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A Suneetha is Coordinator and Fellow, Anveshi Research Centre for Women's Studies, Hyderabad. Email: suneethaasrv@gmail.com AALI is a feminist legal advocacy group, which has been working on issues related to women in human right perspective, in Uttar Pradesh (India) a State fraught between entrenched feudal-patriarchal system and extremely poor developmental indicators. Over the past 10 years AALI has undertaken research, advocacy as well as direct response to violations of womens human rights, with a focus on their rights within the private sphere in partnership with other organizations. The organization has intervened in cases where womens right to sexual autonomy has been violated and supported them in upholding and exercising the same. AALI has undertaken a national initiative aimed at enabling a holistic response to the violations of the womens right to choice and decision making in sexual relationship (hetero or same sex) as well as to ensure ideological understanding of the issue. Along with the larger alliance emerging from this national initiative, AALI and other women human rights groups/individuals from different parts of India have been working to establish this issue on the human rights agenda. The upcoming alliance recognizes the identification of varied manifestations of violations as critical to building a holistic understanding of the lived experiences of women. Email: aali@aalilegal.org Aashita Dawer is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her current area of research is in the field of Behavioural Law and Economics. She has already worked on the economic analysis of water laws in India and has been an Assistant Professor at St. Stephens College, University of Delhi. Her important publications include Economics of Water Rights in India and Inclusive Growth: Manufacturing Sector a Gate Way (Under Review). She is also the student coordinator of Law and Social Society Network (LASSnet). Email: j.nature@gmail.com Abdul Paliwala is Professor of Law at the University of Warwick and Director of the Law Courseware Consortium, the UK Centre for Legal Education (ICT) and Electronic Law Journals which publishes the Journal of

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Information, Law and Technology and Law, Social Justice and Global Development. He leads the Secretariat of the British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association. Abdul has a long association with the Law and Development Programme at Warwick. He has LLB and PhD degrees from the University of London and is a Barrister. He has previously taught at the University of Papua New Guinea, University of Dar es Salaam and Queens University of Belfast and carried out various consultancies in development and information technology. His two main areas of publication are Information and Communications Technology Law and Law, Globalisation and Development. Relevant books include Law and Social Change in Papua New Guinea (Butterworths 1981), Law and Development in Crisis (Zell, 1993) and Effective Learning and Teaching in Law (Kogan Page 2002). Email: A.Paliwala@warwick.ac.uk 5. Abdul Hafiz Gandhi is currently a doctoral student at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Abdul is researching the social life of the Right to Information Act. He was the President of AMU Students' Union during the session 2005-06. Presently he is President of Indian Youth Congress. Email: abdulhafizgandhi@gmail.com Adil Khan is a Doctoral Candidate in the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva. He has completed his Masters in International Studies (MIS) with specialization in International Law from the Graduate Institute in International and Development Studies. He holds a B.A.LL.B. Hons. from the National Law Institute University, Bhopal, India, and a Post-graduate Diploma in Public International Law and Diplomacy from the Indian Academy of International Law and Diplomacy. Email: khan.adil@graduateinstitute.ch Aditi Srivastava is a student at NLSIU, Bangalore. Email: adi.srivastava@gmail.com Aditi Surie is a post-graduate student studying at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. She is interested in the field of Sociology of Law and would like to pursue it as an area of doctoral research in future. Email: aditi.surie@gmail.com
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Aditya Sarkar is currently finishing a Ph.D. dissertation on the regulation of labour in late-nineteenth century Bombay at SOAS, London. He is an undergraduate (History Honours) at Delhi University, and did an M.A. and M.Phil. in Modern Indian History from the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU. Email: bhochka@googlemail.com Agathe Mora is a PhD student in legal Anthropology from Edinburgh University working on tenure laws in Jharkhand, at present doing an internship at ELDF (Enviro-Legal and Defence Firm, New Delhi). Email: agathe.mora@gmail.com Ahilan Kadirgamar is an activist with the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum. He has written about the international dimension of the conflict and peace process in Sri Lanka and worked on human rights concerns related to the conflict. His current interests include the political economy of state-society relations and attempts at constitutional reform in Sri Lanka. Email: ahilan.kadirgamar@gmail.com Aisha Gillis Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Roehampton University. Gills main area of research is health and criminal justice responses to violence against Black and minority ethnic women in the United Kingdom. Gill has also served on numerous expert government groups on so-called honor killings and forced marriages and contributed to the re-drafting of the Forced Marriage Civil Protection Act (2007) with Newham Asian Womens Project. She has published a number of recent articles exploring how victims of forced marriage and honour crimes experience the civil and criminal justice systems in the UK. Email: A.Gill@roehampton.ac.uk Ajay Gudavarthy is an Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the Centre for Political Studies, JNU and has worked on the history of human rights movements in India, as well as affirmative action programs and subsistence governmental benefits, and is publishing a critical volume on Chatterjees notion of political society. His current areas of interest include human rights, contemporary political movements and the nature of civil society in India. Email: gajay99@rediffmail.com

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Akash Acharya is a faculty at Centre for Social Studies at University Campus, Gujarat. His area of work includes health and population issues. He has previously worked on legal aspects of two-child norm in Panchayati Raj. Email: akash.acharya@gmail.com Alan Supoit is Professor at the University of Nantes, Member of the Institut Universitaire de France and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Nantes. He is a Doctor of Laws (Bordeaux, 1979), Associate Law School (1980), and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (Chair Dogmatic Legal and Social Bond) and Dr. h.c of the University of Louvain. Alain Supiot later served as Professor at the University of Poitiers and Nantes and a visiting scholar in various foreign institutions (Berkeley, Florence, Berlin). He founded and currently serves as director at the Institute for Advanced Study of Nantes. He has chaired the National Council for the development of social sciences (whose works were published in the PUF Quadriga in October 2001 under the title The New Politics of Science, Man and Society). He is a member of the Scientific Council of the International Labour Review and a member of the Scientific Council of the City of Paris. His research focuses on labour law and social security and on the analysis of dogmatic foundations of the social bond (last published book: The Spirit of Philadelphia. Social justice against the Total Market, Paris, Seuil, 2010). Email: alain.supiot@univ-nantes.fr Alexander Fischer teaches public law and comparative constitutional law at the School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was a Visiting Fellow (2004/2005) at the Centre for Law and Governance, JNU, New Delhi and taught at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg before shifting to London. Research interests: Constitutional and Comparative Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Federalism, Law and Courts, Law and Politics, Laws of South Asia. Email: af5@soas.ac.uk Alison D Renteln studies international law, human rights, comparative legal systems, Constitutional law and legal and political theory. An expert on cultural rights, including the use of the "cultural defense" in the legal system. Professor Renteln has lectured to judicial organizations and law enforcement groups on this subject. She served on the State Bar Commission on Access to Justice and the California Judicial Council Access and Fairness Advisory

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Committee. She also served as a member of the California Attorney General's Commission on Hate Crimes. Email: arenteln@email.usc.edu 18. Alok Gupta is a human rights lawyer and activist practicing in Bombay. Email: galok2005@gmail.com Amanda Perry-Kessaris joined SOAS as a Professor of International Economic Law in 2010. She has qualifications in law, economics and ethnography. She is interested in the extent to which law can nurture stable, productive and trusting relations between the private, public and third sectors. Most recently she has been funded by the British Academy to explore the impact of economic approaches (analytical, normative and empirical) on our understanding of law's role in development--that is, as a means, end, obstacle or irrelevance to improving the lives of the relatively poor. She has previously conducted empirical research on legal systems as a determinant of foreign direct investment in Sri Lanka, the Indian legal system as a mediator of foreign investment-government civil society relations, and access to environmental justice in Bangalore (Bengaluru), supported by the Leverhulme Trust, Socio-Legal Studies Association, ESRC and Ford Foundation. Her major recent publications include Global Business, Local Law (Ashgate, 2008) and Law in Pursuit of Development (Routledge, 2009). Her papers can be downloaded via the Social Science Research Network. She is Secretary to the Socio Legal Studies Association, a member of the editorial board of the International Community Law Review and a research associate of the London Centre Corporate Governance and Ethics. She has previously held posts at Birkbeck and Queen Mary colleges in London, and the Universities of Dundee and Sussex. Email: a.perry-kessaris@soas.ac.uk Amit Prakash is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Earlier, he has also served as Assistant Research Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Amit Prakash holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He studied for his MA and MPhil degrees in Political Science at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and for his graduate degree at the M. S. University, Vadodara. During his academic career, he has been awarded a number of academic honours and scholarships, including Junior Research Fellowship of the University Grants
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Commission, New Delhi and the Felix Scholarship for studying for a PhD at SOAS. Email: amitp.ap@gmail.com 21. Amitra Sudan Chakrabortty is LL.M. and is currently pursuing Ph.D. He is a Lecturer-in-Law at The ICFAI University of Tripura. He is also the Managing Trustee of MANAB, a Human Rights Organization in West Bengal. Email: asc2law@gmail.com Amrita Lamba is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Development Studies, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Email: alamba9@hotmail.com Amrit Singh is a practicing advocate in the Supreme Court of India and also a panel advocate for Govt. of India in the Supreme Court of India. He has more than five years of standing experience. He mostly deals with Constitutional matters and social matters. Email: law.amrit@gmail.com Amrita Ibrahim is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests span themes in the anthropology of media, visual anthropology, the anthropology of religion, and gender and sexuality, with a specific regional focus on South Asia. Her dissertation research, funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, is titled Truth on Our Lips, India in Our Hearts: Television, News, and Performative Publics in New Delhi and focuses on the power and force of mass mediated events in constituting public life by focusing on production and circulation of television news in New Delhi. Email: aibrahi3@jhu.edu Amrita Mukhopadhyay is a PhD student working on the area of domestic violence in India. Her thesis attempts to examine the socio-cultural context of the implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 and its role in preventing violence. Using ethnography, the case study explores the significance of the Act within the context of small-scale family businesses in the cosmopolitan city of Kolkata. Her research interests include domestic violence, family business, women and law.
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Email: amuk6526@uni.sydney.edu.au 26. Amy Cohen teaches property, international dispute resolution, law and development, and mediation at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Her research interests include dispute resolution theory and practice, particularly in international and transnational development contexts. Her publications have appeared in scholarly journals such as Law and Social Inquiry, the Fordham Law Review, the Wisconsin Law Review, and the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. Prior to joining the Moritz faculty, Professor Cohen taught at the Kathmandu School of Law in Nepal as a Fulbright Scholar. Upon her return to the United States, she clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver, Colorado. At Ohio State, she is Associate Director of the Project on Law and Democratic Development and affiliated faculty at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. She has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Turin, Italy, Faculty of Law (Fall 2009). Email: cohen.308@osu.edu Anagha Sarpotdar is currently pursuing PhD from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (2009-12 batch, School of Social Sciences). She is Bachelors in Philosophy from Mumbai University (1997) and has a Masters in Social Work, with specialization in Family and Child Welfare from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (1999). She is working as a Trained Social Work Practitioner and Consultant Gender Issues, Socio-Legal Issues related to Violence Against Women. The highlights of her work include: Founder member and Secretary of the non-government organisation Asmi. Research, Documentation and Casework on Gender issues and Socio-Legal aspects of Violence against Women, organised and conducted trainings and awareness sessions on Gender Issues and Socio-Legal aspects of Sexual Harassment at Workplace with the Corporate, Government Depts., Public Sector Units. Functioning as the Third Party Member on various sexual harassment complaints committees constituted as per the Supreme Court guidelines (1997) across work sectors. Convener of the Action Group on Sexual Harassment at Workplace and Member of the Resource Group created by Gender Community-Solution Exchange (United Nations Country Team Initiative). She is also an external Consultant to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Email: anagha.sarpotdar@gmail.com

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Anand Chakravarti is a sociologist based in Delhi. He taught for many years at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics. Author of several important books and essays, Anand Chakravarti continues to engage with contemporary sociological research, politics and human rights, after his retirement. Email: umafam@gmail.com Anand Vaidya is a doctoral candidate in Social Anthropology at Harvard University. After studying Biology and Anthropology at Swarthmore College, he spent two years teaching Math and Science in New York City public schools. Mr. Vaidya returned to graduate study to continue to pursue the question that drove his undergraduate studies: the complicated relationship between politics and ecology in India. His doctoral research now considers India's Forest Rights Act, a bold new law that attempts to reconcile livelihood issues for millions with ecological imperatives. Email: avaidya@fas.harvard.edu Anandita Pujari completed her Doctorate from the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. The title of her thesis is The Supreme Court, the Constitution & Economic Reforms in India. She is a recipient of the SYLFF Fellowship at JNU to pursue her doctoral research. She completed her LL.M. from National Law School of India University, Bangalore, where she was a recipient of the M.K. Gandhi National Law Teaching Fellowship. She later taught at the National Law School of India University. She also worked as a legal consultant at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi and worked with the Right to Information. Email: aninditapujari@gmail.com

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Andy Spalding joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2010, following a oneyear Fulbright Senior Research Grant in Mumbai, India. Professor Spalding's teaching and research interests lie at the intersection of international business law and geopolitics, with a specific focus on anticorruption laws and their impact in developing countries. He previously conducted corporate governance investigations and securities fraud litigation in the Washington, D.C., office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, following clerkships at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada. Before joining the legal academy, he taught
