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ARTICLES

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  1. “Cultural wars and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) rights in Southeast Asia: ‘Asian values,’ human rights, and the ‘homosexual turn.’”Current Sociology, 2024, 72(4): 1-19.

  2. “Religious Pressures on Women’s Rights in Southeast Asia: Examining the right to an Abortion in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Vietnam,” Women's Studies International Forum, 2024, 102, January-February, 102862.

  3. “Strategic Litigation in the “Soft-Authoritarian” state of Singapore: Attempts to Decriminalize Sodomy from 2010-2020,” Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023,14(1): 1-21.

  4. “Transforming the ‘Lazy Native’: Race, American Education, and Violence against Minorities in the Philippines,” Philippine Sociological Review, 2022, 70: 131-152.

  5. George B. Radics and Crystal Abidin, “Racial Harmony and Sexual Violence: Uneven Regulation and Legal Protection Gaps for Influencers in Singapore,” Policy & Internet, 2022, 14(3): 1-21.

  6. Lynette J. Chua & George B. Radics, “Special Issue Introduction: Stigmatisation, identities and the law: Asian and comparative perspectives.” International Journal of Law in Context, 2022, 17(3): 281–283.

  7. Jayson Lamchek & George B. Radics, “Dealing with the Past or Moving Forward? Transitional Justice, the Bangsamoro Peace Agreement and Federalism in the Philippines,” International Criminal Law Review, 2021, 21(5): 962-989.

  8. “Challenging antisodomy laws in Singapore and the former British colonies of ASEAN,” Journal of Human Rights, 2021, 20 (2): 211-222.

  9. “#Ready4Repeal? Viewing s 377A of the Singaporean Penal Code Through the Lens of Legal Actors and Artists.” Australian Journal of Asian Law, 2019, 20(1), article 16: 1-14.

  10. George B. Radics and Pablo Ciocchini, “Editors’ Introduction to Special Issue: Continuities and Ruptures in Global North Legal Pressures on Global South Societies,” Asian Journal of Social Science, 2018, 46 (4-5): 409-419.

  11. George B. Radics and Vineeta Sinha, “Colonial Continuities in the Regulation of Religion and Public Holidays: The Case of Tai Pucam in Singapore.” Asian Journal of Social Science, 2018, 46 (4-5): 524-548.

  12. George B. Radics and Poon Yee Suan, “Amos Yee, Free Speech, and Maintaining Religious Harmony in Singapore,” University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review, 2016, 12(2): 186-242.

  13. “Section 377A in Singapore and the (De)Criminalization of Homosexuality,” Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2015, 15(2): 1-29.

  14. “Singapore: A ‘Fine’ City—British Colonial Criminal Sentencing Policies and its Lasting Effects on the Singaporean Corporal State,” Santa Clara Journal of International Law, 2014, 12 (3): 57-90.

  15. “Singapore’s Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act (Chapter 190A) and its Application to Thailand,” Thammasat Law Journal, 2014, 43(3): 444-455.

  16. “Decolonizing Singapore’s Sex Laws: Tracing Section 377A of Singapore’s Penal Code,” 2013, Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 45(1): 57-99.

  17. “Bank Privatization in Vietnam: Examining Changes to Management in Vietnam’s New Banking Law, Decree No 59/2009/ND-CP,” Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 2010, 19(2): 331-351.

  18. Peter Berlinger, George B. Radics, Nadia B. Pulmano, Finn Kjaerulf & Ernesto A. Anasarias, “Community Narratives of Social Trauma: A Case Study on a Sitio in Mindanao,” Psyke og Logos, 2009, 30(1): 153-177.

  19. “Balikatan Exercises in the Philippines and the U.S. War Against Terrorism,” Stanford Journal on East Asian Affairs, 2004, 4(2): 115-127.

  20. “Globalization, Corruption and the Structural Historical Perspective.” Philippine Sociological Review, 2001, 49(1-2): 39-58.

