Interests
My general research interest includes constitutional and comparative law in Asia. I have taught these courses: Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, Constitutional Theory, Constitutionalism in Asia, and Introduction to Asian Comparative Law.
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, Thammasat, 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 writing a new book, Confucian Law, for Oxford University Press. 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
- Ngoc Son Bui, Legal Reform in the Contemporary Socialist World (Oxford University Press 2024)
- Ngoc Son Bui, Constitutional Change in the Contemporary Socialist World (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020).
- Ngoc Son Bui, Confucian Constitutionalism in East Asia (London: Routledge 2016).
- Ngoc Son Bui, ‘Global Studies in Asian Laws’ 52 International Journal of Legal Information 228–65 (2025).
- Ngoc Son Bui, ‘‘International Human Rights Law in Asian Constitutions’ 34 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law 207-264 (2024)
- Ngoc Son Bui, ‘Discursive Constitutionalism’ 23 Chicago Journal of International Law 342-390 (2023)
- Ngoc Son Bui, ‘Global Constitutionalism: Asia-Pacific Perspectives,’ 10 Global Constitutionalism 221-235 (2021)
- Ngoc Son Bui, ‘The Socialist Precedent’, 52 Cornell International Law Journal 421- 474 (2019)
- Ngoc Son Bui, ‘Constitutional Amendment in Laos,’ 17 International Journal of Constitutional Law 756-786 (2019)
- Ngoc Son Bui, “Contextualizing the Global Constitution-Making Process: The Case of Vietnam,’ 64 American Journal of Comparative Law 931-979 (2016)
For the full list please see the Law Faculty website.
