Michael Barry (MB) Hooker in Conversation with Kevin Tan

In September 2012, the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS) organized a Symposium on Legal Pluralism in honour of Professor Michael Barry (MB) Hooker, who first coined the term 'legal pluralism' back in 1975. Hooker had taught at the Law Faculty between 1965 and 1968 and from 1969 to 1970. He returned as Visiting Professor between 1984 and 1986. The revised proceedings of this Symposium have been published as 'Pluralism, Transnationalism and Culture in Asian Law: A Book in Honour of MB Hooker'. At the conclusion of the Symposium, Hooker consented to a 'no holds barred' interview which took place on 29 September 2012 at the Orchard Hotel. The questions posed to Hooker followed a chronological trajectory, interspersed with thematic interventions. Some of the content of this interview may already be familiar to readers of the above mentioned collection of essays as Veronica Taylor - with the collaboration of Barry and Virginia Hooker - cover much of the same ground, albeit in a different form.