Centre for Law in Asia

Dr Max Wong

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Roles: Centre for Law in Asia Member
Qualifications: LLB (Hong Kong), LLM (SOAS), PhD (SOAS)

Research interests

Chinese customary law, comparative legal history in late imperial China and Hong Kong, legal protection of traditional cultural expression.

School of Law, Gender and Media & Centre for Law in Asia

Rule of Law in Thailand

Enhancing SOAS knowledge and capacity in the study and research of East and Southeast Asian laws, with a focus on Thai law.

24 January 2023

Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts

Please join us for the launch of Dr Mayur Suresh's new book, Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts.

6 February 2023

Book discussion on Insecure Guardians: Enforcement, Encounters and Everyday Policing

Based on extensive fieldwork and around 200 interviews, this ethnographic study reveals a distinctly ‘postcolonial condition of policing’. Mutually reinforcing phenomena of militarisation and informality have been exacerbated by an insecure state that routinely conflates combatting crime, maintaining public order, and ensuring national security.