Lee Pey Woan

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Lee Pey Woan PPA PK is a Singaporean legal academic.

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Education

Lee graduated from King's College London and subsequently obtained her Masters' Degree from Oxford University. [1]

Career

Lee started work as a Legal Manager at Keppel Corporation.

Academic career

Lee joined the faculty at the Singapore Management University School of Law in 2000, which was at that point of time still a law department under the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. [2] She was subsequently appointed an associate professor of law in 2008, and a professor of law in 2019. She was also associate dean (undergraduate teaching & curriculum) from 2017 to 2020. [3]

Lee is presently the vice-provost of faculty matters, and is dean-designate and a professor at the Singapore Management University School of Law, and is scheduled to take over from Goh Yihan, who will be taking on an appointment as judicial commissioner. [4] She will be serving a 5-year term as the dean of the school with effect from July 2022. She was selected as dean following "an extensive and rigorous global search that started in August 2021". [5]

Recognition

Lee is an accomplished scholar whose research interests involve company, private and commercial law. Her work has been cited extensively by various courts. [6]

Lee was also appointed amicus curiae in 2017 by a 5-member coram of the Court of Appeal in the case of PH Hydraulics & Engineering v Airtrust (Hong Kong) Ltd [2017] 2 SLR 129;[2017] SGCA 26, in which the Court, in its Grounds of Decision, expressed "deep appreciation to Prof Lee for her outstanding scholarship as well as cogent oral submissions that aided [it] greatly in arriving at its decision on a particularly thorny area of the common law of contract." [7]

Awards

Lee has received the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2021 [8] and the Commendation Medal in 2010. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Singapore Management University Appoints New Dean Of Yong Pung How School Of Law". litigationedge.asia. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  2. ↑ "Pioneering faculty member appointed as new dean of SMU law school". www.singaporelawwatch.sg. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  3. ↑ "LEE Pey Woan". SMU Faculty Directory. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  4. ↑ "PMO | Appointment of Judge of the High Court and Judicial Commissioners of the Supreme Court (Mar 2022)". Prime Minister's Office Singapore. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  5. ↑ "Pioneering faculty member appointed as new dean of SMU law school | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. 24 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
  6. ↑ "SMU announces new Dean for Yong Pung How School of Law". SMU Newsroom. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
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