Finally, A Turn To South Asia

I thought I'd highlight a particularly significant symposium we've just published in the Drexel Law Review: Perspectives on Fundamental Rights in South Asia.  The event was organized by my colleague Anil Kalhan and presented as a panel at last winter's AALS meeting,  in anticipation of the formation of a new Law and South Asian Studies section.  Marc Galanter penned the introduction and noted the importance of the event:

It is a pleasure to introduce this symposium, apparently the first of any mainstream American law review to focus on South Asian law. Its appearance is one of several markers that the neglect of South Asia by American law schools is being left behind. Four of the five articles included here were presented at a session of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) 2010 meeting; the first appearance of South Asia on the program since a 1986 plenary session on the American participation in the litigation arising from the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster. Unlike that earlier, one-off appearance, the 2010 session marks the institutionalization of interest in the area.