Professor Hoong Phun (HP) Lee

Sir John Latham Professor of Law
LLB(Hons), LLM, PhD,

Professional Profile

Professor Hoong Phun (HP) Lee has held the Sir John Latham Chair of Law at Monash University since 1995, and from 2003 until 2009 served as the Deputy Dean.

He was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 1985-86. He was appointed an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Charles Darwin University 1995-2001. He was the Associate Dean (International) 1998-1999, Associate Dean (Staffing)/Deputy Dean 2000-2003 and Acting Dean October 2003 - January 2004. He was appointed the Chairman, International Humanitarian Law Advisory Committee of the Australian Red Cross Victoria (1998-2000). He was the Vice-Chairman of the Australian Press Council 2004-2010.

He is a member of the International Board of Advisors of the Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research. He is an external examiner to the law faculties in the University of Malaya and the City University of Hong Kong. He was appointed Adjunct Professor at the City University of Hong Kong (1999-2011 and 2011-2014).

He is an advisory member for the Constitutional Law and Policy Review, the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, the Singapore Academy of Law Journal, the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the Australian Journal of Asian Law.

Professor Lee's publications include Constitutional Conflicts in Contemporary Malaysia, (Oxford University Press, 1995) and The Australian Judiciary (Cambridge University Press, 2001) (co-author). He is the co-editor of Australian Constitutional Landmarks (Cambridge University Press, 2003) The Constitution of Malaysia: Further Perspectives and Developments (Oxford University Press, 1986), The Constitution of Malaysia: Its Development 1957-1977 (Oxford University Press, 1978), Australian Administrative Law: Fundamentals, Principles and Doctrines (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Constitutional Landmarks in Malaysia: The First Fifty Years 1957-2007 (LexisNexis, 2007) and Constitutional Advancement in a Frozen Continent (Federation Press, 2009). He is the editor of Judiciaries in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Areas of Expertise

Australian Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law of Malaysia and Singapore
Administrative Law
National Security Law
The Australian Judiciary

Teaching Commitments

Malaysian and Singapore Constitutional Systems 406 - Malaysia (Sem2/T3) (2011) (LAW4126)
Principles of administrative law (Sum/T1) (2011) (LAW7274)
Principles of constitutional law (Sum/T1) (2011) (LAW7268)
The judiciary in comparative perspective (Sum/T1) (2011) (LAW4523)