What links Mormonism and India? The Church of Latter Day Saints has a presence in India today. And like other historians, scholars of South Asian history avail themselves of the genealogical riches of Mormon archives …
2019 South Asian Legal Studies Workshop
The Call for Proposals for our 13th Annual South Asia Legal Studies Workshop is now up. The annual event will be held on Thursday, October 17, 2019 at the University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, …
Cobras for cancer
This one is not exactly legal history, but it is a weird little tidbit I stumbled upon while digging around in the primary sources on forensic venomology (more about this interest here). I knew that snake venom …
In memory of John R. Hinnells
The eminent UK-based scholar of Parsi and Zoroastrian studies, John R. Hinnells, passed away at the age of 76 on May 3, 2018. He was a wonderful mentor to me , and a model of …
On popular vs. academic histories (or: why footnotes/endnotes matter)
I’m working on the history of forensic science, an area with a wealth of popular historical studies (in addition to academic ones). This has gotten me thinking about debates among academics over popular histories–whether non-fiction …
J. B. Kanga
During a recent visit to the basement of Columbia Law Library, I came across an obituary for J. B. Kanga. Kanga was a remarkable figure whose significance only became clear to me several years into …
More ideas for teaching
Following up on my last post, here are a few other teaching ideas from my friend Arudra Burra, who teaches at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi: …
Ideas for teaching
I usually blog about research, but this month I’d like to share some teaching ideas I’ve been experimenting with since I started teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007. Here are my top four: …
Annual Lunch at Law & Society meeting
Are you coming to the Law and Society Association’s annual meeting in Toronto next month? Please join us for the Joint Annual Collaborative Research Network Lunch for CRN 15: British Colonial Legalities & CRN 22: …
2018 South Asia Legal Studies Workshop
Every fall at the University of Wisconsin Law School, my colleague Sumudu Atapattu and I co-organize a one-day workshop on South Asian legal studies. In the past, we’ve only accepted full panel proposals for the …