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The Yong Pung How School of Law is one of the six schools of the Singapore Management University. It was set up as Singapore's second law school in 2007, 50 years after the NUS Faculty of Law and 10 years before SUSS School of Law. Prior to its establishment as a law school, the school was a department within the School of Business between 2000 ...
Originally named School of Law, the Yong Pung How School of Law (SOL) is SMU's smallest school with an annual intake of around 180 students. [32] The establishment of the SOL was announced in August 2007. [33] Previously, the SOL existed as the Department of Law under SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business, where it was chaired by Andrew Phang.
Yong was appointed as the chairman of the SMU School of Law's advisory board in March 2007. [25] In 2007, SMU also established the Yong Pung How Professorship of Law, named after Yong and made possible by a S$3 million endowed contribution from the Yong Shook Lin Trust, which was named after Yong's father. [26]
In 1964, Yong was born in Kuala Lumpur, and she was the only child. [6] Her father, Yong Pung How, was an advocate, solicitor and later Chief Justice of Singapore.In the late 1960s, as the medium of instruction in Malaysian schools were switching to Malay, Yong's parents were disinclined for her to study in Malaysia.
Between 1982 and 2000, Phang taught at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, and was appointed Professor of Law in 1999.He was appointed Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University (SMU) in 2000, and made Chairman of the Department of Law at SMU's Lee Kong Chian School of Business in 2001.
Yong's son, Pung How, would later join the firm in 1952 after graduating with a double-first degree in law from his father's alma mater, initially practicing mostly criminal law. [1] Under the Pung How leadership as a senior partner, the firm grew to be one of the largest firms in Malaya. [2] [3] In 1964, Shook Lin opened an office in Singapore ...
He is the Yong Pung How Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University School of Law and served as its dean from 2012 to 2017. [1] In his time as Dean, Yeo was credited for his role in developing the Singapore Management University School of Law "into a leading law school in Singapore and in Asia."
Eugene Tan Kheng Boon (born 18 February 1970) is a Singaporean academic who is currently an associate professor of law at the Singapore Management University.Tan served as a Nominated Member of Parliament between 2012 and 2014.