Digital Collection: Legal History of Myanmar/Burma

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Legal studies of Myanmar/Burma have been booming in recent years, with exciting new work coming out by scholars like Australia-based Nick Cheesman and Melissa Crouch. Now the Asian Legal Information Institute brings us a fabulous set of online legal history resources for Myanmar/Burma, thanks to the UNSW Faculty of Law's Australia/Myanmar Constitutional Development Project. These English-language resources are open-access.

Some highlights:

• constitutions, 1935-2008
• statutes, 1839-2015
• case law: colonial law reports  including the All India Reporter for Lower Burma, Upper Burma, and Rangoon, and Privy Council decisions
• law journal articles, international agreements, and UN resolutions about Myanmar/Burma

Here is a guide to the collection.