Lee Pey Woan PPA PK is a Singaporean legal academic.

Education

Lee graduated from

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and subsequently obtained her Masters' Degree from Oxford University.

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. She was subsequently appointed an

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of law in 2008, and a

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in 2019. She was also associate dean (undergraduate teaching & curriculum) from 2017 to 2020. Lee is presently the vice-provost of faculty matters, and is dean-designate and a professor at the Singapore Management University School of Law, and is scheduled to take over from

Goh Yihan Goh Yihan (born 1981) is a Singaporean legal academic. He is a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore. He was previously dean of the Singapore Management University School of Law. Education Goh graduated from the Nationa ...

, who will be taking on an appointment as judicial commissioner. She will be serving a 5-year term as the dean of the school with effect from July 2022. She was selected as dean following "an extensive and rigorous global search that started in August 2021".

Recognition

Lee is an accomplished scholar whose research interests involve company, private and commercial law. Her work has been cited extensively by various courts. Lee was also appointed amicus curiae in 2017 by a 5-member coram of the

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in the case of PH Hydraulics & Engineering v Airtrust (Hong Kong) Ltd

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2 SLR 129;

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 tgreatly in arriving at its decision on a particularly thorny area of the common law of contract."

Awards

Lee has received the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2021 and the

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in 2010.

References

{{reflist Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Singaporean academics Alumni of King's College London Alumni of the University of Oxford Recipients of the Pingat Pentadbiran Awam