PROFILE

George Radics teaches modules on law, deviance, and emotions in the department. After receiving his PhD in sociology from the NUS, he earned a juris doctor with a concentration in Asian law from the University of Washington and worked for the Supreme Court of Guam for two years. He is a member of the New York Bar. His articles have been published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Journal of Human Rights, Asian Journal of Social Science, and the Philippine Sociological Review. His work involves the judicial system, notions of justice, human rights, minorities, and comparative legal studies.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociology of Law; Law and Society; Sociology of Emotions; Postcolonial Studies; Southeast Asian Studies

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

• George B. Radics and Poon Yee Suan, “Amos Yee, Free Speech, and Maintaining Religious Harmony in Singapore,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Asian Law (accepted for publication September 2016).
• George B. Radics, “Section 377A in Singapore and the (De)Criminalization of Homosexuality,” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 15, no. 1 (2014).
• George B. Radics, “Singapore: A ‘Fine’ City—British Colonial Criminal Sentencing Policies and its Lasting Effects on the Singaporean Corporal State,” Santa Clara Journal of International Law, 12, no. 3 (2014): 57-90.
• George B. Radics, “Singapore’s Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act (Chapter 190A) and its Application to Thailand,” Thammasat Law Journal, 43, no. 2 (2014).
• George B. Radics, “Decolonizing Singapore’s Sex Laws: Tracing Section 377A of Singapore’s Penal Code,” Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 45, no. 1 (2013): 57-99.