Thio Li-Ann

Thio Li-ann (张黎衍; 張黎衍, Zhāng Lí Yǎn; born 10 March 1968) is a Singaporean law professor at the National University of Singapore. She was educated at the University of Oxford, Harvard Law School and the University of Cambridge. In January 2007, she was appointed a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) in Singapore's 11th Parliament.

Early life and education

Thio Li-ann was born in Singapore on 10 March 1968. Her mother is Dr. Thio (née Huang) Su Mien, former Dean of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and presently Senior Executive Director of TSMP Law Corporation; her brother, Thio Shen Yi, is Joint Managing Director of the same law firm.

Thio was educated at the Singapore Chinese Girls' School (1975–1984) and Hwa Chong Junior College (1984–1986), at the latter on a Humanities Award from the Ministry of Education. She took a Bachelor of Arts (B.A. (Hons.)) in Jurisprudence at Keble College, Oxford between 1987 and 1990. At Oxford she was awarded the Law Moderations Book Prize (Constitutional Law, Criminal Law and Roman Law) in 1988. She was called to the Bar as a barrister at Gray's Inn in 1991.

Career as law academic

Thio joined the Faculty of Law of the NUS as a Senior Tutor in 1991, and was appointed Lecturer in 1992. That same year she embarked on postgraduate law studies at Harvard Law School on a National University of Singapore Overseas Graduate Scholarship, and obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in 1993. She returned to NUS, where in 1997 she was appointed an Assistant Professor. Between 1997 and 2000 she carried out Ph.D. research at the University of Cambridge on another NUS Overseas Graduate Scholarship, and was duly conferred this degree in 2000. Her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled Managing Babel: The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the Twentieth Century, was subsequently published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers in 2005. In June 2000 she was appointed an Associate Professor, and achieved the rank of full Professor in July 2006. Her research interests are the following:

• Constitutionalism and human rights in Asia.
• Domestic and comparative perspectives of constitutional law and administrative law.
• International human rights law and the rights of peoples.
• Law and religion.
• Public international law, its history and theory.

Thio was Young Asian Scholar at the Melbourne University Law School in 1997, was ranked as an NUS Excellent Teacher in 2001–2002 and 2002–2003, and was given a Young Researcher Award by NUS in 2004. In March 2006, she was a Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong, where she was one of the academics teaching a course on "National Protection of Human Rights". In September of that year she returned to the University of Melbourne as a Senior Fellow of its Graduate Law Programme to teach a course entitled "Constitutionalism in Asian Societies".

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Thio speaking at a Human Rights Day seminar organized by the European Union Delegation to Singapore in December 2014

Thio served as Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law between 2000 and 2003, and since 2005 has been General Editor of the Asian Yearbook of International Law. She is also on the editorial or advisory boards of the Singapore Yearbook of International Law, the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (since 2003), the University of Bologna Law Review (since 2016), and Human Rights & International Legal Discourse (since 2006), and is Corresponding Editor (Singapore) for Blaustein & Flanz's Constitutions of the Countries of the World (since 2001) and the International Journal of Constitutional Law (since 2001). Since 2001 she has also been a contributor on constitutional and administrative law to the Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases.

Thio appeared as an expert witness before the Federal Court of Australia in the extradition of Michael McCrea to Singapore to stand trial for murder (2003), and as a consultant to a delegation of the House of Representatives of Japan (30 September 2002) and to the University of Warwick on academic freedom issues (2005).

Thio, in her current tenure as NUS Constitutional and Administrative Law Professor, provides lecture as part of the module's syllabus. Her students have noted her flamboyant and expressive teaching style, in particular she is known to speak with a cadence and "a polished English voice with local Singaporean identity". Other relevant information may include her informal, lively, academic and intellectual camaraderie with colleague and Adjunct Professor Kevin YL Tan, given their long-standing history together.

Term as Nominated Member of Parliament

Template:Original research Template:Weasel From 18 January 2007, Thio was appointed a Nominated Member of Parliament of the 11th Session of the Parliament of Singapore for a two-and-a-half-year term.

In October 2007, the Parliament of Singapore reviewed the Penal Code. In the course of doing so, it decided not to repeal section 377A of the Code and thus continued to criminalise sexual activity between males. In the course of the debate in Parliament, Thio gave a speech to support the continued criminalisation of sexual activity between males, and likened gay sex to "shoving a straw up your nose to drink." She claimed to have support from a majority of Singaporeans, and stated she spoke "at the risk of being burned at the stake by militant activists." At the same time, Thio mentioned the existence of an active gay agenda that seeks to lobby the government and radically change sexual norms.

The Internet subsequently saw a flood of websites heavily rebutting Thio's speech, most of which focused on her lurid straw-up-the-nose analogy. Local journalist Janadas Devan, in a feature article in The Straits Times on 27 October, titled "377A debate and the rewriting of pluralism", the pointed out that the speech was heavily laced with phrases and imagery from the Dominionist movement. Another Straits Times writer, Chua Mui Hoong, also wrote an article titled "Rules of Engagement for God and Politics" on 16 November 2007. In it, Chua acknowledged Thio's position in her speech that secularism could challenge religion. However, Chua disagreed that religion has been antagonised in Singapore, and encouraged that specific explanation be given as to how the repeal of a law would in reality harm the Singaporean society.

Thio's speech also drew the criticism of Michael Kirby, then a judge of the High Court of Australia, who referenced it in a speech he delivered in Brisbane on 16 November 2007. The content of his speech was subsequently published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 19 November 2007.

During the debate, Thio revealed that playwright Alfian Sa'at had sent her a short email saying, among other things, that "I hope I outlive you long enough to see the repeal of 377A and on that day I will piss on your grave." Sa'at later took responsibility for the email, saying it was sent in a moment of folly in response to the rumour that Thio had called the police to complain about a "Pink Picnic" some members of the gay community were organising in the Botanic Gardens. Thio later denied the allegation, and Sa'at apologised. Subsequently, in November 2007, Thio was alerted by the media to an anonymous threatening letter addressed to her stating: "We know where you work, we'll send people there to hunt you down". Thio made a police report the same day.

Question regarding support from the majority

Thio's strong position towards retaining the code drew much protest from some Singaporeans. Two issues were constantly raised. The first issue was the question of the real existence of a majority against repeal of the code. The second issue was the question of whether a stance against homosexual behavior would equate to wanting a code to criminalize the act of sodomy. Concerns were also raised by a law professor on whether it was realistically possible to enforce such a code, whether it would lead to dangers of entrapment, and whether the informal position of the government not to enforce the code would reverse overnight.

At the same time, an alleged email also surfaced during the course of discussion, in which Senior Pastor Derek Hong of Church of Our Saviour, Singapore, supposedly encouraged acquaintances to lobby the government to decide against repealing the code. The email contains a suggested format of writing, which could be found repeated heavily in actual letters to The Straits Times and reach.gov.sg, the Singaporean government online feedback website. The content of the alleged email is strongly similar to an earlier one sent in 2003 by Cornerstone Community Church. Neither Hong nor his church has issued any statement on this matter.

