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Professor Walter Woon

Professor, NUS Faculty of Law

cilww@nus.edu.sg
  • Profile
    • DBS Scholarship 1977-81

    • LLB (1st Class Hons) NUS 1981

    • Commonwealth Scholarship 1982-83

    • LLM (1st Class Hons), St John’s College Cambridge

    • Sub-Dean and Vice-Dean, Law Faculty 1988-1991

    • Nominated Member of Parliament 1992-1996

    • Legal Adviser to President and Council of Presidential Advisers 1995-1997

    • Director, Intraco Ltd 1989-2000

    • Natsteel Ltd 1997-2001

    • Between 1998 and 2006 Ambassador to Germany, Greece, the European Union, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and the Vatican

    • Grand Cross of the Order of St Gregory the Great 2006

    • Solicitor-General 2006-2008

    • Chairman, Singapore International Law Society 2006 to date

    • Member of the High Level Task Force to draft the ASEAN Charter 2007

    • Appointed Senior Counsel 2007

    • Judge Advocate General 2007 to date

    • Attorney-General 2008-2010

    • Member of the Board of Directors, Monetary Authority of Singapore 2008-2010

    • Member, Presidential Council for Minority Rights 2008-2010

    • Dean, Singapore Institute of Legal Education 2010 to date

    • President, Goethe Institute Singapore, 2010 to date

  • Qualifications

    LLM (Cambridge), LLB (NUS) Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

  • Appointments
    • Senior Counsel
    • Dean, Singapore Institute of Legal Education
    • David Marshall Professor
    • Deputy Chairman, Centre for International Law
    • Honorary Fellow, Singapore Institute of Directors
  • Research Interests
    • Company Law
    • Criminal Law
    • International Law
  • Selected Publications
    • Company Law (1st Ed Longman Singapore 1988; 2nd Ed Pearson Professional Singapore1997; 3rd Ed Sweet & Maxwell Singapore, 2009 edited by Tan Cheng Han)

    • Woon & Hicks, The Companies Act of Singapore – an Annotation (2nd Ed Butterworths Singapore 1994, supplements to 2003); now Woon’s Corporations Law (Lexis Nexis Singapore, looseleaf)

    • Woon & Hicks, The Companies Act of Malaysia – an Annotation (Butterworths Singapore 1995, supplements to 2004)

    • The Singapore Legal System (Editor) (Longman Singapore 1989)

    • Towards a Rules-Based Community: An ASEAN Legal Service (Cambridge University Press, England 2014; with Jean-Claude Piris)

    • 6. The ASEAN Charter: A Commentary (NUS Press Singapore, 2015)

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