Dr Priyasha Saksena
Research Interests
I am a legal historian focusing on the development of legal concepts and institutions within the British empire and their contemporary effects. The first strand on my research examines how law has been used as a language to exercise authority over peoples and territories. The second strand of my research focuses on how law has influenced the experiences of peoples moving across the British empire.
Additional Professional Information
I am a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Leeds. I am currently co-investigator on the AHRC standard grant Making it to the Registers: Documenting Migrant Carers’ Experiences of Registration and Fitness to Practise, which aims to produce a historically informed account of the experiences of migrant healthcare workers in navigating the system of professional regulation in the UK (details here).
Publications
Books
Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)
Journal Articles
“Limping Marriages: Race, Class, and the Rise of Domicile-Based Divorce Jurisdiction in the British Empire,” American Journal of Legal History 63, no. 1 (2023): 36–54
“The Changing Natures of the Medical Register: Doctors, Precarity, and Crisis,” Social and Legal Studies 32, no. 5 (2023): 714–736 (with Marie-Andrée Jacob)
“Building the Nation: Sovereignty and International Law in the Decolonisation of South Asia,” Journal of the History of International Law 23, no. 1 (2021): 52–79
“Jousting Over Jurisdiction: Sovereignty and International Law in Late Nineteenth-Century South Asia,” Law and History Review 38, no. 2 (2020): 409–457
“Artificial Insemination and the Family” National Law School of India Review 20, no. 1 (2008): 76-94
Book Chapters
“Teaching International Law Through the Prism of Global Events,” in Teaching International Law, ed. Jean-Pierre Gauci and Barrie Sander (Abingdon: Routledge, 2024), 283–294