NYU Law School controversy

Thio was to be a visiting human rights professor at New York University School of Law in the fall of 2009 until she withdrew her acceptance in July 2009. Many noted the irony in her appointment, and prompted calls for condemnation of her "anti-gay hate speech" before Parliament. The University's gay and lesbian law student group, NYU OUTLaw, released a statement calling for the condemnation.

NYU Law School's Dean Richard Revesz issued a memorandum stating "the Law School categorically rejects the point of view expressed in Professor Thio's speech, as evidenced by our early and longstanding commitment to end discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation." Students at NYU Law School have issued statements as well.

Thio then sent an 18-point defense memo to the entire NYU Law faculty. On 22 July 2009, she informed the school of her withdrawal from the appointment, citing hostility by its community towards her views and low enrollment. It was reported that only 9 students applied for her course on Human Rights and 5 for her another course on Constitutionalism.

Personal life

Daughter of Thio Su Mien

Thio's father is Thio Gim Hock and her brother is senior counsel Thio Shen Yi. Her maternal grandfather is Reverend Huang Yang Ying, first principal of Anglican High School. Her mother is Dr. (Mrs.) Thio Su Mien, who was formerly the Dean of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore, and is now in private practice. Dr. Thio Su Mien came to the attention of the Singaporean public in 2003 when she sent a letter to The Straits Times stating her strong disagreement with homosexuality. The letter, signed by eight persons, was in response to a speech by the then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong in which he mentioned that the Civil Service would not discriminate against employing homosexual individuals. On 9 February 2006, Dr Thio Su Mien also wrote another letter to The Straits Times which, amongst other things, stated her belief that the American Psychiatric Association had ceased to regard homosexuality as a mental disorder due to "pressure tactics from homosexual activists — including riots and disruptions of APA meetings".

AWARE Takeover by Thio Su Mien

Main article: AWARE saga

In 2009, a group of conservative Christian women from the Church of Our Savior, under the leadership of Josie Lau and orchestrated by Dr Thio Su Mien, took over the executive council of the group alleging AWARE, a non-governmental organization in Singapore concerned with promoting gender equality. 6 of the 11 newly elected executive committee were church members who had only joined the group 3 months prior to the election, and 80 of the 120 attendees of the meeting were similarly new members from the church. The old guard called for a no-confidence vote and the new council was voted out of office on 2 May 2009. Of the 2,175 people who voted at the meeting, 1,414 voted for the no-confidence. Deputy Prime minister Wong Kan Seng commented that "a group of conservative Christians, all attending the same church, which held strong views on homosexuality, had moved in and taken over AWARE because they disapproved of what AWARE had been doing", and called for tolerance, cautioning that religion and politics must be kept separate.

On May 26, 2009, during Thio Li Ann's first speech in parliament since the event, Thio Li-Ann accused the local press of biased reporting on the events surrounding the attempted takeover. Han Fook Kwang, then editor of the Straits Times, responded in an editorial and expressed his sadness at the vindictiveness of "critics and the length to which they are prepared to go to attack our professionalism" and integrity, detailing the sequence of events and how their journalists had investigated and reported on the proceedings.

Religious affiliation

Though she has never relied upon her religion as a basis for argument during her term as an NMP, Thio is a Christian. In an interview with the local daily The Straits Times on 2 November 2007, Thio shared her personal story of how she converted from a "very, very arrogant" atheist to a Christian in 1987. Having entered Oxford University to read jurisprudence, she attended a Christian Union talk then and claimed to be "stopped" by a voice.

"I basically had a sense that God was talking to me. I had stood up to walk out and I heard someone say, 'Stop'. And no one was around me. Everybody was busy doing their own thing. I was one of only one or two Chinese girls in this whole room of ang mohs. And then I just had the sense that I had encountered God, that he knew my name and I was shocked." Thio was quoted as saying in the interview.

She added, "'I don't know what right wing is. This is funny because I was always considered a political leftie and now I'm a rightie."

Selected works

ARTICLES

Thio Li-ann, "Singapore Relational Constitutionalism: The 'Living Institution' and the Project of Religious Harmony" [2019] Sing JLS 204-234

Thio Li-ann, “Irreducible plurality, indivisible unity: Singapore Relational Constitutionalism and cultivating harmony through constructing a constitutional civil religion” (2019) 16(3) German Law Journal 171

Jaclyn L Neo, Matthias Roßbach, Thio Li-ann and Alexander Tischbirek, “Solidarity in Diversity? State Responses to Religious Diversity in Liberal and Non-Liberal Perspectives” (2019) 20(7) German Law Journal p941-948

Thio Li-ann and Kevin YL Tan, "Teaching Constitutional and Administrative Law at NUS: Mission, Materials and Methods 1957-2017" (2017) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 239-257

Thio Li-ann, “International Law in National Courts: Still a Little Island?” (2017) 19 Asian Yearbook of International Law 63

Thio Li-ann, “Rule of law, religious liberty, and harmony: Multiculturalism, legal pluralism, and the Singapore model of accommodative secularism” (2017) 5(3) Journal of Law, Religion and State 254-291

Thio Li-ann, "Between Apology and Apogee, Autochthony: The Rule of Law beyond the rules of law in Singapore" (2012) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 269-297

Thio Li-ann, “Relational Constitutionalism and the Management of Religious Disputes: The Singapore 'Secularism with a Soul' Model” (2012) 1(2) Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 446-469

Thio Li-ann, “Caesar, Conscience and Conversion: Constitutional Secularism and the Regulation of Religious Profession and Propagation in Asian States” (2011) Fides et Libertas: The Journal of the International Religious Liberty Association 127-159

Thio Li-ann, "Contentious Liberty: Regulating Religious Propagation in a Religiously Diverse Secular Democracy" (2010) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 484-515

Thio Li-ann, "It is a Little Known Legal Fact": Originalism, Customary Human Rights Law and Constitutional Interpretation - Yong Vui Kong v Public Prosecutor" (2010) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 558-570

Thio Li-ann, "Soft Constitutional Law in non-liberal Asian Constitutional Democracies" (2010) 8(4) International Journal of Constitutional Law 766-799

Thio Li-ann, "The Cooperation of Religion and State in Singapore: A Compassionate Partnership in Service of Welfare" (2010) 7(3) Review of Faith & International Affairs 33-45

Thio Li-ann, "Westminster Constitutions and Implied Fundamental Rights: Excavating an Implicit Constitutional Right to Vote" (2009), Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, 406-434

Thio Li-ann, "Reception and Resistance: Globalisation, International Law and the Singapore Constitution" (2009) 4(3) National Taiwan University Law Review 335-386

Thio Li-ann, "Between Eden and Armageddon: Navigating 'Religion' and 'Politics' in Singapore" (2009) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 365-405

Thio Li-ann, "Constitutional Accommodation of the Rights of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Plural Democracies: Lessons and Cautionary Tales from South-East Asia" (2009) 22 Pace International Law Review 43

Thio Li-ann, "Courting Religion: The Judge between Caesar and God in Asian Courts" (2009) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 52-79

Thio Li-ann, "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 60: Universality, Indivisibility and the Three Generations of Human Rights" (2009) 21 Singapore Academy of Law Journal, 293

Thio Li-ann, "The Historical Origins and Contemporary Evolution of International Human Rights Law: Retrospect and Prospect" (2009) 21 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 261

Thio Li-ann, "Singapore Human Rights Practice and Legal Policy: Of Pragmatism and Principle, Rights, Rhetoric and Realism" (2009) 21 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 326

Thio Li-ann, "Reading Rights Rightly: The UDHR and its Creeping Influence on the Development of Singapore Public Law" (2008) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 264-291

Thio Li-ann, "The Virtual and the Real: Article 14, Political Speech and the Calibrated Management of Deliberative Democracy in Singapore" (2008) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 25-57

Thio Li-ann, " Singapore: (S)electing the president-diluting democracy?" (2007) 5(3) International Journal of Constitutional Law 526 - 543

Thio Li-ann, "Human Rights and the Charter of ASEAN'" (2007) Asian Yearbook of International Law

Thio Li-ann, "Judges and Religious Questions: Adjudicating Claims to Wear Religious Dress in Public Schools" (2007) 2(3) Journal of Religion and Human Rights 119-148

Thio Li-ann, "Panacea, Placebo or Pawn? The Teething Problems of the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia Suhakam" (2007) George Washington International Law Review 1271-1342

Thio Li-ann and Jaclyn Neo, "`Religious Dress in Schools: The Serban Controversy in Malaysia" (2006) 55(3) International & Comparative Law Quarterly 671- 688

Thio Li-ann, "Apostasy and Religious Freedom: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Lina Joy Litigation" (April 2006) Malayan Law Journal

Thio Li-ann, "School Dress Codes, Religious Freedom and Human Rights: The Jilbab Case" (2006) 121 Law Quarterly Review 572

Thio Li-ann, "`Beyond the Four Walls? In an Age of Transnational Judicial Conversations: Civil Liberties, Rights

Theories and Constitutional Adjudication in Malaysia and Singapore?" (2005) 19(2) Columbia Journal of Asian Law 428- 518

Thio Li-ann, "`Facilitating Independent Inquiry, Critical Thinking and Writing: An Integrated Teaching Methodology applied in Human Rights Education? (2005) 12 International Journal of Learning

Thio Li-ann, "Control, Co-optation and Co-Operating: Managing Religious Harmony in Singapore's Multi Ethnic, Quasi Secular State" (2005) 35(2) Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 197- 253

Thio Li-ann, "Constitutional 'Soft' Law and the Management of Religious Liberty and Order: The 2003 Declaration on Religious Harmony" (2004) Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 414- 443

Thio Li-ann, "Pragmatism and Realism do not Mean Abdication: A Critical Inquiry into Singapore's Engagement with International Human Rights Law" (2004) 8 Singapore Year Book of International Law 41- 91

Thio Li-ann, "The Death Penalty as Cruel and Inhuman Punishment before the Singapore High Court? Customary Human Rights Norms, Constitutional Formalism and the Supremacy of Domestic Law in PP v Nguyen Tuong Van (2004)" (Winter 2004) 4(2) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 213-226

Thio Li-ann, "Developing a 'Peace and Security' Approach Towards Minorities' Issues" (2003) 52(1) International Commercial Law Quarterly 115- 150

Thio Li-ann, "English Public Policy, the Act of State Doctrine and Flagrant Violations of Fundamental International Law: Kuwait Airways Corp v Iraqi Airways Company (2002)" (2003) 18 Connecticut Journal of International Law 585

Thio Li-ann, "Pretensions, Tensions and Post Tension Rapprochement? Challenges to the Universality of Human Rights" (2003) 1 Shandong University Law Review

Thio Li-ann, "Singapore: Regulating Political Speech and the Commitment "to Build a Democratic Society" (2003) 1(3) International Journal of Constitutional Law 516-524.

Thio Li-ann, "Speakers Cornered? Managing Political Speech in Singapore and the Commitment 'To Build a Democratic Society' (2003) 3 International Constitutional Law Journal 516- 524

Thio Li-ann, "Battling Balkanization: Regional Approaches Towards Minority Protection Beyond Europe" (2002) 43(2) Harvard International Law Journal 409-468.

Thio Li-ann, "Recent Constitutional Developments: of Shadows and Whips, Race, Rifts and Rights, Terror and Tudungs, Women and Wrongs" [2002] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 328-373.

Thio Li-ann, "The Right to Political Participation in Singapore: Tailor-making a Westminster-modelled Constitution to Fit the Imperatives of 'Asian' Democracy" (2002) 6 Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law 181-243

Thio Li-ann, “Lex Rex or Rex Lex: Competing Conceptions of the Rule of Law in Singapore” (2002) 20 UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal 1

Thio Li-ann, "Formalism, Pragmatism and Critical Theory: Reflections on Constructing an International Law Curriculum in a New (post-colonial) Asia" (2001) 5(2) Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law 237-254.

Thio Li-ann, "Resurgent Nationalism and the Minorities Problem: the United Nations & Post Cold War Developments" (2000) 4 Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law 300-361.

Thio Li-ann, "Implementing Human Rights in ASEAN countries: Promises to Keep and Miles to go before I Sleep" (1999) 2 Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal 1-86.

Thio Li-ann and K.Y.L. Tan, "Country report: Singapore 1996" [1998] Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook 317-335

Thio Li-ann, "An "I" for an "I": Singapore's communitarian model of constitutional adjudication" (1997) 27(2) Hong Kong Law Journal 152-186.

Thio Li-ann, "Country Report: Singapore 1995" [1997] Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook 233-266.

Thio Li-ann, "Human Rights & Asian Values: at the Periphery of EU-ASEAN Relations?" (1997) 5(2) Journal of European Studies 27-70.

Thio Li-ann, "The Impact of Internationalisation on Domestic Governance: the Transformative Potential of CEDAW" (1997) 1 Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law 248-350.

Thio Li-ann, "Trends in Constitutional Interpretation: oppugning Ong awakening Arumugam" [1997] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 240-290.

Thio Li-ann and K.Y.L. Tan, "Country Report: Singapore 1994" [1996] Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook 207-223

Thio Li-ann and K.Y.L. Tan, "Country report: Singapore 1993" [1995] Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook 191-242

Thio Li-ann, "The Secular Trumps the Sacred" (1995) 16 Singapore Law Review 26-103.

Thio Li-ann, "Working out the Presidency: the Rites of Passage" [1995] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 509-557.

Thio Li-ann, "The Post-colonial Constitutional Evolution of the Singapore Legislature" [1993] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 80-122

CHAPTERS

Thio Li-ann, “Courts and Judicial Review” in Peter Cane, Peter Lindseth, Eric Ip and Herwig Hofmann (eds), Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law (United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)

Thio Li-ann, “Ambivalence, Accommodation, Antipathy and Anxiety: Religion and Singapore's Secular Democratic Order” in Vidhu Verma (ed) and Series edited by Aakash Singh Rathore., Secularism, Religion, and Democracy in Southeast Asia (Oxford University Press, 2020) 54-87

Thio Li-ann, “Human Dignity and Relational Constitutionalism in Singapore” In Jimmy Hsu ed., Human Dignity in Asia (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)

Thio Li-ann, “Constitutionalism in Asia” in David Law ed., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law (United Kingdom, OUP, forthcoming)

Thio Li-ann, “Past Imperfect, Future Tense: The Elected Presidency and the Constitutional Development of an Ever Evolving Hybrid” in Jaclyn Neo and Swati Jhaveri eds., Constitutional Change in Singapore: Reforming the Elected Presidency (Routledge, 2019)

Thio Li-ann and Kevin YL Tan, "Singapore" in Simon Chesterman, Hisashi Owada, and Ben Saul eds., The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Asia and the Pacific (Oxford University Press, 2019)

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2018) 19 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-31

Thio Li-ann, "Principled Pluralism, Relational Constitutionalism and Regulating Religion within Singapore’s Secular Democratic Model" in Jaclyn Neo, Arif A Jamal & Daniel P.S. Goh eds., Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges (Cambridge University Press, 2019) 119-145

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2017) 18 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-36

Thio Li-ann, "Human Rights in Asia" in Shiping Hua ed., Routledge Handbook of Politics in Asia (Routledge 2018) 373-390

Thio Li-ann, “Freedom of Religious Conscience and Persuasion: International Law and Perspectives from Asia” in Brett Scharffs, Asher Maoz and Ashley Woolley eds., Religious Freedom and the Law: Emerging Contexts for Freedom for and from Religion (Routledge, 2018) 196-216

Thio Li-ann, "Justice Chao Hick Tin and Public International Law – Cosmopolitan Outlook, National Sensibilities" in A Phang & Goh YH eds., A Judge for the Ages - Essays in Honour of Justice Chao Hick Tin (Academy Publishing, 2017) 309-360

Thio Li-ann, “Cultivating Coexistence through Control and Cooperation: The Singapore 'Secularism with a Soul' Model of Regulating Religious Freedom and Maintaining Religious Harmony” in H Glaser ed., Political and Religious Communities - Partners, Competitors, or Aliens (Baden-Baden Nomos, 2017)

Thio Li-ann, “International Law in the Courts of Singapore: Still A Little Island” in Seokwoo Lee and Hee Eun Lee eds, Asian Yearbook of International Law vol 19 (Brill, 2017) 1-63

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2016) 17 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-50

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2015) 16 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-61

Thio Li-ann, "Principled Pragmatism and the 'Third Wave' of Communitarian Judicial Review in Singapore" in Jaclyn L Neo ed., Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore Theory and Practice (Oxford: Routledge, 2016) 49-68

Thio Li-ann, “Constitutionalism and Religious Diversity in Singapore: A via media Between Principle and Pragmatism?” In Henning Glaser (ed), Norms, Interests, and Values: Conflict and Consent in the Constitutional Basic Order (Germany: Baden-Baden Nomos, 2015) 197-236

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2014) 13 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2013) 14 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-55

Thio Li-ann, "Constitutional Law" in Tang Hang Wu and Michael Hor eds., Reading Law in Singapore, 2nd ed. (Singapore: Lexis Nexis, 2014)

Thio Li-ann, "We are feeling our way forward, step by step: The Continuing Singapore Experiment in the Construction of Communitarian Constitutionalism in the 21st Century's First Decade" in Albert HY Chen, ed, Constitutionalism in Asia in the Early Twenty-First Century (Cambridge University Press, 2014) 270-294

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2012) 13 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-44

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2011) 12 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-25

Thio Li-ann, "Constitutionalism in Illiberal Polities” in Michel Rosenfeld, Andras Sajo eds., Oxford Handbook on Comparative Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2012) 133-152

Thio Li-ann, "The Chan Court and Constitutional Adjudication: 'A Sea Change into Something Rich and Strange'" in Judges Chao Hick Tim, Andrew Phang, VK Rajah and Yeo Tiong Min eds., The Law in His Hands: A Tribute to Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong (Academy Publishing, 2010) 87-119

Thio Li-ann, “A Bill of Rights without a ‘Rights culture’? Fundamental Liberties and Constitutional Adjudication in Singapore’ in Mahendra Pal Singh ed., Comparative Constitutional Law: A Feshshrift in honour of Professor P.K. Tripathi (India: Eastern Book Co., 2011)

Thio Li-ann, “The Theory and Practice of Judicial Review of Administrative Action in Singapore: Trends and Perspectives” in Yeo Tiong Min, Hans Tjio, Tang Hang Wu eds., SAL Conference 2011: Developments in Singapore Law between 2006 and 2010 – Trends and Perspectives (Academy Press, 2011) 714-752

Thio Li-ann, ““More matter, with less art": Human rights and human development in Singapore” in Terence Chong ed., Management of Success: Singapore Revisited (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010) 355-383

Thio Li-ann, "Designing a Legislative Body, Representation and Accountability Issues, with reference to Nepal" in B Adhikari ed., Nepal: Design options for the New Foundation (Kathmandu: Nepal Constitution Foundation, 2010)

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2010) 11 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-43

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2009) 10 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-37

Thio Li-ann, “Constitutional Law” in HW Tang and M Hor eds., Reading Law in Singapore (Singapore: LexisNexis, 2009) 73-83

Thio Li-ann, "Protecting Rights" in Li-ann Thio & Kevin YL Tan eds., The Evolution of a Revolution: Forty Years of the Singapore Constitution (Routledge Cavendish, 2009) 193-233

Thio Li-ann, "In search of the Singapore Constitution: Retrospect and prospect" in Li-ann Thio & Kevin YL Tan eds., Evolution of a Revolution: Forty Years of the Singapore Constitution (Routledge Cavendish, 2009) 323-360

Thio Li-ann, "The Passage of a Generation: Revisiting the 1966 Constitutional Commission" Li-ann Thio & Kevin YL Ta eds., Evolution of a Revolution: Forty Years of the Singapore Constitution (Routledge Cavendish, 2009) 7-49

Thio Li-ann and Gay McDougall, "The United Nations Working Group on Minorities" in Kristin Henrard & Robert Dunbar,ed., Synergies in Minority Protection: European and International Law Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2009) 46-87

Thio Li-ann, “Neither Fish nor Fowl: Town Councils, Community Development Councils and the Cultivation of Local Government/Governance” in Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione Locale eds., Local Government in Asian Countries (Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione Locale, 2009) (translated into Italian)

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2008) 9 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-53

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2007) 8 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-22

Thio Li-ann, "'Singapore: The Indigenisation of a Westminster Import'" Clauspeter Hill & Jorg Mezel eds. in Constitutionalism in Southeast Asia Reports on National Constitutions, Volume 2, (Singapore: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2008).

Thio Li-ann, "Neither Fish nor Fowl: Town Councils, Community Development Councils and the Cultivation of Local Government/Governance" in Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione Locale eds., Local Government in Asian Countries (Scuola Superiore della Pubblica Amministrazione Locale, 2007)

Thio Li-ann, "'Jurisdictional Imbroglio: Civil and Religious Courts, Turf Wars and Article 121(1A) of the Federal Constitution" in Andrew Harding & HP Lee eds., Constitutional Landmarks in Malaysia (Malaysia: Malayan Law Journal, 2007).

