Education CV
Education
- LLM (Legal History), University College London
- LLB, National University of Singapore
Employment
- Sheridan Fellow at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore (2014-)
Scholarships
- Cambridge Trust NUS Cambridge Scholarship (2017-2020)
Appointments
- Treasurer, Cambridge International Law Journal (2017-2019)
- General Editor, Cambridge International Law Journal (2017-2018)
- Editor, UCL Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2015-2016)
Teaching
- Legal Methods (undergraduate supervisions, Cambridge, 2018)
- Law of Torts (undergraduate tutorials, Singapore, 2014/15)
Fields of research
Legal and imperial history; criminal law
Jurisdictional Politics and Colonial Administration in Hong Kong, 1842–1875
Summary
My research traces the origins and evolution of British rule and jurisdiction over the Chinese population of Hong Kong, c. 1842–1875. I investigate the interconnections between legal development and the development of the institutions of colonial government in that crown colony. Legal concepts and ideas explored will include imperial protection, subjecthood (or nationality), territorial sovereignty, and personal and extraterritorial jurisdiction. Most of my project will draw on the records of the Colonial Office and Foreign Office at The National Archives of the UK.
Supervisors
Representative Publications
‘Of Administrative Solecisms and Gubernatorial Non-Entities: The Imperial Politics of British Treaty Performance in China, 1842–1870’ (paper to be presented at the Student Research Colloquium of the 48th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Rice University, November 2018; and as part of the London Legal History Seminars, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London, December 2018)
‘Extraditing Professional Pirates and Criminal Coolies in Early Colonial Hong Kong’ (paper presented at the ‘Legal History and Empires: Perspectives from the Colonized’ Conference, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, July 2018)
‘The Protector of Chinese Inhabitants: British Sovereignty and Criminal Jurisdiction in Hong Kong after the Treaty of Nanking, 1842–1850’ (paper presented at the Faculty of Law Research Seminar Series, National University of Singapore, September 2017; and at the Yale Law School Doctoral Scholarship Conference, November 2017)
'Legal Pluralities and Colonial Politics: The Case of Chinese Secret Societies in British Malaya' (paper presented at the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference at the University of York, September 2015)
'Common Intention and the Presumption of Joint Possession in the Misuse of Drugs Act' (2014) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 419-428
