HighlightsCombines legal scholarship with technological and pedagogical innovation; recognized for impactful research grants, teaching excellence, and leadership in curriculum design; advances fair grading and neurodiversity in higher education; influential in shaping interdisciplinary and digital law education in Singapore.
Focused research areas include Intersections of international/private law with digital technologies; misinformation and algorithmic bias; open-source governance and 'open-washing'; neurodiverse learner pedagogies; fair grading practices; interdisciplinary curriculum innovation.
- Principal Investigator: SMU Technology Enhanced Learning Grant - "Universal Design for Interdisciplinary Learning: An Evaluation of the UDL TPACK Model's Effectiveness for Diverse Student Profiles through a Virtual Reality Simulation of Defamation Laws in a 3D Environment" (S$14,750)(2024-2025).
- Co-Principal Investigator: Ministry of Education Tertiary Education Research Fund, "The Future Is Interdisciplinary: Developing Lifelong Learning Through Singapore Management University's Core Curriculum"(S$165,790) (2025-2027).
- Co-Principal Investigator: National Council of Social Service (NCSS) Ngee Ann Kongsi 360 Panel Study of 1,000 Singapore households to measure time-use and well-being indicators (S$2.227 million)(2020-2025).
- Co-Principal Investigator: NParks Social Research Study on the Management of Cats (S$345,642.91)(2021-2023).
Showing up to 6 latest publications from the past 5 years.
- D SeahHandbook of Blockchain, Digital Finance, and Inclusion, Volume 3, 135-147, 2025
- Journal of Digital Asset, 2023
Daniel Seah is a public international lawyer by training, and examines ASEAN law and emerging technologies, such as misinformation, open-source governance and "open-washing", through an interdisciplinary lens. His research engages ASEAN and Singapore-centric legal developments. Daniel is admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Singapore Supreme Court (2004), and obtained his PhD in Law at UCL (2018).
Daniel has received various teaching excellence awards, including his induction into the Core Curriculum Hall of Fame for Teaching Excellence. In 2025, he was awarded the Educational Research Fellowship to advance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and will lead a two-year mixed-methods research on faculty perceptions of fair grading in neurodiverse classrooms.
Qualifications
- Ph.D., University College London, 2018
- M.Jur., University of Birmingham, 2008
- LL.B., University of Durham, 2001
Research Interests
- Misinformation, deepfakes & ranking algorithms on social media
- Cryptocourts & decentralised dispute resolution
- Open-source governance & "open-washing"
- Social prescription for Singapore seniors through multicultural drum circles
- Educational assessment and neurodiversity
Course(s) Taught in SMU
- Digital Law and Technological Innovations
- Ethics and Social Responsibility
- Singapore: Imagining The Next Fifty Years (SG50)