Mitra Sharafi
@mitrasharafi.bsky.social
Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel! Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
I am thrilled to be the new #ASLH president, receiving the gavel yesterday from former president Barbara Welke at our Detroit conference awards ceremony. My term is 2025-27. Excited to get to work! #legalhistory
November 16, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I am thrilled to be the new #ASLH president, receiving the gavel yesterday from former president Barbara Welke at our Detroit conference awards ceremony. My term is 2025-27. Excited to get to work! #legalhistory
One lucky winner of New Works in Legal History raffle at Detroit #ASLH 2025 @kalramnath.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
One lucky winner of New Works in Legal History raffle at Detroit #ASLH 2025 @kalramnath.bsky.social
A million congratulations and thank you, Gautham!
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
A million congratulations and thank you, Gautham!
Reminder for 2025 Detroit #ASLH people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day
November 13, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reminder for 2025 Detroit #ASLH people: check out our *new* table for recently pub. legal history books not otherwise represented @ book sale! Authors donate a copy & everyone else can enter raffle for each book. I'll pull names of winners on Sat. morning & winners pick up books before end of day
The Annual Conference on South Asia just wrapped up in Madison--now in its *53rd year.* Thanks to @andreafowler13.bsky.social, Sarah Beckham and their amazing @uw-madsouthasia.bsky.social team for making it all happen. Such an energizing place to share research, as always!
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Annual Conference on South Asia just wrapped up in Madison--now in its *53rd year.* Thanks to @andreafowler13.bsky.social, Sarah Beckham and their amazing @uw-madsouthasia.bsky.social team for making it all happen. Such an energizing place to share research, as always!
A highlight of my recent trip to Japan for the 5th Asian Legal History Conference was discovering the teamLab digital art museums in Tokyo: #teamlabborderless #teamlabplanets. Wondrous! And they are in other places,too (incl. Singapore Macau Abu Dhabi Hamburg). The future of museums: www.teamlab.art
August 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A highlight of my recent trip to Japan for the 5th Asian Legal History Conference was discovering the teamLab digital art museums in Tokyo: #teamlabborderless #teamlabplanets. Wondrous! And they are in other places,too (incl. Singapore Macau Abu Dhabi Hamburg). The future of museums: www.teamlab.art
Reporting back from another fantastic Asian Legal History Conference! This was the 5th--in Kyoto, Japan @doshishauniversity.bsky.social. Thanks & congrats to @chrismroberts.bsky.social, Anselmo Reyes, & everyone else who made it happen. Keynotes & vegan dinner @ shrine were especially memorable.
August 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Reporting back from another fantastic Asian Legal History Conference! This was the 5th--in Kyoto, Japan @doshishauniversity.bsky.social. Thanks & congrats to @chrismroberts.bsky.social, Anselmo Reyes, & everyone else who made it happen. Keynotes & vegan dinner @ shrine were especially memorable.
New ASLH initiative for anyone who wants to propose a virtual #LegalHistory workshop for AY2025-26! This is an especially useful format now--with travel risks & restrictions for so many scholars from around the world (hard to meet in person but at least there's zoom). Applications due: June 30, 2025
May 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
New ASLH initiative for anyone who wants to propose a virtual #LegalHistory workshop for AY2025-26! This is an especially useful format now--with travel risks & restrictions for so many scholars from around the world (hard to meet in person but at least there's zoom). Applications due: June 30, 2025
Want to be part of the ASLH Early Career Virtual Legal History Workshop in AY2025-26? Hosted by Dirk Hartog & Michelle McKinley. Here's the Call. Application deadline: June 30, 2025 #LegalHistory
May 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Want to be part of the ASLH Early Career Virtual Legal History Workshop in AY2025-26? Hosted by Dirk Hartog & Michelle McKinley. Here's the Call. Application deadline: June 30, 2025 #LegalHistory
Great opportunity for grad students working on #LegalHistory topics! Applications for the ASLH Student Research Colloquium (Detroit, Nov.12-13, 2025) are due on June 1
May 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Great opportunity for grad students working on #LegalHistory topics! Applications for the ASLH Student Research Colloquium (Detroit, Nov.12-13, 2025) are due on June 1
Recovering from a fantastic trip to Bangalore over spring break for "Contours of Legal History" workshop @ National Law School. Here are some highlights, including a campus pup who came in to inspect, a much appreciated motto (NLSIU--"where the mind is without fear") & gorgeous plants at airport
April 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Recovering from a fantastic trip to Bangalore over spring break for "Contours of Legal History" workshop @ National Law School. Here are some highlights, including a campus pup who came in to inspect, a much appreciated motto (NLSIU--"where the mind is without fear") & gorgeous plants at airport
No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.
