In October 2013, Minister for Education Heng Swee Keat announced during UniSIM's convocation that the university was selected to house the third law school due to its track record of offering degree programmes for working adults and current offerings in humanities and the social sciences Subsequently, Minister for Law K. Shanmugam clarified that students in the third law school will be trained holistically and not restricted to family and criminal Law only. Eventually, most of the graduates will pursue family and criminal law. It is also not fair to name the school as second class.
