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Kevin Tan : Curriculum Vitae

Education

1986

Bachelor of Laws LLB (Hons) 2nd Class Upper Division

National University of Singapore

1988

Master of Laws (LLM), Yale Law School

1995

Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD), Yale Law School [first Singaporean to earn a JSD from Yale Law School]

Publications

Books/Monographs – Legal

1.     Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore (Singapore: Malayan Law Journal, 1991) (with Yeo Tiong Min & Lee Kiat Seng)

2.     Tan, Yeo & Lee’s Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore 2 ed (Singapore: Butterworths Asia, 1997) (with Thio Li-ann).

3.     Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore, 3 ed (Singapore: LexisNexis, 2010) (with Thio Li-ann)

4.     The Legal Framework (Singapore) 5 editions (Singapore: Singapore Accountancy Academy, 1994, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000)

5.     Corporate and Business Law, 4 editions (Singapore: Singapore Accountancy Academy, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)

6.     The Singapore Legal System, 2nd Edition (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1999)

7.     Change and Continuity: 40 Years of the NUS Law Faculty (Singapore: Law Faculty, NUS, 1999)

8.     Essays in Legal History (Singapore: Singapore Academy of Law & Marshall-Cavendish Academic, 2004)

9.     An Introduction to Singapore’s Constitution (Singapore: Talisman, 2005)

10.  Scales of Gold: 50 Years of Legal Education at the NUS Faculty of Law (Singapore: Law Faculty, NUS, 2007)

11.  Evolution of a Revolution: 40 Years of the Singapore Constitution (with Thio Li-ann) (London: Routledge-Curzon, 2009)

12.  Marshall of Singapore: A Biography (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009)

13.  Encounters with Singapore Legal History: Essays in Memory of Geoffrey Wilson Bartholomew (Singapore: Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 2009)

14.  An Introduction to Singapore’s Constitution, Rev ed (Singapore: Talisman, 2011).

15.  Singapore and International Law: The Early Years (Singapore: Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, 2011).

16.  Singapore in International Encyclopaedia of Constitutional Law (Netherlands: Wolter Kluwer, 2011).

Books/Monographs – Non-Legal

1.     Managing Political Change in Singapore: The Elected Presidency  (London: Routledge Books, 1997)(with Lam Peng Er)

2.     Lee’s Lieutenants: Singapore’s Old Guard (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1999) (with Lam Peng Er)

3.     Scouting in Singapore 1910–2000 (Singapore: Singapore Scout Association, 2002) (with Wan Meng Hao)

4.     Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys: Malaysia-Singapore Edition (Singapore: Brownsea, 2004)

5.     Labour Conquers All: 100 Years of Outram Secondary School (Singapore: Editions Ketano, 2006)

6.     The Book of Singapore’s Firsts (with Kay Gillis) (Singapore: Singapore Heritage Society, 2006)

7.     The Temple and the Tree: Singapore’s Jin Long Si (Singapore: Jin Long Si Temple, 2007)

8.     Singapore’s Monuments & Landmarks: A Philatelic Ramble (Singapore: Preservation of Monuments Board, Singapore Heritage Society & Singapore Philatelic Museum, 2007) (with Tan Wee Kiat & Edmund WK Lim)

9.     Spaces for the Dead: A Case from the Living (Singapore: Singapore Heritage Society & Ethos Books, 2011).

10.  Voting In Change: Politics of Singapore’s 2011 General Election (Singapore: Ethos Books) (with Terence Lee).

Chapters in Books

  1. A Short Legal and Constitutional History of Singapore’ in The Singapore Legal System (Walter Woon ed) (Longmans, 1989) pp 1-33.
  2. ‘Parliament and the Making of Law in Singapore’ in The Singapore Legal System (Walter Woon ed) (Longmans, 1989) pp 37-66.
  3. ‘Settling Into the Foundations: Development of Singapore’s Constitutional System 1965-1985’ (with Philip N Pillai) in Management of Success:  The Moulding of Modern Singapore (KS Sandhu and Paul Wheatley eds) (ISEAS, 1989) pp 647-668.
  4. ‘Singapore’ in Heads of State: A Comparative Perspective (Cheryl Saunders ed) (Constitutional Centenary Foundation Inc, 1993) pp 51-58.
  5. ‘The Presidential Executive System in Singapore:  Problems and Prospects’ in The Powers and Functions of Executive Government:  Studies from the Asia Pacific Region (Graham Hassell & Cheryl Saunders eds) (Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, The University of Melbourne, 1994) pp 37-53.
  6. ‘Singapore Country Report 1993’ in Asia-Pacific Constitutional Law Yearbook (Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, The University of Melboure, 1995) (with Thio Li-ann).
  7. ‘Singapore Country Report 1994’ in Asia-Pacific Constitutional Law Yearbook (Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, The University of Melboure, 1996) (with Thio Li-ann).
  8. ‘Republic of Singapore’ in Gisbert H Flanz ed, Constitutions of the Countries of the World (New York: Oceana Publications, 1997)
  9. ‘Economic Development and the Prospects for Constitutionalism’ in Law, Social Sciences And Public Policy: Towards A Unified FrameworkAnthony Chin & Alfred Choi eds (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1998), pp 187-206.
  10. ‘Economic Development and Human Rights in East Asia: Legal Reforms in Singapore and Taiwan’ in The East Asian Challenge For Human Rights, Joanne Bauer & Daniel A Bell eds (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp 264-284.
  11. ‘A Short Legal and Constitutional History of Singapore’ in The Singapore Legal System (Kevin Tan ed) (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1999), pp 26-66.
  12. ‘Parliament and the Making of Law in Singapore’ in The Singapore Legal System (Kevin Tan ed) (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1999) pp 123-159.
  13. ‘History of the NUS Law Faculty’ in Change and Continuity: Forty Years of the NUS Law Faculty, Kevin YL Tan ed (Singapore: NUS Faculty of Law, 1999), pp 7-60.
  14. ‘Fifty years of the UDHR: A Singaporean Reflects’ in Tan Ngoh Tiong & Kripa Sridharan eds, Human Rights Perspectives (Singapore United Nations Association of Singapore, 1999) at pp 118-140.
  15. ‘Recent Developments in the Law and Practice of Preventive Detention’ in Wu Min Aun ed, Public Law in Contemporary Malaysia (Petaling Jaya: Longman, 1999) at pp 293-315.
  16. ‘Understanding and Harnessing Ground Energies in Civil Society’ in Gillian Koh & Ooi Giok-Ling, State-Society Relations in Singapore (Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies & Oxford University Press, 2000) at pp 98-105.
  17.  ‘Malaysia’ in Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann eds, Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook Vol II (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) pp 143-183.
  18. ‘The Legal and Institutional Framework and Issues of Multiculturalism in Singapore’ in Lai Ah Eng ed, Beyond Rituals and Riots: Ethnic Pluralism and Social Cohesion in Singapore (Singapore: Eastern Universities Press, 2004) pp 98-113.
  19. ‘Essays in Legal History: An Introduction’ in Kevin YL Tan ed, Essays in Legal History (Singapore: Singapore Academy of Law & Marshall-Cavendish Academic, 2005), pp 1-6.
  20. ‘History of Law Reporting’ in ‘Essays in Legal History: An Introduction’ in Kevin YL Tan ed, Essays in Legal History (Singapore: Singapore Academy of Law & Marshall-Cavendish Academic, 2005) (with GW Bartholomew), pp 139-160.
  21. ‘A Short Legal and Constitutional History’ in ‘Essays in Legal History: An Introduction’ in Kevin YL Tan ed, Essays in Legal History (Singapore: Singapore Academy of Law & Marshall-Cavendish Academic, 2005), pp 27-72.
  22. ‘Public Law Implications of Human Genetic Information’ in Terry Kaan & Edison T Liu eds, Life Sciences: Law and Ethics (Singapore: Singapore Academy of Law & Bioethics Advisory Committee, 2006), pp 125-143.
  23. ‘In and Out of Malaysia’ in Andrew Harding & HP Lee eds, Landmarks in Malaysian Constitutional Law: The First 50 Years (Kuala Lumpur: LexisNexis, 2007), pp 55-76.
  24. ‘State and Institution Building Through the Singapore Constitution’ in Li-ann Thio & Kevin YL Tan eds, Evolution of a Revolution: Forty Years of the Singapore Constitution (London: Routledge-Curzon, 2009), pp 50-78.
  25. ‘Writing the Constitution: Forty Years of Singapore Constitutional Scholarship’ in Li-ann Thio & Kevin YL Tan eds, Evolution of a Revolution: Forty Years of the Singapore Constitution (London: Routledge-Curzon, 2009), pp 288-322.
  26. ‘An Encounter with Legal History: Geoffrey Wilson Bartholomew (1927-2005)’ in Kevin YL Tan ed, Encounters with Singapore Legal History: Essays in Memory of Geoffrey Wilson Bartholomew (Singapore: Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 2009) pp. 3-25.
  27. ‘Challenges in Writing Singapore’s Legal History’ in Kevin YL Tan ed, Encounters with Singapore Legal History: Essays in Memory of Geoffrey Wilson Bartholomew (Singapore: Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 2009) pp. 29-63.
  28. ‘Lawyers in Singapore Politics: 1945-1990’ Kevin YL Tan ed, Encounters with Singapore Legal History: Essays in Memory of Geoffrey Wilson Bartholomew (Singapore: Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 2009) pp. 531-585.
  29. ‘From Myanmar to Manila: A Brief Study of Emergency Powers in Southeast Asia’ in Victor Ramraj and Arun Thiruvengadam, Emergency Powers in Asia: Exploring the Limits of Legality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) 148–186.
  30. ‘Secularism and the Constitution: Striking the Right Balance’ in Michael Siam-Heng Heng & CL Ten (eds), State and Secularism: Perspectives from Asia (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010) 137–154.
  31.  ‘Singapore: A Statist Legal Laboratory’ in Ann Black & Gary Bell (eds), Law and Legal Systems of Asia (Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2011) 330­–371.
  32.  ‘International Law, History and Policy: Singapore in the Early Years’ in Kevin YL Tan (ed), Singapore and International Law: The Early Years – Essays in Memory of S Tiwari (Singapore: Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, 2011) 1–71.
  33.  ‘Defaming Politicians, Scandalising the Courts: A Look at Recent Developments in Singapore’ in Andrew Kenyon & Amandan Whiting (eds), Media Law and Policy in Malaysia and Singapore (forthcoming)
  34. ‘Legal and Constitutional Issues’ in Kevin YL Tan & Terence Lee (eds), Voting In Change: Politics of Singapore’s 2011 General Election (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2011).
  35. ‘Political Shift’ (with Terence Lee) in Kevin YL Tan & Terence Lee (eds), Voting In Change: Politics of Singapore’s 2011 General Election (Singapore: Ethos Books, 2011).

 

Chapter in Book (Edited)

1.     ‘Constitutional Law’ in Mallal’s Digest of Malaysian and Singapore Case Law 1808-1988, Vol 3, pp 107-225 (Kevin Tan, specialist editor) (Malayan Law Journal, 1991).

2.     ‘International Law’ in Mallal’s Digest of Malaysian and Singapore Case Law 1808-1988, Vol 8, pp 59-83 (Kevin Tan, specialist editor) (Malayan Law Journal, 1992).

Articles (Refereed)

1.     ‘The Evolution of Singapore’s Modern Constitution: Developments from 1945 to Date’ (1989) 1 Singapore Academy of Law Journal, pp 1-28.

2.     ‘The Elected Presidency in Singapore:  Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (Amendment) Act 1991’ [1991] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies pp 179-194.

3.     ‘The Constitutional Implications of Singapore’s 1991 General Elections’ (1992) 13 Singapore Law Review pp 25-59.

4.     ‘Ten Years of the Singapore Law Review:  Reflections of A Past Chief Editor’ (1993) 14 Singapore Law Review pp 24-47.

5.     ‘Human Rights in East Asia: Developments in Legal Reform in Singapore, Taiwan and the PRC’ (translated into Korean) (1996)  Winter Sasang 230-245 (Korean intellectual magazine published by the Seoul National University).

6.     ‘Fifty Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: A Singapore Reflection’ (1999) 20 Singapore Law Review 239-280.

7.     ‘The SILS-DILA Conference on “Teaching and Researching International Law in Asia”: Report and Reflections’ (2001) 5 Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law 441-484.

8.     ‘The Making and Remaking of Constitutions in Southeast Asia: An Overview’  (2002) 6 Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law 1-41.

9.     ‘The Role of Public Law in a Developing Asia’ [2004] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 265–286.

10.  Entries for ‘Singapore’, ‘Malaysia’ and ‘Southeast Asia’ in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History (New York: OUP, 2010, forthcoming)

11.  ‘Journey of a Journal: 50 Years of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies’ [2009] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 1–24.

12.  ‘Constitutionalism in Times of Economic Strife: Developments in Singapore’ (2009) 4(3) National Taiwan University Law Review 115–140.

13.  ‘History and Culture: Complexities in Studying Southeast Asian Constitutionalism’ (2010) 5(2) National Taiwan University Law Review 187–223.

Articles (Non-Refereed)

1.     ‘The Administration of Justice in Early Singapore 1819-1867: Some Impressions’ (1986) Law Society’s Journal Vol 3 No 2, pp 26-31.

2.     ‘The English Legal Profession:  A Short Account of Its Development’ (1986) Law Society’s Journal Vol 3 No 2, pp 8-14.

3.     ‘A Short Account of the American Legal Profession’ (1986) Law Society’s Journal Vol 3 No 4, pp 9-18.

4.     ‘The Academy of Law: Into Its Second Year’ (1990) Vol 5 No 1 Law Society’s Journal, pp 1-13.

5.     ‘Computers and their Legal Impact’ (1983) 4 Singapore Law Review 9-18 (with Richard Tan Ming Kirk)

6.     ‘General Defences Under the Penal Code of Singapore’ (1983) 4 Singapore Law Review 202-219 (with R Chandra Mohan)

7.     ‘Copyrightability of Books and Tapes in Singapore’ (1984) 5 Singapore Law Review 14-26

8.     ‘The Family, Social Policy and the Law in Singapore’ (1985) 6 Singapore Law Review 2-11

9.     ‘Economic Development and the Changing Role of Lawyers: A Comparative Study of Singapore, Japan and the People’s Republic of Singapore’ (1986) 7 Singapore Law Review 68-90

10.  ‘Is Singapore’s Electoral System In Need of Reform’ (1997) 14 Commentary 109-117.

11.  ‘Globalization and Legal Theory’ (2002) 18 Commentary 29-38.

Miscellaneous Reports

1.     ‘Country Report for Singapore’, Non-Governmental Organisational Laws and Regulation, prepared for International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Washington DC, 1996.

2.     ‘Country Report for Singapore’, Judicial Independence in Asia project, Asian Development Bank, 2002.

Unpublished Work

1.     The Development of Constitutional Government in Singapore: 1945-1995. Dissertation submitted in part-fulfilment of the degree of Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) for the Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 1995.

Work In Progress

1.     ‘Presidentialism in the Former British Colonies: Trends and Prospects’ in The Commonwealth Legal Education Association Lectures.

2.     Media Law and Policy in Singapore (with Ang Peng Hwa).

3.     Singapore: An Introductory Legal History by Geoffrey Wilson Bartholomew (as Editor).

Lim Chin Siong: A Political Biography