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View article: Ousting ouster clauses: The Ins and Outs of the Principles Regulating the Scope of Judicial Review in Singapore
Ousting ouster clauses: The Ins and Outs of the Principles Regulating the Scope of Judicial Review in Singapore Open
How a court responds to an ouster clause or other attempts to curb its jurisdiction, which seeks to exclude or limit judicial review over a public law dispute, is a reflection of the judicial perception of its role within a specific consti…
View article: Solidarity in Diversity? State Responses to Religious Diversity in Liberal and Non-Liberal Perspectives
Solidarity in Diversity? State Responses to Religious Diversity in Liberal and Non-Liberal Perspectives Open
This Article introduces the German Law Journal’s Special Issue on “Solidarity in Diversity? State Responses to Religious Diversity in Liberal and Non-Liberal Perspectives”. The major countries in comparative focus are Germany and Singapore…
View article: Irreducible Plurality, Indivisible Unity: Singapore Relational Constitutionalism and Cultivating Harmony Through Constructing a Constitutional Civil Religion
Irreducible Plurality, Indivisible Unity: Singapore Relational Constitutionalism and Cultivating Harmony Through Constructing a Constitutional Civil Religion Open
This Article seeks to explore the nature, function, source, and content of a constitutional civil religion (CCR) within Singapore’s constitutional experiment in managing the diversity of race and religion and promoting solidarity. CCR is c…
View article: Beyond the Four Walls in an Age of Transnational Judicial Conversations Civil Liberties, Rights Theories, and Constitutional Adjudication in Malaysia and Singapore
Beyond the Four Walls in an Age of Transnational Judicial Conversations Civil Liberties, Rights Theories, and Constitutional Adjudication in Malaysia and Singapore Open
The judicial articulation of a “four walls” doctrine as a governing principle of constitutional interpretation, extant in both Malaysia and Singapore, is indicative of a particularized theory of constitutional interpretation that limits th…
View article: Singapore Relational Constitutionalism: The ‘Living Institution’ and the Project of Religious Harmony
Singapore Relational Constitutionalism: The ‘Living Institution’ and the Project of Religious Harmony Open
This article interrogates the nature and workings of relational constitutionalism in the multi-religious secular polity of Singapore, focusing on the project of maintaining ‘religious harmony’. While managing inter-group conflict within ri…
View article: International Law in the Courts of Singapore: No Longer a Little Island?
International Law in the Courts of Singapore: No Longer a Little Island? Open
This article examines the role and scope of international law within the courts of Singapore, 2 a former British colony, and makes comparative references to other common law jurisdictions, where appropriate, to highlight points of converge…
View article: Teaching Constitutional and Administrative Law at NUS: Mission, Materials and Methods 1957-2017
Teaching Constitutional and Administrative Law at NUS: Mission, Materials and Methods 1957-2017 Open
This essay engages pedagogy and teaching philosophy in reviewing how constitutional and administrative law (“CAAL”) has been taught at NUS over the past 60 years, engaging the themes of mission, method and materials. Gone is the time when …