State of Play V: Speakers' Bios

Harry SK Tan HARRY SK TAN
Director
Center for Asian Pacific Technology Law & Policy
Associate Professor of Law
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University

 

Profile

Prof Harry Tan is the principal lecturer of the "E-Business: Law Policy & Strategy" at Nanyang Technological University. He also developed and taught "Legal and Ethical Issues of Information Technology" course and co-taught "Management & Resolution of Business Disputes" for the Nanyang Business School's MBA Program. Prof. Tan also teaches Law of Information & Technology with Prof Steven Ang and was engaged by FORTUNE as the Editor for the "FORTUNE Reader's Guide Program", a periodical that focuses on current business trends, case studies and issues for the business student.

Professor Harry Tan was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship in 1999 by the Council of International Exchange of Scholars and the Fulbright Commission in Washington, US. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Berkeley Centre for Law & Technology at University of California, Berkeley, where he carried out research in the field of the Development of Law & Regulation of E-Commerce. Over the past five years, Prof Tan had been involved in advisory roles and conducting industry executive development programs on management of legal risks in electronic commerce and information technology and consultant to local internet banks and law firms. He was also a member of the team of consultant led by Dr Toh that
drafted laws for the Dubai Internet City and Dubai Port Authority. His current research interest is in the development of the law and regulation of Electronic Commerce and its impact on businesses. In addition to being a legal advisor to the Computer Centre at NTU, he is also the associate editor and web-master for the Asia Business Law Review

Web Presence

Selected Publications

  • Electronic Negotiations - Offer and Acceptance, Legal Requirements and Incorporation of Terms, Computer Law & Security Report (United Kingdom 2002)
  • Electronic Transactions Regulation: Singapore, Computer Law & Security Report , Vol. 18, No. 4, pp 272 - 277.(United Kingdom 2002)
  • Facilitating E-Commerce between ASEAN Countries: Standardisation of Legal Infrastructures or Access to the Laws?, THE ANNUAL E-ASEAN TASKFORCE CONFERENCE (Singapore 2002)
  • E-Fraud: Current Trends and International Developments, Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp 347 - 354 (United Kingdom 2002).

  • FORTUNE READER'S GUIDE - FORTUNE MAGAZINE (NEWSLETTER)- a fortnightly newsletter authored from November 1998 to February 2001.