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political science at Minnesota State University at St. Cloud and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a J.D. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. At Chicago-Kent, he will teach legal writing as well as doctrinal courses in international business. Email: andyspalding@gmail.com 32. Aneesh Pillai has done his BA. LLB (Hons.) degree from School of Indian Legal Thought, Mahatma Gandhi University and LLM from School of Legal Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology. His specializations are Consumer Law and Human Rights Law and secured first position in LLM Degree. He was the winner of Dr. A T Marcose Memorial Gold Medal for the topper in LLM in the year 2008. He did a project work on Access to Higher Education in 2006 and research work on Derogation of Human Rights during Public Emergency (Dissertation) in the year 2008. He has delivered lectures on Right to Information Act in the seminar organized by Bharat Nirman in association with Central Information Ministry in the year 2007. He has participated in various seminars at state and national level and presented papers on different issues such as Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Women and Law, Child Rights, Good Governance, etc. He has published articles in different journals including international research journals on topics like Narco-Analysis, Competition Law, Right to Procreation, Emerging Dimensions of Law of Torts, Right to Higher Education, Right to Food, Child Labour, Malnutrition and Human Rights, Artificial Insemination, etc. Recently he has participated in a three days teachers training programme on International Humanitarian Law organised by ICRC in Nagpur University. He is also pursuing his PhD from Cochin University of Science and Technology on the topic Human Artificial Reproduction with Special Reference to Surrogacy. Presently he is teaching Competition Law, Law of Torts and Labour Laws. Email: advavpillai@gmail.com Anil Persaud is a postdoctoral historian with the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. He lives in New Delhi. Email:persaudk@gmail.com Anindita Majumdar is currently a doctoral student at IIT Delhi working on kinship and new reproductive technologies, especially those used within the surrogacy arrangement. Surrogacy in its current avatar has attracted much
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attention in and around India. The practice of renting out one's womb to infertile couples through the intervention of modern medical technology has however been a largely unregulated area. Despite legal guidelines, the lack of a proper act or law has led to varied practices being incorporated within a commercial surrogacy arrangement. Email: andymajumdar@gmail.com 35. Aniruddhan Vasudevan is an activist working with the Shakti Center, an organization working with queer issues in Chennai. Email: aniruddh.vasudevan@gmail.com Anisur Rahman is Assistant Professor, in the Department of Law, Stamford University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. His current research area is humanistic hermeneutics of Islamic family law. In addition, his research interests include colonial legal history, intellectual property law and human rights. He has written a dissertation titled Interpretation of Islamic family law in colonial India: A review of the Privy Councils decisions in the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. His important publications include Unlocking the gate of Ijtihad: Hefzur Rahman revisited in the Stamford Journal of Law (March 2011), Development of Islamic Family Law in Bangladesh: Empowerment or streamlining the women? in Journal of the Asiatic Society Bangladesh (humanities), 53:2 (2008). Email: suchonanis@gmail.com Anitha Abraham is a lawyer based in Delhi. She has worked with Nyayagrah, Ahmedabad in 2006 representing the survivors of Gujarat 2002, the trial courts. Anitha has a wide range of experience of working on litigation that secures human rights and challenges violence against women. Email: aa2060@yahoo.com Ann Stewart researches and writes in the area of gender and the law. She has a particular interest in the effects of globalization on gender justice issues but also in gender and care and gender, law and multiculturalism. She is the author of Gender, Law and Justice in a Global Market (Cambridge University Press, 2011). She has worked collaboratively with colleagues in many locations to develop perspectives on gender and law and women's rights which take account of new global contexts. She is particularly interested in issues relating to South Asia and Africa and has been involved in a number of internationally based gender and law projects. She was Ford Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at
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JNU during 2009-2010. Between 1996 and 2000 she was the UK Director of the Indo British gender and law project for the Indian Judiciary. This involved working with the National Judicial Academy in India to develop a curriculum for judicial training and then assisting with implementation. In 1996 she was the lead consultant for gender on the EU Democratization and Human Rights project in Malawi. Her interests are reflected in her supervision of doctoral students drawn from many jurisdictions. Email: A.Stewart@warwick.ac.uk
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Anna Grear is founder and Co-editor in Chief of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, as well as the founder of the GNHRE. Anna is a legal theorist whose work focuses largely upon questions related to laws construction of the human being and the human relationship with the world, broadly conceived. Her work calls on insights from a range of disciplines despite being firmly located within a combination of critical legal theory and jurisprudence. She has a particular interest in the themes of legal subjectivity and vulnerability, locating these themes in relation to contemporary globalization and to a central concern with the implications of the materiality of the living order including the theme of embodiment. Anna is currently working on a monograph, a series of articles and four coedited collections. She is also series editor of a new series, Law, Justice and Ecology, recently established by Glasshouse. Email: anna.grear@uwe.ac.uk Annapurna Waughray is a qualified solicitor with specific expertise in public international law and international human rights law. In addition to her company secretarial duties Annapurna is responsible for Arrk's corporate social responsibility policy and the management of the Arrk Foundation. Although she already has more letters after her name than there are in the alphabet, she is currently in the process of researching for a PhD in the application of international human rights law in combating caste-based discrimination in the Indian sub-continent. Email: A.Waughray@mmu.ac.uk Anne Griffiths is Professor of Anthropology of Law at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on anthropology of law, comparative and family law, African law, gender, culture and rights. In pursuit of these interests Anne has carried out fieldwork in Botswana,

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southern Africa in the 1980s and more recently, in Scotland in the 1990s on 'The Child's Voice in Legal Proceedings. Email: Anne.Griffiths@ed.ac.uk 42. Anu Sharma is a Ph.D. scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She is at present doing fieldwork in Leh on issues of identity, violence and rights. Email: anuharitharit@gmail.com Anubha Rastogi is a practicing lawyer and the Assistant Director in the Human Rights Law Network. She has studied law in Delhi Universitys Faculty of Law. She passed out in 2003 and has been practicing since then with one break for a short corporate stint. Her areas of interest are human rights broadly and womens rights specifically. She has worked with the Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) for 3 years in Delhi looking after their Womens Justice Initiative. She was then hired by HCL Technologies to look after cases of sexual harassment at workplace within the company and currently she works as a legal researcher with Mr. Harsh Mander on a study of the State responses in 7 specific communal massacres. Email: anubha.rastogi@gmail.com Anuj Bhuwania is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Columbia University. His work, an ethnographic study of appellate law takes seriously public interest litigation as an object of anthropological study. Anuj was also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance in 2010. Email: anujbhuwania@gmail.com Anupam Hazra is Assistant Professor in Department of Social Work at Assam (Central) University. Email: anupam688@yahoo.co.in Anupama Rao is Associate Professor of History, at Barnard College, Columbia University, has research and teaching interests are in the history of anticolonialism; gender and sexuality studies; caste and race; historical anthropology, social theory, and colonial genealogies of human rights and humanitarianism. Her book, The Caste Question (University of California Press, 2009) theorizes caste subalternity, with specific focus on the role of anti-caste thought (and its thinkers) in producing alternative genealogies of political subject-formation through the vernacularization of political
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universals. She has also written on the themes of colonialism and humanitarianism, and on non-Western histories of gender and sexuality. Recent publications include: Discipline and the Other Body (Duke University Press, 2006); Death of a Kotwal: Injury and the Politics of Recognition, Subaltern Studies XII; Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment (co-editor, special issues of Gender and History, 2004), and Gender and Caste: Issues in Indian Feminism (Kali for Women, 2003). She is currently working on a project tentatively entitled Dalit Bombay, on the relationship between caste political culture and everyday life in colonial and postcolonial Bombay. Email: arao@barnard.edu 47. Anupama Roy is Associate Professor at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India. She obtained her PhD from the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. She has taught earlier at Punjab University, Chandigarh, was Sir Ratan Tata Fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Womens Development Studies. She has been studying and writing on debates around citizenship. In this context she has been looking at changes in the laws relating to citizenship, shifts in its ideological basis, and the manner in which it has unfolded in practice. She is also working on the Election Commission which has emerged as a significant institution within the common political space of democracy in India, focusing on the extent to which the Commission has set up appropriate, adequate and effective institutional and procedural frameworks for political participation, consonant with democratic citizenship. She is the author of the book Mapping Citizenship in India (Oxford University Press, 2010), Gendered Citizenship (Orient Longman, 2005) and has co-edited Poverty, Gender and Migration (Sage, 2006). Her research articles have appeared in various journals including Critical Asian Studies, Contributions to Indian Sociology, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Social Science Review and Contemporary India. Email: royanupama07@gmail.com Anusha Hariharan is a post graduate student at the Centre for Political Studies, JNU and an alumnus of Stella Maris College, Chennai with an undergraduate degree in Sociology. She has worked for Citizens Consumer and Civic Action Group, Chennai as a research assistant and Jagori

