Professor of Law and Vice Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Law
2024 BOARD OF TRUSTEES | COORDINATOR OF GLOBAL ACTIVITIES
Lynette Chua
Website: https://lynettechua.academia.edu/
Dr. Lynette J. Chua is a law and society scholar with research interests in legal mobilisation, legal consciousness, and rights, power, and resistance. She is Professor of Law and Vice Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, an Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Law & Society, a former President of the Asian Law & Society Association (2022-23), and LSA’s trustee class representative (2017–2019). Dr. Chua is the author of The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (2022), The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as A Way of Life (2019), and Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State (2014). Additionally, she is the co-editor of The Asian Law & Society Reader (2023, with David Engel and Sida Liu), Out of Place: Fieldwork and Positionality in Law and Society (2024, with Mark F. Massoud), and Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits (forthcoming, with Jack Jin Gary Lee). She has also published in law and society journals such as Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Journal of Law and Society, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and Law and Policy.