National University Of Singapore Faculty Of Law
The National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law (NUS Law) is one of Singapore's two law schools. The Faculty was initially established as a Department of Law in the then University of Malaya in 1956, with its first batch of students matriculating the following year. Subsequently, it served as Singapore's only law school for half a century, until SMU was set up in 2007. The Faculty is currently headed by Professor Simon Chesterman.
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