Lee Pey Woan

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]

References

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