By Professor Melissa Crouch

Journal articles

Crouch M, 2026, 'The Case for Comparative Law and Society in Legal Education: Asian Legal Studies in Australian Law Schools', Asian Journal of Comparative Law

Crouch M, 2025, 'Book review, ‘Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia’', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 23

Crouch M, 2025, 'Book review: ‘Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa: Comparing Uneven Pathways’,', Constitutional Studies, 11, pp. 553 - 556, http://dx.doi.org/10.15781/1s7nce92

Crouch M; Sperfeldt C, 2025, 'Constitutional Coup-proofing', World Comparative Law (VRU), 58, pp. 574 - 602, http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2025-4-574

Crouch M, 2025, 'Book Review: Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar', Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, https://kyotoreview.org/issue-40/review-rights-refused-grassroots-activism-state-violence-in-myanmar/

Crouch M, 2025, 'Judicial Dysfunction in Indonesia', ICON-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moag021

Crouch M, 2024, 'The Military Turn in Comparative Constitutional Law: Constitutions and the Military in Authoritarian Regimes', Annual Review of Law & Social Science, 20, pp. 53 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-041822-044807

Crouch M, 2024, 'What Counts as Constitutionalism in the Global South? An Anthropological Perspective', Comparative Constitutional Studies, 3, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/ccs.2024.0019

Crouch M, 2024, 'The Rise and Decline of Constitutionalism in the Global South: The Case of Indonesia’s Constitutional Court', VRU/World Comparative Law, 57, pp. 147 - 158, http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2024-1-147

Crouch M, 2023, 'Judicial Loyalty to the Military in Authoritarian Regimes: How the Courts Are Militarized in Myanmar', Law and Social Inquiry, 48, pp. 632 - 659, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/lsi.2022.41

Crouch M, 2023, 'Foreword', Myanmars Changing Political Landscape Old and New Struggles, pp. vii

Crouch M, 2021, 'The challenges for court reform after authoritarian rule: The role of specialized courts in indonesia', Constitutional Review, 7, pp. 1 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.31078/consrev711

Crouch M, 2020, 'Constitutional Touchstones: Peace Processes, Federalism and Constitution-making in Myanmar', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 18, pp. 1350 - 1372, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moaa089

Crouch M, 2020, 'Peace processes and constitution-making: An Introduction', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 18, pp. 1283 - 1289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moaa091

Crouch M, 2020, 'Pre-emptive Constitution-Making: Authoritarian Constitutionalism and the Military in Myanmar', Law & Society Review, 54, pp. 487 - 515, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12471

Crouch M, 2019, 'States of Legal Denial: How the State in Myanmar uses Law to Exclude the Rohingya', Journal of Contemporary Asia, pp. 1 - 24, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2019.1691250

Crouch M, 2019, 'Constitutionalism After Authoritarian Rule', Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 11, pp. 349 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40803-019-00119-w

Crouch M, 2018, 'The Prerogative Writs as Constitutional Transfer', Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 38, pp. 653 - 675, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqy023

Crouch M, 2018, 'Constitutionalism, Religion and Inequality: Perspectives from Asia', Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asjcl.2018.6

Crouch M, 2018, 'Dictators, Democrats, and Constitutional Dialogue: Myanmar's Constitutional Tribunal', International Journal of Constitutional Law, 16, pp. 421 - 446, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icon/moy056

Crouch M, 2017, 'Book Review: Buddhism, Politics and the Limits of Law: The Pyrrhic Constitutionalism of Sri Lanka', Asian Journal of Law and Society, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/als.2017.15

Crouch M, 2017, 'Myanmar's Advocate for Constitutional Reform: Saya U Ko Ni', Australian Journal of Asian Law, 17, pp. 1 - 12, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2939411

Crouch M, 2017, 'The Expansion of Emergency Powers: Social Conflict and the Military in Indonesia', Asian Studies Review, 41, pp. 1 - 17, http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/sBgIzxnXTXIp9zI2pzd4/full

Crouch M, 2016, 'Shi’ism in Southeast Asia', Journal of the American Academy of Religion, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfw069

Crouch M, 2016, 'Constitutionalism, Islam and the Practice of Religious Deference: The Case of the Indonesian Constitutional Court', Australian Journal of Asian Law, 16, pp. 1 - 15, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2744394

Crouch M, 2016, 'Promiscuity, Polygamy and the Power of Revenge: The Past and Future of Burmese Buddhist Law in Myanmar', Asian Journal of Law and Society, 3, pp. 85 - 104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/als.2016.5

