Jean HO

Associate Professor Jean HO is a legal scholar specializing in international investment law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Law, where she also serves as Director of the JD Programme. Her academic roles include lecturing and supervising on treaty law, State responsibility, and investment contracts. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, Maîtrise from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (topping her class in contract law, civil liability, and corporate law), LLM from NYU, and LLB from NUS.

• Professional Qualifications: Attorney & Counselor-at-Law (NY), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)

Her research focuses on bridging international legal frameworks with practical arbitration contexts. She contributed multilingual content to the UN Audiovisual Library on International Law, a rare achievement for a single scholar. Prior to academia, she specialized in investor-State disputes at Shearman & Sterling LLP in Paris.

Notable achievements include pioneering placements at the Conseil d’Etat (reserved for foreign judges) and being the first in her faculty to excel at Panthéon-Sorbonne. She teaches Intellectual Property Arbitration and actively contributes to global legal discourse through multilingual academic engagements.