Hillary Chua

Hillary is a DPhil Student in Law at Wolfson College, Oxford. She is also a Sheridan Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS), Faculty of Law. Her research focuses on comparing mental capacity law in England and Wales and Singapore, in terms of how it regulates consent to intimate relationships among intellectually disabled adults. She is supervised by Professor Imogen Goold and Professor Shazia Choudhry. Her studies are supported by an NUS scholarship.

Before commencing her doctoral studies, Hillary had taught Tort Law at NUS, was a member of the National University Hospital (Singapore)’s Clinical Ethics Committee, and practised medical law in Singapore prior to that. Her research interests are in medical law and ethics, and disability law.