Yvonne Tew

Associate in Law

Office:	Jerome Greene Hall, Room 510B 435 West 116th Street New York N.Y. 10027
Tel:	212-854-0266
Email:	ytew@law.columbia.edu

Education

B.A. (Double First Class Honors), 2007, University of Cambridge
Master of Laws (LL.M.), 2008, Harvard Law School
Ph.D. in Law (expected 2013), Gates Cambridge Scholar, University of Cambridge

Biography

Yvonne Tew’s research and teaching interests are in constitutional law, rights protection, comparative constitutional law, family law, and law and religion. She comes to Columbia Law School from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Ph.D. candidate in constitutional law and a Gates Cambridge Scholar. In 2012, she was awarded the Distinction in Research Prize in the Arts and Humanities by St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge, for her scholarship. While at the University of Cambridge, Yvonne served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Student Law Review.

Yvonne received her first law degree at the University of Cambridge, where she consistently placed in the top 5% of her class each year and graduated with Double First Class Honors. She then completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School after winning the Cambridge Benefited Place Award for top final-year graduates from the University of Cambridge admitted to the Harvard Law School LL.M. program. After graduating from Harvard, she worked as an attaché at the Permanent Mission of Malaysia to the United Nations in New York and assisted the Vice Chancellor of the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in editing an evidence law casebook. Yvonne has taught constitutional law at the University of Cambridge and the University of Malaya and is admitted to the New York bar.

Representative Publications

Articles
Reassessing Human Rights Protection in Malaysia and Singapore, 15 Thammasat Rev. (Special Issue) 7 (2012) (peer reviewed)

The Malaysian Legal System: A Tale of Two Courts, 19(1) Comm. Jud. J. 3 (2011)

Notes
Case Comment, And They Call It Puppy Love: Young Love, Forced Marriage, and Immigration Rules: R (Quila) v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2011) 71(1) Cambridge Law Journal 18 (peer reviewed)

Case Comment, No Longer a Privileged Few: Expense Claims, Prosecution, and Parliamentary Privilege: R v. Chaytor, 70(2) Camb. L. J. 282 (2011) (peer reviewed)

Book Review, 70(2) Camb. L. J. 481 (2011) (reviewing Tom Bingham, The Rule of Law (2010)) (peer reviewed)

Book Review, 69(2) Camb. L. J. 413 (2010) (reviewing Vernon Bogdanor, The New British Constitution (2009)) (peer reviewed)

Selected Presentations

From “Asian Values” to Bersih: Governance and Rights Protection in Malaysia, Law and Society in Malaysia: Islam, Pluralism and Development, Center for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria, Canada (July 14-17, 2011); paper presenter

Constitutional Governance in Southeast Asia: Reassessing Human Rights Perspectives in Malaysia and Singapore, International Conference on International Relations and Development 2011, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand (May 19-20, 2011); paper presenter

Moving Beyond “Asian Values”: A New Model for Southeast Asia, Venice Academy of Human Rights, Inaugural Session, (July 12-17, 2010); seminar paper presenter

Reassessment of Western and Asian Perspectives on Human Rights, Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (Feb. 7, 2011); paper presenter

Research Interests

Constitutional law
Constitutional adjudication
Constitutional interpretation
Human rights
Law and religion
Family law
Multiculturalism