Andrew Harding

Professor Andrew Harding is a leading scholar in Asian legal studies and comparative constitutional law. He is a former Head of the Law School at SOAS, University of London; a former Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies (CALS) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and founding editor of the book series, Constitutional Systems of the World (Hart/ Bloomsbury), which has produced 40 volumes covering most of the world's important constitutional systems, and has pioneered the use of contextual analysis. His own volume in this series, The Constitution of Malaysia: A Contextual Analysis, is now in its second edition (2022), and is widely read by Malaysian law students, scholars, lawyers, and judges. He is the author or editor of 25 books and more than 200 academic publications. His innovative new book, Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia, was by Hart/ Bloomsbury in 2025. He is currently also an Academic Fellow at CALS, National University of Singapore, Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor at Thammasat University in Bangkok. The book has been the subject of book panels in London, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, and Kuching. For details, see Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia: Constitutionalism in Asia Andrew Harding Hart Publishing Apart from his academic work, Andrew finds time to write fiction, and is the author of two coming-of-age novels, The Agnes (2021), and The Knowledge (2024).