Andrew James 

HARDING

Professor Andrew Harding is a leading scholar in the fields of Asian legal studies and comparative constitutional law. He commenced his academic career at NUS before moving to SOAS, University of London, where he became Head of the School of Law. He joined NUS from the University of Victoria, BC Canada, where he was Professor of Asia-Pacific Legal Relations and Director of the Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives. At NUS he has held the positions of Director of the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Director of the Asian Law Institute, and Chief Editor of the Asian Journal of Comparative Law.

Professor Harding has worked extensively on constitutional law in Malaysia and SE Asia generally, and has made extensive contributions to scholarship in comparative law, law and development, and legal history, having published 25 books as author or editor. He is co-founding-editor of Hart Publishing’s book series ‘Constitutional Systems of the World’, a major resource for contextual analysis of constitutional systems which has published 40 books since 2007; and has authored the books on Malaysia and Thailand in that series (2011, 2012). His most recent books are Thai Legal History: From Traditional to Modern Law, edited with Dr Munin Pongsapan (Cambridge UP, 2021), and Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia (Hart Publishing, forthcoming, February 2025). In addition to his attachment at the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Professor Harding is a Visiting Professor at Oxford University and Thammasat University, and is a Professor of Law and the University of Reading Malaysia. In 2024 he became an Arbitrator under the Asian International Arbitration Centre, Kuala Lumpur.

• South East Asian Legal Studies
• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Comparative Law
• Law and Development
• Environmental Law
• Malaysian Law