Andrew James 
HARDING

 
Visiting Research Professor

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 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.

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Contact

lawajh@nus.edu.sg
(65) 6516-1519
FED-02-33

Education

PhD (Monash University); MA (University of Oxford); LLM (NUS); Solicitor (England & Wales)

Curriculum Vitae

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Current Courses

Legal Systems of Asia (A)

Legal Systems of Asia (B)

Legal Systems of Asia (E)

Legal Systems of Asia (G)

Legal Systems of Asia

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 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 Thailand, and has made extensive contributions to scholarship in comparative law, and law and development, having published 20 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, and has authored the books on Malaysia and Thailand in that series (2011, 2012). His most recent book is Constitutionalism and Legal Change in Myanmar (2017).

Books
Andrew J Harding, The Constitution of Malaysia: A Contextual Analysis (2nd edn, Hart Publishing 2022)

Edited Books
Andrew J Harding and Munin Pongsapan (eds), Thai Legal History: From Traditional to Modern Law (Cambridge University Press 2021)

Book Chapters
Andrew J Harding, 'Power-Sharing in Malaysia: Coalition Politics and the Social Contract' in E.W Aboultaif, S. Keil and A. McCulloch (eds), Power-Sharing in the Global South Patterns, Practices and Potentials (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) 169

Yong-Shik Lee and Andrew J Harding, 'Law and Development' in Mathias Siems and Po Jen Yap (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press 2024) 510

Andrew J Harding, 'Constitution-Making and Autochthony: The Constitution of The Federation of Malaya 1957' in N. S. Bui and M. Malagodi (eds), Asian Comparative Constitutional Law, Volume 1: Constitution-Making (Bloomsbury Publishing 2023) 175

Andrew J Harding, 'Parameters of Constitutionalism in Malaysia and Beyond: Some Introductory Thoughts' in Ashgar Ali Ali Mohamed and Muhamad Hassan Ahmad (eds), Constitutional Law in Malaysia (LexisNexis 2022) 1

Andrew J Harding, 'Is the ‘Basic Structure Doctrine’ a Basic Structure Doctrine?' in Rehan Abeyratne and Ngoc Son Bui (eds), The Law and Politics of Unconstitutional Constitutional Amendments in Asia (Routledge 2021)

Andrew J Harding, 'Law and Development in Malaysia: A Vision Beyond 2020?' in Salim Farrar and Paul Subramaniam (eds), Law and Justice in Malaysia: 2020 and Beyond (Sweet & Maxwell Asia 2021)

Andrew J Harding, 'The "Westminster Model" Overseas: Transplantation, Adaptation and Development in Commonwealth States' in Alessandro Torre and Luigi Volpe (eds), La Costituzione Britannica: The British Constitution ( 2021) 541

Rawin Leelapana, Andrew Harding and Eugénie Mérieau, 'Thai Legal History: A Brief Literature Review' in Andrew Harding and Munin Pongsapan (eds), Thai Legal History: From Traditional to Modern Law (Cambridge University Press 2021) 15

Andrew J Harding, 'Decentralisation and Local Government Autonomy in Southeast Asia' in Asian Constitutional Law: Recent Developments and Trends (Vietnam National University 2020) 420

Andrew J Harding, 'The Rulers and the Centrality of Conventions in Malaysia’s ‘Eastminster’ Constitution' in H. Kumarasingham (ed), Viceregalism: The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth (Palgrave Macmillan 2020) 253

Journal Articles
Andrew J Harding, 'Conventions and practical interpretation in Westminster-type constitutional systems' [2023] International Journal of Constitutional Law

Andrew Harding and Harshan Kumarasingham, 'The Malay Monarchies in Constitutional and Social Conception' (2023) 9 (3) Asian Journal of Law and Society 399

Maartje De Visser and Andrew J Harding, 'Monarchical Constitutional Guardianship and Legal Métissage in Asia' (2022) 9 (3) Asian Journal of Law and Society 345

Dian AH Shah, Andrew J Harding and Jonathan N Liljeblad, 'Thematic Issue Editorial Comment: Constitutional Struggles in Asia' (2022) 50 (2) Federal Law Review 131

Andrew J Harding and Nyi Nyi Kyaw, 'The Long Struggle for Constitutional Change in Myanmar' (2022) 50 (2) Federal Law Review 192

Andrew J Harding and R Leelapatana, 'Possibilities for decentralisation in Thailand: A view from Chiang Mai' (2021) 1 (1) Thai Legal Studies 76

Andrew J Harding, 'The Dewan Negara and Constitutional Reform: Upper Houses in Comparative Perspective' (2021) 1 Journal of the Malaysian Parliament 1

Andrew J Harding and Trevor Wan, 'In conversation with Professor Andrew J Harding' (2020) 2 Hong Kong Journal of Law and Public Affairs 176

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