Ngoc Son Bui
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 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
Bui N, ‘International Human Rights Law in Asian Constitutions’ (2024) 34 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law
Bui N, ‘China’s Socialist Constitutional Identity’ (2023) 1(1) Comparative Constitutional Studies 51
Bui N, ‘Vietnam’s Mixed Constitution and Human Rights’ (2023) 16(2) Law & Ethics of Human Rights 295
Bui N, ‘Discursive Constitutionalism’ (2023) 23 Chicago Journal of International Law
Bui S and Lee J-A, ‘Comparative Cybersecurity Law in Socialist Asia’ (2022) 55 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Bui N, ‘China’s Comparative Constitution’ (2021) 54 Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 1
Bui N, ‘Vertical Law and Development’ (2021) 54(1) CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 1
Bui N, ‘Russia’s Big-Bang Constitutional Amendments’ (2021) 53 NYU Journal of International Law & Politics 751
Bui N, ‘Global Constitutionalism: Asia-Pacific Perspectives’ (2021) 10 Global Constitutionalism 221
Bui N, ‘Institutionalism and Comparative Constitutional Amendment’ (2020) 11 Yonsei Law Journal 17
Bui N, ‘Constitutional Amendment and Democracy’ (2020) 30 Minnesota Journal of International Law 75
Bui N, ‘You, the People: Cuba’s International Constitution’ (2020) 52 NYU Journal of International Law & Politics 829
Bui N, ‘Economic Constitutions in the Developing World’ (2019) 12 Law and Development Review 669
Bui N, ‘Law and Development Theory: A Dialogical Engagement’ (2019) 51 George Washington International Law Review 65
Bui N, ‘Social Movements and Constitutionalism in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan’ (2019) 14 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 51
Bui N, ‘Constitutional Amendment in Laos’ (2019) 17 International Journal of Constitutional Law 756
Neo J and Bui N, ‘Expanding the Universe of Comparative Constitutional Amendment in Southeast Asia’ (2019) 14 Journal of Comparative Law 46
de Visser M and Bui N, ‘Glocolization of Constitution-Making: Evidence from Asia’ (2019) 8 Global Constitutionalism 297
Bui N, ‘The Socialist Precedent’ (2019) 52 Cornell International Law Journal 421
de Visser M and Bui N, ‘Contemporary Constitution Making in Asia-Pacific’ (2019) 7 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 241
Bui N, ‘Anticolonial Constitutionalism: The Case of Ho Chi Minh’ (2018) 19 Japanese Journal of Political Science 1
Bui N and Nicholson P, ‘Activism and Popular Constitutionalism in Contemporary Vietnam’ (2018) 42 Law & Social Inquiry 677
Bui N, ‘Constitutional Mobilization’ (2018) 17 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 113
Bui N, ‘Sun Yat-sen’s Constitutionalism’ (2017) 32 Giornale Di Storia Costituzionale Journal of Constitutional History 157
Bui N, ‘The Law of China and Vietnam in Comparative Law’ (2017) 41 Fordham International Law Journal 135
Bui N, ‘Globalization of Constitutional Identity’ (2017) 26 Washington International Law Journal 463
Bui N, ‘The Global Origins of Vietnam’s Constitutions: Text in Context’ (2017) 2017 University of Illinois Law Review 525
Bui N, ‘Constitutional Mobilization in China’ (2017) 14 International Journal of Law in Context 335
Bui N, ‘Contextualizing the Global Constitution-Making Process: The Case of Vietnam’ (2016) 64 American Journal of Comparative Law 931
J Harding A and Bui N, ‘Recent Work in Asian Constitutional Studies: A Review Essay’ (2016) 11 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 163
Bui N, ‘Restoration Constitutionalism and Socialist Asia’ (2015) 37 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review 67
Bui N, ‘The Discourse of Constitutional Review in Vietnam’ (2014) 9 Journal of Comparative Law 191
Bui N, ‘The Confucian Foundations of Ho Chi Minh’s Vision of Government’ (2013) 46 Journal of Oriental Studies 35
Bui N, ‘Confucian Constitutionalism in Imperial Vietnam’ (2013) 8 National Taiwan University Law Review 373
Bui N, ‘Beyond Judicial Review: The Proposal of the Constitutional Academy’ (2013) 2 Chinese Journal of Comparative Law 43
Bui N, ‘Confucian Constitutionalism: Classical Foundations’ (2012) 37 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 61
Bui N, ‘The Introduction of Constitutionalism in East Asian Confucian Context: The Case of Vietnam in the Early Twentieth Century’ (2012) 7 National Taiwan University Law Review 425
Bui N, ‘Global Studies in Asian Laws’ International Journal of Legal Information
Bui N, ‘Mixed Review of Constitutional Rights in Cuba’ Northwestern University Journal of Human Rights
Bui N, ‘Public Discourse and Comparative Constitutional Law: A Research Agenda’ Comparative Constitutional Studies
Bui N, ‘Party Constitutionalization in Socialist Regimes’ International Journal of Constitutional Law
Bui N and Bui N, ‘Comparative Constitutional Amendment in Asia’ in NS Bui and M Malagodi (eds.), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2
Constitutional Amendments (Hart Publishing 2024)
