Professor Yvonne Tew has expertise in constitutional law, globally and in the U.S., with a focus on comparative constitutionalism and constitutional democracy. She is Professor of Law and Anne Fleming Research Professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., where she also serves as the Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs and Faculty Director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London.

Professor Tew is the author of Constitutional Statecraft in Asian Courts (Oxford University Press, 2020). Her scholarship has appeared in leading law journals—including the American Journal of Comparative Law, Virginia Journal of International Law, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and the Cambridge Law Journal—as well as in edited collections from Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, and Routledge. She has served on the Executive Board of the American Society of Comparative Law and is currently on the Executive Editorial Board of the American Journal of Comparative Law. She also advises international organizations and government officials on constitutional questions of judicial power, rights protection, and constitutional reform.

Professor Tew holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded the Distinction in Research Prize in the Arts and Humanities by St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. While at the University of Cambridge, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Student Law Review. She earned her first law degree from the University of Cambridge graduating with Double First Class Honors. She later completed her Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Harvard Law School on the Cambridge-Harvard Law Link scholarship, awarded to the top two final-year Cambridge law graduates entering Harvard Law School. She is a member of the New York state bar. Before joining the Georgetown Law faculty, she held research fellowships at Columbia Law School and New York University School of Law.