Rate My Professor Hsien-Li Tan

Hsien-Li Tan is Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Law School. She teaches ASEAN Law and Policy as well as Constitutional and Administrative Law. Her cross-disciplinary research lies at the intersection of international law, international relations, and political economy, with particular focus on ASEAN integration, regional organizations, geopolitics, institution-building, norm-creation, human rights, and peace and security. Tan holds an LLB from the London School of Economics, an LLM in Public International Law from the University of Nottingham, and a PhD from NUS. Her doctoral thesis examined human rights in the ASEAN region.

Tan previously served as Senior Research Fellow and Executive Director of the ASEAN Integration through Law Project at the NUS Centre for International Law. She is Co-Head of the ASEAN Law and Policy Programme at the Centre for International Law and Co-Editor of the Asian Journal of International Law. She has held fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence, the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at NYU School of Law, and as the Ushiba Memorial ASEAN Fellow in Tokyo. Tan authored the first book on the ASEAN human rights system, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. She co-authored Promoting Compliance: The Role of Dispute Settlement and Monitoring Mechanisms in ASEAN Instruments (Cambridge University Press, 2016) with Bob Beckman and others. She has published in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law. Tan is general co-editor, with Joseph Weiler, of the ASEAN Integration Through Law Book Series published by Cambridge University Press.