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Womens Training, Documentation and Resource Centre, Delhi as a part of the violence intervention unit. Email: anju.hari@gmail.com 49. Anuvinda Varkey is an advocate practicing at the district courts of Delhi. Email: anuvindav@gmail.com Aparna Balachandran is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society in Bangalore. She recently completed her PhD at the Department of History at Columbia University -- her work looks at the relationship between urban space, outcaste labor and religious identity in early colonial Madras. Her research interests include the histories of labor, pre-colonial legal regimes and early colonial law in South Asia. Email: aparna@cscs.res.in Aparna Viswanathan received her Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) degree from Harvard University and her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Michigan Law School. She is called to the Bar in three U.S. jurisdictions (New York, Washington D.C., California), in India and the Bar in England (of Lincolns Inn). Ms. Viswanathan is a widely published lawyer. In addition to over 70 by-lines in the Indian press from 1989 to 1994, including The Times of India, The Economic Times, The Business Standard and The Financial Express, she has published over 75 law journal articles on topics of both Indian and English company law, intellectual property, IT law, employment law and other issues in leading international law journals including the International Business Lawyer, the International Financial Law Review, BNAs World Intellectual Property Report, World Telecom Law Report, World Food Regulation Review, Tax Planning International E-commerce, World Data Protection Report), Employment Law Journal, International Commercial and Company Law Review, Asian Business Review and others. She is also author of the book, Outsourcing to India: Cross-Border Legal Issues published by Lexis-Nexis Butterworths in June 2008. Email: aparna@legaleagleindia.com Arathi PM is a Society for Labour and Development, India. Email: arathipm@gmail.com

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an informal network of organizations and individuals committed to the goal of ensuring food security in India. He was also a member of the Steering Committee for the second LASSNet conference held in Pune in 2010, and managed the website for the first and second LASSNET conferences. Email: arudraburra@yahoo.co.in 56. Arun Thiruvengadam is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. He obtained his formal legal education from the National Law School, Bangalore (B.A., LL.B (Hons.), 1995; LL.M, 2001) and New York University School of Law (LL.M, 2002, J.S.D., 2007). After completing his undergraduate education in 1995, he served as a law clerk to Chief Justice A.M. Ahmadi at the Supreme Court of India for eighteen months. Between 1997 and 1999, he practiced in the fields of administrative, constitutional and commercial law before the High Court of Delhi and the Supreme Court of India. He has been a Research and Teaching Fellow at the National Law School (1999- 2001), as well as at the Global Public Service Law Project at NYU School of Law (2003-05). The areas in which he has research and teaching interests are: comparative constitutional theory and practice; Constitutional and administrative law in India; law and development; and legal education. In recent years, he has presented academic papers at conferences/seminars at the following venues: the Faculty of Law, McGill University; the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and at the Faculties of law at the Universities of Indonesia, Hong Kong, Toronto and Kyushu. In 2007, he undertook stints as Visiting Professor twice, and taught intensive courses on constitutional theory and Indian constitutionalism at the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata and at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Email: akthiru@hotmail.com Aruna Kashyap is the Asia women's rights researcher for Human Rights Watch. Email: aruna.kashyap@gmail.com Arundhati Katju is a lawyer based in Delhi. Email: arundhatikatju@gmail.com Arvind Agrawal is a Professor and Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Dharamshala. He has formerly been the head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Rajasthan.
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Email:drarvindagrawal@gmail.com 60. Arvind Narrain is a founder member of the Alternative Law Forum in India, a collective of young lawyers who work on a critical practice of law. He works on issues pertaining to human rights and also with specific reference to the human rights of those who are discriminated against on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation. He has also been active in the ICC India campaign on issues of mass crimes and ensuring accountability for the same. Email: arvind@altlawforum.org Arvind Radhakrishnan is a faculty in the Law Department, Christ University, Bangalore. He teaches Political Science and has completed MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Email: arvind.radhakrishnan@christuniversity.in Asha Bajpai focuses on teaching, research, training, law reform and consultancy in law and human rights especially on issues relating to women and children. Her subjects taught include Law and Social Work, Women & Law, family Law, child and law, commercial transactions, media law, business law, public health law, and contract law. Her areas of research include Juvenile Justice, Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation, Child Labour, Adoption & Custody, Violence/Crimes against Women and Children, Criminal Justice Administration, Sexual Harassment, Rights in the Work Place, and Child Marriages. Dr. Bajpaj has been involved in training of Law Enforcement Personnel, NGO's, Social Workers, Government Officials, and corporate sector employees and management. She has published several books: Child Rights in India-Law, Policy & Practice (OUP), Adoption Law & Justice to the Child (NLSIU), Women's Rights at Workplace (ed) (TISS)., and is a member of the High Court-appointed Committee on reforming curriculum of BMC schools in Mumbai, of the Mumbai High Court appointed State Monitoring Committee on Juvenile Justice (Investigated several child sexual abuse cases in the institution), and of the Sexual Harassment Committee appointed by Mumbai High Court, among other appointments. The Mayor of Mumbai awarded her a trophy for the 'Most Outstanding Contribution in the area of Women & Law' and she was also awarded a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer Fellowship. Email: bajpaiasha@gmail.com

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Ashok Agrwaal is practicing law since 1983 on both civil and criminal side at the trial court level as well as in the appellate courts. He has also practiced extensively in the writ jurisdiction of the High Court and the Supreme Court. Further, he has worked on the issue of custodial violence and enforced disappearances in Punjab and Kashmir since 1987, led a tenyear long litigation regarding enforced disappearances leading to mass illegal cremations in Punjab, before the Supreme Court and the NHRC. Between 2002 and 2005 and conducted a study of the effectiveness of the writ of habeas corpus in Jammu and Kashmir. He is also a co-author of Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab published by South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) 2003 and author of In Search of Vanished Blood, a study of the effectiveness of the writ of habeas corpus in Jammu and Kashmir, pub. SAFHR -2008. His other publications include 'Law's Autonomy: A Paradigm of State Power' in Autonomy - Beyond Hermeneutics and Kant, Paula Banerjee and Samir K. Das (eds.), (Delhi: Anthem, 2007), a monograph titled Trivializing Justice: Reservation Under Rule of Law, in Justice and Law: The Limits of the Deliverables of Law, Ashok Agrwaal and Bharat Bhushan (eds.), Delhi: Sage, 2009), The Punjab Mass Cremations Case: A Postscript in Human Rights And Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements, Ujjwal Kumar Singh (ed.), Sage 2009, and Globalisation and Justice: Fait Accompli or Choice in Sustainability of Rights After Globalisation, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury and Ishita Dey (eds.), Sage 2011. Email: ashokagrwaal@gmail.com Ashwini Sukthankar researches and advocates on international labour rights and transnational labour regulation; her work has included projects with the ILO, USAID, foundations, global union federations, and national unions. She has also been closely involved in a number of private voluntary initiatives on international labour rights, including impact assessments on the Fairtrade Labelling Organizations and aspects of the Better Work/ Better Factories program. Her prior experience includes serving as the director of the International Commission for Labour Rights, where from 2005 to 2009 she coordinated a network of labour lawyers and labour rights experts to provide pro bono assistance to workers' organizations worldwide, addressing corporate accountability and trade union rights. From 2002 to 2005, Ashwini was the Director of Investigations and Research at the Worker Rights Consortium, where she coordinated assessments of labour standards compliance, and wrote reports on issues in international and domestic law
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and policy with respect to labour. Ashwini is fluent in English, Marathi, and Hindi, conversant in French and has some knowledge of Spanish. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School. Email: ashwini@post.harvard.edu 65. Ashwini Tambes research focuses on colonial South Asia, transnational gender and sexuality studies, and global political economy. Her book "Codes of Misconduct: The Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial Bombay" (2009 U Minnesota Press) traces the history of the transnational sex trade in Bombay city. It focuses on the relationship between forms of prostitution, discourses of law making and law enforcement practices. She has co-edited a volume on transnational approaches to subaltern mobility in the Indian Ocean, titled "The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia"(Routledge,2008).Her work appears in journals such as Feminist Studies, Gender and Society, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Social Scientist, and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her current research, supported by a SSHRC grant, focuses on the changing age standards defining girlhood in twentieth century India. Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto. Email: a.tambe@utoronto.ca Atreyee Majumder is a PhD candidate in Anthropology from Yale University. She graduated from National Law School Bangalore in 2006 with LLB degree. That puts her in the margins of law and social science, but her narrower interests lie in the frontiers of administrative law, resource management, resource, bureaucracy, land use and 'indigenous' identity in the postcolonial state. Email: atreyee.majumder@yale.edu Avneesh Dhariwal is a 3rd year Law student of four year LLB (Hons) course at Dr. RMLNLU, Lucknow. Email:avneesh.dhariwal@gmail.com Aysel Madra is a PhD candidate at the Sociology Department at the New School for Social Research. Her interests include sociology of religion, comparative-historical sociology, political sociology, law and society, Turkey, and India. Her dissertation project is a comparative analysis of secularism and the rise of religious politics in Turkey and India. Email: madra377@newschool.edu
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B. Skanthakumar is with the Law & Society Trust (LST), a Colombo-based human rights documentation, research and advocacy organization. He read law at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he also taught 'Law and Development'. At LST he leads its economic, social and cultural rights programme and contributes to its institutional management and national and international representation. Among his recent publications is an overview of Muslim personal law in Sri Lanka (2006); an edited volume on Language Rights in Sri Lanka (2008), reports on the National Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (2009 and 2010), and a book chapter on workers rights in the formal sector (2009). He co-facilitated and edited the collective NGO report on Sri Lanka's implementation of its obligations to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in November 2010; and was an organizer of the Peoples' SAARC civil society convergence in Colombo in July 2008. Email: lst.kumar@gmail.com B.S. Chimni is an internationally renowned legal scholar. His areas of expertise include international law, international trade law and international refugee law. Currently, he is Chairperson of the Centre for International Legal Studies (CILS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He had a two and a half year stint as Vice Chancellor of the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences. He has been a Visiting Professor at the International Centre for Comparative Law and Politics, Tokyo University, a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Visiting Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Public International Law, Heidelberg, and a Visiting Scholar at the Refugee Studies Center, York University, Canada. He served as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for the period from 1996-2000. He is on the editorial board of several national and international journals like Indian Journal of International Law, International Studies, International Refugee Studies, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal & Refugee Survey Quarterly. Email: bschimni@mail.jnu.ac.in Badrinarayanan Seetharaman is pursuing law at NLSIU, Bangalore. Email: badrinarayanan.ess@gmail.com

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Balakrishnan Rajagopal is Associate Professor of Law and Development and Director of the Program on Human Rights and Justice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has been a member of the Executive Council and Executive Committee of the American Society of International Law, and is currently on the Asia Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch, the International Advisory Committee of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights and the International Rights Advocates. He is a Faculty Associate at Harvard Law Schools Program on Negotiation. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars in Washington, DC, the Madras Institute of Development Studies and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, a Visiting Professor at the UN University for Peace, University of Melbourne Law School and the Washington College of Law, the American University. His terminal degree is an interdisciplinary Doctorate in law (SJD) from Harvard Law School and he also holds a first law degree from India. He served for many years with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Cambodia and received a Royal Award from the King of Cambodia. Email: braj@mit.edu Benjamin Schonthal is a PhD candidate in the History of Religions from the Divinity School, University of Chicago. Email: bens@uchicago.edu Benoit Mayer (LL.M. McGill, M.A. Pol. Sci. Sciences Po, B.C.L. Sorbonne) is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the alternative justifications for an international legal protection of climate migrants. An active member of the Center for International Sustainable Development Law and the Earth System Governance, he has previously worked and interned in NGOs in France and in Canada as well as at the European Court of Justice. He published half a dozen journal articles and book chapters on environmental migration, human rights and environmental law. For his research on environmental migration, he received the 2010 CISDL-IDLO Award of Excellence in Legal Scholarship on Sustainable Development. Email: bmayer@nus.edu.sg Bhavani Fonseka is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Policy Alternatives, Colombo, specialising in the areas of conflict resolution, human
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rights, legal and constitutional issues. She has written on issues like women and child rights as well as HIV/ AIDS. Email: bhavani@cpalanka.org 76. Bhavna Thakur is presently a research scholar pursuing her PhD from Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (CSLG), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Email: bhavnathakur.25@gmail.com Bikram Jeet Batra is a lawyer and a researcher particularly interested in criminal justice and human rights. At present he is a New India Foundation Fellow working on a monograph on Capital Punishment in 20th Century India. Email: bjbatra@gmail.com Bimol Akoijam is a graduate from Poona University, did his MA and Ph.D. from the Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, where he taught during the academic sessions of 1996-97 to 2000-2001. Presently he is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His specialization during his Masters programme was in clinical psychology but he gradually moved to social and political psychology during his doctoral programme. In terms of specific researches, he works on issues of culture in psychological enterprise, both in its theorization and praxis, and psycho-social aspects of contemporary experiences of identity politics, ethnic conflict, violence and gender relations. At the Centre, he is presently working on questions of identity politics vis-vis the pre-to-post-colonial transformations in South Asia particularly with reference to Manipur and Indias Northeast. Akoijam has scripted and directed a short film Paradise under Siege, and also written and directed a play Azaadi ki Khamoshiyan based on Mantos work at the National School of Drama (2001). Presently, he is working on another play Draupadi, I and the Mirror on the issue of sexual politics, and a film Defending Gandhi on the state and violence in postcolonial Indian republic. He is an executive editor of the Eastern Quarterly, Delhi. Email: bimol_akoijam@yahoo.co.in Binyamin Blum is a doctoral candidate at Stanford Law School. His research examines the transplantation of the English common law in the Middle East during the early 20th century. Binyamins previous research has
