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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
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Qualifications
LLM (Cambridge), LLB (NUS) Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
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Appointments
- Senior Counsel
- Dean, Singapore Institute of Legal Education
- David Marshall Professor
- Deputy Chairman, Centre for International Law
- Honorary Fellow, Singapore Institute of Directors
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Research Interests
- Company Law
- Criminal Law
- International Law
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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)
