NUS FT Law professor convicted for almost killing cabbie, but still not fired?

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SOOSAY Sundram


Assistant Professor
Qualifications



Ph.D. LL.M. (Edinburgh), LL.B. (Strathclyde)



Appointment(s)

Email Address: [email protected]
Office Tel: (65) 6516-3569
Office Fax: (65) 6779-0979
Office Address

Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Eu Tong Sen Building
469G Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259776

Research Interests

Jurisprudence

Subjects Taught

Introduction to Legal Theory

Brief Biodata

Originally from Malaysia, Sundram Soosay has lived in Scotland for the past 20 years. He graduated from Strathclyde University in Glasgow, before going on to spend an extended period at Edinburgh University, where he obtained his LLM and PhD, and later held positions as a research associate and a teaching fellow. His research interests are in Jurisprudence and philosophy generally and he is currently completing work on a long-term project which traces the relative failure of research within jurisprudence over the past 50 years to a larger crisis in the human sciences, a crisis which arises from the dramatic cultural changes that have marked the post-war era.

SOOSAY Sundram​

 

[GoldenDragon]

Simon needs a feng shui master. Why are his law profs always in the news? As boss, he should take advice from Khaw.

 

[JohnTan]

The cabbie was obviously being rude to the good prof. At most, the penalty should be a fine and a stern warning. Why should a high caste person go to jail for beating up a lowly serf? What's this world coming to?

 

[CoffeeAhSoh]

Simon Inherited This Whole FT Mess​

 

[Rumpole]

I came across this piece of crap while surfing the internet.

As a student of this fatso and an outstanding one, he can't deny it, as otherwise he wouldn't have awarded me a prize and it is not a kuching kurang one, I am appalled at the faulty logic that he has espoused in the first part of his speech. I will not go into the Porn Masala saga (the second part of his speech) as I know nothing about it.

The premise that minorities need to be protected from disparaging comments is seriously flawed. Downright nonsense would be a more accurate way of putting it.

Here's some rebuttals:

1) If I say many Indians stink (I mean literally), it is a disparaging comment, but it is also a statement that is largely true and many Chinese will agree with me. Should an Indian feel "threatened" by such a comment, he should go see a doctor, for clearly he suffers from having irrational fears as no violence has been mentioned nor incited. The freedom of speech of the majority or for that matter any segment of society should not be stifled simply because some segment of society may "feel" threatened. Threats of violence, objectively in the sense that a reasonable man on the Clapham omnibus would interpret the words and context as such, are another matter altogether.

2) The whites in America and the Germans suffer from a guilt complex in relation to the blacks and Jews respectively. That is historical. The Chinese in Singapore and Southeast Asia do not and have not anything to warrant such a complex. We did not enslave nor have we gassed them. The Indians either came of their own free will or were brought in en masse as convict labour by the evil drug trafficking British.

3) It is one thing to say that some comments are taboo and another to render them illegal. You may suffer social disapproval or even ostracisation should you make a disparaging comment against blacks in America, but it is not illegal and the Constitution will protect your freedom of speech though not from the power of the mob. Therein lies the difference Mister Fatso Woon.

4) If indeed making disparaging comments about minorities (not just racial ones) is a crime. Lee Old Fart and some PAP ministers are the worst offenders.

5) The dog should not be blindly applauded for biting back. If there is truth in the disparaging comments, the dog should be encouraged to get rid of such bad behaviour for the good of all. In the event that the dog does not acknowledge that such behaviour is bad and continues as before, the answer is not to stifle free speech but to encourage more disparaging comments at least those that are supported by the facts.

6) As for Tommy Koh, any ambassador to the UN who fails to encourage or procure his country's ratification of the UN Convention on Political and Civil Rights, should be thoroughly ashamed and keep his bloody mouth shut on such topics.

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[songsongjurong]

pundek won't worry too much,no jail term. for drunkard bastard.

 

[Ambulance]

halo edinburgh si mi sai zua ah

 

[Leckmichamarsch]

Dean is Simon Chesterman whose dipstick in powerful hole.........