Associate Professor
Joshua Neoh
Associate Professor
LLB (ANU), LLM (Yale), PhD (Cambridge)
Employment
- Associate Professor (Level D), ANU (2020-Present)
- Senior Lecturer (Level C), ANU (2017-19)
- [On leave from 2015-18 for PhD at Cambridge]
- Lecturer (Level B), ANU (2013-16)
- Associate Lecturer (Level A), University of Adelaide (2012)
Education
- PhD in Law, University of Cambridge (2015-18)
- Master of Laws, Yale Law School (2010-11)
- Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours and the University Medal), ANU (2006-10)
Scholarships
- Cambridge Australia Trust PhD Scholarship
- Yale Law School LLM Scholarship
- ANU International Undergraduate Scholarship
Appointments
Current University Positions
- Associate Professor of Law, ANU Law School
- Sub-Dean (International), ANU Law School
- Steering Committee, ANU Academic Board
- Teaching and Learning Development Committee, ANU Academic Board
- Advisory Committee, ANU Malaysia Institute
Previous Journal Editorial Positions
- Academic Editor, Federal Law Review
- Guest Editor, Special Issue on Law and Love, Law in Context
- Student Editor, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities
Previous Visiting Research Positions
- Harvard Law School, Harvard University, USA
- St Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, UK
- Centre for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory University, USA
- Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, Germany
- Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan
- Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence, University of Sydney
- School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University, Malaysia
- Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore
- Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University
Awards
| 2014 | ANU College of Law Education Awards: Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning |
Significant research publications
- Joshua Neoh, Law, Love and Freedom (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Books & edited collections
- Joshua Neoh, Law, Love and Freedom (Cambridge University Press, 2019), paperback (2021)
- Reviewed in the Cambridge Law Journal, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, the Journal of Church and State, the Journal of Law and Religion, the International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog, the Child and Family Law Quarterly, the Journal of Legal Philosophy, the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, and Jurisprudence
- Winner of the 2021 Penny Pether Prize in Law, Literature, and the Humanities
- Nigel Simmonds and Joshua Neoh, Central Issues in Jurisprudence, 6th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2022)
- Zachary Calo, Joshua Neoh and Keith Thompson (eds), Love in Christian Legal Thought (Routledge, 2022)
- Paul Babie, Joshua Neoh, James Krumrey-Quinn and Chong Tsang, Religion and Law in Australia (Kluwer Law International, 2015), 2nd ed (2019), 3rd ed (2022)
- Renata Grossi and Joshua Neoh (eds), Law and Love (Federation Press, 2016) [Special Issue of Law in Context]
Refereed journal articles
- Joshua Neoh, Kierkegaard and Hobbes on the State of Nature (2024) 69 American Journal of Jurisprudence
- Joshua Neoh, Kierkegaard and Schmitt on the State of Exception (2024) 39 Journal of Law and Religion
- Joshua Neoh, Kierkegaard's Works of Love (2024) 4 Australian Journal of Law and Religion
- Joshua Neoh, Kierkegaardian Ethics and the Rule of Law (2023) 34 Law and Critique
- Joshua Neoh, Law, Freedom and Slavery (2022) 35 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 223
- Joshua Neoh, Value Pluralism in the Political Form of Roman Catholicism (2022) 23 Political Theology 417
- Joshua Neoh, Political Natural Law (2019) 44 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 117
- Joshua Neoh, The Good of Religion (2019) 93 Australian Law Journal 791
- Joshua Neoh, Law Imprisons, Love Liberates (2018) 30 Law and Literature 221
- Joshua Neoh, Jurisprudence of Love in Paul’s Letter to the Romans (2016) 34 Law in Context 7 [Special Issue on ‘Law and Love’
