Academic Team - Andrew Harding, Proffessor of Law

Academic Team

Andrew Harding | Professor of Law

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 36 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 book, Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia, is to be published by Hart/ Bloomsbury in 2025. He is currently Academic Fellow at CALS, National University of Singapore, Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor at Thammasat University in Bangkok. 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).

 

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Speciality areas

 

Comparative constitutional law, Constitutional law in SE Asia, Asian legal systems, Law and development, Legal history

Highest qualification and awarding body

PhD (Monash)

UoRM programmes taught/supervised

 Public Law

Research interests

Constitutional law in SE Asia, decentralisation

Current projects

 

Monograph with Hart/ Bloomsbury, ‘Decentralised governance in SE Asia’; Special issue for the Asian Journal of Law and Society on Asian monarchies

Recent publications

  • The Constitution of Malaysia: A Contextual Analysis (2nd edition, forthcoming April 2022, Hart/ Bloomsbury)
  • Is the “Basic Structure Doctrine” a Basic Structure Doctrine?’, in R Abeyratne and Bui Ngoc Son (eds), The law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia (2021, Routledge)
  • A Harding and D Shah, ‘Governance by Memorandum: Constitutional Soft Law in Malaysia’, ICONN Blog, November 2021
  • ‘Law and Development in Malaysia: A Vision Beyond 2020?’ in Salim Ali Farrer and P Subramaniam (eds), Law and Justice in Malaysia: 2020 and Beyond (Thomson Reuters, 2021)
  • Ed A Harding and M Pongsapan, Thai Legal History: From Traditional to Modern Law (2021, Cambridge UP)

 

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