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Mailing Address University of Wisconsin Law School 975 Bascom Mall Madison, WI, 53706-1399, USA

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Research Interests I am interested in the legal history of colonial South Asia, with a focus upon western India (especially Bombay and Gujarat). My first book project is a study of the uses of colonial law by the Parsis of colonial India and Burma. My second major project examines medical jurisprudence in colonial India, with a special focus on toxicology. I am also interested in legal pluralism, particularly religious and customary law, and in the history of the legal profession in the British Empire.

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Publications * Available on my website: http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/sharafi/my-publications/ (1) South Asian Legal History: "The Marital Patchwork of Colonial South Asia: Forum Shopping from Britain to Baroda", Law and History Review 28:4 (2010), 979-1009 (part of Law and History Review Forum: Maneuvering the Personal Law System in Colonial India) (©Law and History Review 2010) "The Semi-Autonomous Judge in Colonial India: Chivalric Imperialism meets Anglo-Islamic Dower and Divorce Law", Indian Economic and Social History Review 46:1 (2009): 57-81 (2) History of the Legal Profession: "A New History of Colonial Lawyering: Likhovski and Legal Identities in the British Empire", Law and Social Inquiry 32:4 (fall 2007), 1059-94 (3) Zoroastrian Legal Studies: Colonial Parsis and Law: A Cultural History. Government Research Fellowship Lectures 2009-2010 (Mumbai: K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, 2010) "Judging Conversion to Zoroastrianism: Behind the Scenes of the Parsi Panchayat Case (1908) In John R. Hinnells and Alan Williams, ed. Parsis in India and the Diaspora (London: Routledge Curzon, 2007), 159-80 "Bellas Case: Parsi Identity and the Law in Colonial Rangoon, Bombay and London, 1887-1925, PhD dissertation, Dept. of History, Princeton University (2006) (4) Legal Pluralism: "Justice in Many Rooms since Galanter: De-romanticizing Legal Pluralism through the Cultural Defense", Law & Contemporary Problems 71 (spring 2008), 139-46

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