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focused on judicial independence and the separation of powers, examining questions such as the historical origins of the United States Presidents power to pardon and the ways in which temporary judicial appointments in Israel affect the decision making of untenured judges. His work has also addressed the ways in which comparative law is used by courts to express their self perception and define their identity. Binyamin has served as a teaching assistant of Evidence, Administrative and Criminal law. Before coming to Stanford, Binyamin clerked for the Honorable Justice Ayala Procaccia of the Israeli Supreme Court and served as a prosecutor at the Jerusalem District Attorneys Office. He obtained his B.A. and LL.B. (summa cum laude) from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and has recently been awarded the Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellowship. Email: blum@stanford.edu 80. Biranchi Panda is a legal research scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Email: bnppanda@gmail.com Bishnu Mohapatra is a political scientist in the Ford Foundation. He formerly taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi and headed the Governance Portfolio of the New Delhi office of the Ford Foundation. Email: rkharat@hotmail.com Brenna Bhandar, Lecturer, University of Kent Law School. Prior to the PhD Brenna practiced law briefly in Canada. Her research interests lie in the areas of indigenous rights, post-colonial and critical legal theories, theories of recognition, and property law. Her current research is in the area of biotechnological forms of property and processes of propitiation. Email: b.bhandar@kent.ac.uk Bronwen Morgan is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. She was previously Harold Woods Research Fellow in Law at the Centre for Socio-legal Studies and Wadham College, University of Oxford (2002-2005), and Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer in Law at St Hilda's College, Oxford (1999-2001). She holds a Ph.D. (2000) from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Department at the University of California at Berkeley and a law degree (1991) and B.A. in English and French Literature (1988) from the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on the political economy of regulatory reform, the intersection
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between regulation and social and economic human rights, and global governance. Her 2003 monograph Social Citizenship in the Shadow of Competition was awarded the Hart Socio-Legal Prize for Early Career Academics in 2004. The book traces the ways in which economic rationality increasingly shapes both regulatory governance and collective identity, using Australian regulatory reform policy as a case study. Her current research explores globalised struggles over socio-economic rights that revolve around axes of conflict between national and local control, and between market efficiency and human rights. She recently completed a monograph entitled Water on Tap published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, focusing on private sector participation in water delivery to households, its consequences and the patterns of social protest it generates in six different national contexts. Recent publications appear in Social and Legal Studies, the Journal of Consumer Policy, the European Journal of International Law and edited volumes including Making Global Self-Regulation Effective in Developing Countries (eds Brown and Woods, Oxford University Press 2007); Consumption and Citizenship (ed Trentmann and Soper, Palgrave 2007); Governance and Consumption: Agency and Resistance (eds Bevir and Trentmann, Palgrave 2007), Public Accountability, (ed. Michael Dowdle, Cambridge University Press 2006) and Institutions and Public Law: Comparative Approaches (eds. Tom Ginsburg and Robert Kagan, Peter Lang 2005). Email: b.morgan@bristol.ac.uk 84. Carolyn Penfold is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Carolyn currently teaches and researches in labour law, and is particularly interested in the effects on labour law of globalisation and the growth of the services economy. Carolyn has bachelor degrees in Arts (politics) and Law from the Australian National University, and Masters Degrees in Education and Law from the University of New South Wales. Email: c.penfold@unsw.edu.au Catalina Smulovitz has been a Professor of Political Science at the University Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires since 1993, and chair of that department since 2004; she has also been a CONICET researcher since 1992. Email: smulovitz@utdt.edu

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Celine Tanis Assistant Professor at the Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. She joined Warwick from Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham where she was Lecturer in Law. Prior to Birmingham, she worked as a researcher for the Third World Network, a research and advocacy organisation based in Malaysia and Switzerland. She has also worked with international organisations and other non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Europe, Africa and Asia on on issues relating to social and economic development and human rights. Her research interests centre on exploring the aspects of international economic law and regulation with a focus on international development law, policy and governance. Email:celine.tan@warwick.ac.uk Chandan Gowda is a Professor of Sociology at the Azim Premji University, Bangalore. He was Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion at NLS, Bangalore. He holds a Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Email: chandangowda@gmail.com Chandra Murdoch is a Master's Student in the Socio-Legal Studies Program at York University, Toronto. Email: chandra.murdoch@gmail.com Chee Goh is a Senior Research Fellow at Victoria University of Technology's Centre for Environmental Safety and Risk Engineering (CESARE) where he undertakes research for One Steel, BHP and other industrial partners. He has a research background in steel, concrete and composite construction and has become involved with fire-engineering research over the past two years. He has published numerous papers and reports in aspects of composite and concrete construction. Email: CHG584@bham.ac.uk Chikosa Silungwe is an Assistant Chief Law Reform Officer, Malawi Law Commission. He has recently defended a PhD Thesis in the Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. He is the Managing Editor of the Law, Social Justice and Global Development e-journal that is run by the Law School. Email: C.M.Silungwe@warwick.ac.uk Christian Strmpell is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University. He did his PhD in
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Social Anthropology at the Free University, Berlin, in 2004 and was a Research Fellow in the project "Law against the State or, the Juridification of Protest (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Julia Eckert) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology between 2007 and 2009. Among his publications are one monograph Wir arbeiten zusammen, wir essen zusammen. Konvivium und soziale Peripherie in einer indischen Werkssiedlung(We work together, we eat together. Conviviality and social Periphery in an Indian Company Settlement). LIT-Verlag, Mnster and articles in Contributions to Indian Sociology (42:3, 2008), Economic and Political Weekly (43:19, 2008), Citizenship Studies (15:3-4, 2011). He is currently co-editing a volume on legal anthropology at Cambridge University Press. Strmpell's research interests include the anthropology of work and labour, economic anthropology and legal anthropology with a regional focus on South Asia, especially Orissa. He has conducted long-term fieldwork on migrant industrial workers of a small hydro-electric power project in the south Orissan Koraput district between 2000-2003 and between 2004-2009 a second long-term field research on industrial workers of a large steel plant in the northwestern Orissan steel town Rourkela. Email: struempell@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de 92. Chubatila Ozukum is a Ph.D. scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Chubatila is working on the everyday life of emergency law in Nagaland, India. Email: ati.ozukum@gmail.com Dag Erik Berg is a PhD candidate at Administration and Organization Theory, University of Bergen. Email: dageberg@gmail.com Damini Ghosh has graduated with a degree in law (B.A., L.L.B. (Hons) from the National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata in 2008. She has worked at Amarchand Mangaldas, a law firm based in New Delhi from June 2008 to May 2010. Currently, she is working at the Central Information Commission, New Delhi (set up under the Right to Information Act, 2005) as a legal consultant to Mr. Shailesh Gandhi, Information Commissioner. Email: daminighosh@gmail.com

