Dr. Jaclyn Neo

Dr. Jaclyn Neo is a Consultant at WongPartnership, specialising in administrative law and citizenship law. Her advisory experience includes advising clients on the citizenship entitlements of children born through surrogacy, the legal options available to children holding dual citizenship, and advising a government agency on a potential judicial review challenge based on the doctrine of substantive legitimate expectation.

She began her legal career as a Legal Associate at WongPartnership, practising commercial litigation, before joining the National University of Singapore (NUS), where she is concurrently an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies. She graduated from NUS with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and from Yale Law School with a Master of Laws (LL.M) and Doctor of the Science of Law (JSD), while on full scholarships from NUS. She has held visiting positions at Princeton University, Melbourne Law School, and the University of Texas at Austin.

She served as a Professorial Fellow for the Attorney-General's Chambers for four years, and currently sits on the Executive Committee of the ASEAN Law Association's Singapore chapter and the International Society of Constitutional Law (ICON-S). She is also a Board Member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of International Affairs in Germany.