March 16, 2025 at 12:40 AM
No cheating. Post the last photo of your pet.
Here's an image I love (now public domain) that appears in the article. It depicts 3 Parsi greats from the early constitutionalist phase of Indian National Congress--Pherozeshah Mehta, Dadabhai Naoroji & Dinsha Wacha. I argue that they bridged Parsi legal culture & Indian constitutionalism. (4/x)
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Here's an image I love (now public domain) that appears in the article. It depicts 3 Parsi greats from the early constitutionalist phase of Indian National Congress--Pherozeshah Mehta, Dadabhai Naoroji & Dinsha Wacha. I argue that they bridged Parsi legal culture & Indian constitutionalism. (4/x)
Thrilled to receive gorgeous new book by @moubanerjee28.bsky.social in the mail! For legal historians: I recommend ch.3 on the great Tagore will case. #SouthAsianHistory Congratulations, Mou!!
December 27, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Thrilled to receive gorgeous new book by @moubanerjee28.bsky.social in the mail! For legal historians: I recommend ch.3 on the great Tagore will case. #SouthAsianHistory Congratulations, Mou!!
I have a new article out! "South Asians at the Inns of Court: Empire, Expulsion, and Redemption circa 1900" in the wonderful new Festschrift for Dirk Hartog, edited by Ken Mack & @jkatzcogan.bsky.social This is the first thing published from my new project on colonial law students at the Inns
November 24, 2024 at 4:49 PM
I have a new article out! "South Asians at the Inns of Court: Empire, Expulsion, and Redemption circa 1900" in the wonderful new Festschrift for Dirk Hartog, edited by Ken Mack & @jkatzcogan.bsky.social This is the first thing published from my new project on colonial law students at the Inns
Excited for our #ASLH session in Philly on Saturday, 28 Oct.2023 on the global history of law books and knowledge! Ryan Greenwood will be chair and commentator (replacing Assaf Likhovski)
October 26, 2023 at 4:47 PM
Excited for our #ASLH session in Philly on Saturday, 28 Oct.2023 on the global history of law books and knowledge! Ryan Greenwood will be chair and commentator (replacing Assaf Likhovski)
Please join us for this ASLH roundtable in memory of Prof.Laurie Wood on Friday, 27 Oct.2023 in Philadelphia #aslh. Nurfadzilah Yahaya will be replacing Tamar Menashe
October 26, 2023 at 4:39 PM
Please join us for this ASLH roundtable in memory of Prof.Laurie Wood on Friday, 27 Oct.2023 in Philadelphia #aslh. Nurfadzilah Yahaya will be replacing Tamar Menashe
Exciting update on Privy Council case records! After many yrs (15+?) of being in transit/storage from Downing St to National Archives @Kew, they are gradually being made available to the public--100yrs after case date (unless FOI request). Here's the case I wrote my diss. about (in Downing St days):
October 17, 2023 at 10:11 PM
Exciting update on Privy Council case records! After many yrs (15+?) of being in transit/storage from Downing St to National Archives @Kew, they are gradually being made available to the public--100yrs after case date (unless FOI request). Here's the case I wrote my diss. about (in Downing St days):
Excited about virtual roundtable I'll be co-hosting on our special issue in International Journal of Law in Context--on law in South Asia. Wed. Oct.18, 2023 at 8.30am-10.30 US Central Time. Here's the line-up:
October 8, 2023 at 9:18 PM
Excited about virtual roundtable I'll be co-hosting on our special issue in International Journal of Law in Context--on law in South Asia. Wed. Oct.18, 2023 at 8.30am-10.30 US Central Time. Here's the line-up:
Coming up on Wednesday, Oct.18, 2023: 17th Annual South Asia Legal Studies Workshop. It will be online (1st half) + in person (2nd half) at the U. of Wisconsin Law School, right before the Annual Conference on South Asia. I am no longer an organizer, but look forward to participating. Join us!
October 8, 2023 at 7:20 PM
Coming up on Wednesday, Oct.18, 2023: 17th Annual South Asia Legal Studies Workshop. It will be online (1st half) + in person (2nd half) at the U. of Wisconsin Law School, right before the Annual Conference on South Asia. I am no longer an organizer, but look forward to participating. Join us!