Timothy Chan

S.J.D. Candidate @Harvard_Law, Sheridan Fellow @NUS_Law. Property theory, private law theory, law and technology, digital assets.

[Amit Singh @amitpalcsingh]

If you are a junior scholar, graduate student, fellow, or JD/LLB student, and you are interested in private law theory, consider submitting your work for the March 2026 Yale-Toronto-Columbia Private Law Theory Discussion Group workshop. See the attached Call for Papers.

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[Jeff Pojanowski @pojanowski]

You can see the original manuscript here. John Finnis played a crucial role in reading Hart’s handwriting. https://t.co/P1H86U5m91

[Jeff Pojanowski @pojanowski]

It’s here! “Policy, Principles, and Adjudication.” A lost essay by HLA Hart published for the first time the American Journal of Jurisprudence.

https://t.co/OnMOPdJvHa

[Timothy Chan @chanwxt93]

In the note, I explore the true scope of the decision and consider its implications both as regards the duty of good faith and the broader taxonomy of fiduciary duties and remedies in Singapore law. 2/2

[Timothy Chan @chanwxt93]

My comment on CST v Ivanishvili [2024] SGCA(I) 5 has been accepted for publication in the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (https://t.co/g7mW0mhjhP). The case appears to establish that a prescriptive duty of good faith is owed by fiduciaries in Singapore. Or does it? 1/2

[Dr Derek Whayman @WhaymanDR]

This seems to be the first time an English judge has applied the term 'numerus clausus' to English property law - as recently as May this year. https://t.co/zeU5Y3m1tb

[Timothy Chan @chanwxt93]

@HusaJaakko If I may ask, do you have any examples of the internal vs external methodology in legal history to recommend? Sounds like there’s an interesting parallel with the debate in private law theory.

[David Astle @dontattempt]

Just gave ChatGPT a writing deadline and now it’s cleaning the house

[Obligations Conf @ObsConf]

A call for papers for Obligations XI (Private Law Inside and Out, Harvard Law School, July 8–11, 2025) is now available at https://t.co/McWS3fAUlK. Proposals need to be in by August 15 2024.

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

Roger Federer’s Commencement Address at Dartmouth yesterday might be the best speech he’s ever given.

Amazingly articulate, funny, full of wisdom. Made me laugh and tear up. I’m so very proud to have had him as my idol for the past two decades.

If you have 25 minutes to spare…

[Benjamin Hansen @benconomics]

When I teach Econ MicroPrinciples, my students can make memes for me to use in class for extra credit (I also make some of my own throughout the year).

Here are some of the pretty good ones we made to summarize the class.
#econforeveryone
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[Kevin Goh Wei Ming @kevingohwm]

BREAKING: 17 year old Singaporean Siddharth Jagadeesh has defeated Andrey Esipenko and in doing so, is now Singapore’s 5th chess grandmaster! 😭

[Anish Giri @anishgiri]

@chess24com chesscom: I am so sorry.
chess24: my fault.

[NS Ramnath @rmnth]

Daniel Dennett (28th March 1942 - 19th April 2024)

RIP

Dennett on how to criticise wisely

[Paul B. Miller @pbaronmiller]

🚨🚨 Call for Papers - Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory 🚨 🚨Delighted to announce CfP for Vol IV, to be published open access @OUPLaw, thanks to @NDLaw. Papers to be workshopped @NUSingapore, w/ authors' travel covered by NUS and @RutgersLaw. Pls submit and circ widely!

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

It's a pleasure to have contributed this piece to @Simonaimar1's important #firstgenphilosophers platform - a platform about philosophers who were the first in their family to go to university.

https://t.co/1JqALkBxao

[James Lee @jamessflee]

Although specific claim under s53(1)(c) fails for other reasons, a judge here holds that merely sending a text from an identified WhatsApp account is capable of amounting to "signed writing" for the purposes of the section https://t.co/iyAyH2tqTs

[Jaakko Husa @HusaJaakko]

Doctrinal legal scholar in an interdisciplinary research group, the realist take.

[Jonathan Birch @birchlse]

If "3 Body Problem" isn't a romcom about polyamorous academics on the job market, I'm calling false advertising.

[Timothy Chan @chanwxt93]

@Prof_Bruckner Perhaps partners are factory owners.