Dr Jaclyn Neo is a Consultant at WongPartnership where she specialises in administrative law and citizenship law. Her advisory experience includes advising clients on the citizenship entitlements of children born through surrogacy, the legal options available to children holding dual citizenship, and advising a government agency on a potential judicial review challenge based on the doctrine of substantive legitimate expectation. Jaclyn began her legal career as a Legal Associate at WongPartnership, practising commercial litigation, before joining the National University of Singapore (“NUS”), where she is concurrently an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies. Jaclyn graduated from NUS with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and from Yale Law School with a Master of Laws (LLM) and Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD), while on full scholarships from NUS. She has held visiting positions at various institutions, including Princeton University, Melbourne Law School, and the University of Texas at Austin. Jaclyn served as a Professorial Fellow for the Attorney-General’s Chambers for four years, and currently sits on the Executive Committee of the ASEAN Law Association’s Singapore chapter and the International Society of Constitutional Law (ICON-S). She is also a Board Member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of International Affairs in Germany.
Jaclyn has published numerous noteworthy articles in local and international journals, including the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Human Rights Quarterly, and the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies.
She is the sole editor of a volume on Constitutional Interpretation in Singapore. Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2017), in which leading scholars of constitutional law provide their theoretical insights to recent constitutional developments.
She also co-edited the Singapore Academy of Law Journal’s first ever special issue on public law (2017).
In addition, Jaclyn's scholarship focuses on comparative studies within Asia, and she is a co-editor of Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia (Hart, 2019), and Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges (CUP 2019). Her article on domestic incorporation of international human rights law in a dualist state was awarded the Asian Yearbook of International Law’s DILA International Law Prize.
Jaclyn's writing has been cited by the Singapore courts and by the Supreme Court of India.
Contact Details
- d+65 6416 8000
- f+65 6532 5711
- ejaclyn.neo@wongpartnership.com
Qualifications
National University of Singapore (LL.B., Hons.)
Yale Law School (LL.M.)
Singapore Bar