Double Degree Programme in Law and Liberal Arts (DDP students are required to complete a capstone project in their final year at Yale-NUS College. Students are encouraged to select topics that engage the interdisciplinary study of law with a liberal arts subject, or use methods from the social sciences, sciences, humanities, or any other liberal arts field to explore questions related to law.
Here are examples of the wide range of capstone projects undertaken by former DDP students:
- Enabling Rights in Rights-Disabled Societies: The Ritualisation of Disability Rights in Singapore
- A Comparative Study of “Fake News” Regimes and the Lessons for Singapore
- Prospects of a Genomics-Driven Constitutional Argument for the Increased Protection of Orang Asli Rights
- Making Sense of Censorship: Understanding Theatre Censorship and the Right to Free Speech in Singapore since 2010
- Deconstructing Legal Consciousness: Investigating Sexual Harassment in Singapore’s Workplaces
- The Fairness of Tort Law: Luck in Tort and Moral Judgement
- Renegotiating Indonesia’s Bilateral Investment Treaties in Light of Global Decarbonization Needs
- Turning a Blind Eye: Exploring the Conceptions of Wilful Blindness in Singapore
- Building a Singapore for All: The Sentencing of Persons with Intellectual Disability
- Detectives and the Dialogic; Challenging Legal Epistemological Discourses in Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone and The Woman in White
- Surveying a Three-Dimensional Gap: Doctrinal, Empirical, and Normative Perspectives on 3D Printing and IP Law in Singapore
- “To Yield Is Terrible”: Using the Interpretive Paradigm of Sophoclean Scenes of Yielding and Aristotelian Recognition to Understand Prime Minister Lee Hsien
- The Myth of The Rational Singaporean: Managing Law and Emotions in Singapore’s State Narratives
- “Till Death Do Us Part” Battered Women and Criminal Defences in Singapore
- The War on Drugs, or The War on Human Rights? An Examination of Solutions Domestic, Regional and International
