Goh Yihan

Goh Yihan SC (born 1981) is a Singaporean legal academic. He is the dean of the Singapore Management University School of Law.[1]

Professor

Goh Yihan

SC
吴亦涵
Born1981 (age 39–40)
NationalitySingaporean
Alma mater
OccupationLegal academic
EmployerSingapore Management University School of Law
Notable work
Contract Law in Singapore (with Andrew Phang, 2012)
In this Chinese name, the family name is Goh.
Goh Yihan
Simplified Chinese吴亦涵

Education

Goh graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law with a first class honours LLB in 2006 as the valedictorian. He also topped his second-year examinations and was on the NUS Undergraduate Scholarship. At the 2004 B. A. Mallal Moot, he won both the best oralist and best memorial prizes.[1]

Goh obtained his LLM from Harvard Law School in 2010. He had received the NUS University Overseas Scholarship in 2009 to pursue his postgraduate studies.[1]

Career

Supreme Court of Singapore

After obtaining his LLB, Goh was deployed as a Justices' Law Clerk in the Supreme Court from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, he became a Senior Justices' Law Clerk, then served as an Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court.[1]

Goh has served as amicus curiae to the Court of Appeal on numerous occasions.[1] The court has described his written and oral submissions as "comprehensive, elegantly expressed, and lucidly organised",[2] and as "models of clarity and conciseness".[3]

National University of Singapore

Goh returned to the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 2008, where he was a teaching assistant until 2010. He was then appointed as an Assistant Professor from 2011 to 2014.[1]

Goh left NUS Law in June 2014.[4] He had received four university and faculty teaching awards in six years.[1]

Singapore Management University

Goh became an Associate Professor of Law at the Singapore Management University School of Law in July 2014. He was also appointed Associate Dean (Research) in January 2016. Over two years, he received two faculty teaching awards.[1]

Goh became the dean of SMU Law in July 2017, succeeding Professor Yeo Tiong Min. He was appointed for a five-year term after "a [six-month] extensive and rigorous global search". At 35, he was the youngest person to become dean,[5] though he was already "a well-recognised and active expert in the legal profession".[6]

In July 2019, Goh was appointed a full Professor of Law at SMU.

Professional appointments and awards

Goh was called to the Singapore Bar in 2011. He had received the Order of Merit in the 2006 bar examinations.[1] In 2013, he became the youngest recipient of the Singapore Academy of Law's Singapore Law Merit Award.[6]

Goh is a board member of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education and the Singapore Judicial College.[5] He is also a visiting academic at Rajah & Tann.[1]

More recently, Goh was appointed senior counsel in January 2021.[7]

Selected works
  • Andrew B L Phang and Goh Yihan, Contract Law in Singapore (Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, 2012)
  • Goh Yihan, Singapore Chronicles: Law (Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies-Straits Times Press, 2015)
  • Alvin See, Yip Man and Goh Yihan, Property and Trust Law in Singapore (Alphen aan den Rijn: Wolters Kluwer, 2018)
  • Goh Yihan, The Interpretation of Contracts in Singapore (Singapore: Thomson Reuters, 2018)

References
  1. "GOH Yihan". Singapore Management University. 3 July 2017.
  2. ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd Archived 2017-07-27 at the Wayback Machine [2017] 1 SLR 918 at [17].
  3. Re Nalpon Zero Geraldo Mario Archived 2017-08-28 at the Wayback Machine [2013] 3 SLR 258 at [72].
  4. Vanessa Chiam (9 April 2014). "Interview with Asst Professor Goh Yihan". Justified. Singapore.
  5. K C Vijayan (22 February 2017). "SMU to get new law school dean; youngest to hold the post". The Straits Times. Singapore.
  6. K C Vijayan (23 February 2017). "Goh Yihan will be youngest dean to head SMU law school from July". The Straits Times. Singapore.
  7. "Dean of SMU law school among three new Senior Counsel appointed", Straits Times, 11 January 2021.
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