Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2006-07

Junior Fellow, SJD Candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.

Rueban has taught in several areas of law, including the law of evidence, comparative anti-terrorism law, and legal philosophy. He has conducted workshops about the rule of law within illiberal democracies such as Malaysia and Singapore at the University of Toronto and has presented on the connections between philosophical debates about law and morality and the abuse of detention without trial in these countries.

Rueban recently completed his doctoral dissertation from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, Realizing a Moral Conception of the Rule of Law: Judicial Disempowerment and Constitutional Interpretation in Malaysia, which uses a case study of judicial responses to abuses of power in Malaysia and Singapore to illuminate philosophical debates about the moral character of the rule of law. In addition, his MPhil work, Our Law: An argument for Jurisprudence from the Inside-Out (2001), defends Ronald Dworkin’s theory of law as integrity and examines its utility as allowing a form of “active authorship”, a theory grounded in Dworkin showing how legal subjects might mount claims about justice as legal arguments within illiberal regimes. Currently, he is working on a book chapter analyzing approaches to judicial review of detention without trial under the Malaysian Internal Security Act 1960 and its effects for the rule of law in that country for A. J. Harding & H. P. Lee ed., Constitutional Landmarks in Malaysia:The First 50 Years. And he is writing a paper entitled “Does the Duty of Responsible Governance Outrun the Rule of Law” as an answer to claims by governments post 9/11 that the duty of responsible governance allows them to engage in measures that are inconsistent with the rule of law to answer the threat of global terrorism.

Rueban received his MPhil from the Australian National University and his LLB from the University of London. He has taught at the Australian National University, University Malaya, and the University of Toronto.