Shall the Twain Never Meet? Competing Narratives and Discourses of the Rule of Law in Singapore

• Main Author: LEE, Jack Tsen-Ta
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Constitutional law; human rights law; rule of law; Singapore; Asian Studies; Constitutional Law; Human Rights Law; Rule of Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/1189; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/3141/viewcontent/2012_SingJLS_298_ShalltheTwainNeverMeet.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This article aims to assess the role played by the rule of law in discourse by critics of the Singapore Government’s policies and in the Government’s responses to such criticisms. It argues that in the past the two narratives clashed over conceptions of the rule of law, but there is now evidence of...