Abstracts
Legal Status of British Burmese Subjects in Northern Siam During the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Thanyarat Apiwong
(SOAS, London)
Traces of the Colonial in Contemporary Practices. Personal Status Laws and their Repercussions among Religious Minorities in Myanmar
Judith Beyer
(Martin Luther Universität Halle)
The Making of Market/Family Legal Distinction in the Oriental Empire: The Germany-Japan-Taiwan Trilogy
Yun-Ru Chen
(Fellow, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School)
The Shaping and Deployment of Personal Status in French India and Indochina
Natasha Pairaudeau
(Centre for History and Economics / History Faculty, University of Cambridge)
Cultural identities and social justice: Gender and the politics of personal law in post-independence India
Saumya Saxena
(University of Cambridge, Faculty of History, PhD 2nd year)
Of Widows and Daughters: Kapitan Cultural Brokerage and the Creolized Legal-Ritual Order of Chinese Patrilineal Succession in 19th Century Colonial Java
Guo-Quan Seng
(University of Chicago)
Historicizing Personal Law in British India
Julia Stephens
(Centre for History and Economics / Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge)