Jothie Rajah is Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, Chicago. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Melbourne Law School, Australia, where she was awarded the 2010 Harold Luntz Graduate Research Thesis Prize for achieving an overall level of excellence. She is the author of a number of articles on state management of ideological contestation through law. She has taught at the Melbourne Law School, the National University of Singapore and the Institute of Education, Singapore. Her current research focuses on global discourses on the rule of law and colonial constructions of Hindu law in the Straits Settlements.
1. Law, illiberalism, and the Singapore case
2. Law as discourse: theoretical and definitional parameters
3. Punishing bodies, securing the nation: 1966 Vandalism Act
4. Policing the press: the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act
5. Policing lawyers and constraining citizenship: Legal Profession (Am't) Act 1986
6. Policing religion: Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act
7. Entrenching illiberalism: the 2009 Public Order Act
8. Legislation, illiberalism and legitimacy.
