Social Sciences
Mitra Sharafi is a legal historian whose work focuses on colonial India. After completing a history degree in Canada (BA McGill, 1996) and studying law in the UK (BA Cambridge, 1998; BCL Oxford, 1999), Sharafi did a doctorate in history (PhD Princeton, 2006). She is currently working on a book project based upon her dissertation, "Bella's Case: Parsi Identity and the Law in Colonial Rangoon, Bombay and London, 1887-1925," which received the Canada-based South Asia Council?s 2007 Dissertation Award. Sharafi joined the UW Law School and Legal Studies program in July 2007, following a two-year research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, and a short visiting fellowship at the Socio-Legal Research Center of Griffith University, Australia. She teaches courses on law and colonialism, legal pluralism, and contracts.
- Announcement
Dear Everyone, Many apologies for being offline and if we have missed any announcements sent to us. Just to let you know that we are garnering several energies to plan the next edition of LASSnet in Delhi 2016. Details will follow in July or August....
- South Asian Legal Studies Workshop In Madison, Wisconsin
Dear All, The South Asian Legal Studies Pre-conference Workshop will be taking place in Madison, USA on Thursday, Oct.16, 2008: http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/preconference.html#4 The workshop will immediately precede the larger 37th Annual Conference...
- May 29 South Asia Lunch At Montreal Lsa Meeting
Please join us for the annual South Asia CRN Lunch at this year's Law and Society Meeting in Montreal, Canada. The lunch will take place on Thursday, May 29, from 12.30-2pm at the Brasserie Brunoise, 1012 de la Montagne: http://www.brunoise.ca/brasserie/index.html...
- Roshan De Silva-wijeyeratne
Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne, School of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - [email protected] to the Law and Social Sciences Research Network. Roshan joined the Law School from the University of East London (UK) in 2001....
- Bronwen Morgan
Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow...
Social Sciences
Mitra Sharafi
Mitra Sharafi is a legal historian whose work focuses on colonial India. After completing a history degree in Canada (BA McGill, 1996) and studying law in the UK (BA Cambridge, 1998; BCL Oxford, 1999), Sharafi did a doctorate in history (PhD Princeton, 2006). She is currently working on a book project based upon her dissertation, "Bella's Case: Parsi Identity and the Law in Colonial Rangoon, Bombay and London, 1887-1925," which received the Canada-based South Asia Council?s 2007 Dissertation Award. Sharafi joined the UW Law School and Legal Studies program in July 2007, following a two-year research fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University, and a short visiting fellowship at the Socio-Legal Research Center of Griffith University, Australia. She teaches courses on law and colonialism, legal pluralism, and contracts.
- Announcement
Dear Everyone, Many apologies for being offline and if we have missed any announcements sent to us. Just to let you know that we are garnering several energies to plan the next edition of LASSnet in Delhi 2016. Details will follow in July or August....
- South Asian Legal Studies Workshop In Madison, Wisconsin
Dear All, The South Asian Legal Studies Pre-conference Workshop will be taking place in Madison, USA on Thursday, Oct.16, 2008: http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/preconference.html#4 The workshop will immediately precede the larger 37th Annual Conference...
- May 29 South Asia Lunch At Montreal Lsa Meeting
Please join us for the annual South Asia CRN Lunch at this year's Law and Society Meeting in Montreal, Canada. The lunch will take place on Thursday, May 29, from 12.30-2pm at the Brasserie Brunoise, 1012 de la Montagne: http://www.brunoise.ca/brasserie/index.html...
- Roshan De Silva-wijeyeratne
Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne, School of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - [email protected] to the Law and Social Sciences Research Network. Roshan joined the Law School from the University of East London (UK) in 2001....
- Bronwen Morgan
Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow...