Rate My Professor Amanda Whiting

Her research focuses on Malaysian legal and political history, human rights institutions and practices in the Asia-Pacific region, and the intersection of gender, society, religion, and law, with particular reference to Malaysia. From 2009 to 2012, she held an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for the project 'Lawyers, Civil Society and the State in Post-colonial Malaysia,' supporting her current book on the history of the Malaysian legal profession's role in defending the rule of law. Key publications include Women and Petitioning in the Seventeenth-Century English Revolution: Deference, Difference and Dissent (Brepols Publishers, 2015); co-editor of Mixed Blessings: Laws, Religions and Women's Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region (Martinus Nijhoff, 2006); co-editor of Democracy, Media and Law in Malaysia and Singapore: A Space for Speech (Routledge, 2014); co-editor of Legal History Matters: From Magna Carta to the Clinton Impeachment (Melbourne University Press, 2021); and influential articles such as 'Situating Suhakam: Human Rights Debates and Malaysia's National Human Rights Commission' (2003, 70 citations), 'Custodian of Civil Liberties and Justice in Malaysia' (2012, 31 citations), and 'Secularism, the Islamic State and the Malaysian Legal Profession' (2010, 31 citations).