Name
TAN Cheng Han, S.C.
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Designation
Professor |
Qualifications
LLM (Cambridge), LLB (NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) |
Appointment(s)
Dean and Head
Senior Counsel
Ex Officio of Asia-Pacific Centre for
Environmental Law, Singapore Journal of
Legal Studies and Singapore Year Book
of International Law |
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Email Address: lawdean@nus.edu.sg |
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Office Tel: (65) 6516-3631 |
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Office Address
Dean's Office, ETS-01-09
Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Eu Tong Sen Building
469G Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259776
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Research Interests
Agency
Contract law
Corporations law
Corporate finance law
Securities regulation
Credit and security
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Subjects Taught
Contract law
Corporations law
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Brief Biodata
Tan Cheng Han graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1987 and obtained his LLM from the University of Cambridge in 1990. Currently the Dean of the Faculty, he also practices as an advocate specializing in complicated commercial disputes and is a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre's Regional Panel of Arbitrators. He was appointed to the rank of Senior Counsel in 2004 at the age of 39, one of the youngest to have been so appointed. His public appointments include being a Vice-President of the Singapore Academy of Law, a Senate member of the National University of Singapore, a Governor of the Intellectual Property Academy, a member of the Securities Industry Council, a member of the Appeal Advisory Panel to the Minister for Finance constituted under the Securities and Futures Act, the Financial Advisers Act, and the Insurance Act, and a member of the Board of Legal Education. He is also a director of ST Aerospace Ltd, Chuan Hup Holdings Limited and Exploit Technologies Pte Limited.
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Representative Publications
1. "Undisclosed Principals and Contract" (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 480.
2. "Challenges to Legal Education in a Changing Landscape - A Singapore Perspective" (2003) 7 Singapore Journal of International and Comparative Law 545.
3. "Charges, Contingencies and Registration" [2002] 2 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 191.
4. "The principle in 'Bird v. Brown' revisited" (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 626.
5. "Protecting the Integrity of the Securities Market: Amendments to the Law Prohibiting Insider Trading" [2000] Sing J. Legal Studies 33.
6. "Automatic Crystallisation, De-Crystallisation and Convertibility of Charges" (1998) Company Financial and Insolvency Law Review 41.
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