Professor Tew's evaluation of judicial contributions to building constitutionalism in Malaysia and Singapore provides a dynamic, richly contextual understanding of contested ideas and institutions. This fascinating, perceptive, timely, and forward-looking study deserves to be read by anyone with an interest in constitutionalism, the interplay of judicial and political statecraft, or constitutional politics in Asia.
Yvonne Tew is Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She has expertise in comparative and U.S. constitutional law as well as law and religion. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She received a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Cambridge. She has held research fellowships at Columbia Law School and New York University School of
Law.