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D. Christian Lammerts is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Rutgers University, and affiliate faculty in the Department of History, the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and the South Asian Studies Program. He has taught also at the National University of Singapore and been a visiting professor at Yangon University.

Lammerts’ scholarship concerns the history of law and Buddhism in precolonial and colonial Burma and Southeast Asia. He has written extensively on dhammasattha, the principal corpus of Buddhist legal literature and theory in mainland Southeast Asia during the 2nd millennium CE, whose laws partly survive in contemporary regional legal systems. His publications include Buddhist Law in Burma: A History of Dhammasattha Texts and Jurisprudence, 1250–1850, and he is an editor of the journal Buddhism, Law & Society.