Ngoc Son Bui

Professor of Asian Laws
Faculty of Law University of Oxford

Other affiliations

St Hugh's College

Biography

Ngoc Son Bui is Professor of Asian Laws at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. He is a graduate of Vietnam National University-Hanoi (LLB; LLM) and The University of Hong Kong (PhD). He was previously an Assistant Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, and a research fellow at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies of the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law. He has also held visiting positions at Chulalongkorn, Harvard, Melbourne, Nagoya, SMU, and Tsinghua Law Schools. 

He works on comparative & constitutional law in Asia with a focus on the socialist and Confucian culture-influenced jurisdictions. He is the author of 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 co-editing four volumes on Asian Comparative Constitutional Law for Hart Publishing. He serves in the editorial board of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law and in the advisory board of the Indian Law Review. 

 

Publications

Research Interests

Constitutional Law in Asia, Comparative Law in Asia

Research projects & programmes

Oxford Programme in Asian Laws