Jeremiah Lau
Other affiliations
Law Faculty
Biography
Jeremiah is a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of Law. In 2022, he was elected a Prize Scholar of Merton College following a competition across all postgraduate research students at Merton, regardless of discipline and funding. The scholarship is awarded to research students of the ‘highest academic distinction’.
His doctoral work at Oxford is funded by a Sheridan Fellowship from the National University of Singapore. He has also held the position of Stipendiary Lecturer at Merton, where he taught trusts on the Final Honour School.
His research is at the intersection of commercial law and legal history. His work has been published in journals such as the Lloyds' Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, and has been cited by the High Court of Singapore. He contributed to the 11th and 12th editions of James Penner's The Law of Trusts (2019 & 2022), published by Oxford University Press.
Jeremiah read for the BCL (Distinction) at the University of Oxford, and the LL.B. (1st Class, Montrose Memorial Prize) at the National University of Singapore.
He has been called to the Singapore Bar (2016), and previously taught trusts to 2nd year undergraduates at the National University of Singapore.