Daniel Seng teaches and researches on information technology law and infocommunications law. Between 2001 and 2003, he was concurrently the Director of Research, Technology Law Development Group at the Singapore Academy of Law. He graduated with firsts from NUS and Oxford, where he received the Rupert Cross Prize in 1994. He received his doctoral degree from Stanford Law School, where he used machine learning, natural language processing and big data techniques to conduct research on copyright takedown notices. While he was at Stanford, he was a non-residential fellow with the Center for Legal Infomatics (CodeX).
Daniel was previously a partner and head of the technology practice at Messrs Rajah & Tann. He was amicus curiae to the Court of Appeal of Singapore in the case of Chwee Kin Keong & Ors v Digilandmall.com Pte Ltd, the leading Singapore case on unilateral mistake in the digital environment. Daniel has presented papers at various local, regional and international conferences and written on evidence, information technology and intellectual property laws. He was a member of various Singapore governmental committees that undertook legislative reforms in information technology and intellectual property laws. He is also an active consultant to the World Intellectual Property Organization, where he has researched, delivered papers and published monographs on copyright exceptions for academic institutions, music copyright in the Asia Pacific and the liability of Internet intermediaries.
Edited Books
Book Chapters
Tan Cheng-Han and Daniel Seng, '
Online Harms in the Metaverse' in Hung-Yi Chen, Pawee Jenweeranon and Nafis Alam (eds),
Global Perspectives in the Metaverse - Law, Economics, and Finance (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) 9
Daniel Seng and Tan Cheng-Han, '
Agency Law and AI' in Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan (eds),
The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press 2024) 250
Daniel Seng, '
Information Intermediaries and AI' in Ernest Lim and Phillip Morgan (eds),
The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence (Cambridge University Press 2024) 384
Daniel Seng, 'Electronic Evidence' in Simon Chesterman, Goh Yihan and Andrew Phang Boon Leong (eds), Law and Technology in Singapore (Academy Publishing 2021)
Daniel Seng, Lim How Khang and Jerrold Soh, 'An Introduction to the Relevant Technologies' in Simon Chesterman, Goh Yihan and Andrew Phang Boon Leong (eds), Law and Technology in Singapore (Academy Publishing 2021)
Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng, 'The Foundations of Evidence in Electronic Form' in Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (eds), Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures (5th edn, University of London Press 2021) 51
Steven J. Murdoch, Daniel Seng, Burkhard Schafer and Stephen Mason, 'The Sources and Characteristics of Electronic Evidence and Artificial Intelligence' in Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (eds), Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures (5th edn, University of London Press 2021) 1
Daniel Seng and Stephen Mason, 'Hearsay' in Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (eds), Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures (University of London Press 2021) 85
Journal Articles
