Books
Chua, Lynnette J. and Jack Jin Gary Lee (editors). 2024. Contagion, Technology, and Law at the Limits. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing (Hart).
Articles and Book Chapters (by themes)
Historical Sociology | Race and Ethnicity
Lee, Jack Jin Gary and Kwai Hang Ng. 2026. “Corruption and the Rule of Difference in Late-Colonial Hong Kong.” Pp. 72-90 in Marco Garrido, Marina Zaloznaya, and Nicholas H. Wilson (eds.), A Comparative Historical Sociology of Corruption, Cambridge University Press.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2025. “Anxieties of Whiteness: Evidence, Race, and Emotions in the (Non-)Prosecution of the “Malayan ‘Sexual Perversion’ Cases,” Pp. 262-283 in Legal Histories of Empire: Navigating Legalities, edited by Lyndsay Campbell and Shaunnagh Dorsett. New York: Routledge.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2024. “Racialized Legalities: The Rule of Law, Race, and the Protection of Women in Britain’s Crown Colonies 1886-1890.” Law and Social Inquiry 49(3): 1396-1425.
- Winner of the American Sociological Association Global and Transnational Sociology Section’s 2024 Best Scholarly Article Award
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2015. “Plural Society and the Colonial State: English Law and the Making of Crown Colony Government in the Straits Settlements.” Asian Journal of Law and Society 2(2): 229-249.
Law and Society | Global Health
Lee, Jack Jin Gary and Lynette J. Chua. 2023. “Smallpox Vaccination and the Limits of Governing through Contagion in the Straits Settlements, 1868-1926.” Law and Policy 45(3): 331-352.
Chua, Lynette J. and Jack Jin Gary Lee. 2021. “Governing through Contagion.” In Covid-19 in Asia: Law and Policy Contexts, edited by Victor V. Ramraj. New York: Oxford University Press.
International Migration | Political Sociology
. 2019. “Why Developmental States Accept Guest Workers: Bureaucratic Policy-making and the Politics of Labour Migration in Singapore.” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 45(13): 2508-2526.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary and John D. Skrentny. 2015. “Korean Multiculturalism in Comparative Perspective.” Concluding chapter in Multiethnic Korea? Multiculturalism, Migration, and Peoplehood Diversity in Contemporary South Korea, edited by John Lie. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS) Publication Series.
Skrentny, John D. and Jack Jin Gary Lee. 2015. “Immigration, Nationhood, and Transnationalization in Industrialized East Asia.” Chapter 7 in Transnational Trajectories: Nation, Citizenship, and Region in East Asia, edited by Yasemin Soysal. New York: Routledge.
Skrentny, John D., Micah G. Redman and Jack Jin Gary Lee. 2012. “Japan, the United States, and the Philosophical Bases of Immigration Policy.” American Behavioral Scientist 56(8): 995-1007.
Cultural Studies | Sexuality
Tan, Kenneth Paul with Jack Jin Gary Lee. 2007. “Imagining the Gay Community in Singapore.” Critical Asian Studies 39(2): 179-204.
Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
Lee, Jack Jin Gary and Julia Ballester. 2025. “Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution. By Eva Payne. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.” Law and Society Review (FirstView).
Lee, Jack Jin Gary and Jack M. Wells. 2025. “Worthy of Freedom: Indenture and Free Labor in the Era of Emancipation. By Jonathan Connolly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.” Law & Society Review (FirstView).
Lee, Jack Jin Gary and Julián Gómez-Delgado. 2025. “Book review: Modernity’s Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India,” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 11(1): 123-125.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2024. “Racialized Citizenship.” Chapter 23 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Citizenship Studies, edited by Thomas Faist and Marisol García Cabeza.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2021. “Book Review – Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies,” Law and Society Review 55(3): 525-527.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2019. “Along the Edges of Law’s Empire: Kahn’s Islands of Sovereignty,” Theory and Event 22(4): 1136-1140.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2019. “Plural Society.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, edited by George Ritzer.
Public and Professional Writings
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2025. “Misbehaving Men in Power: The Story Behind 377A.” Academia | SG: Promoting Scholarship Of/For/By Singapore.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2023. “Rule of Law as Imperial Theology.” The Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere. Social Science Research Council.
Chua, Lynette J. and Jack Jin Gary Lee. 2020. “COVID-19 and Governing Through Contagion.” Academics on Pandemics, NUS COV-AID.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2018. “Beyond the Nation-State’s Archives: On the Colonial Origins of Singapore’s Developmental State.” Sectors: Newsletter of the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Development Section 5(2): 29-30.
Lee, Jack Jin Gary. 2016. “John Stuart Mill and Colonial Judges.” World Legal History Blog, edited by Nurfadzilah Yahaya. H-Law.
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