Professor Hoong Phun (HP) Lee

Research Interests

Administrative Law and Regulation
Australian Legal System
Constitutional Law
International Law
Judiciary
Malaysian and Singaporean Law
National Security Law

Supervisor Profile

Qualified to supervise: Honours; Masters; PhD;

Current projects under supervision

Honours:

One LLB Honous Project

Doctoral:

Sustainability of Islamic legal tradition within a secularized constitution: a case study of the dual legal systems in Malaysia with special reference to freedom of religion

Protection of eonomic, social and cultural rights: A critical analysis of the fundamental principles of State policy of the Constitution of Bangladesh
(Co-supervisor: Sarah Joseph)

Editorial Boards

Advisory Board, Constitutional Law and Policy Review
Advisory Board, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies
Advisory Board, Australian Journal of Asian Law
Panel of International Referees, Singapore Academy of Law Journal

Grants and Commissions

1999: Monash University Research Fund Travel Grant for $800. (Presenting invited paper at the 12th Commonwealth Law Conference in Malaysia)

1996: ARC Large Grant for project on The Australian Judiciary (jointly with Emeritus Professor E.M. Campbell and Professor George Winterton): $25,000 for 1996 and $27,000 for 1997

1995: ARC grant for project on Chief Justice Mason’s Contributions to the Development of Australian Constitutional Law: $6,080

1994: ARC grant for monograph on Constitutional Conflicts in Contemporary Malaysia: $5,000

1994: LAWASIA Research Institute Fellowship to develop project entitled Constitutional Values in Turbulent Asia: $5,000

1990: University Publications Committee (jointly with M. Pittard) (funding for publication of Special Anniversary Issue of Monash University Law Review): $8,000

1988: AVCC (Australian Vice-Chancellors Committee) Visiting Fellowship for 1988 to carry out research at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore): $5,000

1984: Faculty Research Trimester

1982-83: ARGS (now ARC) Large Grant for project National Security and Civil Liberties in Australia (jointly with Associate Professor P.J. Hanks): $30,514

1980: Monash University Special Research Grant (jointly with Professor F.A. Trindade for book project, The Constitution of Malaysia: Further Perspectives and Developments): $1,000

1973: Fellowship by the International and Comparative Law Centre, Southwestern Legal Foundation to attend the Tenth Academy of American and International Law, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, May-June

Publications

2010

Lee, HP, ‘Constitutionalised emergency powers: a plague on Asian constitutionalism?’ in Victor V. Ramraj and Arun K. Thiruvengadam (eds), Emergency Powers in Asia: Exploring the Limits of Legality (Cambridge University Press, 2010), 393-411.

Lee, HP, ‘Malaysian royalty and the Special Court’ in Andrew Harding and Penelope Nicholson (eds), New Courts in Asia (Routledge, 2010), 317-326.

Lee, HP, ‘A federal Human Rights Act and the reshaping of Australian constitutional law’ (2010) 33(1) University of New South Wales Law Journal 88-109.

Lee, HP, ‘Judiciaries in crisis - some comparative perspectives’ (2010) 38(3) Federal Law Review 371-389.

Complete listing of publications, including those prior to 2010