Bui N, ‘Confucian Constitutional Identity’ in R Hirschl and Y Roznai (eds.), Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: Essays on Constitutional Identity in Honor of Gary J. Jacobsohn (Cambridge University Press 2023)
Bui N, ‘Conclusion: Comparative Constitution-Making in Asia’ in NS Bui and M Malagodi (eds.), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 1:
Constitution-Making (Hart Publishing 2023)
Bui N, ‘The National Assembly of Vietnam’ in PJ Yap and R Abeyratne (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Asian Parliaments (Routledge 2023)
Bui N, ‘Confucian Legal Tradition’ in M Siems and P Jen Yap (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press 2023)
Bui N, ‘China’s Material Constitution’ in M Goldoni and M Wilkinson (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook on the Material Constitution (Cambridge University Press 2022)
Bui N, ‘The Party-Regimes’ in D S. Law, H Lau and A Schwartz (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Asia (Oxford University Press 2022)
Bui N, ‘Unconstitutional constitution in Vietnamese discourse’, LAW AND POLITICS OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS IN ASIA (2022)
Abeyratne R and Bui N, ‘Unconstitutional constitutional amendments as constitutional politics’, LAW AND POLITICS OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS IN ASIA (2022)
Bui N, ‘Governing Buddhism in Vietnam’ in T Ginsburg and B Schonthal (eds.), Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press 2022)
Bui N, ‘The Socialist Model of Individual Judicial Powers’ in R Abeyratne and I Porateds (eds.), Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges (Cambridge University Press 2021)
Bui N, ‘Constitutional Dualism: Socialism and Constitutionalism in Vietnam’ in H FU and others (eds.), Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia (Cambridge University Press 2019)
Bui N, ‘Legal Regulation of Religion in Vietnam’ in J Neo, A Jamal and D P. S. Goh (eds.), Regulating Religions in Asia (Cambridge University Press 2019)
Tan K and Bui N, ‘Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia: A Constitutional-History Perspective’ in K Tan and B Ngoc Son (eds.), Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing 2019)
Bui N, ‘Constitution in Ethnically Plural Societies: Vietnam and Laos’ in J Neo and B Ngoc Son (eds.), Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing 2019)
Neo J and Bui N, ‘Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asian Context’ in J Neo and B Ngoc Son (eds.), Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing 2019)
Bui N, ‘Why Do Countries Decide not to Adopt Constitutional Review? The Case of Vietnam’ in Chen,,rew Harding, Albert (ed.), Constitutional Court in Asia (Cambridge University Press 2018)
Bui N, ‘Legal Education in Twenty-First Century Vietnam: From Imitation to Renovation’ in A J. Harding, J Hu and M de Visser (eds.), Legal Education in Asia: From Imitation to Innovation (Brill 2017)
Bui N, ‘Central-Local Relation and the Constitutional Discourse on Political Decentralization in Twenty First Century Vietnam’ in A Harding and M Sidel (eds.), Central-Local Relations in Asian Constitutional Systems (Hart Publishing 2015)
Bui N, ‘Constitutional Developments in Vietnam in the First Decade of the Twenty First Century’ in A Chen (ed.), Constitutionalism in Asia in the Twenty First Century (Cambridge University Press 2014)
Son B, ‘Party-Based Regimes’, The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Asia (Oxford University Press (OUP)
Bui N and Malagodi M (eds.), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 2 Constitutional Amendments (Hart Pulishing 2024)
Bui N and Malagodi M (eds.), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 1: Constitution-Making (Hart Publishing 2023)
Bui N, Hargreaves S and Mitchell R (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Constitutional Law in Greater China (Routledge 2022)
Abeyratne R and Bui N (eds.), The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia (Routledge 2022)
Bui N (ed.), Global Constitutionalism: Asia-Pacific Perspectives, Global Constitutionalism (Cambridge University Press 2021)
Bui N and Visser M (eds.), Constitution-Making in Asia-Pacific, Chinese Journal of Comparative Law (Oxford University Press 2019)
Bui N and Neo J (eds.), Constitutional Amendment in Southeast Asia, Journal of Comparative Law (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill Publishing 2019)
Tan K and Bui N (eds.), Constitutional Foundings in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing 2019)
Neo J and Bui N (eds.), Pluralist Constitutions in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing 2019)
Bui N (ed.), Vietnamese and Comparative Constitutional Law, Asian Journal of Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press 2016)
Bui N, ‘Review of Authoritarian Constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique’ (2020) 15 Asian Journal of Comparative Law 187 (review)