Dear Law School and Friends,
As the academic year draws to a close, we are happy and proud to present the last edition of Juris Illuminae for AY 12/13. This month’s edition features an in-depth analysis on privacy law and well-thought out essays on gun control, legal philosophy and the Lasting Power of Attorney. We hope you find this month’s essays interesting and meaningful.
Analysis: Help! Someone stole my Facebook photos! by Desmond Chng
Do we take our gun control legislations for granted? by Reynard Chua
Of Causation and Chance: The Trolley Problem Redux …

Dear Law School and Friends,
This month, we feature four articles from diverse areas of the law. This month’s Quare column will feature Associate Professor David Tan, who discusses, amongst other things, life as a law student, why he chose to become a law professor and why he decided to go into fashion photography. We also have articles keeping track of the legal developments in Singapore, including the Amendment of the Companies Act, the recent by-elections as well as the NUS Law Curriculum Review introduced last December. We hope you find …

Dear Law School and Friends,
Happy 2013! This month, we are pleased to introduce a new initiative co-organised by the Singapore Law Review and Justified, entitled Quare. Each month, both SLR and Justified will interview a prominent legally trained figure in society and come together to publish a feature article. This month, we are pleased to have interviewed Ms. Eu-Yen Tay, Chairwoman of The Butter Factory. Eu-Yen shared with us her thoughts of working in the legal sector, experiences helming The Butter Factory and views of some legal issues concerning our …

Dear Law School and Friends,
in the last few months, we have seen, amongst other events in the world, a shocking turn of events with respect to the Hillsborough disaster in the United Kingdom and yet another furore over the public transport in Singapore. Amidst these events which move and shake society, questions about the role of law arise and sometimes we find ourselves pondering about why we are doing what we are doing too. The Singapore Law Review has lined up a slate of articles on the above themes, and …

Dear Law School and Friends,
Time flies and we find ourselves in the midst of yet another semester. This academic year, the Singapore Law Review has planned numerous new initiatives and changes as we celebrate the completion of three decades of operation. As we welcome the new, however, we would also like to keep bits and pieces of the old which are of tremendous value. One of these pieces is definitely Juris Illuminae. Here we have compiled six interesting articles covering different aspects of law; from an insightful discussion of the …