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Dania Thomas, Lecturer, School of Law, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG. Email: d.thomas@law.keele.ac.uk Daniel Taghioff is currently writing up Ethnography of the Implementation of the Forest Rights Act in India. He is looking at it from the perspective of natural resource governance and exploring the possibilities of local democracy in practice. This sits within a wider perspective on the impacts of natural resource shortages and natural resource speculation on vulnerable, environmentally-dependent communities. Email: daniel@taghioff.info Daniela Berti is a social anthropologist and researcher at the CNRS, she has carried out research in Himachal Pradesh (North India). She has worked on linguistic procedures in dialogues which take place during possession rituals and on what gives effectiveness to this particular type of utterance. Other work has covered the development of divine iconography, local representations of the ritual efficacy, contemporary transformations of certain royal feasts and the persistence in contemporary state institutions of politico-ritual roles and practices associated in the past with royalty. Her recent research focuses on 1) the impact of an organization linked to Hindu nationalism - which is working on a programme to rewrite history - on ritual practices and on the reinterpretation of the regional past 2) an ethnological study of tribunals and the procedures used in Indian courts for settling conflicts. Email: dberti2@free.fr Daphne Barak-Erez is a Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Law and the Chair of Law and Security at the Faculty of Law. She currently serves as the Director of the Cegla Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law and a member of the Council of Higher Education in Israel, a member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and the President of the Israeli Law and Society Association. Her main research and teaching areas are administrative and constitutional law. In addition, she teaches courses in the areas of feminist jurisprudence, contracts and payment systems. She is a three time graduate of Tel-Aviv University: LL.B. (summa cum laude) 1988; LL.M. (summa cum laude) 1991, and J.S.D, 1993 (recipient of the Colton Fellowship). She was a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, a visiting fellow at the Max28

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Planck Institute of Public Law, Heidelberg, an Honorary Research Fellow at University College London, a Visiting Researcher at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law in Lausanne, a Visiting Researcher at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi and a Visiting Fellow at the Schell Center at Yale Law School. She has also taught as Visiting Professor at various universities, including the University of Toronto, Columbia Law School and Stanford Law School. She acted as the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights (2000-2001) and as the chairperson of the Israeli Association of Public Law, and as the Deputy Dean of the faculty (2000-2002). She was awarded several prizes, including the Rectors Prize for Excellence in Teaching, the Zeltner Prize, the Woman of the City Award (by the City of Tel-Aviv) and the Women in Law Award (by the Israeli Bar). She is the author and editor of several books and of many articles in Israel, England, Canada and the United States. Email: barakerz@post.tau.ac.il 99. David T. Johnson, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii. He coauthored The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009) with Franklin Zimring. Email: davidjoh@hawaii.edu Davina Bhandar is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Canadian Studies at Trent University. Her current research interests include immigration, migration and border security in a North American context; feminist critical race and anti-imperialist politics and theory; transnational feminist politics. Email: dbhandar@gmail.com Deana Heat is based in Delhi at the moment and will be through the end of the year. She works on issues relating to colonialism, law and governmentality. She has published books on obscenity regulation and communalism and globalisation, and currently working on one on systemic violence in colonial India. Email: heathdeana@gmail.com Debajit Kumar Sarmah holds a Masters degree in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and currently pursuing LL.B. from Delhi University. Law and Society is his area of interest. Email: dksarmah@gmail.com
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Debasis Poddar is an Assistant Professor of Law at National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL), Ranchi, Jharkhand. Before joining NUSRL, he served several institutions of repute including National Law University (NLU), Jodhpur. He completed LL.M. and M.Phil. from National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore besides M.A. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His areas of interest include, but not limited to, interdisciplinary areas of study appurtenant to law. Email: debasis.calcutta@gmail.com Deepak Mehta is Associate Professor in Sociology. His research interests centre around the study of material culture, the sociology of Muslim groups in India and the sociology of violence. He is the author of Work, Ritual, Biography: A Muslim Community in North India (1996). He has authored (with Roma Chatterji) Living with Violence: An Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life (2007) and edited (with Roma Chatterji) Riot Discourses. (2007). Email: deepak.em@gmail.com Devika Bordia is postdoctoral fellow at the Just-India program in Paris. She holds a PhD (2009) in Anthropology, Yale University, and has been working on practices of everyday local governance and law in Rajasthan. She graduated with a B.A. in Philosophy and a M.A. in Social Work. From 1999 to 2002 she worked with non-government organizations and conducted research on issues of self-governance, environment and violence against women in India. Email: devikabordia@gmail.com Devika Sethi teaches history at St Stephens College, New Delhi. Email: devikasethi@hotmail.com Dhanya Sivan is a doctoral student at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her PhD topic is GlobalLocal Discourses of Indigenous Rights and Contestations: A Study Among the Adivasis in Kerala. She is interested in doing independent research and taking documentaries about human rights and environmental issues. Email: vvipanchika@gmail.com Dharmendra Chatur is pursuing his B.A LL.B from the School of Law at Christ University. His various activities include participation in the
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University Student Council, Moot court team and Parliamentary debate team. He is associated with various societies which include the International Relations Committee as well as the Journals and Publications Committee. He has worked as a legal intern at various firms such as Nishith Desai Associates (May-June 2011), Aditya Sondhi Law Chambers (Oct-Nov 2010), and Fox Mandal Little Corporate Office (AprMay 2010). He has won numerous awards such as the Best Student in Academics Juristar 2010, Christ University, as well the excellence in academics from the Christ University Alumni Association. Email: dchatur@gmail.com 109. Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi is a cultural anthropologist with a strong interest in gender, human rights and transnational feminist politics. She is a South Asia specialist, with particular expertise on gender and Islam in Bangladesh. Her research and publications concern globalization and human rights, non-state dispute resolution systems, and the cultural politics of Islam. Dr. Siddiqi has worked for leading human rights organizations in Bangladesh including Ain o Salish Kendra, and has been a consultant for UNDP, UNICEF and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Dhaka. She teaches anthropology and gender studies on a part-time basis in the United States. Dr. Siddiqi was Senior Research Associate at the Alice Paul Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Pennsylvania from 2004-2007 and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka in 2002. She is currently a core resource person and adjunct faculty member at the Centre for Gender, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS at the James P. Grant School of Public Health, BRAC University, Dhaka. She is part of the Core Advisory Group of the South Asian Network of Gender Activists and Trainers (SANGAT) and a member of the Coalition for Sexual and Bodily Rights in Muslim Societies (CSBR). Email: dmsiddiqi@yahoo.com Dinesha Samararatne is a Lecturer in Law, University of Colombo. He holds an LL.B. (2005) from the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. He obtained a LL.M. from Harvard (2009) on a Fulbright Scholarship. He has been teaching at the Faculty of Law, of the University of Colombo since graduation. His research interests are human rights law, administrative law and public international law. At present he is registered for an M.Phil at the University of Colombo. His proposed research is on public law in Sri Lanka