- Joshua Neoh, The Rhetoric of Precedent and Fulfillment in the Sermon on the Mount and the Common Law (2016) 12 Law, Culture and the Humanities 419
- Joshua Neoh, Law and Love in Abraham’s Binding of Isaac (2015) 9 Law and Humanities 237
- Joshua Neoh, The Name of God on Trial: Narratives of Law, Religion and State in Malaysia (2014) 18 Law Text Culture 198 [Special Issue on ‘The Rule of Law and the Cultural Imaginary in Post-Colonial East Asia’]
- Ngaire Naffine and Joshua Neoh, Fictions and Myths in PGA v The Queen (2013) 38 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 32
- Joshua Neoh, Text, Doctrine and Tradition in Law and Religion (2013) 2 Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 175
- Joshua Neoh, Legitimacy of the Common Law in Post-Colonial Malaysia [2010] LAWASIA: Journal of the Law Association for Asia and the Pacific 59
- Joshua Neoh, Islamic State and the Common Law in Malaysia: A Case Study of Lina Joy (2008) 8 Global Jurist
Book chapters
- Joshua Neoh, 'Law and Love in Monasticism', in Love in Christian Legal Thought (Routledge, 2022)
- Joshua Neoh, The Allah Case: What is the Name of God?, in Law and Religion in the Commonwealth (Hart, 2022)
- Joshua Neoh, 'Snake with Two Heads: The Two Voices of the Malaysian Constitution', in Law and Justice in Malaysia: 2020 and Beyond (Thomson Reuters, 2021)
- Joshua Neoh, Apostasy and Freedom of Religion in Malaysia, in Freedom of Religion or Belief: Creating the Constitutional Space for Fundamental Freedoms (Edward Elgar, 2020)
- Joshua Neoh, ‘Political Theology and Legal Theory’, in The Research Handbook on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law and Religion (Edward Elgar, 2019)
- Joshua Neoh, ‘Law and Love in Eden’, in Law, Religion and Love (Routledge, 2017)
- Joshua Neoh, Donald Rothwell and Kim Rubenstein, ‘The Complicated Case of Stern Hu: Allegiance, Identity and Nationality in a Globalized World’, in Allegiance and Identity in a Globalized World (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Book reviews
- Joshua Neoh, Book Review: A Political Life of Jesus (2024) 39 Journal of Law and Religion
- Joshua Neoh, Book Review: Justice and Love (2022) 47 Journal of Legal Philosophy 200
- Joshua Neoh, Book Review: Film and Constitutional Controversy (2021) 80 Cambridge Law Journal 639
- Joshua Neoh, Book Review: The Possibility of Religious Freedom (2021) 36 Journal of Law and Religion 447
- Joshua Neoh, Book Review: Post-Liberal Religious Liberty (2021) 12 Jurisprudence 426
- Paul Babie and Joshua Neoh, Statement on Inclusive Law and Religion (2018) 39 Adelaide Law Review 203
- Joshua Neoh, Just Jurisprudence: Review of Philip Pettit’s Just Freedom (2015) 40 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 237
PhD supervision
I welcome PhD proposals in all fields of legal theory.
Current courses
| Year | Course code | Course name |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | LAWS4229 Class #4126 | Law and Society in South East Asia |
| 2023 | LAWS8594 Class #4127 | Law and Society in South East Asia |
| 2023 | LAWS2248 Class #6735 | Legal Research and Writing |
| 2023 | LAWS2249 Class #5146 | Legal Theory |
| 2023 | LAWS6249 Class #5535 | Legal Theory |
| 2023 | LAWS8078 Class #4106 | Common Law Reasoning |
Previous courses
| Year | Course code | Course name |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | LAWS2249 Class #5209 | Legal Theory |
| 2021 | LAWS6249 Class #5709 | Legal Theory |
| 2021 | LAWS4229 Class #4277 | Law and Society in South East Asia |
| 2021 | LAWS8594 Class #4278 | Law and Society in South East Asia |
Philosophy & approach
My teaching philosophy is to teach philosophy to law students.
At the ANU Law School, I teach both basic and advanced courses in legal philosophy.
Teaching awards
| 2014 | ANU College of Law Education Awards: Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning |
Research themes
Law and Religion
Legal Theory
Contacts
joshua.neoh@anu.edu.au
ANU College of Law, Bld 6, Fellows Rd, Acton ACT 2600
