Founding Affiliates

Jing LEE is a Founding Affiliate Member of our Academy. She is a consultant with UKM Pakarunding Pte Ltd where she is part of a multidisciplinary team that advises both the Federal and the State governments on matters relating to the drafting and revision of laws and policies relating to the environment and natural resources. She is interested in the connection between land and the society, and how such connections determine the interactions between legal regimes operating within a coupled socio-ecological system and their subsequent implementation at the national and local levels. Her research areas include public international law, international and national environmental and heritage laws, and international and national water laws.    

Her publications include:

‘Exploring the narrative of heritage through the eyes of the law’, in Kajian Malaysia, Volume 28 (supp. 1), 2017, pp. 185-207.

‘Water security and the role of International Water Law: A regional perspective’, in AALCO Journal of International Law, Volume 5, 2016, pp. 23-40.

‘The environment, its protection and the Environmental Quality Act 1974’, in Malayan Law Journal, Volume 6, 2016, pp. cii-cxxiv.

‘The governance of wetland ecosystems and the protection of transboundary water cooperation – Opportunities presented by the Ramsar Convention’, in Water International, Volume 40(1), 2015, pp. 33-47.

The Preservation of Ecosystems of International Watercourses and the Integration of Relevant Rules: An Interpretative Mechanism to Address the Fragmentation of International Law (Brill/Nijhoff, 2014).

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Jing Lee obtained her PhD from the IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science (under the auspices of UNESCO) of the University of Dundee, Scotland. She holds an LLM in International Law from Cambridge University and an LLB (Honours) from The National University of Malaysia. She is admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya, and she is a certified community mediator. She works with local civil society and non-governmental organisations and has been invited to assist the community in public hearings on matters relating to the environment and town and country planning. She was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Environment and Development of The National University of Malaysia. She is currently the Honorary Secretary of the Environmental Protection Society of Malaysia.