tion consists of a select number of articles, which yet again demonstrates the tenacity and brilliance of our members: Their willingness to step out of the customary legal education and into the fore of academic discourse, typifies the aspiration of law as an experiential journey. Jonathan Koh in “The Necessity of Empirical Data in Family Law-Making” exemplifies this quality. There he contextualises the inevitability of empirical data in purposeful law-making, and advertently questions the validity of our law that is so often value-laden. Another article worth mentioning is “Contextualising Constitutions” by Mary-Rose Lin, a first year law student whose emphatic writing style may cause you to mistake her for a certain Public Law professor. Only the best of us can take Public Law and make it pithily relevant. Mary-Rose Lin does just that as she locates our constitution within Singapore’s autochthonous jurisprudence.
Finally, I would like to extend my heartfelt appreciation to the editorial committee, without whom this legal journal would not have been possible. It has been a joy editing and pouring through pages of academic commentary with you.
As Aakash has already elucidated, the autodidactic demands of writing for Lex Loci cannot be overstated. Our writers have once again proven that the spirit of academia is alive and well; living 6000 miles away does not stop us from being passionate about the laws of our land.
David Lui Editor-in-Chief
We stand on the shoulders of giants; and like Esther Lim and Kok Weng Keong before us, it is now time for a new batch of editors to take over this special committee. I am confident that Lex Loci will continue to stay true to its roots as a liberal legal journal tempered with a healthy dose of Singaporean pragmatism. Only through purposeful discourse can we experience law as the discipline that it should be.
MAN AGIN G EDITO R IA L C O M M IT T EE
Ho Sheng Yung (Managing Editor), David Lui (Editor-in-Chief ), Eva Teh (Managing Editor), Jonathan Tan (Managing Editor), [not in picture] Tan Ee Hsien (Vice Chief Editor)
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