Before 1957, there was no institution in Singapore or Malaya providing legal education. Those wishing to pursue a legal career had to go to the United Kingdom for such education. The 1955 Allen-Braddell Report outlined a scheme of organisation of courses in Social Studies and Law, and convinced the Council of the then University of Malaya that the University should establish a department to make legal education available locally. A non-faculty Law Department was established in July 1956 under the Headship of Professor L A. Sheridan from Queen’s University, Belfast. Teaching in the Department began in 1957. In 1959, faculty status was attained and the Faculty of Law was established. The first LL.B. degrees were conferred in 1961. The LL.B. degree awarded by this University and its predecessors, the University of Malaya in Singapore and the University of Singapore, is the standard route for entry into the legal profession in Singapore.

With a rich heritage spanning over 50 years, the NUS Faculty of Law is one of the finest law schools in the world, and is widely regarded as Asia’s leading law school. Home to an outstanding permanent faculty with law degrees from more than a dozen jurisdictions, the law school is an institution dedicated to building a community and an environment in which faculty and students can discuss and reflect on the fundamental legal issues that affect societies in today’s globalised world.

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