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UNDERSTANDING AGENCY: A PROXY POWER DEFINITION by Leow, Rachel

“…Existing definitions of agency are inadequate. In this paper, I offer a new definition of agency: a relationship is one of agency where the agent has a power…”
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A pyrrhic victory for unjust enrichment in Singapore? 'Esben Finance Ltd v Wong Hou-Lianq Neil' by Leow, Rachel, Liau, Timothy

“…In 'Esben Finance Ltd v Wong Hou-Lianq Neil' (Esben) the Singapore Court of Appeal handed down a momentous judgment, holding that, unlike in England and Wales,…”
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ENFORCING UNJUST ENRICHMENT RIGHTS: THE RECOVERY OF MISTAKEN PAYMENTS IN PRACTICE by Leow, Rachel

“…This article examines the recoverability of mistaken payments made by bank transfer in practice in Singapore. It is now clearly established under Singapore law…”
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RESULTING TRUSTS: A VICTORY FOR UNJUST ENRICHMENT? by Leow, Rachel, Liau, Timothy

“…WHEN do resulting trusts arise, and why? These questions were the subject of serious inquiry in the 1990s, following influential work by Peter Birks and Robert…”
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Clarifying Mutual Consent’s Role in Agency Law by Leow, Rachel

“…Abstract Important cases and academic commentators have suggested that the mutual consent of principal and agent is necessary for actual authority to be…”
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LionelSmith, The Law of Loyalty, Oxford: OUP, 2023, 496 pp, hb £97.00 by Leow, Rachel

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Beyond diaspora's horizons: mass deportations to China and an alternative to the diaspora paradigm by Leow, Rachel

“…This essay argues for the need to look beyond "diaspora" paradigms of global Chinese historical experience, and that we may need different metaphors in order…”
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UNJUST ENRICHMENT AND RESTITUTION IN SINGAPORE: WHERE NOW AND WHERE NEXT? by Leow, Rachel, Liau, Timothy

“…The law of unjust enrichment and restitution is rife with academic debate, and the intense controversy surrounding it poses much headache for the uninitiated…”
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A Missing Peace: The Asia-Pacific Peace Conference in Beijing, 1952 and the Emotional Making of Third World Internationalism by LEOW, RACHEL

“…This article recovers the largely forgotten Asia-Pacific Peace Conference which took place in Beijing in October 1952 and elaborates what has been lost in its…”
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The Historian as Transnational Agent by Geng, Yushu, Leow, Rachel

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The Historian as Transnational Agent: On the Digitization of Sinophone Newspapers by Geng, Yushu, Leow, Rachel

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Asian Lessons in the Cold War Classroom: Trade Union Networks and the Multidirectional Pedagogies of the Cold War in Asia by Leow, Rachel

“…Abstract This paper invites us to move beyond an elite, “pedagogical” view of Third World diplomatic non-alignment, by examining trade unions as sites of…”
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FOUR MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CHARITY LAW IN SINGAPORE by Leow, Rachel P.S.

“…Charity law is an area of law in Singapore of which, sadly, little is known. This lack of knowledge has also led to the proliferation of a number of…”
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A Missing Peace: The Asia-Pacific Peace Conference in Beijing, 1952 and the Emotional Making of Third World Internationalism by Leow, Rachel

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China's health transitions by Leow, Rachel

“…For me, a major takeaway from the book is that China's health-care provision was arguably at its best not in the early decades of the 20th century, when the…”
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Age as a Category of Gender Analysis: Servant Girls, Modern Girls, and Gender in Southeast Asia by Leow, Rachel

“…Gail Hershatter's presidential address at the March 2012 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) encouraged historians to regard gender as…”
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Enforcing unjust enrichment rights: The recovery of mistaken payments in practice by Rachel Leow

“…This article examines the recoverability of mistaken payments made by bank transfer in practice in Singapore. It is now clearly established under Singapore law…”
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‘Do you own non-Chinese mui tsai?’ Re-examining Race and Female Servitude in Malaya and Hong Kong, 1919–1939 by LEOW, RACHEL

“…This paper considers the abolition of the mui tsai (young female bondservants) as it unfolded in British Malaya, and challenges the overemphasis on Hong Kong…”
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'Do you own non-Chinese mui tsai?' Re-examining Race and Female Servitude in Malaya and Hong Kong, 1919-1939 ; A National Custom: Debating Female Servitude in Late Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong; "Child Slavery" in British and French Far-Eastern Colonies 1880-1945; The Maternalist Moment in British Colonial Policy: The Controversy over 'Child Slavery' in Hong Kong 1917-1941; Colonial Desires: Sexuality, Race and Gender in British Malaya; Theorising the Chinese: The Mui Tsai Controversy and Constru by LEOW, RACHEL

“…Abstract This paper considers the abolition of the mui tsai (young female bondservants) as it unfolded in British Malaya, and challenges the overemphasis on…”
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Age as a Category of Gender Analysis: Servant Girls, Modern Girls, and Gender in Southeast Asia : JAS at AAS Round Table: Sexuality and the State in Asia by LEOW, Rachel

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