PROFESSOR JAMES CHIN is inaugural Director, Asia Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania. He was previously Head, School of Arts & Social Sciences, Monash University, Malaysia Campus and Director of Governance Studies Programme, Jaffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia. Dr Chin is a leading commentator on Malaysian politics and has published extensively on Malaysia and the surrounding region. In addition to his academic work, he is member of the Advisory Board, Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS); Senior Fellow, Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) and he was Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of South East Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore.
PROFESSOR ANDREW HARDING is Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, and is also Director of the Asian Law Institute. He is a leading scholar in Asian legal studies and his work focuses on constitutional law in Southeast Asia, law and development in Asia, and comparative law. He is Joint Editor-in-Chief of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and co-founding-editor of Hart Publishing’s book series ‘Constitutional Systems of the World’. He has also authored books on Malaysia and Thailand in that series (2011, 2012).
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR FARIDAH JALIL received her LL.B from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and has been teaching in UKM since 1992. She attained her PhD from Warwick University and LL.M from the London School of Economics. She had a short experience as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. Her research interests include legal theories and judicial independence. She has contributed major chapters to books on constitutional law, judiciary and human rights in Malaysia.
DATO DR PETER MOONEY was born in Donegal, Ireland. He graduated from the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom. He is a founding partner of SKRINE, a leading law firm in Kuala Lumpur. He has conducted trials and appeals in all Courts in Sarawak, Malaysia and Singapore up to and including the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. In 1986, he was appointed Honorary Consul of Ireland in Malaysia. He was conferred the honour of Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by His Holiness Pope John Paul II on 26th October 2003. His memoirs of his time in Sarawak can be found in A Servant Of Sarawak: Reminiscences of a Crown Counsel in 1950s Borneo (2011).
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR KHAIRIL AZMIN MOKHTAR, a lecturer at the Law Faculty, International Islamic University Malaysia, is the coordinator of Constitution & Human Rights research cluster and the Head of Constitutional Law & Human Rights Unit, IIUM Legal Clinic. He has authored and edited several law books including Constitutional Law and Human Rights in Malaysia (2013).
PROFESSOR DATO DR MAZLIN BIN MOKHTAR is a Professor of Environmental Chemistry with extensive research in environmental management and governance. He is the Chairman of the Langat River Basin Research Group under the auspices of UNESCO-Hydrology for Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) and an Executive Committee of the Malaysian Water Partnership (MyWP). He is now the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation) in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
RASYIKAH MD KHALID is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia. She attained her LL.B from the University of Sheffield and LL.M from the University of Malaya. She is currently pursuing her PhD at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in sustainable water resources management. She has written numerous articles on environmental laws and is an active member of the Malaysian Water Association (MWA) and the International Water Association (IWA).
TAN SRI SIMON SIPAUN retired as State Secretary of Sabah in 1993, a position he held for five years. He was born in 1938 to illiterate farmers in the interior of Sabah. When the Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) was formed in 2000, Simon was one of the first commissioners to be appointed. He served Suhakam for ten years, including six years as vice-chairman. In 2011 he became founding chairman of Persatuan Hak Asasi Manusia (Proham, Society for the Promotion of Human Rights). A collection of his speeches can be found in Simon Sipaun: Human Rights Defender (2014).
KEVIN Y.L. TAN graduated from the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore in 1986 and subsequently obtained his Master of Laws (LLM) and Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD) degrees from the Yale Law School. Over the last two and a half decades, he has established himself as Singapore’s foremost legal historian and leading constitutional law scholar. Kevin has written/edited over thirty books on the law, history and politics of Singapore and is currently Adjunct Professor at both the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University.