Rate My Professor Helena Whalen-Bridge

Helena Whalen-Bridge is an Associate Professor (Educator) at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. She holds a B.A. from the University of Connecticut (1981) and a J.D., and is admitted as an Attorney at Law in California and Connecticut. Her teaching includes Legal Ethics, Access to Justice, advanced legal skills courses, and Singapore Law in Context. Whalen-Bridge has served in multiple faculty and university roles at NUS, including on the Pro Bono Committee, the Advisory Board of the Centre for Pro Bono & Clinical Legal Education, as Faculty Advisor to the Pro Bono Group, and on the Teaching Excellence Committee. She has also been an Academic Fellow at the NUS Centre for Law & Business and the NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies, and held a Professor in Residence position at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London in 2015.

Whalen-Bridge’s research and publications focus on legal ethics, pro bono work, access to justice, clinical legal education, legal narrative, and comparative legal skills. Key works include the edited volume The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2022), the co-authored book Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics in Singapore (LexisNexis, 2016), the edited volume Pro Bono in Singapore: The PBG Story (NUS Faculty of Law, 2016), and the co-authored Litigants in Person: Principles and Practice in Civil and Family Matters in Singapore (Academy Publishing, 2021). She has published numerous articles on topics such as persuasive legal narrative, court backlogs, and student pro bono programs. External appointments include serving as an Education Expert for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Legal Ethics, as an Inquiry Panel Member for the Law Society of Singapore, and as a member of Project Law Help. She received the 2019 Phelps Award and has been recognized with teaching excellence awards at NUS Law. Whalen-Bridge contributes to editorial and committee work in legal ethics and access to justice initiatives.