Dr Jack Lee – Deputy Research Director, Singapore Academy of Law
Dr Jack Tsen-Ta Lee is the Deputy Research Director of the Singapore Academy of Law, where he works in law reform. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) in 1995, and was called to the Bar as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore the following year. After practising for about six years as a litigator, during which time he qualified as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, he completed an LLM at University College London in 2003 on a British Chevening Scholarship. In 2012, he was conferred a PhD for research into the interpretation of bills of rights by the University of Birmingham, which was funded by a teaching assistantship from the University. Jack previously taught at the Singapore Management University School of Law, during which he was a 2009 Lee Foundation Fellow for Research Excellence, and won the School’s Most Promising Teacher Award for 2010–2011. He maintains research interests in constitutional and administrative law, heritage law, and media law.