Jerrold Soh is an Assistant Professor of Law at the Yong Pung How School of Law and was Deputy Director of the SMU Centre for Computational Law from 2021–2025. A DS Lee Foundation fellow, his research integrates computational and empirical methods to study how emerging technologies, particularly artificial intelligence, could be utilised and regulated by law. He leads the Singapore Open Legal Informatics Database project which aims to make high quality statistical data on Singapore’s court decisions, statutes, etc available to international academic researchers, tech developers, and policymakers. His work has appeared in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, Legal Studies, and the Computer Law and Security Review. He serves as Principal Examiner for Law and Technology in the SILE Part B Bar Course and on the Singapore Academy of Law Promotion of Legal Technology & Innovation Committee. He holds an LL.M from Harvard Law School and degrees in law and economics from the National University of Singapore.
Qualifications
- LL.M., Harvard University
- LL.B. (First Class Hons), B.Soc.Sci. (First Class Hons) (Economics) (NUS)
Course Taught in SMU
- Tort Law
- Business Law
Research Areas / Areas of Specialisation
- Empirical Legal Studies
- Law and Economics
- Law and Technology