Alex Williams
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Academic Year:
2019-20
Direction:
From Yale
Exchange Partners:
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Project Title:
The Legal Profession and the Rule of Law: Indian Lawyers on Strike, 1947-1957
Alexander Williams will graduate with a B.A. from Yale in History and South Asian studies in May 2019. He studies the legal history of Modern South Asia, focusing primarily on the legal profession, administrative law, and India’s role in the 20th century international legal order. He has a particular interest in the development of a national legal-professional identity in postcolonial India, the history of lawyers’ strikes, and the rise of Indian lawyer-diplomats after World War II. He has written on Indian History for TheWire.in, Scroll.in, Quartz India, Brink: A review of Books, and the Yale Daily News. His work has been funded by the South Asian Studies Council, the Robin W. Winks Fellowship, and the Lewis P. Curtis fellowship at Yale.