Tan Cheng Han is a Singaporean lawyer and legal academic. Until 2012, he was the dean of the

National University of Singapore Faculty of Law The National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (NUS Law) is Singapore's oldest law school. NUS Law was initially established in 1956 as the Department of Law in the University of Malaya. After its establishment, NUS Law was Singapore's only ...

, where he taught contract law and company Law and directed the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business. From 2019 to 2022, he was the dean of the

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and the chair professor of commercial law. He is also a consultant at TSMP Law Corporation. In August 2012, he was appointed the inaugural chairman of Singapore's new Media Literacy Council. Tan graduated with a

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in 1987 and then obtained his

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from the

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in 1990. He also practices as an advocate specialising in complicated commercial disputes and is a member of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre's Regional Panel of Arbitrators. Tan was appointed

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in 2004 at the age of 39, and together with fellow

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, became the first academics to be so appointed. Prior to joining NUS in 1996, Tan was a partner in

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's litigation department. Tan's current public appointments include being Chairman of the Singapore Media Literacy Council, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Move-On and Filming Orders, Advisor to the Singapore Tae Kwon-do Federation, a Commissioner of the Competition Commission of Singapore, a member of the Appeal Advisory Panel to the Singapore Minister for Finance, a member of the Military Court of Appeal in Singapore and a member of the Governing Board of the

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.Official profile
In 2004, Tan was one of three Singaporeans who were chosen out of a pool of 8,000 candidates worldwide to be part of The Forum of Young Global Leaders, a forum which was created by

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, executive chairman of the

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. In 2005, Tan was also named by the

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as one of "50 young Singaporeans to watch". In August 2006, Tan was appointed to the Subordinate Courts' Bench as a new specialist judge to preside over the Informatics case.NUS: Faculty of Law - News
, 23 August 2006. He was also awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) at Singapore's 41st National Day celebrations.

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