Lee Pey Woan
Lee Pey Woan PPA PK is a Singaporean legal academic who is dean at the Singapore Management University School of Law.
Education[edit]
Lee graduated from King's College London and subsequently obtained her Masters' Degree from Oxford University.[1]
Career[edit]
Lee started work as a Legal Manager at Keppel Corporation.
Academic career[edit]
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 was previously the vice-provost of faculty matters, and is presenly Dean and professor at the Singapore Management University School of Law, serving a 5-year term as the dean of the school with effect from July 2022.[4] She was selected as dean following "an extensive and rigorous global search that started in August 2021".[5] Lee has stated that her aim is to have the school be amongst the top 50 law schools in the world and top 5 in Asia by the end of her term.[6]
Recognition[edit]
Lee is an accomplished scholar whose research interests involve company, private and commercial law. Her work has been cited extensively by various courts.[7]
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."[8]
Awards[edit]
Lee has received the Commendation Medal in 2010[9] and Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2021.[10]
References[edit]
- ^ "Singapore Management University Appoints New Dean Of Yong Pung How School Of Law". litigationedge.asia. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ "Pioneering faculty member appointed as new dean of SMU law school". www.singaporelawwatch.sg. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ "LEE Pey Woan". SMU Faculty Directory. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Pioneering faculty member appointed as new dean of SMU law school | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. 24 May 2022. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ "Building a world-class law school". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
- ^ "SMU announces new Dean for Yong Pung How School of Law". SMU Newsroom. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ "[2017] SGCA 26". www.elitigation.sg. Retrieved 27 May 2022.
- ^ Singapore, Prime Minister's Office (22 November 2021). "PMO | Recipients". Prime Minister's Office Singapore. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
- ^ "Investiture of the 2021 National Day Awards". Retrieved 28 November 2023.