Scholarships and Juris Doctor prize in honour of Republic of Singapore's first Chief Justice Wee Chong Jin

The family of the late Mr Wee Chong Jin, Singapore's first Chief Justice, has set up an endowed fund for law students from SMU and NUS. SMU will use the fund to establish the Wee Chong Jin Scholarship, awarded to undergraduate law students following the traditional UK model of legal education, and the Wee Chong Jin Prize for the Most Outstanding Juris Doctor Graduate, awarded to postgraduate law students pursuing the North American model of legal education through the Juris Doctor programme. Dean of SMU School of Law Professor Yeo Tiong Min said, "We are very grateful to the family of the late Mr Wee Chong Jin for setting up both the Wee Chong Jin Scholarship in Law and the Wee Chong Jin Prize for the Most Outstanding Juris Doctor Graduate at SMU. Through these awards, SMU students will be able to aspire to the qualities epitomised by the late Mr Wee Chong Jin - excellence, charity and collegiality." Second-year SMU law student Eugene Neo Zhi Wei and fourth-year NUS law student Seng Han Ting were the inaugural Wee Chong Jin scholars.