Dr. Ngoc Bui

Biography

Ngoc Son Bui is a Professor of Asian Laws at the University of Oxford and a Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford. He graduated from Vietnam National University-Hanoi with both LLB and LLM degrees, and earned his PhD from the University of Hong Kong. Prior to his current position, he was an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and a research fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. Throughout his career, Professor Bui has held visiting positions at several esteemed institutions, including Chulalongkorn, Harvard, Melbourne, Nagoya, Singapore Management University, Thammasat, and Tsinghua Law Schools. His research primarily focuses on comparative and constitutional law with an emphasis on jurisdictions influenced by socialist Confucian culture in Asia. He is the author of multiple works, including 'Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World' (Oxford University Press 2024), 'Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World' (Oxford University Press 2020), and 'Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia' (Routledge 2016). He is currently writing a new book titled 'Confucian Law' for Oxford University Press and co-editing four volumes on Asian Comparative Constitutional Law for Hart Publishing. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and the advisory board of the Indian Law Review.

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