SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Banda, Fareda (2020) African Migration, Human Rights and Literature. Oxford, UK: Hart.

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World: History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge. London: I.B. Tauris. (Islamic South Asia series)

Hamzić, Vanja and Mir-Hosseini, Ziba (2010) Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts. London: Women Living Under Muslim Laws.

Lai, Yan-ho (2021) 破解香港的威權法治: 傘後與反送中以來的民主運動. Taiwan: Showwe Information. (Xie li shi, 199)

Mou, Yu (2020) The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice. Oxford: Hart. (Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law, Vol. 17)

Shodhan, Amrita (2001) A Question of Community: Religious Groups and Colonial Law. Kolkata: Samya.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Flügel, Peter, ed. (2019) Jaina Law and Society. London: Routledge. (Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies 9) (Forthcoming)

Gerteis, Christopher and George, Timothy S., eds. (2012) Japan since 1945: from Postwar to Post-Bubble. London and New York: Bloomsbury.

Book Chapters

Bhandar, Brenna (2018) '“Fault-lines in the Settler Colony: On the Margins of Settled Law”.' In: Muller, G, Brits, R, Slade, B V, Van Wyk, J and Pienaar, G J, (eds.), Transformative Property Law: Festschrift in honour of AJ van der Walt. Cape Town, South Africa: Juta and Company, pp. 402-418.

Cox, Whitney (2010) 'Law, Literature, and the Problem of Politics in Medieval India.' In: Lubin, Timothy, Davis, Donald and Krishnan, Jayanth, (eds.), Hinduism and Law: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 167-182.

Lai, Eric (2022) 'From Rule of Law to Rule by Fear: An Annual Review of the National Security Law in Hong Kong.' In: Cheng, Joseph Yu-shek, Lodén, Torbjörn and Stünke, Larissa, (eds.), Politics in East Asia Today: Between Democracy, Debates, and Discourse. Stockholm: Institute for Security and Development Policy, pp. 17-27.

Lai, Eric (2022) 'A 'Leader-full' Movement Under Authoritarianism: Mobilization Networks in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement.' In: Spires, Anthony J. and Ogawa, Akihiro, (eds.), Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 19-39. (Routledge Contemporary Asia Series)

Rao, Rahul (2011) 'Queer in the Time of Terror.' In: Narrain, Arvind and Gupta, Alok, (eds.), Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on Law. New Delhi: Yoda Press, pp. 43-66.

Sharma, Kanika (2020) 'Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case.' In: Bonnerjee, Samraghni, (ed.), Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies. London: Routledge. (Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality)

Sharma, Kanika and Lammasniemi, Laura (2024) 'Age of Marriage Act 1929.' In: Auchmuty, Rosemary, Rackley, Erika and Takayanagi, Mari, (eds.), Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years: Not for Want of Trying. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 189-196.

Journal Article

Deakin, Simon and Meng, Gaofeng (2022) 'Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system.' Journal of Institutional Economics, 18 (4). pp. 521-535.

Goldblatt, Beth and Rai, Shirin M. (2018) 'Recognising the full costs of care? The Gendered Politics of Compensation for families in South Africa’s silicosis class action.' Social and Legal Studies, 27 (6). pp. 671-694.

Hamzić, Vanja (2015) 'The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj.' Australian Feminist Law Journal, 40 (2). pp. 185-198.

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) 'Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies: Indonesian Archipelagic Selves beyond Sexual/Gender Universality.' Jindal Global Law Review, 4 (1). pp. 71-85.

Keenan, Sarah (2013) 'Property as Governance: Time, Space and Belonging in Australia’s Northern Territory Intervention.' Modern Law Review, 76 (3). pp. 464-493.

Lai, Yan-ho (2019) 'Lady Justice or the golden calf? The “China factor” in Hong Kong’s legal system.' Social Transformations in Chinese Societies, 15 (2). pp. 178-196.

Lai, Yan-ho (2023) 'Securitisation or Autocratisation? Hong Kong’s Rule of Law under the Shadow of China’ Authoritarian Governance.' Journal of Asian and African Studies, 58 (1). pp. 8-25.

Lai, Yan-ho and Kellogg, Thomas E. (2022) 'Departure from International Human Rights Law and Comparative Best Practice: HKSAR v Tong Ying Kit.' Hong Kong Law Journal, 52 (2). pp. 466-486.

Lai, Yan-ho and Sing, Ming (2020) 'Solidarity and Implications of a Leaderless Movement in Hong Kong: Its Strengths and Limtitations.' Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 53 (4). pp. 41-67.

Lammasniemi, Laura and Sharma, Kanika (2021) 'Governing Conjugality: Social Hygiene and The Doctrine of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in England and India in the Nineteenth Century.' Australian Feminist Law Journal, 47 (1). pp. 67-84.

Leyland, Peter (2006) 'Droit Administratif Thai Style: A Comparative Analysis of the Administrative Courts in Thailand.' Australian Journal of Asian Law, 8 (2). pp. 121-154.

Lipschutz, Kari (2011) 'Brazil’s Maritime Claim: A Threat to UNCLOS?' Yale Journal of International Affairs, 6 (1). pp. 113-115.

Meng, Gaofeng (2019) 'The Household Responsibility System, Karl Marx’s Theory of Property and Antony M. Honoré’s Concept of Ownership.' Science and Society, 83 (3). pp. 300-326.

Sharma, Kanika (2020) 'Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight.' Law and History Review, 38 (1). pp. 151-175.

Tan, Carol G.S. (2015) 'How A "Lawless" China Made Modern America: An Epic Told in Orientalism, a review of Teemu Ruskola, Legal Orientalism: China, The United States and Modern Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013) pp. 338 $39.95.' Harvard Law Review, 128 (6). pp. 1677-1704.

