Guest Lectures by Prof. Stanley Yeo from National University of Singapore | Nov 13 & 14, 2025
November 10, 2025
NLSIU is hosting two guest lectures by Prof. Stanley Yeo, Visiting Professor, National University of Singapore (NUS) at the NLS campus on November 13 and 14, 2025. Details of both talks are provided below.
Conjuring Criminal Law on the good ship “The IPC” | Nov 13, 2025
Room 204, New Academic Block | 4 pm – 5.30 pm
This talk is primarily for faculty and researchers, but is open to other members of the NLS community.
Abstract: Professor Stanley Yeo will share his personal journey as a legal academic from a young inexperienced lecturer in the early 1980s to the present day as a visiting research professor at the National University of Singapore. He will show how his teaching and research of the Indian Penal Code (“IPC”) has borne much fruit over the years, both in terms of personal satisfaction as a teacher, and witnessing the impact of his research on legal change. Stanley will highlight some lessons from his long academic career with the aim of benefitting his listeners. This lecture will be directed as much to law students as to emerging academics and researchers, and anyone who may be curious to know what legal academics in their ivory towers think and do in their working lives.
Influences on Criminal Law and its Reform in Asia | Friday, November 14
Room 104, New Academic Block, NLSIU | 4 pm – 5.30 pm
This talk is primarily aimed at students but is open to other members of the NLS community.
Abstract: In this lecture, Professor Stanley Yeo will draw on his expansive knowledge and experience accumulated over four decades to describe three significant areas impacting the criminal law and its reform in the Asian region. They are the continuing influence of Western concepts of criminal responsibility; the influence of legal scholarship on the development of criminal law; and the development of a shared Asian criminal jurisprudence. The lecture will encourage listeners to acknowledge the value of 19th century colonial roots of the criminal law in our country and broader region; to appreciate the vital role that legal scholarship can play in bringing the criminal law into the 21st century; and to explore the prospects of fostering a shared criminal jurisprudence in our region.
About the Speaker
Stanley Yeo is a visiting scholar at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore. He has made legal academia his life-long career spanning over 40 years during which time he has held permanent positions at law schools in Australia and Singapore, and short term visitorships to law schools in Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Japan, Bhutan and India. He has published extensively in the fields of criminal law and criminal justice, with special leaning towards comparative criminal law. He has served as a consultant to law commissions in Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland.