Faculty Profile

Eugene K.B. Tan is associate professor of law at SMU’s Yong Pung How School of Law. His inter-disciplinary research interests include constitutional and administrative law, the government and politics of Singapore, the regulation of ethnic conflict, and the ethical and policy framework for artificial intelligence. Eugene regularly teaches in the law, business, and social sciences schools at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive education levels. Eugene’s scholarly works and parliamentary speeches have been regularly cited in law and non-law academic publications, government reports, and in judgments of Singapore’s High Court and Court of Appeal. Through fifty short essays, Eugene’s latest book, Raising the Nation: Race, Religion, Language, and Identity in Singapore (2025) examines ethnic relations and identity in Singapore. 

Between February 2012 and August 2014, Eugene was a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore’s 12th Parliament. He currently serves as Singapore’s Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights. 

An advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, Eugene was educated at the National University of Singapore, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Stanford University where he was a Fulbright Fellow.
 

Qualifications

• JSM, Stanford University
• MSc (Comparative Politics) (with Mark of Distinction), London School of Economics & Political Science
• LL.B. (Second Upper Honours), National University of Singapore
• Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore)

Courses Taught in SMU

• Constitutional & Administrative Law (LLB/JD)
• Law and Policy of Ethnic Relations in Singapore (LLB/SocSci)
• Managing Ethical Dilemmas and Corporate Governance (MBA)
• Singapore Studies (SocSci)
• Ethics and Social Responsibility (University core curriculum course)
• Corporate Governance and Ethics (EMBA)

Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation

• Constitutional and Administrative Law
• Law, Society, and Public Policy
• Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
• Corruption, Governance and Public Ethics
• Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation
• Government and Politics of Singapore