Dr Chan Hui Yun | Associate Professor in Law
Associate Professor Dr Chan Hui Yun is a leading legal scholar with specialisation in the law governing health technologies, health law, bioethics and mental health. She qualified and practiced as an advocate and solicitor of the Malaysian Bar prior to joining academia. Dr Chan taught at two different law schools in the UK before moving to focus on research on future health technologies at the National University of Singapore. She has published in established law journals such as Medical Law International, European Journal of Health Law, Law and Development Review, Law, Innovation and Technology and book chapters with Oxford University Press, Routledge and Palgrave MacMillan.
Dr Chan was recently Visiting Researcher at the prestigious Brocher Foundation, Switzerland. She has been an invited workshop panellist by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on topics on AI, and an invited speaker at Kasih Hospice Foundation Malaysia on the topic of the regulatory issues related to advance care planning. She has published on topics such as trustworthy data governance, cross-border data transfer, current issues in public health and emerging technology, the regulation of care-robots and wearables, pandemics and privacy, and the legal and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence applications in healthcare.
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Law & Technology, Health law, Bioethics, Public Health Law |
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Highest qualification and awarding body |
PhD (Otago) |
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UoRM programmes taught/supervised |
Contract Law, research supervision |
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Research interests |
Technology and law, Healthcare Law |
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Current projects |
Legal Frameworks for AI in Industry: Regulation in a Global Context,(Routledge UK, edited collection) Corporate Responsibility and Accountability in Business Law: Regulation and Practice in Emerging Sectors(Routledge UK, book chapter/edited collection) |
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Recent publications |
HY Chan, ‘A proportionality-by-design approach for mobile mental health and wellbeing applications’ Law, Innovation and Technology 17 (1), 58-83 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17579961.2025.2469343 J Scheibner, HY Chan, Cross-border health data sharing between Singapore and Switzerland: controlling for competing regulatory requirements, Journal of Law and the Biosciences, Volume 12, Issue 2, July-December 2025, lsaf021, https://doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsaf021 Chan, HY, & Toh, HJ (2025). A document analysis of international data transfer terms in smartwatch privacy policies: inadequacies and recommendations for improvements. International Review of Law, Computers & Technology, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600869.2025.2510440 N Naim and Chan, HY. "Intellectual Property and Health Technological Innovations at the time of the Pandemic" Law and Development Review, vol. 18, no. 2, 2025, pp. 263-293. https://doi.org/10.1515/ldr-2024-0009 MXJ Chan, OJ. Wouters, HY Chan, et al, ‘Regional cooperation on pandemic preparedness and vaccine equity from an economic, regulatory and legal perspective’ Vaccine, Volume 53, 2025,127107, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.127107 HY Chan, ‘Advance Directives: Rethinking Regulation, Autonomy & Healthcare Decision-Making’ (Springer 2018). Link to book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00976-2 |
