About Andrew

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Andrew Harding is a Visiting Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore, and a Professor of Law at the University of Reading Malaysia. He is a leading scholar in Asian legal studies, specialising in comparative constitutional law, law and development, legal history, and law and society - all with special reference to SE Asia. 

His main interest outside acadmeic work is writing fiction. He is the author of The Agnes trilogy - The Agnes (2021), The Knowledge (2024), and The Wisdom (forthcoming).
You will find here extracts from The Agnes books.

The Agnes is a series of stories about Jimmy Emmett, an English schoolboy, who grows up in a challenging multicultural environment in the English midlands of the 1960s. Jimmy's quest is to learn from his adventures and misadventures about life, love and social relations. The stories are amusing and charming but also contain gems of wisdom. Enjoy the colourful characters Themba, the huge black South African anti-apartheid campaigner, and Rosie the chain-smoking Australian social worker, Jimmy's constant mentors, as well as the impudent, inventive Jimmy himself.

Andrew will be happy to receive your thoughts, comments and criticisms - to bencoolen2014@gmail.com.

His academic writings can be viewed at academia.edu and researchgate.net, as well as in the many books he has authored or edited and the journals to which he has contributed.

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