Introduction

For many years, business students at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore, both undergraduates and postgraduates, are taught general principles of intellectual property law together with other business-related law like contract law, company law and the law of sale of goods in one business law module. It is only in recent years that the NUS Business School has started to introduce more specialized intellectual property law modules as electives for the students. As intellectual property law modules are mainly elective modules in the Business School, it is important from a teaching, as well as a long-term sustainability, point of view that students are made to understand and to appreciate the significance and relevance of reading intellectual property law as a subject in the university. To this end, I subscribe to the teaching philosophy of a “student-centered” learning pedagogical model as I strongly believe that courses developed using such a model would best address students' learning needs.