Fadzilah Yahaya
Historian at Yale
Book - Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia (Cornell UP, 2020) | Second book on and reclamation in British Empire (under review) | Currently writing third book on history of petroleum in Indonesia
- 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.'
- 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!
- Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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- 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...
- Ramadan mubarak! 🌙
- Op-Ed by Sunil Amrith www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/o...
- Looking forward to seeing everyone at the AHA conference tomorrow! #AHA25
- Reposted by Fadzilah YahayaAnother 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...