BOOK CHAPTERS

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  1. “Queer Criminology Through the Lens of the Global South and Its Impact on Human Rights,” in: Weber, L., Marmo, M. (eds) A Research Agenda for a Human Rights Centred Criminology. Palgrave Critical Studies in Human Rights and Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan. 2024.

  2. George B. Radics and Pablo Ciocchini, “Law and Order,” Oxford Handbook on International Law and Development, Luis Eslava, Ruth Buchanan, and Sundhya Pahuja (eds). London: Oxford, pp. 671-686.  ISBN: 978-0-192-86736-0. 2024.

  3. “Introduction” in George B. Radics and Pablo Ciocchini (eds.) Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World. London: Palgrave (Socio-Legal Series), pp. 1-17.  ISBN: 978-3-031-17917-4.  2023.

  4. “(Cr)Immigration and Merit-Based Migration in Singapore: The Permanent “State of Exception” in George B. Radics and Pablo Ciocchini (eds.) Criminal Legalities and Minorities in the Global South: Rights and Resistance in a Decolonial World. London: Palgrave (Socio-Legal Series), pp. 105-125.  ISBN: 978-3-031-17917-4. 2023.

  5. George B. Radics and Alpha Pontanal, “Alternative Lawyering versus Pro Bono: From Challenging an Authoritarian Government to Working with the State,” in Helena Whalen-Bridge (ed.), The Role of Lawyers in Access to Justice: Asian and Comparative Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 145-161. 2022.

  6. “Being LGB in Singapore” in Worldwide Perspectives on Lesbians, Gays and Bisexuals, vol. 3, chap. 9, ed. Paula Gerber. New York: Praeger Press, pp. 138-153. ISBN: 978-1-4408-4226-9. 2021.

  7. “‘First world problems’ in the ‘third world’? LGBT rights in Singapore,” in Criminal Legalities in the Global South: Cultural Dynamics, Political Tensions, and Institutional Practices, eds. Pablo Ciocchini and George B. Radics, London: Routledge, pp. 33-52.  ISBN: 978-1-138-62563-1. 2019.

  8. “Conclusion: Seeking commonalities from across the South,” in Criminal Legalities in the Global South: Cultural Dynamics, Political Tensions, and Institutional Practices, eds. Pablo Ciocchini and George B. Radics, London: Routledge, pp. 217-230.  ISBN: 978-1-138-62563-1. 2019.

  9. “Human Rights in Asia: The history and current state of LGBTQ rights in South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia,” in Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, eds. Howard Chiang (editor in chief), Anjali Arondekar, Marc Epprecht, Jennifer Evans, Ross Forman, Hanadi al-Samman, Emily Skidmore, Zeb Tortorici. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, pp.  784-789.  ISBN-10: 0684325535. 2019.

BOOK REVIEWS

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  1. Review of the Book Ruling Before the Law: The Politics of Legal Regimes in China and Indonesia by William Hurst, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 53, no. 3: 585-587. 2022.

  2. Review of the Book Passionate Revolutions: The Media and the Rise and Fall of the Marcos Regime by Talitha Espiritu, Asian Journal of Social Science, 47, no. 2: 294-296. 2019.

  3. Review of the Book State and Finance in the Philippines, 1898-1941: The Mismanagement of an American Colony by Yoshiko Nagano, Asian Journal of Social Science, 45, no. 6: 806-808. 2017.

  4. Review of the Book Conversations in Postcolonial Thought by Katy Sian (eds.).  Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38, no. 8. 2016.

  5. Review of the Book Out of the Shadows: Violent Conflict and the Real Economy of Mindanao by Francisco Lara & Steven Schoofs (eds.).  AsiaMindanaw, 1, no. 1: 229-231. 2014.

  6. Review of the Book Cultures of Disaster: Society and Natural Hazard in the Philippines by Greg Bankoff. Asian Journal of Social Science, “Special Focus: Violence in Southeast Asia,” 34, no. 3. 2006.

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