sometimes remarkably ill-defined and poorly studied.

See the papers:

• Carbon credits as EU like it: Property, immunity, tragiCO2medy?
• Legal risks of owning cryptocurrencies

When Punches Fly In Cyberspace, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

Professor Gary Chan examines how legal practice has changed in response to the Internet and technology.

See his papers:

• Case Comment: Golden Season Pte Ltd and others v Kairos Singapore Holdings Pte Ltd and another [2015] SGHC 38
• Reputation and defamatory meaning on the Internet: Communications, contexts and communities;
• Defamation via hyperlinks: More than meets the eye

See his books:

• Tort of defamation before the Singapore Courts, 1965-2015: A comparative and empirical study
• The law of torts in Singapore
• Ethics and social responsibility: Asian and Western perspectives
• The legal system of Singapore: Institutions, principles and practices

The Blame Game, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

When parties outsource duties to independent contractors who then carry out the work negligently, is the hiring party also responsible? Professor Low Kee Yang believes so.

See the papers:

• Non-delegable duty of care: Woodland v Swimming Teachers Association and beyond
• Non-delegable duty after Tiong Aik

Dollars And Drugs, Singapore Management University

Research@SMU: Connecting the Dots

Professor Locknie Hsu studies how trade deals affect the public’s access to affordable medicines and healthcare.

See her paper: Regulatory flexibilities and tensions in public health and trade: An Asian perspective; Tobacco control in ASEAN

See her book: Trade, investment, innovation and their impact on access to medicines: An Asian perspective