Jones Day announced yesterday a US$500,000 (S$612,000) donation to the Singapore Management University
(SMU) to set up the “Jones Day Professorship of Commercial Law” for seven years.
Here’s the lowdown
Professor Adrian Briggs, a Fellow and Tutor at St Edmund Hall of the University of Oxford and who has been teaching in Oxford since 1980, has been appointed as the first Jones Day Professor of Commercial Law at the SMU. He will oversee the development of Commercial Law concepts at the university.
Dean of SMU School of Law Professor Yeo Tiong Min said:”We are a comprehensive law school within a business and management university, situated in close
proximity to where deals are brokered, where disputes are resolved, and where laws are made. We have a natural strength in commercial laws. We are deeply grateful to Jones Day for the gift to further advance the development of commercial laws in Singapore.”