Thio Li-ann, "Taking Rights Seriously? Human Rights Law in Singapore " in Randall Pereenboom, Carole Petersen, Albert Chen, eds., The Rights of Asians Today: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Countries, France and the USA (United Kingdom: Routledge Curzon, 2006) 158-190

Thio Li-ann, "Religion in the Public Square: Wall of Division or Public Square'" in Bryan S Turner ed., Religious Pluralism and Civil Society: A Comparative Analysis (UK: Bardwell, 2007).

Thio Li-ann, "International Law and Secession in the Asia Pacific Region" in Marcelo G Kohen, ed., Secession: International Law Perspectives (UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006) 297-354

Thio Li-ann, "She's a Woman, but she Acts Very Fast: Women, Religion and Law in Singapore" in Carolyn Evans & Amanda Whiting, eds., Mixed Blessing: Laws, Religions, and Women's Rights in the Asia Pacific Region (Brill: Martinus Nijhoff, 2006) 241-277

Thio Li-ann, "Taking Development Seriously: Beyond the Statist Rhetoric of the Human Right to Development in ASEAN States?" in DK Srivastava & C Raj Kumar, eds., Human Rights and Development: Approaches to the Reform of Governance in Asia (Hong Kong: Butterworths Lexis Nexis, 2006)

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2006) 7 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-38

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2005) 6 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-38

Thio Li-ann, "Beyond the Four Walls in an Age of Transnational Judicial Conversations: Civil Liberties, Rights Theories and Constitutional Adjudication in Malaysia and Singapore?" in Sung Nak In ed., Constitutionalism and Constitutional Adjudication in Asia (South Korea: College of Law: Seoul National University & Korea Legislation Research Institute, 2005) 391-482

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2004) 5 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-21

Thio Li-ann, "Administrative and Constitutional Law" (2003) 4 Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review of Singapore Cases 1-12

Thio Li-ann, "The Rule of Law within a Non Liberal Illiberal 'Communitarian' Democracy: The Singapore Experience" in Randall Peerenboom, ed., Asian Discourses of Rule of Laws: Theories and Implementation of Rule of Law in Twelve Asian Countries with Comparisons to France and the U.S. (London/New York: Routledge Curzon, 2004) 183-224

Thio Li-ann, "Singapore: Introductory Notes" in A.P. Blaustein & G.H. Flanz, eds., Constitutions of the Countries of the World (Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 2001) v-viii.

Thio Li-ann, "The Secular Trumps the Sacred: Constitutional Issues Arising from Colin Chan v Public Prosecutor" in G. Rodan ed., International Library of Social Change in Asia Pacific, (Aldershot/Burlington, U.S./Singapore/Sydney: Ashgate Press, 2001) 135-214

Thio Li-ann, "`The Constitutional Framework of Powers' in `The Singapore Legal System'" in K.Y.L. Tan ed., The Singapore Legal System, 2nd ed., (Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1999).

Thio Li-ann, "Law and the Administrative State" in K.Y.L. Tan, ed., The Singapore Legal System, 2nd ed., Singapore: Singapore University Press, 1998).

Thio Li-ann, "Choosing Representatives: Singapore does it Her Way" in Hassall & Saunders ed., The People's Representatives: Electoral Systems in the Asia-Pacific Region, 1st ed., (Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1997) 38-59.

Thio Li-ann, "The Elected President & Legal Control: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodies" in K.Y.L. Tan & P.E. Lam, eds., Managing Political Change: The Elected Presidency of Singapore, 1st ed., (New York: Routledge, 1997) 100-143.

Thio Li-ann, "Singapore Country Report: Human Rights and the Media" in Robert Haas, ed., Democracy, Human Rights & The Media, 1st ed., (Singapore: Asian Institute for Development Communication, 1996).

BOOKS

Thio Li-ann and Igno Venzke, The Internal Effect of ASEAN External Relations and its impact on the legal order of ASEAN; Integration through Law: The Role of Law and the Rule of Law in ASEAN Integration (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Thio Li-ann and Kevin YL Tan, Singapore: 50 Constitutional Moments that Defined a Nation (Marshall Cavendish, 2015)

Thio Li-ann, Singapore Chronicles – Presidency (Straits Times Press, 2015)

Thio Li-ann, Wen-Chen Chang, Kevin YL Tan & Jiunn-rong Yeh, Constitutionalism in Asia: Cases and Materials (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014)

Thio Li-ann, A Treatise on Singapore Constitutional Law (Singapore: Academy Publishing, 2012)

Thio Li-ann and K.Y.L. Tan, Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore 3rd ed. (Singapore: Lexis Nexis, 2010)

Thio Li-ann, Managing Babel: The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the 20th Century (Brill – Nijhoff, 2005)

Thio Li-ann and K.Y.L Tan, Tan, Yeo & Lee's Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore, 2nd ed. (Singapore: Butterworths Asia, 1997)

BOOKS EDITED

Thio Li-ann and Kevin Y L Tan (eds), Constitutional and Administrative Law in Singapore, 4th ed (Singapore: Academy Publishing, forthcoming), 4th ed, Thio Li-ann and Kevin Y L Tan (eds), The Evolution of a Revolution: 40 Years of the Singapore Constitution (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009)

BOOK REVIEWS

Thio Li-ann, Review of "Minority Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Analysis" by Castellino & Redondo eds. (2007) 13 Asian Yearbook of International Law 319-321

JOURNALS EDITED (only current appointments, excluding referee)

Thio Li-ann (Chief Editor), Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (2014 – present)

Advisory Board Member, University of Bologna Law Review (2016-)

Advisory Board Member, Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (from 2015)

Editor, Indonesian Journal of International Law (From 2014)

Advisory Board Member, New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (From 2013)

International Advisory Board member, City University of Hong Kong Law review (from 2009)

Advisory Board Member, Australian Journal of Asian Law (from 2008)

Editor, National Taiwan University Law Review (from 2008)

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Theoretical Foundations for Asian Constitutionalism: Singapore”, Conference on Multiple Aspects of Constitutionalism - Asian “Contexts” and its Logic, 25-26 Jan 2020, Nagoya University Graduate Schoool of Law and Centre for Asian Legal Exchange (CALE)

“Rights as Trumps and Orders as Counter Trumps: Free Speech in an Age of Fear, Hate and Lies”, 8th Asian Forum of Constitutional Law, Hanoi, Vietnam.

