1. Legal Alignment in Disrupted Times: The Fall of the Tsarist Regime and the 1917 Extraordinary Investigation Commission of the Provisional Government • Léo P Henry, University of Toronto; Ron Levi, University of Toronto.

2. The Problem of Ottoman De/centralization: Scale, Intermediaries, and State Capacity • Choon Hwee Koh, University of California, Los Angeles.

3. Back in Play at the Frontiers of Hegemony: Gilgit-Baltistan in Comparative Historical Perspective • Daniel Pasciuti, Georgia State University; Shah Zaman, Georgia State University.