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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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Making the Singapore Constitution: Amendments as Constitution-Making
14(1) Journal of Comparative Law 72-93 (2019) (with Andrea Ong Hui Xian) This article posits that constitution-making and constitutional...
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...
A Contextual Approach to Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments:
Judicial Power and the Basic Structure Doctrine in Malaysia 15(1) Asian Journal of Comparative Law 69-94 (2020) DOI:...
Malay Nationalism, Islamic Supremacy and the Constitutional Bargain in the Multi-ethnic Composition
International Journal on Minority and Group Rights (2006) 13, pp 95–118 https://doi.org/10.1163/157181106777069950 This article examines...
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...
Change and Continuity: The Constitutional Head of State and Democratic Transitions in Malaysia
Malayan Law Journal (2012) 5, pp. i- xxiv Download a copy here: https://www.academia.edu/1896947/Change_and_Continuity_The_Constitutional...
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...
Free Speech and the Offence of Promoting Ill-will and Hostility between Different Racial Groups
Singapore J. of Legal Studies (2011) pp. 351-372 https://law.nus.edu.sg/sjls/articles/SJLS-Dec11-351.pdf This article examines the use of...
“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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