Identity and Communitarian Constitutional Rights in Singapore

This paper presents a theory of an inclusive communitarian approach to constitutional rights that non-liberal, self-professed communitarian Singapore should adopt. Instead of prioritising the community over the individual and subjugating some identities to the collective will, the paper argues that, by adopting a pluralistic conception of ‘community’ as the communities that constitute our identity, a...

Panel 46, TUESDAY JUNE 26 2018 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM