Research Areas
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- Yong Pung How School of Law
- Public Interests Law
- Legal Theory & Philosophy
- Legal Ethics
- Legal Education
- Legal Profession
Tan Seow Hon is a legal philosopher with current research interests in human flourishing, the legal profession, relationships in the digitalized world, and the transformative potential of law to shape societal ethos. She recently completed a project examining Singapore’s narrow mindset of success and how a narrative of flourishing to support new laws and policies can move the nation towards a more salutary and sustainable future. She is currently the principal investigator in a Singapore Academy of Law empirical research project, Staying in the Game, that aims to connect young lawyers’ purpose for their work with professional ethos and help them to actualize this on a day-to-day basis so as to enable a meaningful and sustainable legal career. As a teacher of legal philosophy to law and social science students, she aims to make her classroom a space for students to uncover what they believe about justice, morality, and the meaning of life, and to examine whether their fundamental assumptions stand up to rational scrutiny. Seow Hon’s doctoral thesis, Justice as Friendship, was completed at Harvard Law School.
Qualifications
- SJD, Harvard Law School
- LLM, Harvard Law School
- LLB (First Class Honours), National University of Singapore
- Advocate & Solicitor, Singapore
Courses Taught in SMU
- Legal Theory & Philosophy
- Jurisprudence: Modern and Critical Theories of Law
Research Areas
- Human flourishing
- Changing nature of relationships in a digitalized world
- Professional ethos and sustainability in the legal profession
- Virtue jurisprudence/ethics
- Law and justice