Joshua Neoh | ANU College of Law

Associate Professor

Joshua Neoh

Associate Professor

LLB (ANU), LLM (Yale), PhD (Cambridge)

Biography
Research
Supervision
Teaching

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

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