Monday, July 17, 2023

LHR 41:2

Law and History Review 41:2 has been published.  It is a remarkable, guest-edited collection of articles on Law, Courts, and Constitutions in Twentieth-Century South Asia, four of them published open access.

Law, Courts, and Constitutions in Twentieth-Century South Asia
Saumya Saxena, Alastair McClure

The Drafting of the Constitution of the Union of Burma in 1947: Dominion Status, Indo–Burmese Relations, and the Irish Example
Donal K. Coffey

Nepal's Constitutional Foundations between Revolution and Cold War (1950–60)
Mara Malagodi

Constitutions and Modernity in Post-Colonial Afghanistan: Ethnolinguistic Nationalism and the Making of an Afghan Nation-State

Elisabeth Leake

Negotiating Nationhood: Constitutional Warfare, International Law, and the Birth of Bangladesh
Cynthia Farid

Policing Sati: Law, Order, and Spectacle in Postcolonial India

Saumya Saxena

Killing in the Name Of? Capital Punishment in Colonial and Postcolonial India
Alastair McClure

Mergers and Legal Fictions: Coverture and Intermarried Women in India
Leilah Vevaina

Courts and Constitutions in South Asia and the Global South: A View from the Middle East
Faiz Ahmed 

--Dan Ernst