Dr. Li-ann Thio is Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore where she teaches and researches constitutional and administrative law and international human rights law. She holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Oxford, a LL.M from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Her doctoral thesis was published as Managing Babel: The International Legal Protection of Minorities in the Twentieth Century (Brill, 2005). She is a barrister (Gray’s Inn UK) and was a Nominated Member of the Singapore Parliament (Eleventh Session) from January 2007-July 2009. She has taught courses on comparative constitutional law and human rights in the Law Faculties of the University of Melbourne and University of Hong Kong. In 2004, she received the NUS Young Researcher award, in recognition of her scholarship and she has been ranked an NUS Excellent Teacher (top 6% eligible faculty members) twice.

She is currently the General Editor of the Asian Yearbook of International Law and formerly Chief Editor of the Singapore Journal of International & Comparative Law (now the Singapore Yearbook of International Law). She sits on the editorial board of the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Journal of East Asia and International Law; National University of Taiwan Law Review, and the Australian Journal of Asian Law. She is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law and International Human Rights and Legal Discourse

She was engaged as an expert consultant by the University of Warwick (United Kingdom) on matters relating to academic and political freedom in Singapore in 2005. She was also an expert legal witness (Singapore constitutional and extradition law) before the Federal Court of Australia in relation to proceedings arising out of the application for the extradition of Michael McCrea on charges of homicide.

In 2008, she was invited by the Law Society of Singapore to deliver three public lectures in May-July 2008 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Her publications include the leading casebook Constitutional Law in Malaysia & Singapore (Butterworths, 1997) and The Evolution of a Revolution: 40 Years of the Singapore Constitution (Routledge-Cavendish, 2009), (co-edited with Kevin YL Tan) She has published numerous articles on international human rights and public law in journals including the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, International and Comparative Law Quarterly, Harvard International Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Asian Law, UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal and Singapore Yearbook of International Law.

She had a Damascus road encounter with Jesus Christ as a first year undergraduate at Keble College , Oxford where she disavowed anti-theism, humanism and nihilism and embraced authentic Christianity. Her first Christian book, Mind the Gap: Contending for Righteousness in an Age of Lawlessness (Singapore: Armour Publishing 2009) was recently published. Her favourite Christian authors include Oswald Chambers, Brennan Manning and GK Chesterton and she continues to remain profoundly impacted by the music of Rich Mullins. She agrees with AW Tozer that "Jesus Christ will not save those whom He cannot command" and believes that true discipleship resides in a wholehearted love and desire to honour Christ, being set apart to live a holy life conscious of His specific call on our lives. Only then will we have the courage and desire to embrace the fullness of His Holy Spirit, obey His guidance, knowing He is the source of wisdom, revelation, the fruits and gifts of the Spirit. Psalms 16 and 84 are amongst her favourite psalms; her life verse is Philippians 3:10 and she identifies closely with Jeremiah 15: 15-21.

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. In an age of spiritual adultery, how do Christians demonstrate fidelity to Christ, in facing laws and social systems rooted in immoral, sinful values? Christians are called to be 'salt and light' and to bless their communities. How then should Christians, as faithful watchmen and committed citizens living in secular democracies, respond to a political agenda driven by a godless philosophy which has harmful social and spiritual consequences?

God looks for a Christian to stand in the gap and to advance His redemptive purpose for our nations. In this book, Dr. Li-ann Thio identifies the gap and explains how we are to 'mind' it. She examines how the spirit of the anti-Christ, the spirit of lawlessness, manifests in the philosophy, morality and politics that shape our laws, systems and mindsets. Keys to identify the traits and agents of lawlessness are provided. Mind the Gap offers practical and biblical guidelines to equip us to resist the evil of lawlessness and to promote what is true and righteous. This is integral to Christian discipleship and living as a holy sacrifice

See book review in the Christian Post (Singapore edition) at http://sg.christianpost.com/dbase.php?cat=culture&id=1284