Corinne Tan is a researcher working in the intersection of law and technology, with a particular interest in social media governance. She is currently co-authoring an Element (as part of a series to be published by Cambridge University Press) on the impact of artificial intelligence on disinformation. In the past decade, she has applied socio-legal-techno analyses to her research on regulating disinformation on social media, regulating content on social media, copyright and accessibility, non-fungible tokens, as well as blockchains. She is passionate about finding practical solutions for major challenges in society through examining them from a law and policy perspective. Corinne is currently Board Secretary for the not-for-profit AusCam Freedom Project, an international anti-trafficking organisation that recognises the growing threat of online sexual exploitation faced by children in Cambodia. Most recently, Corinne was an Assistant Professor at the Division of Business Law at Nanyang Technological University, where she taught and researched for 5 years. Before returning to Singapore, she was an academic at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne for 6 years. Her experience in teaching includes a range of subjects such as free speech and media law, legal ethics, business law and corporate law, to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Before embarking on her academic journey, Corinne practised as a corporate lawyer and in-house legal counsel.
Corinne’s book titled “Regulating Content on Social Media: Copyright, Terms of Service and Technological Features” was published by the University of College London (UCL) Press in March 2018. In this book, she argues and demonstrates that despite copyright law’s purported regulation of content generation, users are “nudged” by online platforms to engage in behaviours which are inconsistent with copyright laws. In addition, Corinne has published on cutting edge topics in peer reviewed international journals such as the International Journal of Law and Information Technology, the Computer Law and Security Review, the International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, Griffith Law Review, European Intellectual Property Review, Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, the Intellectual Property Quarterly, Media & Arts Law Review, the Singapore Academy of Law Journal, Competition and Consumer Law Journal and the Law Quarterly Review. She has given talks to present her research in Australia, Europe, Japan, United States of America and Singapore.
Corinne holds a PhD and a LLM from the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and a LLB from the National University of Singapore. She was called to the Singapore Bar in 2007.
