Brief Biodata

Dr Thio Li-ann teaches and has published widely in the fields of public international law, human rights law, constitutional and administrative law. Formerly Chief Editor, Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law (2000-2003), she is currently General Editor, Asian Yearbook of International Law and on the editorial and advisory board of the Singapore Yearbook of International Law, New Zealand Yearbook of International Law and International Law & Human Rights Discourse respectively. In 1997, she was Young Asian Scholar at the University of Melbourne Law Faculty and has taught courses at the law faculties of Hong Kong University and the University of Melbourne. A leading Singapore constitutional scholar, she co-authored Constitutional Law in Malaysia and Singapore (Butterworths, 1997, with Kevin YL Tan), is the corresponding editor (Singapore) for Blaustein & Flanz's Constitutions of the Countries of the World and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. She has served as an expert witness before the Federal Court of Australia and as consultant to the University of Warwick (academic freedom issues, 2005) and a Japanese House of Representatives delegation (2002). In 2001-2002, 2002-2003 she was ranked an NUS Excellent Teacher and in 2004, was the Faculty nominee and recipient of the NUS Young Researcher award.


Professor Thio is currently a Nominated Member of Parliament (11th Session).