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Dr. Jaclyn L. Neo
Law Professor
LLB (Hons) (NUS); LLM (Yale); JSD (Yale)
Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law.
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Rediscovering the Constitutional Preamble? How Judges Enlist Preambles to Legitimate Transformative Interpretations
(2025) The American Journal of Comparative Law (with Diego W Arguelhes)
This article examines how constitutional preambles have been employed by courts, regardless of—and often contrary to—their formal legal status and the political expectations of constitution-makers.
Gender Gaps in Legal Education: The Impact of Class Participation Assessments
(2023) 20 (4) Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 1070 (with Kenneth Khoo)
This important article investigates for the first time the presence and nature of a gender gap in one of Asia's leading law schools, the National University of Singapore (“NUS Law”).
What Would a Pluralist Institutional Approach to Constitutional Interpretation Look Like? Some Methodological Implications
20(5) International Journal of Constitutional Law (2022) (with Maartje de Visser) https://doi.org/10.1093/icon/moac112 This article makes...
Constitutionalizing Care: How Can We Expand Our Constitutional Imaginary After Covid-19?
20(3) International Journal of Constitutional Law (2022)
This framing article for a symposium on Covid-19 seeks to address the question of whether constitutional law should be rethought, recalibrated to create a more resilient, more egalitarian, and more protective constitutional order.
Religious Courts and Rights in Plural Societies: Interlegal Gaps and the Need for Complex Concurrency
15(2) Law and Ethics of Human Rights 259-285 (2021)
This article interrogates certain assumptions made about state legal pluralism, arguing that far from being a pseudo-monist arrangement, state legal pluralism are potentially productive site of interlegality.
Religious Minorities in Asia: Between the Scylla of Minority Protection and Charybdis of Religious Freedom Rights?
12(1) Religions 881 (2021)
This article examines an under-theorized intersection of religious freedom and minority protection.
Religious Nationalism and Religious Freedom in Asia: Mapping Regional Trends in a Global Phenomenon
The emerging phenomenon of religious nationalism challenges existing pluralist approaches to constitutional government, which have generally been seen as necessary to ensure peaceful coexistence.
Expanding the Universe of Comparative Constitutional Amendment in Southeast Asia
14(1) Journal of Comparative Law 46-55 (2019)
This introductory article to a special issue on Constitutional Amendment in Southeast Asia centres the region as an essential, yet often overlooked, site for understanding constitutional amendment and constitutional change more broadly.
Autonomy, Deference, and Control: Judicial Doctrine and Facets of Separation of Powers in Singapore
5(2) Journal of International and Comparative Law 461 (2018)
The article posits that courts engage with the principle of separation of powers through multiple and sometimes competing conceptions, each shaping constitutional doctrine in distinct ways.
Religious Freedom and the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration: Prospects and Challenges
14(4) Review of Faith & International Affairs 1-15 (2016) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004379732_002 This article offers a critical...
Incorporating Human Rights: Mitigated Dualism and Interpretation in Malaysian Courts
18 Asian Yearbook of International Law 1-37 (2012) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004379732_002 (Winner of the DILA International Law...
Equal Protection and the Reasonable Classification Test in Singapore: After Lim Meng Suang v AG
Singapore J. of Legal Studies 95-117 (2016) Available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2762132 The realisation of the almost universally...
Secular Constitutionalism in Singapore: Between Equality and Hierarchy
Oxford J. of Law & Religion 431-456 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rww044 The Singapore constitution has often been described and...
Navigating Minority Inclusion & Permanent Division: Minorities & the Depoliticization of Ethnic Diff
Jus Politicum 607-627 (January 2017) Available at: http://juspoliticum.com/article/Navigating-Minority-Inclusion-and-Permanent-Division-M...
All Power Has Legal Limits: The Principle of Legality as a Constitutional Principle of Judicial Rev
29 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 667-689 (2017) Available at: https://journalsonline.academypublishing.org.sg/Journals/Singapore-Acade...
Law and Politics of Freedom of Religion in Comparative Perspective
47(1) University of Western Australia Law Review 1-14 (2020) (with Brett Scharffs) Available at: https://www.law.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets...
State Responses to Religious Diversity in Liberal and Non-Liberal Perspectives
20(7) German Law Journal 941-948 (2019) (with Matthias Roßbach, Li-ann Thio, and Alexander Tischbirek) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2...
State Legal Pluralism and Religious Courts
Semi-Autonomy and Jurisdictional Allocations in Pluri-Legal Arrangements in The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism (Paul Schiff...
Autonomy, Deference and Control: Judicial Doctrine and Facets of Separation of Powers in Singapore
5(2) Journal of International and Comparative Law 2018 This article examines judicial engagement with the idea of separation of powers in...
Unwritten Constitutional Norms: Finding the Singapore Constitution
Law Gazette (May 2019) This article examines the judicial articulation of unwritten constitutional norms in Singapore over the last few...
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