Name

NEO Ling Chien, Jaclyn
Full C.V.  		  
Designation

Associate Professor 
Qualifications

J.S.D. (Yale), LL.M. (Yale), LL.B. (Hon.)(NUS), Advocate & Solicitor (Singapore) 
Appointment(s)

  • NUS Faculty of Law Center for Asian Legal Studies (CALS), Executive Committee Member
  • NUS Faculty of Law Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, Executive Committee Member
  • NUS Faculty of Law Center for International Law, Associate
Email Address: jaclyn.neo@nus.edu.sg
Office Tel: (65) 6516-3620 
Office Fax: (65) 6779-0979 
Office Address

Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
Eu Tong Sen Building
469G Bukit Timah Road
Singapore 259776
 
Research Interests

Constitutional law, institutions, constitutional theory, constitutional norms
State & religion, constitutional models, religious freedom
Human rights law, women's rights, minority rights, migrant rights 
Subjects Taught

Constitutional and Administrative Law
Comparative State & Religion
Law, Migration, and Citizenship 

Brief Biodata

Jaclyn L. NEO is an Associate Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She specializes in comparative constitutional law, with a focus on Southeast Asia and comparative constitutional law and religion. She was a recipient of two graduate scholarships from NUS under which she completed her Masters of Law (LL.M.) and Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) at Yale Law School.

Jaclyn has published in leading journals in her field, including the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Human Rights Quarterly, and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies. She is also the sole editor of a recently published volume on Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017) and has served as a guest editor for the Singapore Academy of Law Journal, Journal of Law, Religion, and State, as well as the Journal of International and Comparative Law. Her article on domestic incorporation of international human rights law in a dualist state won the Asian Yearbook of International Law’s DILA International Law Prize. In recognition of her research on religious freedom in Southeast Asia, she was awarded the 2017 SHAPE-SEA Research Award.

Jaclyn has delivered papers and lectures by invitation at numerous universities the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Chile, and Vietnam. She has been a visiting researcher at several universities including Frankfurt, Münster, and Leiden, and was most recently a Kathleen Fitzpatrick Visiting Fellow with the prestigious ARC Laureate Project in Comparative Constitutional Law at Melbourne Law School. Jaclyn won the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2017.

Jaclyn currently serves as Deputy Director of the Asian Law Institute (ASLI) at NUS. She also serves on the Singapore Law Society’s Public and International Law Committee and the Singapore Academy of Law’s Law Reform Committee. Jaclyn currently sits on the editorial boards of the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the Asian Yearbook of International Law.
Representative Publications

1. Jaclyn L. Neo, '"All Power Has Legal Limits" – The Principle of Legality as a Constitutional Principle of Judicial Review' (2017) 29 SAcLJ 667.

2. "Realizing the Right to Freedom of Thought, Conscience and Religion: The Limited Normative Force of the ASEAN Human Rights Declaration" (2017) 17(4) Human Rights Law Review 729–751

3. "Secularism without Liberalism: Religious Freedom and Secularism in a Non-Liberal State" (2017) 2 Michigan State Law Review333-370

4. "Secular Constitutionalism in Singapore: Between Equality and Hierarchy" (2016) 5 (3) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 431-456

5. "Incorporating Human Rights: Mitigated Dualism and Interpretation in Malaysian Courts" (2016) 18 Asian Yearbook of International Law (2012 edition) 1-37 (Winner of the DILA International Law Prize for Young Scholars)

6. "Equal Protection and the Reasonable Classification Test in Singapore: After Lim Meng Suang v. Attorney-General" (2016) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 95-117

7. "Seditious in Singapore! Free Speech and the Offence of Promoting Ill-will and Hostility between Different Racial Groups" (2011) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 351-372
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