In
recent years, several faculty with interests and expertise
on various aspects of law in South Asia have joined UW-Madison.
They join long-time UW-Madison Professor Marc Galanter whose
extensive work on law in South Asia has been extremely influential
in both American scholarship and in South Asia.
In
2006, an informal working group was established to
coordinate and promote events pertaining to South Asian
legal studies and to facilitate intellectual exchange
between faculty and students at the University with
shared interests in the field. The disciplinary interests
of the working group include political science, history,
religious studies, and, within law itself, environmental
law, human rights, Islamic law, constitutional law,
discrimination, women’s studies,
and legal profession. More complete descriptions of faculty
interests are given on the respective websites for
individual faculty listed below. Students or faculty
interested in joining the occasional discussions of
the working group are encouraged to contact any of
the faculty listed below.
PAST EVENTS:
(also
consult the
Global Legal Studies Initiative List of Events)
October
11, 2007:
Workshop
on South Asian Legal Studies ("Categories of Legal
Identity") to coincide with the South Asia Conference
held annually at UW-Madison, hosted by Professors Mitra
Sharafi and Marc Galanter of the UW Law School (details
pending). For more information, please go to http://southasiaconference.wisc.edu/preconf_2.html
October
18, 2006:
"
Law-Dependent Public Goods: A Proposed Strategic Framework
for a Results-Based Approach to Legal and Judicial Reform” by
Professor Mohan Gopal, Head, National Judicial Academy,
Bhopal, India, and formerly, Vice Chancellor, National
Law School, Bangalore, India and Legal Advisor, Operations
Policy, World Bank Wednesday, 10/18/2006 1.20-3.20 pm,
Lubar Commons (7200 Law), Hosted by Professor John Ohnesorge
and sponsored by GLSI, ILS, EALSC and CSA. Open to all,
no registration required. For details, contact Sumudu
Atapattu.
October
26, 2006:
"The Art of Forgetting and Other
Ways of Remembering: A Dialogue on Political Violence and
Memory,” documentary film on Sri Lanka and presentation
by Lisa Kois, human rights lawyer, writer and film maker,
the inaugural lecture in the series Law, War and Human
Security, hosted by Professor Heinz Klug, UW Law School
and Professor Helen Kinsella, UW Political Science, co-sponsored
by the Global Legal Studies Initiative, the Transnational
Feminism Research Circle and UW Political Science Department,
Thursday, 10/26/06, 3.30-5.00 pm, Room 3260 Law. Open
to all, no registration required.
FACULTY
Atapattu, Sumudu – Law
School
Davis, Donald – Department
of Languages
& Cultures of Asia
Galanter,
Marc – John
and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies
Quraishi,
Asifa – Law
School
Sharafi,
Mitra – Law School & Department
of History
Sinha,
Aseema – Department
of Political Science
