Contact
zhongxing.tan@covenantchambers.com
Education / Qualifications
National University of Singapore LL.B. (Hons)
Harvard Law School LL.M., S. J. D.
Focus Areas
Corporate Law
Commercial Law
Civil Litigation
Shareholder Disputes
Tort Law
Associate Professor Tan Zhong Xing
Counsel
Tan Zhong Xing obtained his LL.B. from the NUS Law Faculty and an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to entering academia at NUS Law, Zhong Xing practised corporate and commercial dispute resolution at a local law firm. He is presently a member of the Leadership Team at NUS Law, and Director of the Sheridan Fellowship Programme.
His research, teaching and areas of practice are in contract and commercial law generally, and he has written on contract law, tort law, corporate shareholder disputes, and various other topics relating to civil litigation.
Zhong Xing’s writings are published in leading law journals, at both the international and local levels, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Modern Law Review, Legal Studies, Journal of Business Law, Journal of Contract Law, Journal of Corporate Law Studies and others.
He has been the recipient of various awards, including the Hart Publishing Prize for the best paper by an early career scholar at the Ninth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, and previously, Harvard Law School’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize, as well as the Montrose Memorial Prize for Jurisprudence and the Wong Peng Koon Prize for Best Directed Research Paper at NUS Law. He also received various teaching awards at the NUS Law faculty.
Zhong Xing has a keen interest in meshing academic aspects of law with cutting-edge practice and is available to advise on issues within his sphere of expertise.
Associate Professor
Tan Zhong Xing
Counsel
Tan Zhong Xing obtained his LL.B. from the NUS Law Faculty and an LL.M. and S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Prior to entering academia at NUS Law, Zhong Xing practised corporate and commercial dispute resolution at a local law firm. He is presently a member of the Leadership Team at NUS Law, and Director of the Sheridan Fellowship Programme.
His research, teaching and areas of practice are in contract and commercial law generally, and he has written on contract law, tort law, corporate shareholder disputes, and various other topics relating to civil litigation.
Zhong Xing’s writings are published in leading law journals, at both the international and local levels, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Modern Law Review, Legal Studies, Journal of Business Law, Journal of Contract Law, Journal of Corporate Law Studies and others.
He has been the recipient of various awards, including the Hart Publishing Prize for the best paper by an early career scholar at the Ninth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, and previously, Harvard Law School’s Project on the Foundations of Private Law Prize, as well as the Montrose Memorial Prize for Jurisprudence and the Wong Peng Koon Prize for Best Directed Research Paper at NUS Law. He also received various teaching awards at the NUS Law faculty.
Zhong Xing has a keen interest in meshing academic aspects of law with cutting-edge practice and is available to advise on issues within his sphere of expertise.
Contact
zhongxing.tan@covenantchambers.com
Education / Qualifications
National University of Singapore LL.B. (Hons)
Harvard Law School LL.M., S.J.D.
Focus Areas
Corporate Law
Commercial Law
Civil Litigation
Shareholder Disputes
Tort Law