Brief Biodata

VICTOR V. RAMRAJ is an Associate Professor and Vice-Dean (Academic Affairs) in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He has qualifications in law (LLB, Toronto; LLM, Queen’s University Belfast) and philosophy (BA, McGill; MA, PhD, Toronto) and was called to the bar of Ontario in 1995. Before joining the Faculty, he served as a judicial law clerk at the Federal Court of Appeal in Ottawa and as a litigation lawyer in Toronto. His main areas of teaching and research are legal theory, criminal law, constitutional law, and counter-terrorism policy. He is the co-author/co-editor of three books, including Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law (LexisNexis, 2005). His scholarly work has been published in leading international law journals. He has held visiting appointments in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, and at Kyushu University and has presented academic papers to audiences in Canada, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Ireland, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2005-2006, he spent a sabbatical at Queen’s University Belfast as a visiting scholar studying counter-terrorism law and policy. He is currently working on a project on emergencies and the limits of legality.