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LAWLINK Vol 1 No.1 January-June 2002 the Alumni Magazine of the National University of Singapore Law School ISSN: 0219-6441 LAWLINK Vol 1 No.1 January-June 2002 The Alumni Magazine of the National University of Singapore Law School ISSN: 0219-6441 Artist-alumnus Namiko Chan ’97 with Uma, her gift to the Law School Contents 03 Message from Dean Tan Cheng Han ‘87 04 Law School Highlights LAWLINK can be accessed on-line at 9 A Word from the http://www.law.nus.edu.sg/alumni 0 ALAWMNUS Feature Namiko has donated one of her works – Uma – to the Law School in honour of her 4 Alumni News Editor teachers. In addition, the Law School has 1 It is about time we had a comprehensive purchased another of Namiko’s paintings – alumni magazine. It is about time, too, for Untitled 4 – to be dedicated in memory of stronger alumni relations. Our Law School two colleagues who passed away in recent 8 Future Alumni boasts a rich tradition leading back to years, Ricardo Almeida and Peter English. 1 pre-independence Singapore. Our alumni fill the ranks of government, the private sector, We are also inspired by our students and the arts community and almost every other alumni who continue to go beyond the law 2 ClassAction niche of professional life in Singapore. It is to engage in community and public interest 2 perhaps because we are the only law school work. In this issue, we profile an alumnus in the country that we omit to identify more who is heading Club Rainbow, a charity strongly with it. Thus, we often take for dedicated to helping children with chronic meantime, we welcome comments on granted the fact that we, the alumni of the and potentially life-threatening illnesses. LAWLINK and feedback on how the Law NUS Law School, are omnipresent in the The graduating classes of 2002 to 2005 have School can strengthen alumni relations with country. also done their sterling best for charity, as you. evidenced by the number of community For a school of our size, we can certainly projects they have undertaken. We also strive for a more intense and vibrant feature in this issue the winning efforts of relationship with our graduates. We in the our Law School mooting teams which have Law School, will endeavour to reach out charted new victories beyond the Jessup more to our alumni and to appeal to your Moots. sense of pride for and identification with this institution. Be it alumni who graduated from It is our belief that the most important Bukit Timah or Kent Ridge, we want to function of an alumni magazine is to enable Alan Tan Khee Jin ‘93 strengthen our links with you and we alumni to reach out to each other and to the welcome your support for us in any way. institution. Many will agree that the most LAWLINK is a publication of: cherished memories of Law School years The Alumni Relations Committee LAWLINK represents a step in our efforts to would be the friendships that we made. In NUS Law School, 13 Law Link nurture stronger alumni relations. The name this light, the ClassAction section – arranged Singapore 117590 for this publication was chosen to signify our according to graduating class – aims to desire to maintain and reinforce our ties with provide you with updates on your classmates. Special thanks to: you. 13 Law Link is also the physical location We believe that ClassAction is the anchor of Chan Namiko Takahashi ’97, of the Law School within the Kent Ridge LAWLINK . That the graduating classes of Gregory Vijayendran ’92, Adam Atlas campus. We aim to build on the good work the 1990s have been disproportionately EXC ’96, Darrell Low ’05, Rupert Ong ‘86, of Just Inn, our predecessor publication. featured lies in the fact that your editor came Judy Chang ’92, Aaron Lee ‘97, LAWLINK’s objective is to keep you, our from one of those classes, and thus found Chai Mui Kim, Sarah Syed Yahya, alumni, updated on developments in the Law it easier to solicit news. We need your Alfian Ahmad & Dean Tan Cheng Han ‘87. School as well as on your fellow alumni. support – particularly senior alumni from the earlier graduating classes as well as our Cover Photo by: Jack Tan Photography For our inaugural issue, we feature a young postgraduate alumni – to email your news to alumnus who is an exceptionally talented [email protected] so that ClassAction can Alumni Relations Committee artist training in New York City. Chan Namiko do justice to your respective classes! and LAWLINK Editorial Board: Takahashi ’97 recently staged her first solo Gary F. Bell, Jamila Osman & Alan Tan ‘93. exhibition in Singapore with the help of many We look forward to presenting more issues of of her Law School classmates. Namiko and LAWLINK in the future. We are counting To get on our mailing list, write