Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Environmental, Social and Governance

Dr Joseph Chun is an environmental lawyer. He leads the Firm’s Environmental, Social and Governance practice and is concurrently an adjunct associate professor and a member of the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law (APCEL) at the Faculty of Law in the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he teaches environmental law. He has written widely on environmental law and ESG, and is the lead author of Singapore’s only environmental law textbook. Joseph volunteers as a member of the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s (SVCA) ESG Committee, the Asia Pacific regional board of the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL), the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Commission on Environmental Law, and the Mandai Wildlife Group’s Animal Welfare and Ethics Committee. He also regularly works with local green civil society groups on advocacy projects and reports.

English, Mandarin

Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore, 1992 Solicitor, England and Wales, 1999 LLB (Hons), National University of Singapore, 1991 PhD in Laws, University College London, 2003