Educational Qualifications

  • 2002

    LLM (Specializing in Commercial Law), University of Cambridge

  • 1998

    LLB (Dean’s List), National University of Singapore

Academic and Professional Experience

  • 2018 - Present

    Associate Professor, School of Law, Singapore University of Social Sciences

  • 2015 - 2018

    Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong

  • 2010 - 2015

    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law University of Hong Kong

  • 2008 - 2010

    Teaching Consultant, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong

  • 2006 - 2008

    Teaching Fellow, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong

Selected Publications

“The role of proportionality in contractual illegality - a comparative analysis” (2022) 33(9) International Company and Commercial Law Review 477

“Balancing Competing Policy Goals in the Implication of Terms for the Completion of Contracts” (2020) 31(2) International Company and Commercial Law Review 81.

"Predictability, Certainty, and Party Autonomy in the Sale and Supply of Goods" (2017) 46 (4) Common Law World Review 269

"Considering Commercial and Company Law Reform" (2015) Statute Law Review (Oxford University Press) 152

"Amending the Statutory Framework for the Registration of Company Charges" (2014) Statute Law Review (Oxford University Press) 261

"Apparent Authority: Doctrinal Underpinnings and Competing Policy Goals" (2014) 1 Journal of Business Law 72

"Unconscionability and Performance Bonds" (2013) 6(3) International Journal of Private Law, 279

"De Facto Directors and Corporate Directorships" (2012) 7 Journal of Business Law 579

"Directors' Duties and Derivative Actions" (2012) 5(3) International Journal of Private Law 243

"Knowing Receipt and Apparent Authority" (2011) 127 (Jul) Law Quarterly Review 350

"Authorizing Derivative Actions on Unfair Prejudice Petitions" (2011) 32(5) The Company Lawyer 150

"Reconsidering Receivables" (2011) 32(10) The Company Lawyer 297

"Reforming Ratification" (2011) 40(1) Common Law World Review 1

"Constructive Notice and Company Charges" (2010) 1 Journal of Corporate Law Studies (Hart Publishing, Oxford) 265

"Considering the Enlightened Shareholder Value Principle" The Company Lawyer (2010) 31(2) 35

"Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil – The Total Inactivity of Non-executive Directors" (2009) 11 International Company and Commercial Law Review

"Whither the Common Law Derivative Action" (2009) 38(3) Common Law World Review 197

"No Trifling Matter – The De Minimis Principle in relation to the Delivery of the Wrong Quantity of Goods under Hong Kong Law" (2008) 1 International Journal of Private Law 222

Yap Ji Lian's work has been cited in international journals such as the Law Quarterly Review, Legal Studies, the Journal of Corporate Law Studies and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, as well as in books such as Bowstead & Reynolds on Agency, Goode on Legal Problems of Credit and Security, and Commercial Law: Text, Cases and Materials.

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