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First SMU law dean, a mentor to generations of students, dies at 87
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Professor Michael Furmston, the first dean of Singapore Management University's School of Law, viewing a sculpture of Mr David Marshall with the late politician's wife Jean in 2011. Prof Furmston died last Sunday.
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Tributes have poured in for the first dean of Singapore Management University's (SMU) School of Law, Professor Michael Furmston, who died last Sunday. He was 87.
He collapsed at his apartment in Kuala Lumpur and died of heart failure about two hours later in hospital, said his daughter, Mrs Rebecca Machin.
