DrDavid Tan
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
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- Senior LecturerFaculty of Business and Law/Deakin Law School
- +61 3 924 46208 (Work)
- Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125
BIO
David Tan is a Senior Lecturer at Deakin Law School and specialises in analytic legal philosophy. His main research areas are in legal interpretation as well as public law theory. In legal interpretation he works on linguistic approaches, especially intentionalist/communicative ones, to interpreting legal texts. In public law he has recently been working on the intersection of new technology and how that affects government decision-making. His work is published in leading international legal philosophy and law journals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Legal Theory, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, and Ratio Juris.
DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT
- Senior LecturerDeakin University, Deakin Law School
DEGREES
- Doctor of PhilosophyMonash University
- Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of LawUniversity of Tasmania
- Bachelor of Laws (Hons)University of Tasmania
FIELDS OF RESEARCH
- Public law
- Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation
- Constitutional law
- Administrative law
AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION
- Masters by Research and PhD supervision
AREA/FACULTY
- Faculty of Business and Law
DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE
- Deakin Law School