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Syllabi
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I teach several courses that cover aspects of South Asian legal history. All are undergraduate courses in the UW Legal Studies program, an interdisciplinary major that combines law, the social sciences and humanities.Here are the syllabi:
- Law and Colonialism (spring 2013)
- Lawyers & Judges in the British Empire (spring 2008)
- Legal Pluralism (spring 2013)
- Medico-Legal History (scheduled for spring 2014)
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(version updated on 16 May 2013)
Links to useful materials & catalogues:
- A2A (UK)
- Afghan Legal History Project
- Anglo-American Legal Tradition
- Anglo-Indian Legal History
- Avalon Project
- British Library Integrated Catalogue
- British Library: Asia, Pacific & Africa
- Cambr. Oral History Collection
- Constituent Assembly Debates
- Cooperative Hindu Law Bibliography
- Digital South Asia Library
- Emory Legal History
- Georgetown Guide to Legal History
- Heinonline (by subscription)
- HLS Online Legal History Sources
- India: A Legal Research Guide
- Indian Kanoon
- Indlaw (by subscription)
- Inner Temple Database (UK)
- Inst. for Adv. Legal Studies Library (UK)
- JUSTIS (UK) (by subscription)
- LawNet (Sri Lanka)
- Legal History on the Web
- Legal History Project
- Making Britain
- Making of Modern Law (by subscription)
- Manupatra
- myLaw
- National Archives (UK)
- Ox. Int'l Encyc. of Legal History (by subscription)
- Pakistan Law Site (by subscription)
- Parliamentary Papers
- Princeton Libnet Guide
- Scott MS: Indians at Inns, 1859-1927
- SOAS Library (UK)
- Times Dig. Archive (UK)(by subscription)
- Times of India (by subscription)
- Wharton’s Law Lexicon (1892)
- Worldcat
Links to useful organizations, networks & opportunities:
- Am. Institute for Indian Studies
- Am. Society for Legal History
- Bombay High Court
- Calcutta High Court
- ESCLH
- Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History
- K.R. Cama Institute (India)
- LASSNet (India)
- Law and Society Association (US)
- Legal Biography Project
- Legal History Blog (US)
- Madras High Court
- National Archives of India
- National Library of India
- NSF Law & Soc. Sciences Program
- Privy Council Project
- SAHSA
- Social Sciences Research Council
- UW Global Legal Studies Center
- UW Institute for Legal Studies
- UW Law & Society Post-Doc Fellowship
- UW Law School
- UW Legal Studies
- UW S. Asian Legal Studies Preconference
- UW S. Asian Legal Studies Working Group
- UW-Madison Center for South Asia
- UW-Madison History Dept