The development of Singapore Law: A bicentennial retrospective

• Main Authors: PHANG, Andrew, GOH, Yihan, SOH, Jerrold
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Singapore Legal System; Empirical Legal Studies; Asian Studies; Comparative and Foreign Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3156; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5114/viewcontent/The_Development_of_Singapore_Law___A_Bicentennial_Retrospective__Published_on_e_First_8_May_2020___2_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The present article reviews (in broad brushstrokes) the status of Singapore law during its bicentennial year. It is not only about origins but also about growth – in particular, the autochthonous or indigenous growth of the Singapore legal system (particularly since the independence of Singapore as a nation state on 9 August 1965). The analysis of this growth is divided into quantitative as well as qualitative parts. In particular, the former constitutes an empirical analysis which attempts – for the very first time − to tell the development of Singapore law through numbers, building on emerging techniques in data visualisation and empirical legal studies.