Helena Whalen-Bridge comes to CSLS from the National University of Singapore, where she is an Associate Professor of Law. Her research interests include legal ethics and access to justice, legal narrative, and legal education. A recipient of multiple competitive research grants and the 2019 Teresa Godwin Phelps Award for Scholarship in Legal Communication, her publications in access to justice include The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice: Asian and Comparative Perspectives (CUP, Sept 2022), Litigants in Person: Principles and Practice in Civil and Family Matters in Singapore, with Jaclyn Neo (SAL Academy Publishing, 2021), “Automated Document Assembly: Access to Justice and Consumer Risk” (2020) Singapore Academy of Law Journal, and “The Conceptualisation of Pro Bono in Singapore" (2014) Asian Journal of Comparative Law. Helena has received NUS Teaching Excellence Awards and she is an Expert with the UNODC’s Education for Justice project. She is a founding member of the Law Society of Singapore’s Project Law Help, which helps provide legal information and support to charities and social enterprises. Helena has been the Faculty Advisor for the Law Faculty’s student Pro Bono Group since its inception in 2005. During her time at CSLS, A/P Whalen-Bridge will be working on a book in progress, Beyond Mandatory Pro Bono: Compulsory Lawyer Mechanisms in Access to Justice, which maps and theorizes a variety of compulsory mechanisms across different jurisdictions that are imposed on lawyers to support access to justice.
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