A graduate of Harvard Law School and the NUS Law Faculty, Dr. Zhong Xing Tan first joined the faculty as a member of the inaugural batch of Sheridan Fellows, and was appointed Assistant Professor thereafter. Zhong Xing is currently Director of the Sheridan Fellowship Programme and a member of the Leadership Team at NUS Law.
Zhong Xing’s research and teaching interests are in contract law, private law and legal theory, and commercial and corporate law more generally, as well as the various intersection points between these fields. He has written on the role of distributive justice in contract law, the rise of the ‘relational contract’ concept, as well as evolving doctrinal areas including the concept of good faith and the law of contractual interpretation. His recent work extends more broadly into re-thinking the foundations of interpersonal justice in private law theory, drawing from political and moral philosophy, and connecting these to key areas in the law of obligations (both traditional areas such as torts and restitution, as well as newer fields straddling public and private law).
His work has been published in leading general and specialist law journals including the Modern Law Review and the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and has been cited by apex courts in different jurisdictions.
Zhong Xing has been the recipient of various awards for research and teaching. These include the Hart Publishing Prize for the best paper by an early career scholar at the Ninth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations (2018), and previously, Harvard Law School’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize (2017). He has also been awarded the NUS Faculty Annual Teaching Excellence Award and the NUS University-Level Annual Teaching Excellence Award on various occasions. In earlier years as a student at NUS Law, he was the winner of the Montrose Memorial Prize for Jurisprudence and the Wong Peng Koon Prize for Best Directed Research Paper (2012).
