Tan Zhong Xing
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law
National University of Singapore

A graduate of Harvard Law School and the NUS Law Faculty, Zhong Xing first joined the faculty as a member of the inaugural batch of Sheridan Fellows, subsequently being appointed Assistant Professor in 2018. 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 more recently on the role of distributive justice in contract law, the rise of the ‘relational contract’ concept, the interface between private and public norms in contracting, as well as evolving doctrinal areas including the concept of good faith and the law of contractual interpretation.

His work has been published (or is forthcoming) in a number of leading general and specialist law journals, including the Modern Law Review, Legal Studies, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and has been cited by the Singapore Court of Appeal. Over the last few years Zhong Xing 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 (2018), 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.

Justin Tan
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law
National University of Singapore

Justin holds an LLB (NUS, 1st Class Honors), BBA (NUS) and an LLM in tax (NYU, where he was a Vanderbilt scholar). He practised tax law at Baker & McKenzie.Wong & Leow, advising on the international tax aspects of cross-border transactions.

Justin has published in tax-related journals, including International Tax Review and IBFD’s Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin. He has also published on torts in Torts Law Journal and Singapore Journal of Legal Studies