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Peter Ellinger
Peter Ellinger
Born	Peter Ellinger; April 15, 1933 (age 93); Vienna
Alma mater	Hebrew University of Jerusalem (M. Jur); Oxford University (D. Phil);
Occupations	Lawyer, Professor, Author
Notable work	Down Memory Lane (2023);
Spouse	Patricia Peh Choo (m. 1963; died 2011)
Parent(s)	Dora Ellinger, Robert Ellinger
Website	www.blogger.com/profile/03859589832077940729

Peter Ellinger was an Austrian-born academic

Early life

Due to the persecution of Jews in Europe, Ellinger's family migrated from Austria to Tel Aviv. ^[1] Before obtaining a visa to then British-occupied Palestine, Ellinger and his parents briefly stayed as refugees in Italy and France. He and his family arrived and settled at Tel Aviv in 1939. Towards the end of his secondary school education there, he briefly joined the Canaanism movement.

Ellinger studied the law in Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he obtained his Masters in Jurisprudence and a PhD in Oxford University where he wrote his thesis in banking law, supervised by Professor Guenter Treitel and Professor Anthony Guest.

Career

Ellinger practiced briefly as an advocate in Tel Aviv, Israel. He visited Singapore on 27 April 1961 ^[1]^: 122. He taught at NUS law school during this period. He returned to Singapore in 1986 and was appointed as an Emeritus Professor in NUS law school in 1998^[2] , the first ever for the law school. ^[3]^: 6. He later took on a full-time role at Rajah & Tann.

Ellinger was employed as Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington ^[1]^: 176. He moved to Melbourne, teaching law in Monash University in 1977.

Personal life

Ellinger has spent most of his life in Singapore. He has self-published a few books over the years. He is an antique collector and has a substantial collection. He has written pieces on his blog which critiques the Bible.

When Ellinger and his wife, Patricia Peh Choo, first met, they both did not speak a common language. ^[3]

They married each other in 1963 and Peh died in 2011.

Publications

Legal works

Modern Banking Law, remaned Ellinger's Modern Banking Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987-2011)
The Law and Practice of Documentary Letters of Credit with Dora Neo (Hart Publishing, 2010)
Documentary Letters of Credit: A Comparative Study (University of Singapore Press, 1970)
Bills of Exchange and Banking (Chapter 3 of Vol. 2 of Chitty on Contracts; London, Sweet and Maxwell)
Negotiable Instruments (Chapter 4 in Vol. IX of the Encyclopedia of Comparative Law; Max-Planck Institute of Comparative Law in Hamburg)
Chapters on the Financing of Sales by Banking Devices (Benjamin’s Sale of Goods; London, Sweet and Maxwell)

Non-legal works

Down Memory Lane (World Scientific Publishing, 2023)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Ellinger, Peter (2023). Down Memory Lane: Peter Ellinger's Memoirs. World Scientific Publishing. ISBN 978-981-12-7103-8.
^ "List of Emeritus Professors". NUS Office of the University Registrar. Retrieved August 1, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Neo, Dora Swee Suan; Tang, Hang Wu; Hor, Micheal Yew Meng (2007). Lives in the law: Essays in the honour of Peter Ellinger, Koh Kheng Lian & Tan Sook Yee. Academy Publishing. ISBN 9789810592639.

[dml-1] Ellinger, Peter (2023). Down Memory Lane: Peter Ellinger's Memoirs. World Scientific Publishing. ISBN 978-981-12-7103-8.

[2] "List of Emeritus Professors". NUS Office of the University Registrar. Retrieved August 1, 2024.

[litl-3] Neo, Dora Swee Suan; Tang, Hang Wu; Hor, Micheal Yew Meng (2007). Lives in the law: Essays in the honour of Peter Ellinger, Koh Kheng Lian & Tan Sook Yee. Academy Publishing. ISBN 9789810592639.

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