Butt S; Crouch M; Dixon R, 2016, 'The First Decade of Indonesia’s Constitutional Court', Australian Journal of Asian Law, 16, pp. 1 - 7, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2745100

Crouch M, 2015, 'Constructing Religion by Law in Myanmar', The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 13, pp. 1 - 11, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15570274.2015.1104961

Crouch M, 2015, 'Opposing the Rule of Law: How Myanmar’s Courts Make Law and Order (review)', Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs, 37, pp. 305 - 307

Crouch M, 2014, 'Remembering the work of Professor Andrew Huxley', New Mandala, https://www.newmandala.org/remembering-the-work-of-the-late-professor-andrew-huxley/

Crouch M, 2014, 'Rediscovering Law in Myanmar: A Review of Scholarship on the Legal System of Myanmar', Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal, 23, pp. 543 - 577

Chua LJ; Crouch M, 2014, 'Socio-legal Scholarship on Southeast Asia: Themes and Directions', Asian Journal of Comparative Law, 9, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/asjcl-2014-0083

Crouch M, 2013, 'Asian Legal Transplants and Rule of Law Reform: National Human Rights Commission in Myanmar and Indonesia', Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 5, pp. 146 - 177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1876404512001108

Lindsey T; Crouch M, 2013, 'Cause Lawyers in Indonesia: a House Divided', Wisconsin International Law Journal, 31, pp. 620 - 620, http://hosted.law.wisc.edu/wordpress/wilj/files/2015/01/Lindsey-Crouch_final.pdf

Crouch M, 2013, 'Review Essay: Legal Pluralism in Indonesia', Australian Journal of Asian Law, 14, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2295886

Crouch M, 2013, 'Shifting Conceptions of State Regulation of Religion: the Indonesian Draft Law on Inter-religious Harmony', Global Change, Peace & Security, 25, pp. 265 - 282, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2209549

Crouch M, 2013, 'The Constitution, Emergency Powers and the Rule of Law in Myanmar', Panorama, 1, pp. 45 - 56

Missbach A; Crouch M, 2013, 'The Criminalisation of People Smuggling: The Dynamics of Judicial Discretion in Indonesia', Australian Journal of Asian Law, 14, pp. 1 - 19, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2369118

Crouch M, 2012, 'Book Review: No Concessions, The Life of Yap Thiam Hien', Australian Journal of Asian Law, 13, pp. 161 - 165, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2159592

Crouch M, 2012, 'Criminal (In)justice in Indonesia: The Cikeusik trials', Alternative Law Journal, 37, pp. 54 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969x1203700115

Crouch M, 2012, 'Judicial Review and Religious Freedom: The Case of Indonesian Ahmadis', Sydney Law Review, 34, pp. 545 - 572, http://ssrn.com/abstract=2157389

Crouch M, 2012, 'The Indonesian Blasphemy Case: Affirming the Legality of the Blasphemy Law', Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 1, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ojlr/rws025

Crouch M, 2011, 'Ahmadiyah in Indonesia: a history of religious tolerance under threat?', Alternative Law Journal, 36, pp. 56 - 57

Crouch M, 2011, 'Cause Lawyers, the Legal Profession and the Courts in Indonesia: The Bar Association Controversy', LAWASIA Journal, pp. 63 - 86, https://www.academia.edu/1993919/Cause_Lawyers_the_Legal_Profession_and_the_Courts_in_Indonesia_The_Bar_Association_Controversy

Crouch M, 2011, 'Religious’ Deviancy’and the Law', Inside Indonesia, http://www.insideindonesia.org/religious-deviancy-and-law

Crouch M, 2011, 'Review: Christianity in Indonesia, Perspectives of Power', Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 30, pp. 161 - 165

Crouch M, 2010, 'Implementing the regulation on places of worship in Indonesia: New problems, local politics and court action', Asian Studies Review, 34, pp. 403 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2010.527921

Crouch M, 2009, 'Qanun of Aceh Number 3 Year 2008 on Local Political Parties (translation)', Australian Journal of Asian Law, 11, pp. 142 - 142

Crouch M, 2009, 'Religious Regulations in Indonesia: Failing Vulnerable Groups?', Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 43, pp. 53 - 103, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1601065

Crouch M, 2009, 'Stretching the scope of special autonomy in Aceh: the controversial Qanun requirement for political candidates', Australian Journal of Asian Law, 11, pp. 135 - 158

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