 As
Deputy Chairman of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre,
Professor Boo oversees the daily operations of SIAC.
He was the first Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of SIAC.
In 1996, he left to set up The Arbitration Chambers. Before
his return to SIAC in May 2004, Professor Boo, a chartered arbitrator,
sat as professional arbitrator in more than 150 cases and as
mediator in more than 50 disputes.
Professor Boo is also active in the academic circle. He leads
the teaching of international commercial arbitration at the
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore since 1994
and is the Course Director for the Graduate Certificate in International
Arbitration. He also supervises postgraduate research candidates
in the field of ADR. He is a Visiting Professor of Wuhan University
School of Law, China and is also on the adjunct faculty of Bond
University, Australia. He is the author of the "Arbitration"
title of Halsbury's Laws of Singapore (1998 and 2003 re-issue)
and the chapter on Singapore in the book International Handbook
of Commercial Arbitration (1996 and 2002 Re-issue).
Professor Boo is a law reform consultant to the Attorney-General's
Chambers and Singapore's Representative to UNCITRAL Working
Group (Arbitration and Conciliation) and Singapore' s National
Correspondent to UNCITRAL's Case Law on UNCITRAL Text (CLOUT).
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