This introduction to the special issue on Buddhism and law lays out an agenda for the socio-
legal study of contemporary Buddhism. We identify lacunae in the current literature and call …

Drawing on textual and ethnographic research conducted over the last five years, this article
analyses an important genre of judicial practice in South and Southeast Asia that has been …

This essay reviews the development and growth of the field of South Asian comparative
constitutional law by analysing three pioneering scholarships published in the last ten years …

A new interpretation of the core ethical tenets of Buddhism has been proposed in order to
meet the challenges of the global environmental crisis. The first of the five pañcaśīla–the five …

As a religious system, Buddhism has been historically neglected by mainstream
comparative legal s olarship. Su circumstance presents somewhat of a conundrum in law …