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Academic Writing

‘Abysmal Jurisprudence: On the Genesis of John Finnis’s Practical Guide to Statesmen’ (forthcoming 2024) University of Toronto Law Journal.

‘The Making of Empire’ in Peter Cane and Harshan Kumarasingham (eds), The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom: The Changing Constitution (Cambridge University Press, 2023) 468-495.

‘How To Do Things With Legal Theory’ (2022) 18 International Journal of Law in Context 373–382.

‘Australia and the World’ in Peter Cane, Lisa Ford and Mark McMillan (eds), The Cambridge Legal History of Australia (Cambridge University Press, 2022) 281-302.

‘Paradises Lost? The Constitutional Politics of “Indian” Enfranchisement in Canada, 1857-1900’ (2020) 56(2) Osgoode Hall Law Journal 1-52.

‘Commonwealth Constitution-Maker: The Life of Yash Ghai’ in Richard Drayton and Saul Dubow (eds), Commonwealth History in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), 61-80.

‘Reconstituting Canada: The Enfranchisement and Disenfranchisement of “Indians,” circa 1837–1900’ (2019) 69(4) University of Toronto Law Journal 497-539.

‘A Cure for Coups: The South African Influence on Fijian Constitutionalism’ in Rosalind Dixon and Theunis Roux (eds), Constitutional Triumphs, Constitutional Disappointments: A Critical Assessment of the 1996 South African Constitution’s Influence (Cambridge University Press, 2018), 312-40.

‘Law Evolves: The Uses of Primitive Law in Anglo-American Concepts of Modern Law, 1861-1961’ (2018) 58(4) American Journal of Legal History 535-63.

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Constitutional Law: South Africa (2014, Kluwer) [co-edited with Christina Murray].

‘Henry Maine and the Re-Constitution of the British Empire’ (2012) 75(4) Modern Law Review 655-73.

‘Subjects to Citizens: “Native” Enfranchisement in Reconstituting the Imperial Public of the British Empire, c. 1885-1914’ in Claudio Michelon et al. (eds), The Public in Law (Ashgate, 2012), 161-76.

‘Elusive Autonomy in Sub-Saharan Africa’ in Marc Weller and Katherine Knobbs (eds), Asymmetrical State Design and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), 97-120 [written with Christina Murray].

‘Canadian State Lethality Towards Indigenous Peoples’ in Jennifer Culbert and Austin Sarat (eds), States of Violence: War, Capital Punishment, and Letting Die (Cambridge University Press, 2009), 192-226 [written with Mark Antaki].

‘A Critical Survey of Subnational Autonomy in African States’ (2008) 38(2) Publius 248-271[co-author with Yonatan Fessha].

‘Towards a More Cooperative Local Government: The Challenge of District Intergovernmental Forums’ (2007) 22 South Africa Public Law 143-165 [co-author with Nico Steytler and Janis Jordan].

‘Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts: A Preliminary Critique’ (2006) 50(2) Journal of African Law 94-117.