‘Freedom of religious conscience and persuasion: International Law, Domestic practice and perspectives from Asia’, Conference on Religious Freedom and the Law: Emerging contexts for freedom for and from religion, Perez Law School, Israel, 10-11 November 2019

Thio Li-ann, "The Ouster of Ouster Clauses: The Ins and Outs of the Principles regulating the scope of Judicial Review in Singapore" (Paper presented at the Conference on Public Interest Litigation in Singapore, 9 January 2019, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Apollonian Restraint and Dionysian Impulse: Law, Freedom and Religious Freedoms, Religious Penal Clauses: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Practice" (Paper presented at the Religious Penal Clauses: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Practice conference, 5-6 December 2018, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Religious Offences Penal Clauses and the Singapore Constitutional Order: Secular, Sensible but sensitive to the Sacred?" (Paper presented at the Religious Penal Clauses: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Practice conference, 5-6 December 2018, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, “Irreducible plurality, indivisible unity: Singapore Relational Constitutionalism and cultivating harmony through constructing a constitutional civil religion” (Paper presented at the workshop on Solidarity in Diversity: State Responses to Religious Diversity in Germany and Singapore, 2 November 2018, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, “Religious Freedom, Rule of Law and Le Vivre Ensemble within religiously diverse secular democracies: Asian perspectives and practices” (Paper presented at the Fifth ICLARS Conference Living Together in Diversity - Strategies from Law and Religion, 12-14 Sep 2018, Brazil)

Thio Li-ann, “Irreducible plurality, indivisible unity: Singapore Relational Constitutionalism and cultivating harmony through constructing a constitutional civil religion” (Paper presented at the workshop on Solidarity in Diversity: State Responses to Religious Diversity in Germany and Singapore, 2 June 2018, Berlin, Germany)

Thio Li-ann, “Singapore Constitutional and Administrative Law” (Paper presented at the Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review Conference, 27 July 2017, Supreme Court Auditorium, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, “Can a Policy of Multiculturalism and Legal Pluralism which protects Religious Freedom be reconciled with the rule of law, or does it undermine it? Reflections from the Singapore model of Accommodative Secularism” (Paper presented at the Rule of Law and Religious Perspectives, 20-22 Nov 2016, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel)

Thio Li-ann, “Recent Developments on Judicial Review: Principles, Pragmatism, Prospect” (Paper presented at the Professorial Series, 10 Nov 2016, Singapore Judicial College, Supreme Court, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, “Workshop on Elected Presidency in Singapore” (Paper presented at the CALS workshop on the elected presidency, 16 Nov 2016, Centre for Asian Legal Studies NUS, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, “Freedom of Religious Conscience and Persuasion: International Law and Perspectives from Asia” (Paper presented at the Fourth Conference of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, 08 -11 Sep 2016, St Hugh's College, Oxford, United Kingdom)

Thio Li-ann, “Keeping or Breaking Faith with the Public: Principled Pluralism as key to ‘Religion-Friendly Democracy and Democracy-Friendly Religion’ in Singapore” (Paper presented at the Regulating Religion: Normativity and Change at the Intersection of Law and Religion Conference, 14 Dec 2015, NUS Faculty of Law, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, “Principled pragmatism and judicial review in Singapore” (Paper presented at the Judging the Constitution, 28-29 May 2015, Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, “Human Rights as Secular religion” (Paper presented at the Religion and Law Conference, Handong International Law school, Pohang, South Korea, 4 -5 May 2015)

Thio Li-ann, “Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia” (Paper presented at the Comparative Constitutional Law in Asia Workshop, 25 Feb 2015, National Taiwan university, Taipei, Taiwan)

Thio Li-ann, “International Human Rights Law and National Courts in Asia; The Role of the Judiciary in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights” (Paper presented at the International Human Rights Law and National Courts in Asia; The Role of the Judiciary in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, 04 Dec 2014, Conrad Centennal hotel, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Sphere Sovereignty, Autonomy and Religious Liberty: Negotiating Religious Group Freedoms within the secular, communitarian Singapore constitutional order" (Invited paper presented at Law and Religion Scholars Network, 12 April 2014, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom)

Thio Li-ann, "Conflict, Control and Cooperation: The Singapore 'Secularism with a Soul' model of Regulating Religious Freedom and Maintaining Religious Harmony" (Invited paper presented at the CPG Fourth Annual International Conference ,22 - 24 Nov 2013, Lebua at State Tower, Bangkok, Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand)

Thio Li-ann, "Constitutional and Administrative Law". (Invited paper presented at Singapore Academy of Law Continuing Legal Education, 26 Jul 2013, Supreme Court Auditorium, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Interrogating Human Rights in Asia: Principles, Politics, Pragmatism, 6th Beijing Forum for Human Rights," (Invited paper presented at the Constructing an Environment for Sustainable Human Rights Development, 12 - 13 Sep 2013, Beijing, China)

Thio Li-ann, "Caesar, Conscience and Conversion: Constitutional Secularism and the Regulation of Religious Profession and Propagation in Asian States" (Paper presented at the International Association of Constitutional Lawyers, 6-10 Dec 2010, Mexico City, Mexico)

Thio Li-ann, "Constitutionalism in Asia" (Invited participant at the workshop, Faculty of Law, National Taiwan University, 22-23 Jul 2010, Taiwan)

Thio Li-ann, "Designing a Legislative Body, Representation and Accountability Issues, with reference to Nepal" (Paper presented at the International Conference: 'Dynamics of Constitution Making in Nepal in Post-conflict Scenario' organized by the Nepal Constitution foundation (NCF) in collaboration with the Tribhuvan UniversityFaculty of Law, the Supreme Court Bar Association and other partner organizations, 15-17 Jan 2010, Kathmandu, Nepal)

Thio Li-ann, "Soft Constitutional Law in Non-Liberal Asian Democracies" (Convenor and participant at The Changing Landscape of Asian Constitutionalism workshop: ICON-ASLI, 17-18 Feb 2010, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "The Rights and Wrong of Human Rights" (Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations 2010 Asia Conference, 22 Aug 2010, Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Towards a Relational Constitution" (Invited participant at the Relationships Global workshop, St Catharine's College Cambridge, Jul 2010, United Kingdom)

Thio Li-ann, "We may be two countries, but we are one people: "Making Constitutions and Inventing the 'People' in Post-Colonial Malaysia and Singapore" (Paper presented at the 'We the People and the post 1945 Constitutional Founding in Asia: A Comparative Perspective', 29-30 Oct 2010, Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and Harvard-Yenching Institute, Wassenaar, Netherlands)

Thio Li-ann, "Constitutional Accommodation of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Plural Democracies: Lessons and Cautionary Tales from South-East Asia" (Invited paper presented at the Pan African Constitutional Summit, 18-20 Aug 2009, Jomo Kenyetta International Conference Centre, Nairobi, Kenya)

Thio Li-ann, "Free Speech, Sustainable Democracy and Academic Freedom: Moving Beyond Lip Service" (lunchtime talk, 14 Oct 2009, Wee Kim Wee Centre, Lee Kong Chian, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Human Rights in South East Asia" (Paper presented at the Santa Clara Law School Summer Law Programme at NUS, 8 Jun 2009, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Reception and Resistance: Globalisation, International Law and the Singapore Constitution" (Paper presented at the 3rd Asian Forum on Constitutional Law, 25-26 Sep 2009, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)

Thio Li-ann, "Religious Liberty in Malaysia" (Paper presented at the Guest Lecture, Legal Systems of Malaysia and Singapore, 29 Jun 2009, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Thio Li-ann, "Rule of Law in Singapore: Vacuity, Virtue and Valorisation" (public lecture, 10 Dec 2009, Law Society, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "The Public Side of Private Morality" (public lecture, 27 Oct 2009, Faculty of Law, University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica)

Thio Li-ann, “Neither Fish nor Fowl: Town Councils, Community Development Councils and the Cultivation of Local Government/Governance in Singapore” (Paper presented at the International Conference on Local Government in Asian Countries, Municipi d’Oriente, Jan 2009)

