Daniel Seng

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.

Education

• J.S.M. Stanford Law School (2009 — 2010)
• Bachelor of Civil Law University of Oxford (1993 — 1994)
• LL.B. National University of Singapore (1988 — 1992)

Research interests

• Information technology law
• Infocommunications law
• Competition law
• Intellectual property law
• Banking law
• Evidence and procedure
• Artificial intelligence and legal reasoning
• Empirical legal studies
• Quantitative research
• Machine learning
• Natural language processing

Publications

Edited Books

Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (eds), Electronic Evidence and Electronic Signatures (5th edn, University of London Press 2021)

Book Chapters

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

Daniel Seng, 'Intellectual Property, Information Science and Quantitative Legal Analysis' in Irene Calboli and Maria Lillà Montagnan (eds), Handbook of Intellectual Property Research: Lenses, Methods, and Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2021) 453

Daniel Seng, 'An Empirical Review of the Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Educational Activities' in Shyamkrishna Balganesh, Ng-Loy Wee Loon and Haochen Sun (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Copyright Limitations and Exceptions (Cambridge University Press 2021) 267

Daniel Seng and Shaun Lim, 'Copyright Pluralism or Universalism in the Digital Knowledge Economy in Asia and Australasia' in T E Synodinou (ed), Pluralism or Universalism in International Copyright Law (Wolters Kluwer 2019)

Journal Articles

Daniel Seng, 'Copyrighting Copywrongs - An Empirical Analysis of Errors in Takedown Notices' (2021) 37 (2) Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal 119

Daniel Seng and Stephen Mason, 'Artificial Intelligence and Evidence' (2021) 33 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 241