Kevin YL Tan is Adjunct Professor at both the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore and at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University. Bui Ngoc Son is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 1. Southeast Asian Constitutional Foundings: A Constitutional-History Perspective Kevin YL Tan and Bui Ngoc Son2. Keeping Close to Shore: Preserving Colonial Legacies in the 1935 Philippine Constitution Leia Castañeda Anastacio3. The Origins of the 1945 Indonesian Constitution Koichi Kawamura4. Timor-Leste’s Post-Revolutionary Constitution: From Foundations to Practice Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb5. The Making of Myanmar’s 1947 Constitution: Geography, Ethnicity, and Law Maitrii Aung-Thwin6. A Foreign Commission for Domestic Needs: The Constitutional Founding of Malaysia H Kumarasingham7. Foundational Moments: The ‘Singapore Constitution’ Kevin YL Tan8. The Making of Brunei’s 1959 Constitution BA Hussainmiya9. Not Meant to Last: Vietnam’s First Constitution Stein Tønnesson10. The Lao Constitution of 1947/1949: Creating a Nation-State Martin Stuart-Fox11. The First Constitution-Making in Cambodia: Colonialism, Modernism, Nationalism and the Implications Teilee Kuong12. The 1932 Compromise Constitution: Matrix of Thailand’s Permanent Constitutional Instability Eugenie Mérieau