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Dr Jaclyn Neo

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Work Department

Commercial & Corporate Disputes Practice

Position

Consultant at WongPartnership LLP

Career

Dr Jaclyn NEO is a Consultant in WongPartnership, focusing on administrative law, constitutional law, citizenship law, as well as pro bono employment law issues. Jaclyn has done pro bono legal work for the Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics (H.O.M.E.) and HealthServe, two civil society organisations that promote migrant workers’ rights.

Publications

• Jaclyn has published numerous noteworthy articles in local and international journals, 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 the sole editor of a volume on Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore: Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017), in which leading scholars of constitutional law provide their theoretical insights to recent constitutional developments.
• She also co-edited the Singapore Academy of Law Journal’s first ever special issue on public law (2017).
• In addition, Jaclyn’s scholarship focuses on comparative studies within Asia, and she is a co-editor of Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia (Hart, 2019), and Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges (CUP 2019). Her article on domestic incorporation of international human rights law in a dualist state was awarded the Asian Yearbook of International Law’s DILA International Law Prize.
• Jaclyn’s writing has been cited by the Singapore courts and by the Supreme Court of India.

Languages

English

Memberships

Associate Professor, Law at the National University of Singapore; Member, Singapore Academy of Law’s Law Reform Committee; Member, Law Society’s Public and International Law Committee; Deputy Director, Asian Law Institute (ASLI); Member, Council of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S)

Education

Admitted, Singapore Bar; National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.); Yale Law School (LL.M.)