Mara Malagodi is a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, where she completed her BA in Nepali & Politics, MA in South Asian Area Studies and PhD with the thesis ‘Constitutional Nationalism and Legal Exclusion in Nepal’ (1990-2007), now forthcoming in the Law Series of OUP India. She is a student member of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, which is supporting her training as a Barrister through the Blackstone Entry Exhibition and Quatercentenary Scholarship. She has just been awarded a three-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship, which she will be taking up at the LSE Law Department from October 2012.