Dian A H Shah is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, where she teaches Constitutional Law and Comparative Law in Asia. She is also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies and the Co-Convenor of the Law and Religion research cluster. Her research interests span the fields of law and religion, comparative constitutional law and politics, and human rights, and her work focuses on the interaction between law and politics in plural and divided societies. She is author of Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia, in addition to various publications in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Constitutional Studies, and Journal of Comparative Law. She is currently working on her second monograph, which examines the fragility of democratic constitutional commitments and political change in Asia’s younger democracies. Outside academia she served as a member of Malaysia’s Consultative Council on Foreign Policy.
Book Chapters
Dian A. H. Shah, 'Iki Putra Mubarrak v Kerajaan Negeri Selangor and Others: Re-defining Religious Federalism in Malaysia?' in Renae Barker, Paul Babie and Neil Foster (eds), Law and Religion in the Commonwealth: The Evolution of Case Law (Hart Publishing 2022)
Dian A H Shah, 'Offences against Religion in Malaysia: Navigating the 'Secular' Federal Constitution and the Salience of Islam in the Constitutional Order' in Thio Li-ann and Jaclyn L Neo (eds), Religious Offences in Common Law Asia: Colonial Legacies, Constitutional Rights and Contemporary Practice (Hart Publishing 2021)
Journal Articles
Dian A. H. Shah, 'Political Change and the Decline and Survival of Constitutional Democracy in Malaysia and Indonesia' (2022) 8 (1) Constitutional Studies 133