with full her friends exemplify the Law School spirit on you – our alumni – for your support in contact details to [email protected] or which LAWLINK seeks to embody. this mutual effort to engender stronger ties LAWLINK , NUS Law School, 13 Law Link, LAWLINK is proud to announce that of kinship with our Law School. In the Singapore 117590 03 LAWLINK Although Singapore may only have one law school, it is very evident to us that we must be globally competitive vis-à-vis other top law schools in the world. All good law schools compete to attract the best students and funding for their programmes. At the same time, to be globally competitive, law schools must forge partnerships with other law schools, whether for student and staff exchanges, or to collaborate on projects. To continue to be globally competitive, the Law School will, in addition to reforming our curriculum, seek to increase our endowment. Many top law schools have endowments running into the tens of millions, if not the hundreds. Our endowment is still very small by comparison. A larger endowment will allow us to offer scholarships to able students, particularly those from the region, to build a future alumni base that has a more global, or at least regional, reach. It will allow us to bring in more distinguished professors that will enrich teaching as well as allow us to build stronger links with other top law schools that such professors come from. To enhance the international reputation of this Law School, strategic partnerships play an important role. The Law School currently has a joint LL.M programme in commercial law with the University of Nottingham. We are currently considering setting up a World Trade Law Academy in conjunction with George Washington University School of Law. We are also exploring a capacity building project in Vietnam with Columbia and Harvard Law Schools. These strategic partnerships will enable the NUS Law School to play a more influential Message from role in the international legal community without diminishing our role Dean Tan Cheng Han ‘87 to the Singapore legal community. I was most delighted recently to welcome a very distinguished jurist to It gives me great pleasure to contribute this message to the inaugural our alumni. He is none other than the Honourable the Chief Justice issue of the Faculty’s re-launched alumni magazine, LAWLINK . Yong Pung How who was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws by When I was appointed Dean on 1 May 2001, one of the things that I the University on 17 September 2001. Just as we are delighted to wanted to do was to strengthen the links with our alumni. In part, this welcome him into the NUS fold, I am confident that the Chief Justice is because we should never allow the bonds of friendship to become is proud to be associated with us and we look forward to his frayed. In addition, many of the great law schools of the world have continued support. achieved greatness because of their close ties with their alumni. In the complex world that we live in, the NUS Law School cannot expect to As the only law school in Singapore, it is important that we keep compete globally unless part of its foundation is built on the goodwill, abreast of developments in the Singapore legal community. In advice and expertise of its alumni. This alumni magazine will be a addition to the usual channels of communication, the Law School small step towards building bridges with you, our alumni. I hope that also has a Steering Committee to provide advice and assistance to my it will keep you informed of developments in the Law School, the colleagues and me. The Steering Committee is chaired by one of my challenges we face, and the initiatives that we are taking to enhance distinguished predecessors as Dean, Professor Tommy Koh ‘61. The the quality of our programmes. I also hope that it will help to keep other members are all distinguished members of the legal profession you informed of what individual alumni are doing, and to this end I and our proud alumni, namely the Honourable Attorney-General encourage all our alumni to keep the editors informed through the Chan Sek Keong ‘61, Dr Philip Pillai ‘71, Mr Andrew Ang ‘71, Mr ClassAction section of significant events in their lives and the lives of Davinder Singh, SC ‘82, Mr VK Rajah, SC ‘82 and Mr K Shanmugam, other alumni they are in contact with. SC ‘84. They will help the Law School to continue to fulfil its primary mission of training lawyers for the legal profession. Alumni and friends of the Law School will no doubt be interested to know that there is a wide-ranging academic affairs review currently Let me wish all our alumni and friends the very best in the year ahead.
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