Lynette J. Chua is Professor of Law at National University of Singapore and Head of Studies for the Law-Liberal Arts Double-Degree Programme at Yale-NUS College. She is the author of three books, The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia (2002), The Politics of Love in Myanmar (2018), and Mobilizing Gay Singapore (2014). She has earned awards in law and society, sociology, and Asian studies. Chua is also the co-editor of The Asian Law & Society Reader and past president (2022-2023) of the Asian Law & Society Association. Mark Fathi Massoud is Professor of Politics and Director of Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford Faculty of Law. Massoud is the author of two books, Law's Fragile State (2014) and Shari'a, Inshallah (2021). He has earned awards in law and society, political science, sociology, religious studies, and Middle East studies. The recipient of Carnegie, Guggenheim, and Mellon Foundation fellowships, Massoud gave the Evans-Pritchard Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford, and he is a Berlin Prize fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.
