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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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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.
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...
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...
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...
Regulating Pluralism: Laws on Religious Harmony and Possibilities for Robust Pluralism in Singapore
18 (3) The Review of Faith & International Affairs 1-15 (2020) DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2020.1795414 This article examines the role of...
Regulation of Religious Communities in a Multicultural Polity
in Rex Ahdar (ed.), Research Handbook on Law and Religion (Edward Elgar, 2018) https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/research-handbook-on-law-and-...
Realizing the Right to Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion in ASEAN:
The Limited Normative Force of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration Human Rights Law Review, 2017, 0, 1–23 doi: 10.1093/hrlr/ngx028 This...
Dimensions of Religious Harmony as Constitutional Practice: Beyond State Control
German Law Journal (2019), 20, pp. 966–985 doi: 10.1017/glj.2019.78 This article provides a close analysis of the idea of religious...
Definitional imbroglios: A critique of the definition of religion and essential practice tests
16(2) International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON) 574-595 (2018) DOI: 10.1093/icon/moy055 This article critiques the use of...
Secularism Without Liberalism: Religious Freedom and Secularism in a Non-Liberal State
Michigan State Law Review 333 (2017), available at: https://digitalcommons.law.msu.edu/lr/vol2017/iss2/6 In this article, I engage with...
“Anti-God, anti-Islam and anti-Quran”: Expanding the Range of Participants and Parameters in Discourse over Women’s Rights and Islam in Malaysia (2004) 21 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal 29
Retrievable from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5vm0v01q This article explores the social-political environment within which Islamic...
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