Dr. Jean Ho is Associate Professor of Law and Director of the NUS Law Academy. Prior to joining academia, she practiced investor-State dispute settlement and general international arbitration with Shearman & Sterling LLP. Jean holds law degrees from New York University, l’Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Cambridge University, and is called to the Singapore and New York bars.
Dr. Ho has more than fifteen years of experience practicing, researching, supervising, teaching, and publishing on international economic law. She is a principal co-author of the leading textbook on the field, International Investment Law and Arbitration: Commentary, Awards, and Other Materials, with a forthcoming third edition by Cambridge University Press. Earlier editions of this textbook have been cited with approval by the Colombian Constitutional Court as well as the Singapore Court of Appeal. Her first monograph, State Responsibility for Breaches of Investment Contracts, which is based on her doctoral thesis, is also published by Cambridge University Press, and is synopsized in English, French and Mandarin in the United Nations Audiovisual Library in International Law Lecture Series. Her second monograph, New Property in International Law, was published by Oxford University Press and was nominated for the 2025 European Society of International Law Monograph Prize. Dr. Ho’s other works have appeared in the American Journal of International Law, the British Yearbook of International Law, and the Journal of International Economic Law. In recognition of her expertise, Oxford University Press appointed Dr. Ho Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Economic Law in January 2026 for a five-year term. She was previously nominated by the US State Department as an Expert to the UNIDROIT Working Group on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts and has also been invited by the Singapore government to advise on the reform of the International Arbitration Act. Dr. Ho serves as a reviewer for numerous manuscripts submitted to leading academic journals and leading university and independent presses and has been invited to speak at prominent international conferences. Concurrently with her role in academia, Dr. Ho acts as arbitrator in commercial disputes and as counsel in investor-State disputes.
