Professor Tan Cheng Han, S.C. was Dean of the NUS law school from 2001 to 2011, Chairman of the NUS E W Barker Centre for Law and Business from 2012 to 2019, and Dean of the City University of Hong Kong School of Law from 2019 to 2022. He is presently the Chief Strategy Officer of NUS Law. His other current roles include being a Senior Consultant at Wong Partnership LLP, Chairman of Singapore Exchange Regulation Pte Ltd, President of the Asian Law Schools Association, and a member of the Singapore Business Federation’s Board of Trustees. He maintains an active practice as counsel and arbitrator and has received many arbitral appointments as sole, presiding and co-arbitrator.
Professor Tan has been active in public service. These include being Chairman of the Public Accountants Oversight Committee, the Media Literacy Council, NTUC First Campus and Caritas Singapore. He has also served as Deputy Chairman of Sport Singapore and the Singapore Exchange’s Listing Advisory Committee, as a member of the Securities Industry Council, the Corporate Finance Committee and the Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society, and on the boards of the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore and the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority. Professor Tan has also sat as a member of the Military Court of Appeal and as a Specialist Judge.
Recent publications include: “The Metaverse beyond the internet” (2023) Law, Innovation and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/17579961.2023.2245677 (with Daniel Seng); “Vicarious Liability in the Law of Agency” [2022] 2 Journal of Business Law 164; “Implied Terms in Undisclosed Agency” (2021) 84 Modern Law Review 532; “Mixed Ownership Reform and Corporate Governance in China’s State-owned Enterprises” (2020) 53 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1055 (with Wang Jiangyu); “Estoppel in the Law of Agency” (2020) 136 Law Quarterly Review 315; and a co-edited book, Intermediaries in Commercial Law (Hart, 2022) to which he contributed a chapter on “Agency, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Agreements”.
Edited Books
Book Chapters
Tan Cheng-Han, 'Agency Law and the Protection of Third Parties (and Principals) – Whither the Balance?' in Paul S Davies and Hans Tjio (eds), Fraud and Risk in Commercial Law (Hart Publishing 2024)
Tan Cheng-Han and Daniel Seng, '
Online Harms in the Metaverse' in Hung-Yi Chen, Pawee Jenweeranon and Nafis Alam (eds),
Global Perspectives in the Metaverse - Law, Economics, and Finance (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) 9
Daniel Seng and Tan Cheng-Han, '
Agency Law and AI' in Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan (eds),
The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press 2024) 250
Tan Cheng-Han S.C., Alan Koh, Topo Santoso, Umakanth Varottil and Wang Jiangyu, '
Comparative Legal Education' in Mathias Siems and Po Jen Yap (eds),
The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press 2024) 713
Tan Cheng-Han, '
Agency Liability' in Martin Petrin and Christian Witting (eds),
Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023) 136
Tan Cheng Han SC, 'Agency, Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Agreements' in Paul S Davies and Tan Cheng-Han SC (eds), Intermediaries in Commercial Law (Hart Publishing 2022)
Tan Cheng Han SC and Wang Jiangyu, '
Governments and Business' in Victor V. Ramraj (ed),
Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts (Oxford University Press 2021) 365
Journal Articles
Tan Cheng-Han, 'Shareholder Voting Rights, Proper Purposes and the Corporate Constitution' [2024] Journal of Business Law 329
Alan K Koh, Dan W. Puchniak and Tan Cheng Han, '
Company Law' (2022) 23
Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 197
Tan Cheng Han S.C, 'Vicarious Liability in the Law of Agency' (2022) 2 Journal of Business Law 164
Alan K Koh, Dan W. Puchniak and Tan Cheng Han, '
Company Law' (2021) 22
Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 203
Alan K Koh, Dan W. Puchniak and Tan Cheng Han, '
Company Law' (2020) 21
Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 224
Tan Cheng Han SC, 'Estoppel in the Law of Agency' (2020) 136 Law Quarterly Review 315
