Other degrees: BA, LLB [Rangoon], LLM [University of Michigan], PhD [Griffith]

Dr Myint Zan is an ANU alumnus (Master of International Law, 1984). From 1990 to 2016 he taught law and law-related subjects at universities in Malaysia, Australia, the South Pacific and the United States. Subjects include international law, administrative law, human rights law, and aspects of Southeast Asian and South Pacific law. From 2006 to 2016 he taught jurisprudence (legal philosophy) at the Faculty of Law, Multimedia University, Malaysia.

Dr Zan has published over 90 academic articles and book chapters in the fields of Burmese law, legal history, Asian law, international law, comparative law, human rights law, literature and philosophy in publications in Australia, the UK, US, India, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Vanuatu.

Dr Zan regularly volunteers his time to coach and develop mooting teams in universities across Southeast Asia, and has held many appointments as a judge, chair and arbitrator at major international mooting competitions.

Dr Zan is also a committed philanthropist and has given generously to ANU and other institutions in a variety of disciplines including law and philosophy. He has a special interest in supporting interdisciplinary study and early career research. 

Prizes, fellowships and lecture series established by Dr Zan at ANU include the Myint Zan Prize for Law Studies; the Myint Zan Prize in Philosophy of Science; the Myint Zan Philosophy Fellowship (2019-2023); the Myint Zan Scholarship in Master of Asian and Pacific Studies (2023-2026); and the Myint Zan Law and Philosophy Lecture (2021-2025). The inaugural lecture was delivered by Judge Hilary Charlesworth of the International Court of Justice in August 2023.

Dr Zan established a prize and fellowship at the University of Michigan Law School; and supported Orthopaedics and Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Abraham Cancer Centre, in honour of his late parents.