Dr Dian A H Shah was previously a Research Fellow of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, and a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, where she taught constitutional law. Dian completed her LL.M and SJD degrees at Duke University Law School, and prior to that she graduated with an LL.B from Warwick University. Her research interests span the fields of law and religion, comparative constitutional law, and human rights, and her work focuses on the interaction of law, religion, and politics in plural and divided societies. Dian is the author of Constitutions, Religion and Politics in Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka (CUP 2017) and the co-editor of a volume on Law and Society in Malaysia: Pluralism, Religion and Ethnicity (Routledge 2018). She has also published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (I-CON), Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, and the Indonesian Journal of International and Comparative Law. She serves as the Deputy Editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law (AsJCL) and the Editor of the AsJCL’s Special Issue on ‘Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia’ (forthcoming, December 2018).
Book Chapters
Dian A. H. Shah, 'Iki Putra Mubarrak v Kerajaan Negeri Selangor and Others: Re-defining Religious Federalism in Malaysia?' in Renae Barker, Paul Babie and Neil Foster (eds), Law and Religion in the Commonwealth: The Evolution of Case Law (Hart Publishing 2022)
Dian A H Shah, 'Offences against Religion in Malaysia: Navigating the 'Secular' Federal Constitution and the Salience of Islam in the Constitutional Order' in Thio Li-ann and Jaclyn L Neo (eds), Religious Offences in Common Law Asia: Colonial Legacies, Constitutional Rights and Contemporary Practice (Hart Publishing 2021)
Journal Articles
Dian A. H. Shah, 'Political Change and the Decline and Survival of Constitutional Democracy in Malaysia and Indonesia' (2022) 8 (1) Constitutional Studies 133
