Education
PhD (University of Cambridge);
Maîtrise en Droit (Panthéon-Sorbonne University);
LLM (New York University);
LLB (NUS);
Attorney & Counselor-at-Law (New York),
Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore)
Bar Qualifications
Singapore
New York
Academic Appointments
National University of Singapore
• Member, Faculty Curriculum Committee
• Member, Faculty Search Committee
• Member, Faculty Research Committee
External Appointments
• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
• Member, Executive Council, Asian Society of International Law
• Member, Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law
• Member, UNIDROIT Working Group on Agricultural Land Investment Contracts
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board of the Asian International Arbitration Journal
• Founding Member and Head of Publications, The IEL Collective
Profile and Expertise
Dr. Ho lectures and supervises on diverse aspects of international investment law. The principal areas of her research are the law of State responsibility, the law of treaties, and investment contracts. Dr. Ho is the first academic in the history of the faculty to graduate with honours from l’Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, topping her class in several courses including Droit des Contrats, Droit de la Responsabilité Civile, and Droit des Sociétés. She is also the first Singaporean to be awarded a placement with the Conseil d’Etat in Paris, an honour normally reserved for foreign judges. Prior to academia, Dr. Ho specialised in investor-State disputes at Shearman & Sterling LLP. She is the first person to contribute in English, French, and Mandarin to the United Nations Audiovisual Library on International Law Lecture Series.
Publications:
ARTICLES:
Jean Ho, "The Creation of Elusive Investor Responsibility" (2019) 113 AJIL Unbound 10-15
Jean Ho, "Sanum Investments Ltd v The Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic: Circumstantial Indicia in Treaty Interpretation" (2018) 33(1) ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal 67–73
Jean Ho, "Investment Protection under Successive Treaties" (2017) 32(1) ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal 58-91 Jean Ho, "Unraveling the Lex Causae in Investment Claims" (2014) 15 (3-4) the Journal of World Investment and Trade 757-778.
Jean Ho, "Comparative Law and the Claim of Causation" (2012) 2 Comparative Law Review 1-42 Jean Ho, "The Meaning of 'Investment' in ICSID Arbitrations" (2010) 26(4) Arbitration International 633-648 Jean Ho, "The Evolution of Legal Education in Singapore" (2009) 44(3) Kyung Hee Law Journal 547-557 Page 1 of 3
Jean Ho, "Decoding Singapore's International Arbitration Act" (2008) 24(4) Arbitration International 609-614
BOOKS:
Jean Ho and Mavluda Sattorova eds., Investors’ International Law (Hart, forthcoming 2021)
Jean Ho, State Responsibility for Breaches of Investment Contracts (Cambridge University Press, 2018 (hardback), 2020 (paperback))
Jean Ho, Lim Chin Leng and Martins Paparinskis, International Investment Law and Arbitration: Commentary, Awards and other Materials (Cambridge University Press 2018, 2nd edition forthcoming 2021)
CHAPTERS:
Jean Ho, “Contract claims: Investment arbitration” in Hélène Ruiz Fabri ed., Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2020)
Jean Ho, "The Evolution of Contractual Protection in International Law: Accessing diplomatic archives, discovering diplomatic practice, and constructing diplomatic history" in S Schill, C Tams, R Hofmann eds., International Investment Law and History (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 213-240
Jean Ho, "Interpretation and Application of the New York Convention in Singapore" in G Bermann ed., Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards. Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, vol 23 (New York: Springer, 2017) 813-833
Jean Ho and Lim CL, "International Investment Arbitration" in Tony Carty ed., Oxford Bibliographies in International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016)
Jean Ho, "Internationalization and State Contracts: Are State Contracts the Future or the Past?" in C.L. Lim ed., Alternative Visions in the International Law on Foreign Investment - Essays in Honour of M Sornarajah (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) 377-402
Jean Ho, "Singapore" in Chester Brown ed., Oxford Commentaries on International Law - Commentaries on Selected Model Investment Treaties (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) 623-650
Jean Ho, "The Protection of Foreign investment in Singapore" in Wenhua Shan ed., The Protection of Foreign Investment (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012) 593-616
BOOK REVIEWS:
Jean Ho, Review of "Investment Law within International Law: Integrationist Perspectives" by Freya Baetens ed., (2015) 5(2) Asian Journal of International Law 410-411 Jean Ho, Review of Legal education in Asia (2010) 5 Asian Journal of Comparative Law
BLOG POSTS:
Jean Ho, “Hustling in International Economic Law”, as part of the inaugural IEL Collective Symposium on Afronomicslaw, X February 2020,
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
Jean Ho,"Corporate (Ir)responsibility in International Law" (Paper presented at the 6th Asian Society of International Law Biennial Conference, 25-27 August 2017, Seoul, South Korea)
Jean Ho, "The TPP Cosmos: Investment Protection Under Successive Treaties" (Paper presented at the ICSID 50th Anniversary Symposium, 24 Jun 2016, World Bank, Paris, France)
Jean Ho, “Falsified Evidence in International Litigation” (Paper presented at the NUS Research Seminar Series, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 17 Feb 2016)
Jean Ho, "Against States As Corporations In Investment Contract Arbitration" (Invited paper presented at the American Society of International Law Mid-Year Research Forum, 6 - 8 Nov 2014, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, United States)
Jean Ho, "Comparative Law and The Claim of Causation" (Invited paper presented at the XXI biennale Italian Association of Comparative Law Conference, 9 - 11 Jun 2011, Universita Ca Foscari, Venice, Italy)
Jean Ho, "Socio-Political Aspects of No-Fault Compensation for Medical Injuries" (Invited paper presented at the Society of Legal Scholars Conference, 13-15 Sep 2010, University of Southampton, United Kingdom)
Jean Ho, "Current Issues and Future Tasks for Educating Lawyers in the Age of globalization" (Paper presented at the International Conference, 29-30 Oct 2009, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea)