Wui Ling Cheah
wuiling.cheah@law.ox.ac.uk / lawcwl@nus.edu.sg
Qualifications:
LL.M. (Harvard 08)
LL.M. (National University of Singapore 05)
LL.B. (National University of Singapore 03)
Biodata:
Wui Ling holds an LLM from Harvard Law School. She also holds an LLB and an LLM (by research) from the National University of Singapore. She is currently on study leave and reading for a DPhil at Oxford’s Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
Her research interests lie in the areas of criminal justice, human rights law, and constitutional liberties. She is particularly interested in transitional justice issues related to Southeast Asia. She teaches at the National University of Singapore, and has conducted fieldwork in Cambodia, Timor Leste, Indonesia, and Japan. She previously served as a legal officer at Interpol (General Secretariat, Lyon) and as a legal trainee at the Serious Crimes Unit (Timor Leste).
For her doctorate, she is studying post-WWII trials conducted by the British in Singapore.
Core research interests:
- Criminal Justice
- Human Rights Law and Constitutional Liberties
- Transitional Justice (Southeast Asia)
Selected Publications:
“Post-WWII British ‘Hell-ship’ Trials in Singapore: Omissions and the Attribution of Responsibility”, Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press), Volume 8.4, 2010.
“Policing Interpol: the Commission for the Control of Interpol’s Files and the Right to a Remedy”, International Organizations Law Review (BRILL), Volume 7.2, 2010.
“Mapping Interpol’s Evolution: Functional Expansion and the Move towards Legalization”, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press), Volume 4.1, 2010.
“Private Defence”, Collection of Essays marking the 150th Anniversary of the Indian Penal Code (Ashgate), upcoming in 2011.
“Suhakam: Malaysia Human Rights Commission: The first ten years”, Development Note, Asian Yearbook of International Law (Routledge), 2010.
“Walking the Long Road in Solidarity and Hope: a Case Study of the "Comfort Women" Movement's Deployment of Human Rights Discourse”, Harvard Human Rights Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1, 2009.
“Forgiveness and Punishment in Post-conflict Timor”, UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Volume 10, No.1, 2005
