Michael Dowdle has been an assistant professor on the National University of Singapore since 2010. Prior to that, he held the Chair in Globalization and Governance at Sciences Po. He has also held faculty appointments at the Australian National University and University of Washington. He specializes in comparative law (especially the law of China and Southeast Asia), law and development, regulatory theory, and legal history – all with particular focus on public law and legal sociology. Ongoing research projects include “Constitutions outside Liberalism: Towards a more Comprehensive Understanding of the Human Phenomenon of Constitutionalism” and “Regulatory Geography and the Regulatory Logic of the Periphery”.