Associate Professor Chan Wing Cheong

Wing Cheong completed his undergraduate studies in Law in Oxford University (England) and his Masters degree in Cornell University (USA). He is an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, a barrister of Gray's Inn (England), and a qualified attorney of New York State (USA). He joined the NUS Faculty of Law in 1993. His research interests lie in criminal law and family law which in recent years have extended to child law, victims of crime and elder law.

Wing Cheong has published extensively in the areas of criminal law and family law. His most recent book publications are Support for Victims of Crime in Asia (2008) and Criminal Law in Malaysia and Singapore: A Casebook Companion (2009).

Wing Cheong has been a member of the Elder Protection Team, the Maintenance of Parents Tribunal, the Inter-Ministry Committee on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme Committee. He was also a mediator in divorce cases with the Family Court for several years. He was awarded the Ministry of Community Development’s Outstanding Volunteer Award in 1999 for his public service as a Gazetted Volunteer Probation Officer.