Palimpsest Constitution - The Social Life of Constitutions in Myanmar

This book explores the significance of past constitutions in Myanmar through constitutional ethnography and archival research. By tracing Myanmar's modern constitutional history, it demonstrates how people draw upon constitutional legacies from the late colonial era to the postcolonial, socialist, and military constitutional regimes.

About the author

Melissa Crouch is professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Product details

• Authors: Melissa Crouch, Prof Melissa (Professor Crouch
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 02.10.2025
• EAN: 9780198956884
• ISBN: 978-0-19-895688-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford Studies in Asian Laws
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Myanmar, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Constitutional, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, Political science & theory, Legal History, Asian History, Political science and theory, Myanmar (Burma), Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general