On December 11th and 12th, Professor Lorne Neudorf joined more than 7o participants from around the world at the premier international conference for constitutional issues in Asia at the Sixth Asian Constitutional Law Forum held at the National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law. The conference was themed on the separation of powers and judicial review. Professor Neudorf presented a paper “Judicial Independence and the Evolution of Courts in Malaysia and Pakistan”, which looked at how the conception of judicial independence was shaped by the role of judges in the apex courts of Malaysia and Pakistan.