Adeline Chong joined SMU in November 2007. She was formerly a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Nottingham. She obtained First Class Honours from the University of Birmingham and subsequently was awarded a scholarship to pursue a Ph.D in Nottingham. The thesis looked at the choice of law issues concerning establishing the voidness of a contract and the restitutionary aftermath of voidness. She has published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Journal of Private International Law. She is the co-author of Hill and Chong, International Commercial Disputes: Commercial Conflict of Laws in English Courts (Oxford, Hart, 4th edn, 2010). She is the Project Lead of the Asian Business Law Institute’s project on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Asia. Her work has been cited by the Singapore, Hong Kong, New South Wales and New Zealand Court of Appeals, the Singapore and New Zealand High Courts, the UK Law Commission, as well as in leading texts on conflict of laws such as Dicey, Morris and Collins on the Conflict of Laws (15th edition, 2012). She has also been invited to present papers by the British Association of Canadian Studies, British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Kyushu University and the University of Sydney. She has conducted courses for the Attorney-General Chambers of Malaysia and delivered Continuing Professional Development Talks for Singapore’s Attorney-General Chamber’s Academy and the Law Society of Singapore. She has appeared as an expert on Singapore law before a Finnish court and issued a declaration on Singapore law for a US class action. She was awarded the 2013 School of Law Research Excellence Award and was appointed as a Lee Kong Chian Fellow in 2015. She was a recipient of the School of Law’s Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2016, 2018 and 2020.
The publisher’s blurb, including a discount code, is as follows: Private International Law and Children’s Rights Law Conflicts in International Child Abduction Cases Tine Van Hof This book examines the relationship between two legal fields when courts decide on cross-border child abduction. While private international law prioritises the child’s prompt return and applies the […]
Guest post by Professor YEO Tiong Min, Yong Pung How Chair Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University Much has been in the news about governmental endeavours to protect children from the ills of social media, which has partially eclipsed the equally important issue of social media being used to […]
Multinationals and Human Rights in Asia Edited by Jason Ho Ching Cheung and Kazuaki Nishioka This book investigates the availability in Asian jurisdictions of civil remedies against multinational businesses for human rights abuses. It assesses whether the norms of the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights have taken root in […]
One of the requirements for issue estoppel is identity of issue. However, the process of ‘refining down’ or ‘salami-slicing’
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By Catherine Shen, Asian Business Law Institute In 2023 Su 05 Xie Wai Ren No. 8 dated March 14, 2025, the Suzhou Intermediate People’s Court of Jiangsu Province in China (Suzhou Court) recognized and enforced civil judgment HC/S194/2022 under file number HC/JUD47/2023 by the Supreme Court of Singapore (Singapore Judgment). The judgment by the Suzhou […]
Written by Yip Man (Professor of Law, Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University) To bolster Singapore’s position as an international dispute resolution hub, the Singapore International Commercial Court (International Committee) Bill
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By Adeline Chong, Singapore Management University Introduction In two decisions decided within a fortnight of each other, the Singapore Court of Appeal considered anti-suit injunctions pursued to restrain proceedings allegedly brought in breach of arbitration agreements. The first case, Asiana Airlines, Inc v Gate Gourmet Korea Co, Ltd (‘Asiana Airlines’)