Victor V. RAMRAJ is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He has qualifications in law (LLB, Toronto; LLM, Queen's University Belfast) and philosophy (BA, McGill; MA, PhD, Toronto) and is member of the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario, Canada). He twice served as the Faculty's Vice-Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010, 2011-2012) and for one year, from 2010-2011, as a Co-Director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London. Before joining the NUS Faculty of Law, he served as a judicial law clerk at the Federal Court of Appeal in Ottawa and as a litigation lawyer in Toronto. His current areas of research include constitutional law and theory, emergency powers, globalization, and legal history. He has edited/co-edited several books for Cambridge University Press, including Emergencies and the Limits of Legality (2009), Emergency Powers in Asia: Exploring the Limits of Legality (2010); Global Anti-Terrorism Law and Policy (second edition, 2011). His scholarly work has been published in the Criminal Law Quarterly, Hong Kong Law Journal, International Journal of Constitutional Law, International Journal of Law in Context, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, South African Journal on Human Rights, and Transnational Legal Theory. He has held visiting teaching appointments at University of Toronto, Kyushu University, and the Center for Transnational Legal Studies, and research appointments at Queen's University Belfast, the Transitional Justice Institute, and the University of Cape Town. He is working on a on the future of nation-state constitutions in a post-national world.

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