Fadzilah Yahaya

I'll be in Vancouver for AAS next week. Join us on Friday the 13th for our panel on Japanese Occupation at 9am! #AAS2026

Thank you! 🥰

My article is out in Law and Society Review. "Beyond Doctrine: How “Law and Society” Approaches Transform Historical Analysis" Head on over to doi.org/10.1017/lsr....

I'll be in conversation with @omarcheta.bsky.social on his wonderful new book 'How Commerce Became Legal' (Stanford UP) on January 21st over Zoom. RSVP to attend.

Very excited to lecture on History of Dutch Empire @yale.edu in Spring semester!

Happening today at American Society for Legal History conference in Detroit!

My fave Dutch words are 'oliemonopolie' and 'pompoen.'

Nurfadzilah Yahaya- "British Hydrocolonialism in Southeast Asia" Wed, Sep 10 2025, 12 - 1pm | Across the British Empire, from the Caribbean to Hong Kong, colonial engineers perfected the art of manufacturing new territories from dredged sand and legal precedent, cr...

I will be speaking on September 10 on my current book project on History of Land Reclamation in the British Empire at the Council on Southeast Asian Studies at Yale. macmillan.yale.edu/southeast-as...

I've had three tweets go viral in my life but this is the one I'm proudest of.

Very excited to teach History of Southeast Asia (graduate seminar) and History of Indian Ocean Crossings again this Fall!

Super excited for this book by the outstanding Durba Mitra!

Advice | How to Promote Your Scholarly Book An acquisitions editor offers eight tips for marketing-shy academics.

And we're back! My latest in the Chronicle is now live: "How to Promote Your Scholarly Book," ft Libra-coded advice such as "use social media" & "or don't use social media." No doubt other publishers will have lots of tidbits to add. Pls share/reach out for a PDF. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

LSA conference Schedule Building the Disciplines with Law & SocietyDescription: Professors across disciplines and career stages share the possible future influence of law and society on their fields. Scholars trained in Anthropology, History, Law, Political Science, and Sociology all helped to give birth to and raise the field of Law & Society. What theories does Law & Society offer those fields in return? This theoretical and forward-looking inquiry invites us all to reflect upon our field's contributions across the past two generations - and to consider what Law & Society will contribute to the next generation of interdisciplinary - and disciplinary - scholarship. Chair: Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz Participants: Asad Asad, Stanford University Lynette Chua, National University of Singapore Renee Cramer, Dickinson College Egor Lazarev, Yale Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Yale University Emily Zackin, Johns Hopkins Department of Political Science

Join me in Chicago for LSA @lawandsociety.bsky.social annual conference on 5/23. I will talk about how field of Law & Society has impacted discipine of History. ww3.aievolution.com/lsa2501/Even...

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An Evening with Viet Thanh Nguyen: A Man of Two Faces Tue, Apr 22 2025, 4:30 - 6pm | Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, t...

macmillan.yale.edu/southeast-as...

Ramadan mubarak! 🌙

Opinion | War Is Killing The Planet (Gift Article) In pursuit of empire and domination, of territorial conquest or racial and religious supremacy, wars stand as a stubborn driver of planetary harm.

Op-Ed by Sunil Amrith www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the AHA conference tomorrow! #AHA25

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Another Hurst Institute for Legal History will be happening this coming summer here in Madison, Wisc., co-sponsored by the UW Law School & ASLH. Applications are due Jan.15, 2025. A great tradition & one-of-a-kind experience for junior scholars. Please apply! www.law.wisc.edu/hurst-instit...

Honored and grateful for high level of engagement on two chapters on my second book project at University of Michigan and Stanford this past month! If you could workshop chapters while writing, please do. Such a critical boost during writing process.