Thio Li-ann, "Asian Perspectives on Human Rights" (Paper presented at a Lecture, 6 Oct 2008, Universidad de Las Americas AC, Mexico City, Mexico)

Thio Li-ann, "Constitutional Accommodation of Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Plural Democracies: Lessons and Cautionary Tales from South-East Asia" (Paper presented at the Pan African Constitutional Summit, convened by Ministry of Justice, Kenya, Aug 2008, Nairobi, Kenya)

Thio Li-ann, "Initiating Rites/Rights: The ASEAN Charter of 2007 and Human Rights" (Paper presented at a Faculty Seminar, 22 Nov 2008, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)

Thio Li-ann, "Law, Politics and Culture: Human Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in Singapore' (Paper presented at the ARI Seminar Series, Roundtable on Human Rights in Singapore, 11 Nov 2008, Asia Research Institute, NUS, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "State-Religion Relations in Malaysia and Singapore" (Constitutionalism in Southeast Asia: Crosscutting Issues, 26 - 28 March 2008, NUS Faculty of Law, Singapore) (Organised by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and NUS Faculty of Law Asian Law Institute).

Thio Li-ann, "The Co-operation of Religion and State in Singapore: A Compassionate Partnership in Service of Welfare" (Paper presented at the Rule of Law and Religious Freedom, The Legal System and Religion in a Harmonious Society, convened by the Institute of World Religions (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Beijing Pu Shi Institute for Social Science Research, the Institute for Global Engagement (IGE), and Brigham Young University's J Reuben Clark Law School, 31 May - 1 Jun 2008, Beijing, China)

Thio Li-ann, "The Evolution of a Revolution: 40 Years of the Singapore Constitution" (Presented at a public lecture, 17 Sep 2008, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne-Faculty of Law, Australia)

Thio Li-ann, Advocates International 5th Global Convocation on Rule of Law, Religious Freedom, Professional Ethics and Related Issues, Christian Legal Scholars Symposium (Invited, 9-12 Oct 2008, Washington DC, United States)

Thio Li-ann, Singapore Human Rights Practice and Policy: Pragmatism and Realism do not mean Abdication, 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Invited public lecture, 8 Jul 2008, Law Society Public and International Law Committee, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, The Historical Origins and Contemporary Evolution of International Human Rights Law: Retrospect and Prospect, 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Invited public lecture, 29 May 2008, Law Society Public and International Law Committee, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, The UDHR at 60: Universality, Indivisibility and the Three Generation of Human Rights, 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Invited public lecture, 30 Jun 2008, Law Society Public and International Law Committee, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Of Pedantry and Proportionality: Judicial Review and Fundamental Liberties in Singapore',". (NUSHKU Symposium on 'The Common Law in the Asian Century' 11? - 12 December 2006, Hong Kong University, 11 -12 December 2007, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong)

Thio Li-ann, "Commentator, Customary International Law - What it is and Why it is Still Important, Prof Maurice Mendelsohn" (Paper presented at the Attorney-General's Chambers International Law Speakers Series 2006, 20 October 2007, Attorney Generals' Chambers, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Freedom of Speech in Blogging and Online Forums" (Paper presented at the National University of Singapore, Democratic Socialists Club, 3 February 2007, NUS Kent Ridge Campus, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "Panacea, Placebo or Pawn? A Critical and Empirical Analysis of the Role of Suhakam in the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Malaysia" (Paper presented at the International Studies Association 48th Annual Convention, 28 February- 3 March 2007, Chicago, United States)

Thio Li-ann, "'Religion, State and Society: Perspectives on Religious Liberty from Asia'" (Plenary paper presented at the VIIth World Congress of the International Association of Constitutional Law, Rethinking the Boundaries of Constitutional Law, 11-15 June 2007, Athens, Greece)

Thio Li-ann, “Administrative Law in Singapore: Principles and Prospects” (Paper presented at the Seminar, NUS Faculty of Law Continuing Legal Education and Singapore Academy of Law, 26 Apr 2007, Supreme Court Auditorium, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "We have never planned to give any teeth to Suhakam": Aspiration, Actualisation and National Human Rights Protection in Malaysia (or, Teething Problems)" (Paper presented at the Thailand's Constitutional Reforms in Comparative Perspective', Bangkok, 3-5 November 2006, Thailand)

Thio Li-ann, "Rights without a Rights Culture in Singapore: Problems and Prospects?" (Paper presented at `The Prospects and Challenges of Human Rghts in South East Asia at ISEAS, organized by Braema Mathi, Gender Studies Programme Co ordinator, 28 August 2006)

Thio Li-ann, "Religion in the Public Sphere: Wall of Division or Public Square?" (Paper presented at the Conference on Religion in Industrial Society, organized by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS), 16 August 2006)

Thio Li-ann, "The Role of Law in Singapore: Master or Servant" (Paper presented at the National Youth Forum, Singapore National Library: Discussion Dialogue Session, 26 June 2006)

Thio Li-ann, "Courting Secularism and Faithful Expression: Religious Identity and the Judge between Caesar and God" (Paper presented at the International Conference on Law, Religion, and Social Change, 25-27 May 2006)

Thio Li-ann, "Beyond the Four Walls' in an Age of Globalisation: Civil Liberties, Rights Theories and Constitutional Adjudication in Malaysia and Singapore" (Paper presented for the inaugural conference for the Asian Forum for Constitutional Law, 1 September 2005)

Thio Li-ann, "Facilitating Independent Inquiry, Critical Thinking and Writing: An Integrated Teaching Methodology applied in Human Rights Education (Paper presented at The Twelfth International Conference on Learning, 11-14 July 2005)

Thio Li-ann, "Control, Co-optation and Co-peration: Managing Religious Harmony in Singapore's Multi Ethnic, Quasi Secular State" (Paper presented at the Eighth International Seminar: 'Democracy and Human Rights in Multiethnic societies, 11-15 July 2005)

Thio Li-ann, "Taking Development Seriously? Beyond the Statist Rhetoric of the Human Right to Development in ASEAN Countries" in DK Srivastava & C Raj Kumar, eds., Human Rights and Development: Approaches to the Reform of Governance in Asia (Hong Kong: Lexis Nexis Publishers, 2005), 47-64 (Paper presentedat the International Conference on Human Rights and Development: Approaches to the Reform of Governance in Asia, 9-10 May 2005)

Thio Li-ann, "A Tale of 2 Experiments: Religious Pluralism in Malaysia and Singapore" (Paper presented at the Socio- Legal Studies Association (SLSA) Conference, 29-31 March 2005)

Thio Li-ann, "Academic Legal Writing" (Paper presented at the Singapore Law Review Writing Workshop, 6 October 2004)

Thio Li-ann, "Taking Rights Seriously? Human Rights Law in Singapore" (Paper presented at the Conference on Human Rights in Asia, France, and the United States of America - A Comparative Empirical Study of Values, Institutions, and Practices, 14-15 May 2004)

Thio Li-ann, "Singapore and the Rule of Law" (Paper presented at the International Workshop, The Rule of Law in Vietnam and Southeast Asian Countries, 11- 13 September 2003)

Thio Li-ann, "Lex Rex or Rex Lex: Competing Conceptions of the Rule of Law in Singapore" (Conference on Asian Values and Rule of Law, Hong Kong University, June 2002).

