Founding Father and Legal Scholar - the Life and Work of Professor La Sheridan
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Founding Father and Legal Scholar - the Life and Work of Professor La Sheridan
Founding Father and Legal Scholar - The Life and Work of Professor La Sheridan
Abstract
The present essay surveys the life and work of the first Dean of the Law Faculty, Professor LA Sheridan. It traces his initial career and his subsequent work in establishing the local law school. In this latter respect, this essay examines Professor Sheridan's visions and goals - and how these were realised in a tangible manner through his prodigious efforts in the directions of staff and student recruitment, the establishment of an appropriate curriculum and the law library, as well as his encouragement of legal research through the production of not only books and periodical articles but also the establishment of the then University of Malaya Law Review (now renamed the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies). Professor Sheridan's own amazing range, quality as well as quantity of scholarship is then described. The title of the present essay attempts to capture both these strands, viz, the pivotal role he played in the foundation of the local law faculty and his sterling scholarship, which he continues to produce even today, many years after his retirement.
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