| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable Justice |
| Goh Yihan | |
| Native Name: | 吴亦涵 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh-sg |
| Office1: | Judge of the High Court of Singapore |
| Term Start1: | 1 October 2023 |
| Appointer1: | Halimah Yacob |
| Office2: | Judicial Commissioner of Singapore |
| Term Start2: | 1 July 2022 |
| Term End2: | 30 September 2023 |
| Appointer2: | Halimah Yacob |
| Nationality: | Singaporean |
| Alma Mater: | |
Goh Yihan (born 1981) is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore. He was previously a Judicial Commissioner, and, before that, the Dean of the Singapore Management University School of Law.[1]
Goh graduated from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law with a first class honours LLB in 2006 as the valedictorian. He also topped his second-year examinations and was on the NUS Undergraduate Scholarship. At the 2004 B. A. Mallal Moot, he won both the best oralist and best memorial prizes.
Goh obtained his LLM from Harvard Law School in 2010. He had received the NUS University Overseas Scholarship in 2009 to pursue his postgraduate studies.
Goh was called to the Singapore Bar in 2011. He had received the Order of Merit in the 2006 bar examinations. In 2013, he became the youngest recipient of the Singapore Academy of Law's Singapore Law Merit Award.[2]
Goh returned to the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law in 2008, where he was a teaching assistant until 2010. He was then appointed as an assistant professor from 2011 to 2014.
Goh left NUS Law in June 2014.[3] He had received four university and faculty teaching awards in six years in NUS.
Goh became an associate professor of law at the Singapore Management University School of Law in July 2014. He was also appointed associate dean (research) in January 2016. Over two years, he received two faculty teaching awards.
Goh became the dean of SMU Law in July 2017, succeeding Yeo Tiong Min. He was appointed for a five-year term after "a [six-month] extensive and rigorous global search". At 35, he was the youngest person to become dean,[4] though he was already "a well-recognised and active expert in the legal profession".
In July 2019, Goh was appointed a full professor of law at SMU.
After obtaining his LLB, Goh was deployed as a Justices' Law Clerk in the Supreme Court from 2006 to 2008. In 2008, he became a Senior Justices' Law Clerk, then served as an Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court.
Goh has served as amicus curiae to the Court of Appeal on numerous occasions. The court has described his written and oral submissions as "comprehensive, elegantly expressed, and lucidly organised",[5] and as "models of clarity and conciseness".[6]
Goh was appointed senior counsel in January 2021.[7]
On 1 July 2022, Goh was appointed a Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court for a two-year term.[8]
On 1 October 2023, Goh was appointed a Judge of the High Court.
Goh is a board member of the Singapore Institute of Legal Education and the Singapore Judicial College. He is also a visiting academic at Rajah & Tann.