Thio Li-ann, "Pretensions, Tensions and Post-tension Reapproachement? Challenges to the University of Human Rights" (International Symposium on Oriental Culture and Human Rights Development, organised by China Society for Human Rights Studies and China Foundation for Human Rights Development, Beijing, China, 29-31 October 2001).

Thio Li-ann, "Developing International Law Curricula for the New Asia" (Society of International Law, Singapore & Foundation for the Development of International Law in Asia Conference, Teaching and Scholarship in International Law in Asia: Challenge and Response, Fort Canning Lodge, Singapore, 30-31 July 2001)

Thio Li-ann, "To Everything there is a Season: Evaluating the Project of an ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism" (Human Rights Protection and ASEAN Prospects' Symposium on The State, Civil Society and the Media in ASEAN, Nikko Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7-9 September 1999).

Thio Li-ann, "Human Rights in the ASEAN Context: Problems and Prospects" (Linking the Domestic and the International: Human Rights into the 21st Century: Conference in Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the International Human Rights Programme, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 2-4 October 1998).

Thio Li-ann, "Choosing Representatives: Singapore does it her way" (Second LAWASIA Conference: Representation, Everest Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal, 8-10 December 1994) Representation, compiled by Hassall & Saunders (Australia: Allen & Unwin, 1997).

Thio Li-ann, "Beyond the Four Walls: Constitutional Liberties, Human Rights and the Singapore Experience" (Third LAWASIA Comparative Constitutional Law Conference, Macau, 18-20 November 1996) Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore (Singapore: Butterworths, 1997) 520-522.

Thio Li-ann, "Accountability of the Judiciary" (Regional Seminar on Media and the Role of an Independent Judiciary in a Democracy, Bangkok, Thailand, 27-28 August 1996) Media and the Role of an Independent Judiciary in a Democracy in 1997 (Malaysia: Asian Institute for Development Communication, 1997).

Thio Li-ann, "Human Rights and Asian Values at the Periphery of ASEAN - EU Relations?" (The Third CUESP International Conference on New Perspectives on ASEAN-EU Relations: From ASEM I to ASEM II and Beyond, Bangkok, Thailand, 13 February 1997).

Thio Li-ann, "In Search of the Constitution: Concepts, Values and Reality" (Singapore Academy of Law Legal Education Seminar, 12 October 1996).

Thio Li-ann, "Democracy, Human Rights and the Media (Singapore)" (AIDCOM Democracy, Human Rights & the Media: The ASEAN Scenario, Pan Pacific Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 25-26 September 1995) R. Haas ed., Human Rights and the Media, (Malaysia: Asian Institute for Development Communication, 1996, in co-operation with Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Germany, 1996) 69-79.

Thio Li-ann, Friedrich Naumann Stiftung & European Commission for Human Rights, “Singapore & human rights protection" (Paper presented at the Second Strasbourg Conference on Human Rights: ASEAN II, European Commission for Human Rights Building, Strasbourg, France, 3-8 October 1994)

REPORTS

Thio Li-ann, “Singapore Parliament Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods: Causes, Consequences and Countermeasures” (Deliberate Online Falsehoods, Mar 2018)

Thio Li-ann, "Academic Freedom in Singapore", Confidential Report, August 2005, for University of Warwick Singapore Feasability Study, 2005 (Confidential, prepared for University of Warwick (Singapore Feasibility Study))

Thio Li-ann, "Journal Report: In the Matter of the Extradition of Vivien Then v Rosa Melendez, US Marshal" (1995) 7 Singapore Academy of Law Journal 447-454

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Thio Li-ann, “377A - A Contemporary Important Law” Times (Singapore, 8 Oct 2018)

Thio Li-ann, “At level of international law, there is no established human right to sexual orientation” (Singapore, 26 Sep 2018)

Thio Li-ann, "By-Elections Case: A Legal or Political Question" The Straits Times (Singapore, 2013)

Thio Li-ann, "The 2011 Presidential Elections: One Year After" The Straits Times Singapolitics (Singapore, 2013)

Thio Li-ann, "Human Rights" (Invited dialogue session with Dubai Community Development Authority, 2 Nov 2010, Singapore Foreign Affairs)

Thio Li-ann, "Substainable Democracy" (keynote speech at the opening ceremony, Global Scholars and Leaders Conference, 8 Aug 2010, International Presidential Scholars Council, Singapore)

Thio Li-ann, "No Bright Line between Religion and Politics" Review, The Straits Times (Singapore, 26 May 2009)

Thio Li-ann, "Speech, Films (Amendment) Act" (Singapore Parliament Reports, 2009)

Thio Li-ann, "Speech, President's Address" (Singapore Parliament Reports, 2009)

Thio Li-ann, "Unpacking the Human Right to Development: The 2007 ASEAN Charter and Legal Empowerment Trajectory" Oslo: Academic Network Legal Empowerment Period Project, 2009, ANLEP Working Paper No. 1 (May 2009)

Thio Li-ann, "Can We Disagree Without Being Disagreeable?" Insight, The Straits Times (Singapore, 26 Oct 2007)

Thio Li-ann, Adjournment Motion "By-elections Law in Singapore" Vol. 84, Singapore Parliament Reports (Singapore, 27 Aug 2008)

Thio Li-ann, Engaging New Media, Challenging Old Assumptions Report, AIMS Committee Report (Singapore, Dec 2008)

Thio Li-ann, Parliamentary Speech "Constitution of the Republic of Singapore Amendment Bill" Vol. 85, Singapore Parliament Reports, 20 - 21 Oct 2008

Thio Li-ann, Parliamentary Speech "Human Organ Transplant (Amendment) Bill" Vol. 84, Singapore Parliament Reports, 21 Jan 2008 cols. 80-132

Thio Li-ann, Parliamentary Speech "Infectious Diseases Amendment Bill" Vol. 84, Singapore Parliament Reports, 22 Apr 2008

Thio Li-ann, Parliamentary Speech "Internationally Protected Persons Bill" Vol. 84, Singapore Parliament Reports, 6 Mar 2008

Thio Li-ann, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 60: Reflecting on the 'Magna Carta for all Mankind' Law Society Gazette, Dec 2008: 19-23

Thio Li-ann, "In a Democracy, All have a Right to be Heard" The Straits Times (Singapore, 2005)

Thio Li-ann, "Is Singapore Heading for a Selected Presidency?" Insight, The Straits Times (Singapore, 2005) 31

Thio Li-ann, "The Responsibility Imposed by Free Speech" The Straits Times (Singapore, 2005)

Thio Li-ann, "Hearing out Religion in Public Debate" The Straits Times (Singapore, 2004)

Thio Li-ann, Article referee, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies (Singapore, 2004)

Thio Li-ann, Article referee, Singapore Law Review (2004)

Thio Li-ann, "State, Religion and the Public Square" The Straits Times (Singapore, 2000)

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