Kevin Y. L. Tan

Kevin Tan Yew Lee is a Singaporean legal academic. A scholar of Singaporean constitutional law and history, Tan teaches at the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University.

Tan graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws and Yale Law School with masters and doctoral degrees in law.^[1]

In 1999, then-senior minister Lee Kuan Yew criticised Tan's comments on the elected presidency of Singapore. Tan resigned his university post a year later and was thereafter unable to obtain a tenured non-adjunct position at local universities.^[2]

In March 2025, Tan proposed for independent elections within the commission to advocate fairness in the elections in Singapore.^[3]

• Kevin Y. L. Tan (2019). International Law, History & Policy: Singapore in the Early Years (PDF). NUS Centre for International Law. ISBN 9789811416163.
• Tan, Kevin Yew Lee; Thio, Li-ann (2010), Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore (3rd ed.), Singapore: LexisNexis, ISBN 978-981-236-795-2
• Thio, Li-ann; Tan, Kevin Y L, eds. (2009), Evolution of a Revolution: Forty Years of the Singapore Constitution, Singapore: Routledge-Cavendish, ISBN 978-0-415-43862-9
• Kevin Y[ew] L[ee] Tan, ed. (1999), The Singapore Legal System (2nd ed.), Singapore: Singapore University Press, ISBN 978-9971-69-212-4