Jothie Rajah

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Research Professor

750 N. Lake Shore Dr.
4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60611
gro.nfba@hajarj
Phone: 312-988-6551

Joint appointment

staff@abfn.org

Education

Ph.D., University of Melbourne LL.B., National University of Singapore

Bio

Jothie Rajah is a full-time appointee to faculty of the ABF. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She was awarded the Law Faculty's 2010 Harold Luntz Graduate Research…

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Research focus

The intersections of law, language and power in the following areas: law, legitimacy and authoritarianism; international organizations and the global public sphere in constructions of norms for the rule of law; and the relationship between law, religion and national identity.

Projects

Global Norms for the Rule of Law: Latest finding: Dec 29, 2011; This study analyses the different ways in which global institutional actors (the UN, the World Bank, the International Commission of Jurists, the World Justice Project) define ‘rule of…

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Publications

Authoritarian Rule of Law: Legislation, Discourse and Legitimacy in Singapore: Cambridge University Press
Lawyers, Politics, and Publics: State Management of Lawyers and Legitimacy in Singapore: Cambridge University Press
Punishing Bodies, Securing the Nation: How Rule of Law Can Legitimate the Urban Authoritarian State: Law and Social Inquiry

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Presentations

‘Rule of Law’ as Global Discourse: Jul 2012
Rule of Law Discourses as Transnational Legal Order: Jun 2012
Of Masks and Absences: Cause Lawyering in Singapore: Jun 2012

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Professional Service & Recognition

Law & Society Association Dissertation Committee Honorable Mention, 2011
Fellow, SIAS Summer Institute 2011 - 2012, Regulating the World Society: Law, Governance and the Quest for Global Justice, National Humanities Center/Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin, Germany
Panel Organizer, “Theorizing Post-Colonial Legal Professions and Politics,” Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, 2012
Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2011
Harold Luntz Graduate Thesis Award for Excellence in the PhD, Melbourne Law School, 2011
Member, Conference Steering Committee, First International Conference on the Legal Histories of the British Empire, July 2012, supported by the American Society of Legal History, the Australian and New Zealand Legal History Association, and the Osgood Society for Canadian Legal History.
Co-Convenor (with W. Pue and B. Blum), Collaborative Research Network 15, British Colonial Legalities, Law and Society Association.
Co-organizer, LSA Roundtable, Subversive Legalities: British Colonial Subjects and the Rule of Law, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 2010