Judge of Appeal Andrew Phang Boon Leong is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Born in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 in 1957, he received his LL.B. (First Class Honours) from the University of Singapore in 1982, before earning his LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1984 and 1988 respectively. Between 1982 to 2000, he taught at the National University of Singapore

National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

The National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law is the older of Singapore's two law schools. The Faculty was initially established as the Department of Law in the then University of Malaya in 1956, with the first batch of students matriculating in the following year...

, and was appointed Professor of Law in 1999. He was appointed Professor of Law of the Singapore Management University

Singapore Management University

The Singapore Management University was officially incorporated on January 12, 2000, and was Singapore's first private university funded by the government...

 in 2000, and made Chair of the Department of Law at the university's Business School in 2001. Together with Professor Tan Cheng Han

Tan Cheng Han

Professor Tan Cheng Han, Senior Counsel, is the current dean of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore where he teaches Contract law and Corporations law. Professor Tan is also a consultant at TSMP Law Corporation....

, he was one of the first two academics to be conferred the title of Senior Counsel

Senior Counsel

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Justice Phang was appointed Judicial Commissioner

Judicial Commissioner

A Judicial Commissioner in Singapore is appointed to the Supreme Court by the President of Singapore on the advice of the Prime Minister, and has the powers of a Judge. A person may be appointed a Judicial Commissioner if he/she has been a "qualified person" within the meaning of section 2 of the...

 in January 2005, Judge in December 2005, and Judge of Appeal in February 2006. He is one of the leading authorities in contract law in Singapore.