TJIO 
Hans

 
CJ Koh Professor

Director, EW Barker Centre for Law & Business

Director, LLM (General)

Hans has taught at the Faculty of Law, NUS, since 1990, and was previously Director of the Centre for Banking and Finance Law and Centre for Commercial Law Studies. He has published widely in international and local journals, and has written or co-written books on company law, securities regulation and trust law. He is also a contributor to Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore on contract law and to Palmer’s Company Law (Geoffrey Morse ed).

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Contact

(65) 6516-4379
MPA-02-01/A

Education

LLM (Harvard University); MA (University of Cambridge); Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore), Barrister (Honourable Society of Middle Temple)

Curriculum Vitae

Current Courses

Elements of Company Law

Securities and Capital Markets Regulation

Hans has taught at the Faculty of Law, NUS, since 1990, and was previously Director of the Centre for Banking and Finance Law and Centre for Commercial Law Studies. He has published widely in international and local journals, and has written or co-written books on company law, securities regulation and trust law. He is also a contributor to Halsbury’s Laws of Singapore on contract law and to Palmer’s Company Law (Geoffrey Morse ed).

He was previously seconded to the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Ministry of Law. He is presently serving on the Securities Industry Council, is Deputy Chairman of the SGX Listing Advisory Committee, and a consultant with TSMP Law Corporation. He has been a visiting professor at National Taiwan University, Auckland and Shanghai’s ECUPL and a visiting scholar at Stanford and Melbourne. He recently delivered public lectures at the law schools of NTU, Tsinghua and Zhejiang Universities and West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences.

Books
Hans Tjio, Pearlie Koh and Lee Pey Woan, Corporate Law (2nd edn, Academy Publishing 2024)

Edited Books
Paul S Davies and Hans Tjio (eds), Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law (Hart Publishing 2024)

Book Chapters
Hans Tjio, 'Preventing Fraud on Bank Customers and Creditors' in Paul S Davies and Hans Tjio (eds), Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law (Hart Publishing 2024)

Hans Tjio, 'Adjudicating Intermediary-Related Losses' in Paul S Davies and Tan Cheng-Han SC (eds), Intermediaries in Commercial Law (Hart Publishing 2022)

Hans Tjio, Lee Pey Woan and Pearlie Koh, 'Company Law' in Simon Chesterman, Goh Yihan and Andrew Phang Boon Leong (eds), Law and Technology in Singapore (Academy Publishing 2021) 353

Journal Articles
Hans Tjio, 'Sustainable Directors’ Duties and Reasonable Shareholders' (2024) 25 European Business Organization Law Review 333

Wee Meng Seng and Hans Tjio, 'Singapore as International Debt Restructuring Center: Aspiration and Challenges' (2022) 57 (1) Texas International Law Journal 1

Hans Tjio, 'Restructuring Business Trusts as Unregistered Companies' (2021) 15 (3) Journal of Equity 259

Hans Tjio, 'Securities and Financial Services Regulation' (2021) 22 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 748

Hans Tjio, 'Rethinking Share Repurchases' (2021) 16 (2) Capital Markets Law Journal 141

Daniel Ang Wei En and Hans Tjio, 'The Inherent Weakness of Floating Charges: Malayan Banking Bhd v Bakri Navigation Co Ltd [2020] 2 SLR 167' (2021) 33 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 625


Hans Tjio, 'Securities and Financial Services Regulation' (2020) 21 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 802

Hans Tjio, 'Financing the Belt and Road Initiative: Can Singapore Help in Securitizing It?' (2020) 8 (1) The Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 197

Hans Tjio and Daniel Ang, 'No Magic to the Indoor Management Rule' [2020] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 217

Hans Tjio and Hu Ying, 'Collective Investment: Land, Crypto and Coin Schemes: Regulatory ‘Property’' (2020) 21 (1) European Business Organization Law Review 171

  • Securities Regulation
  • Corporate Law
  • Trusts and Equity