Conference or Workshop Items

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) Beyond the Binary Equations of Sexual/Gender Experience: An Inquiry into Indonesian Selfhood and Polyversality. In: Otherness, Subjectivity and Representation, October 2011, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) Indonesian Archipelagic Ipseities: Beyond Human Rights and Dichotomies of Personhood. In: Queer at King's Lectures Series, December 2011, King's College London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) The Khwajasara Movement and the Challenge of Translocality. In: 5th LAEMOS Conference, April 2014, Havana, Cuba.

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) On Muslim Sexual and Gender Diversity and Lifeworlds beyond Legal Form. In: Law, Religion and LGBT Rights, July 2013, Brunel Law School, Brunel University. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) Place, Power and Sexual/Gender Irony: Indonesian Archipelagic and Islandic Selves. In: European Association of Social Anthropologists 12th Biennial Conference, July 2012, Nanterre, France. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2012) Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan. In: International Law and the Periphery Conference, February 2012, American University in Cairo. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) Regendering the Nation: The Khwajasara Movement in Pakistan. In: 18th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, 18-20 April 2013, Harriman Institute, Columbia University. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) The Resistance from a “Third Space”: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms. In: The Politics of Living Religion/Spirituality and Gender/Sexuality in Everyday Context Conference, May 2011, Novotel Hotel St Pancras, London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) (Sub)alternating Imperia?: Law, Justice and Gender/Sexual Politics in Pakistan and Indonesia. In: Pro-Seminar on Gender in Postcolonial Legal Orders, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) (Sub)alternative Muslim Perceptions of Law and Justice: Beyond Politics of Fiqh and Inadequacy of Human Rights Discourse. In: Queer Perspectives on Law: Sharing Reflections, SOAS Spring Queer Legal Theory Workshop, May 2011, SOAS, University of London. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2013) The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj. In: Dogs, Pigs and Children: Changing Laws in Colonial Britain, September 2013, Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS, University of London.

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) Unbecoming One: Legal Construction of Muslim Family in Indonesia. In: Pro-Seminar on Gender in Postcolonial Legal Orders, June 2011, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard University. (Unpublished)

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) Understanding Crime in Islamic Jurisprudence and Muslim Societies (Part 1 of the author’s lecture series ‘Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition: A Reappraisal’). In: Global Law and Economic Policy Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy (of Harvard Law School), January 2014, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.

Hamzić, Vanja (2011) Unlearning Human Rights and False Grand Dichotomies? In: Human Rights Beyond the Law: Politics, Practices, Performances of Protest, September 2011, Jindal Global University, Sonipat and New Delhi, India.

Waghmar, Burzine (2013) Yet Another Stan? Talibanisation and Islamic Radicalism in Balochistan and Southwest Asia. In: Global and Regional Security Challenges in South Asia: What Future for Balochistan, 24 February 2013, The Royal Society, London.

Monographs and Working Papers

Anderson, Michael R. (1992) Public Nuisance and Private Purpose: Policed Environments in British India, 1860-1947. London: SOAS School of Law Research Paper No. 05/2011.

Birks, Teresa (2006) Neglected Duty: Providing Comprehensive Reparations to the Indonesian "1965 Victims" of State Persecution. New York: ICTJ.

Menski, Werner F (2010) Sanskrit Law: Excavating Vedic Legal Pluralism. London: SOAS School of Law Research Paper No. 05-2010.

Onyema, Emilia (2024) Perceptions on Africa-connected Arbitration: Seats, Female Arbitrators and Tribunal Secretaries. London: SOAS University of London.

Perry-Kessaris, Amanda and Anderson, Michael R. (1996) Access to Environmental Justice in Bangalore: Legal Gateways in Context. London: SOAS School of Law Research Paper No. 04/2011.

Sriram, Chandra (2010) Unfinished Business: Peacebuilding, Accountability, and Rule of Law in Lebanon. London: SOAS School of Law Research Paper No. 16/2010.

Tan, Carol G.S. (2014) How Dewi Became A Litigant: Migrant Domestic Workers as Litigants in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong.

Book Reviews

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) 'Book Review: The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State by Iza R. Hussin.' LSE Review of Books .

Hamzić, Vanja (2014) 'Review of Corrine Lennox and Matthew Waites (eds), Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in The Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, 2013).' Human Rights Law Review, 14 (2). pp. 386-390.

Hamzić, Vanja (2016) 'Review of Faisal Devji, Muslim Zion: Pakistan as a Political Idea (Hurst and Company, London, 2013).' South Asia Research, 36 (2). pp. 288-290.

Lai, Eric (2022) 'Book Review: Dictatorship by Degrees: Xi Jinping in China by Steven P. Feldman.' China Information, 36 (2). pp. 286-288.

Lai, Eric (2022) 'Review of: Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian Veg, Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, ISBN 9781557291912.' Journal of Development Studies, 58 (11). pp. 2410-2411.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Deakin, Simon and Meng, Gaofeng (2022) Beyond Private Property Versus Public Property. JoIE Blog: The official blog of the Journal of Institutional Economics [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Ohdedar, Birsha (2024) India’s New ‘Climate Right’: Boon or Bane for Climate Justice? Socio-Legal Review Forum [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Films

Manson, Charles (2018) Law and the Tibetan Empire. British Library. Available from https://soundcloud.com/the-british-library/law-and....

Other

Bartlett, Peter and Hamzić, Vanja (2010) 'Reforming Mental Disability Law in Africa: Practical Tips and Suggestions.' Nottingham: University of Nottingham.