Wai Kum Leong

Professor Leong Wai Kum

Professor, Law Programmes

School of Law

Tel: +65 6240 8924

Email: d2tsZW9uZ0BzdXNzLmVkdS5zZw==

Educational Qualifications

1979
Master of Laws Harvard University

1976
Bachelor of Laws (Hons) (Class 1) University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur

Academic and Professional Experience

Jul 2020 - Present
Professor, SUSS School of Law

Jun 2020 - Present
Emeritus Professor, NUS Faculty of Law

Jan 2003 - Jun 2020
Professor, NUS Faculty of Law

Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong

Aug 2015 - Sept 2015
Visiting Professor, University of Malaya

Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
Visiting Professor, University of Western Australia Faculty of Law

Oct 2011 - Jan 2012
Visiting Professor, University of Hong Kong

Jul 1990 - Dec 2002
Associate Professor, NUS Faculty of Law

Nov 2002
First Visiting Researcher, Clarke Program of East Asian Law and Culture, Cornell Law School

Dec 2000
Visiting Scholar, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

Sept 1992
Visiting Scholar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Sept 1992
Visiting Scholar, Uppsala University Faculty of Law

Aug 1985 - May 1986
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University

1989 - Present
Associate Member, Singapore Academy of Law

1983 - Present
Advocate & Solicitor, High Court of Malaya

Jul 1981 - Jun 1990
Senior Lecturer, NUS Faculty of Law

Jun 1976 - Jun 1981
Lecturer, University of Singapore Faculty of Law

(Selection of past 5 years)

Leong Wai Kum and Debbie Ong "Family justice in divorce proceedings in Singapore for spouses and their children" [2020] Special Issue JMJ 165-189

Elements of Family Law in Singapore Third Ed (Singapore: LexisNexis, August 2018)

Leong Wai Kum "From substantive law towards family justice for the child in divorce proceedings in Singapore" (2018) Special Issue on Children SAcLJ

Leong Wai Kum "Back to the Future: The 2017 amendments of power to divide matrimonial assets" (2018) JMJ 171-192

Leong Wai Kum "Moral messaging towards harmonious living" in Anne Scully-Hill, Sala Sihombing and Katherine Lynch (eds) Reforming Hong Kong's Child & Family Justice System: Intergrating Legal, Comparative & Multidisciplinary Approaches (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016) pp 363-385

Leong Wai Kum "Towards the elimination of prescriptive sexual regulation in family law in Singapore" HKLJ Focus Issue (2016) Vol 46:1 pp 130-149

Leong Wai Kum, Burton Ong and Alexander Loke "The conceptual basis of the solicitor's liability to a third party related to the client: Reconstructing the White v Jones principle in Singapore" PN (2016) 32:1 pp 32-49

Leong Wai Kum "For our children's sake: Gentle reminders of parental responsibility" in Speaking of Children (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015) pp 113-131

(Selection of past 10 years)

Jul 2019 - Present
Supervisor, Doctoral candidate, NUS Faculty of Law

Jul 2019 - Present
Member of Panel of Referees, Journal of Malaysian Judiciary

Sept 2020
Delivered inaugural CJ Koh Family Law Lecture

Aug 2019
Speaker at Family Justice Courts' International Advisory Committee's Meeting

15 Jul 2019
Speaker at Family Judges' Learning Week

5 Jul 2019
Speaker at Law Society of Singapore Family Law Conference

10 Oct 2017
Speaker at Law Society of Singapore Family Law Conference

29 Aug 2017
Speaker at Family Justice Courts' International Advisory Council's Meeting

22 May 2017
Speaker at Family Justice Courts' JOs' Seminar

May 2017
External Examiner of Doctoral Thesis submitted to University of Malaya Faculty of Law

Jan 2016 - Present
Member of International Editorial Board, Journal of Malaysian and Comparative Law

22 Sept 2016
Speaker at Society of Middle Temple and Singapore Academy of Law Conference

28 Aug 2016
Speaker at Law Society of Singapore International Family Law Conference

Jul 2010 - Jun 2016
Member of NUS Nominating Committee for Honorary Degrees and Emeritus Professorships

Feb 2016
Speaker at Judicial College of Singapore

Jan 2015 - Jan 2016
Member of Family Law Review Working Group

18 Nov 2015
Speaker at Third Children's Forum at Chinese University of Hong Kong

Nov 2014
Speaker at Working Party on Mediation of South East Asia Region, Hague Conference on Private International Law

2013 - 2014
Curriculum Committee of proposed UniSIM School of Law

May 2014
Speaker at 11th Asian Law Institute's Conference

29 Sept 2012
Delivered Children's Society of Singapore's Annual Lecture

Jul 2012
External Examiner of Doctoral Thesis submitted to University of Western Australia Faculty of Law

27 Mar 2012
Speaker at Occasional Research Conversation at University of Western Australia

Feb 2011
Speaker at Singapore Academy of Law Conference

(Selection of past 3 years)

Nov 2019
Amicus curiae appointed to Court of Appeal in Singapore

Jul 2018
Legal Opinion to Court of Sweden

Family law and practice
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