1. Southeast Asian Constitutional Foundings: A Constitutional-History Perspective -- Kevin YL Tan and Bui Ngoc Son -- 2. Keeping Close to Shore: Preserving Colonial Legacies in the 1935 Philippine Constitution -- Leia Castañeda Anastacio -- 3. The Origins of the 1945 Indonesian Constitution -- Koichi Kawamura -- 4. Timor-Leste's Post-Revolutionary Constitution: From Foundations to Practice -- Leigh-Ashley Lipscomb -- 5. The Making of Myanmar's 1947 Constitution: Geography, Ethnicity, and Law -- Maitrii Aung-Thwin -- 6. A Foreign Commission for Domestic Needs: The Constitutional Founding of Malaysia -- H Kumarasingham -- 7. Foundational Moments: The 'Singapore Constitution' -- Kevin YL Tan -- 8. The Making of Brunei's 1959 Constitution -- BA Hussainmiya -- 9. Not Meant to Last: Vietnam's First Constitution -- Stein Tønnesson -- 10. The Lao Constitution of 1947/1949: Creating a Nation-State -- Martin Stuart-Fox -- 11. The First Constitution-Making in Cambodia: Colonialism, Modernism, Nationalism and the Implications -- Teilee Kuong -- 12. The 1932 Compromise Constitution: Matrix of Thailand's Permanent Constitutional Instability -- Eugenie Mérieau.