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Benjamin Joshua Ong is a Full-time Faculty Member and Assistant Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University (SMU). He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence, First Class) and a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford, and previously earned an ACCA Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business (2012). Appointed in January 2019, he also serves as Director of Undergraduate Admissions (since 2020) and is a member of the SMU Institutional Review Board.
- Education:
- Bachelor of Arts (Jurisprudence, First Class), University of Oxford (2014)
- Bachelor of Civil Law, University of Oxford (2015)
- ACCA Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business (2012)
Research Interests focus on Constitutional Law and Administrative Law, with emphasis on judicial review of executive action, constitutional supremacy, prosecutorial discretion, and the separation of powers. His work explores equality before the law, the constitutional right to religious profession, and legal responses to false statements. He has contributed to seminal texts like Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore on Administrative and Constitutional Law, and critically analyzed landmark cases in Singapore and Malaysia.
Scientific Awards include multiple teaching honors: the SMU Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award (2022-2023), Most Promising Teacher Award (2020-2021), and Top LGST Teacher Award (2018-2019). He also received the Slaughter & May Prize for Legal History (2014), Wronker Prize for Tort (2014), and the St Edmund Hall Open Scholarship (2012-2014).
Current Projects address judicial review of executive action on substantive grounds, legal responses to false statements, and the constitutional right to religious profession. His recent publications analyze developments in civil appeals, prosecutorial discretion, and constitutional rights review in Malaysia and Singapore, with a forthcoming 2025 article in the Asian Journal of International Law examining judicial-executive dynamics.
