The SMU School of Law has been awarded a $15m grant by the National Research Foundation Singapore to conduct a five-year Research Programme on Computational Law which would focus on the development of ‘smart’ contracts and ‘smart’ statutes, starting with the design and implementation of a domain-specific programming language that allows for laws, rules and agreements to be expressed in code. The Centre will be headed by SMU Assistant Professor of Law and Information Systems (Practice) Lim How Khang, and will work closely with the SMU School of Information Systems. Considerable private sector involvement is also promised. Wong Meng Weng and Alexis Chun, the co-founders of the Singapore-based legal tech startup Legalese, have joined the university as principal research fellow and industry director respectively.