Bio
Jothie Rajah is a full-time appointee to faculty of the ABF. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia. She was awarded the Law Faculty's 2010 Harold Luntz Graduate Research…
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Research focus
The intersections of law, language and power in the following areas: law, legitimacy and authoritarianism; international organizations and the global public sphere in constructions of norms for the rule of law; and the relationship between law, religion and national identity.
Professional Service & Recognition
Law & Society Association Dissertation Committee Honorable Mention, 2011
Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2011
Harold Luntz Graduate Thesis Award for Excellence in the PhD, Melbourne Law School, 2011
Member, Conference Steering Committee, First International Conference on the Legal Histories of the British Empire, July 2012, supported by the American Society of Legal History, the Australian and New Zealand Legal History Association, and the Osgood Society for Canadian Legal History.
Co-Convenor (with W. Pue and B. Blum), Collaborative Research Network 15, British Colonial Legalities, Law and Society Association.
Co-organizer, LSA Roundtable, Subversive Legalities: British Colonial Subjects and the Rule of Law, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL 2010