Professor Hoong Phun (HP) Lee

Sir John Latham Professor of Law
LLB(Hons), LLM, PhD,

Professional Profile

Professor Hoong Phun (HP) Lee has held the Sir John Latham Chair of Law at Monash University since 1995 and currently is the Deputy Dean.

He was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in 1985-86. He was appointed an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Charles Darwin University 1995-2001. He was the Associate Dean (International) 1998-1999, Associate Dean (Staffing)/Deputy Dean 2000-2003 and Acting Dean October 2003 - January 2004.

He is the Vice-Chairman of the Australian Press Council and a member of the International Board of Advisors of the Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research. He is an external examiner to the law faculties in the University of Malaya and the City University of Hong Kong. 

Professor Lee’s publications include Constitutional Conflicts in Contemporary Malaysia, (Oxford University Press, 1995) and The Australian Judiciary (Cambridge University Press, 2001) (co-author). He is the co-editor of Australian Constitutional Landmarks (Cambridge University Press, 2003) The Constitution of Malaysia: Further Perspectives and Developments  (Oxford University Press, 1986), The Constitution of Malaysia: Its Development 1957-1977 (Oxford University Press, 1978) and Australian Administrative Law: Fundamentals, Principles and Doctrines (Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Areas of Expertise

Australian Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law of Malaysia and Singapore
Administrative Law
National Security Law
The Australian Judiciary

Teaching Commitments

Constitutional Law (LAW3200)