Harshan Kumarasingham, FRHistS

Visiting Professor

Biography

Harshan Kumarasingham is Reader in Politics and History at the University of Edinburgh.  His work and interests cover the history, politics and constitutional arrangements of the United Kingdom, the late British Empire, and the Commonwealth.  Representative publications of his include The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom (2 vols, co-edited with P Cane), Viceregalism - The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth, Constitution-Making in Asia - Decolonisation and State-Building in the Aftermath of the British Empire and Constitution-Maker - Selected Writings of Sir Ivor Jennings.  

Research Interests

British Constitutional History

Imperial and Decolonisation History

Parliamentary Studies

Westminster Systems

Commonwealth Politics and History

Comparative Politics

Constitutional Studies

Executive Power