Lee Pey Woan Explained

Lee Pey Woan PPA PK is a Singaporean legal academic who is dean at the Singapore Management University School of Law.

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 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 within the next five to ten years.[6]

Recognition

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

Lee has received the Commendation Medal in 2010[9] and Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2021.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Singapore Management University Appoints New Dean Of Yong Pung How School Of Law . 27 May 2022 . litigationedge.asia . en-GB.
  2. Web site: Pioneering faculty member appointed as new dean of SMU law school . 27 May 2022 . www.singaporelawwatch.sg . en-US.
  3. Web site: LEE Pey Woan . 27 May 2022 . SMU Faculty Directory . en.
  4. Web site: 25 March 2022 . PMO Appointment of Judge of the High Court and Judicial Commissioners of the Supreme Court (Mar 2022) . 27 May 2022 . Prime Minister's Office Singapore . en.
  5. Web site: 24 May 2022 . Pioneering faculty member appointed as new dean of SMU law school The Straits Times . 27 May 2022 . www.straitstimes.com . en.
  6. Web site: Building a world-class law school . 2023-01-08 . EurekAlert! . en.
  7. Web site: SMU announces new Dean for Yong Pung How School of Law . 27 May 2022 . SMU Newsroom . en.
  8. Web site: [2017] SGCA 26 ]. 27 May 2022 . www.elitigation.sg.
  9. Web site: Singapore . Prime Minister's Office . 2021-11-22 . PMO Recipients . 2023-11-28 . Prime Minister's Office Singapore . en.
  10. Web site: Investiture of the 2021 National Day Awards . 28 November 2023 . en.