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and looking at it from a "post-colonial critique" angle and also looking at "legal transplants" in that field. Email: dinesha.samararatne@gmail.com 111. Dolf te Lintelo is a Fellow in the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team. His research interests concern the political economy of social regulation and the politics of public policy processes; the participation of state and non-state actors in policy-making and implementation; collective action and power in these; and the ways in which public policies and regulation impinge on the livelihoods of the poor. His work has had a substantial focus on, but is not limited to, urban and peri-urban areas. Email: dolfteli@yahoo.com Dolly Kikon grew up in Nagaland, India. She briefly practiced law in India (2000 - 2002), before obtaining an MPhil in Social Science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2004. She has worked as a human rights activist and a researcher in the past. Her research interests include human rights, the indigenous question, property regimes, and citizenship. Currently she is a PhD student at the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. Email: dollykikon@gmail.com, dollykikon@yahoo.com Donatella Alessandrini is Senior Lecturer at Kent Law School, University of Canterbury, UK. Her research interests are in the areas of critical development studies, trade theory and practice, feminist and critical political economy, and neo-liberalism. She is the author of Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime: The Failure and Promise of the WTO's Development Mission (Hart, 2010). Another project she is working on explores the challenges that financial derivatives are bringing to regulation and the real economy. Email: D.Alessandrini@kent.ac.uk Douglas Hay holds BA and MA degrees from University of Toronto. He also has a PhD from the University of Warwick. He has a number of publications to his credit which include Masters, Servants and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), a volume in Studies in Legal History. Women, Men, and Empires of Law [review essay], Journal of British Studies, vol. 44 no.1 (January 2005. His research interests include legal and social history of the judiciary and central courts of
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England, 1701-1820; English criminal law in the same period; enforcement and evolution of the contract of employment (master and servant) in England, Scotland and Ireland to 1875; magistrates and summary justice; the English court of Kings Bench. Email: DHay@osgoode.yorku.ca 115. Durgambini Patel Reader, Department of Law, University of Pune. Email: durgambini@gmail.com Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya is a Fellow in Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He works on issues related to democracy, governance, and the politics of the Left in India. His fieldwork primarily takes shape in rural West Bengal. At present, he is also working on a study that compares Kerala and West Bengal on various aspects including social mobilization, political participation and institutional performance especially in relation to the population below the poverty line. Email: dwai@cssscal.org Dwijen Rangnekar is an Associate Professor at the Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, UK. He is an evolutionary economist, and his research focuses on the innovation process, technical change, knowledge production and appropriation strategies; of special interest is the role of intellectual property rights. In terms of industrial sectors, his research mainly concentrates on the seed industry, agro-food industries, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. The issues that are of interest include the transformation of agro-food industries and the relationship between plant variety protection and patent law; biotechnology, the life science industries and patent law; intellectual property rights and plant genetic resources; the international politics of intellectual property rights; protection of traditional knowledge, rural development and the role of geographical indications and trademarks; and the impact of intellectual property rights on knowledge production. His Recent publications include The Law and Economics of Geographical Indications: Introduction To Special Issue Of The Journal Of World Intellectual Property ' Journal of World Intellectual Property, Another look at Basmati: Genericity and the Problems of a Trans-Border Geographical Indication' Journal of World Intellectual Property, The Use and Application of Geographical Indications: The Case of Darjeeling Tea' in Guide To Geographical Indications: Linking Products and Their Origins. Email: dwijenr@gmail.com
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Eddie Riyadi Laggut-Terre is a human rights activist in Indonesia, now working at Van Vollenhoven Institute, Leiden University, for programme of Access to Justice in Indonesia. Email: eddie.terre@gmail.com Eesvan Krishnan is reading for the DPhil in Law at Oxford University. He studies the history of land acquisition for companies in late colonial India, with an eye to the current debates of which we're well aware. He was a visiting fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in 2010 and is currently writing up his thesis. Email: eesvan.krishnan@merton.ox.ac.uk Elizabeth Kolsky is Associate Professor of History at Villanova University (US). Her research explores the history of law in colonial and postcolonial South Asia. She is the author most recently of: Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010); Fringes of Empire: People, Places and Spaces in Colonial India, co-edited with Sameetah Agha (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2009); The Rule of Colonial Indifference: Rape on Trial in Early Colonial India, 1805-1857, The Journal of Asian Studies, 69, 4 (November 2010): 1093-1117; The Body Evidencing the Crime: Rape on Trial in Colonial India, 18601947, Gender & History,22, 1 (April 2010): 109-130; Guest Editor of and author of Introduction to Special Forum, Manoeuvring the Personal Law System in Colonial India, Law and History Review 28, 4 (November 2010): 973-978; and Codification and the Rule of Colonial Difference: Criminal Procedure in British India, in Special Forum, Colonial Order, British Law: The Empire in India, Law and History Review, 23, 3 (Fall 2005): 631-683. Dr. Kolsky is currently working on a book on colonial law and legal practice on the northwest frontier of British India. Email: elizabeth.kolsky@villanova.edu Evelina Dagnino Evelina Dagnino is Professor of Political Science at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. She has a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University, USA. She has been a Visiting Professor in the United States, at Yale University, and at the University of Gteborg, Sweden; Member of the Centre Advisory Review Group for the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, University of Sussex, UK; and Chair of the Citizenship, Rights and Social Justice Track of the Latin American Studies Association. Evelina has published extensively on the relationships between
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culture and politics, social movements, civil society and participation, democracy and citizenship. Email: evelina@unicamp.br 122. Fayaz Ahmad Dar (a Commonwealth Professional Fellow) is currently leading a research project, A Needs Assessment of Youth in IndianAdministered Kashmir documenting the experience of Kashmiri youth of their civic and political rights and duties, and understanding from them how they want to transform the Kashmiri society. This research is supported by Conciliation Resources, a charity based out of UK. Fayaz has a Masters in Coexistence and Conflict from Brandeis University, USA (2010) and an MBA in Human Resources Management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, New Delhi (2006). Before heading back to Kashmir, Fayaz worked for over 12 years in diverse and cross-cultural settings for various organizations in non-profit social and education sectors in Delhi. These include US India Educational Foundation and GGS Indraprastha University. He is multilingual with English, Urdu, Hindi and Kashmiri. Fayaz is a progressive individual with passion for social justice and peaceful coexistence driven by his first hand experience of conflict in Kashmir and Delhi. Email: wahidfayaz@gmail.com Fayazuddin Ahmad is an Advocate and Legal Analyst. As a Chevening Scholar he did his second post-graduation on International Development Law and Human Rights (LL.M.) with the School of Law, University of Warwick in 2007-8. He did the first with University of Dhaka on Comparative Human Rights and Humanitarian Laws (LL.M.) in 1997. He started his career with Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) (a legal aid services NGO) as [1996-99]. He joined the International NGO Coalition for an International Criminal Court (CICC) as the Program Coordinator of its Asian Network for the International Criminal Court (ANICC), he was the Asian Focal Point of the CICC (19992002). Action on Disability and Development (ADD) International appointed him as its Human Rights Officer in their Bangladesh office (2003-2006). He played the multidimensional role of the Programme Manager in the human rights team of Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) (2006-2007). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Bangladesh engaged him as an Expert Consultant of their e-Governance & Development cluster in 2007. He also had served with Dr. Kamal Hossain & Associates and Syed Ishtiaq Ahmed & Associates as a Counsel. He has been a Fellow, Forum of the Democratic Leaders in the Asia-Pacific (FDL-AP), South Korea in 2001 and
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Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria in 2002. He conducted numbers of sociolegal & policy research (on laws and practices related family laws in Bangladesh and drafted policy briefs with legislation (draft) He has worked with Access to Information (A2I) programme at the Prime Minister's Office. Now, he is working with CARE Bangladesh (SHOUHARDOII) as its Knowledge Management Coordinator. Email: mongolalok@gmail.com 124. Flavia Agnes is a womens rights lawyer and writer and has been actively involved in the womens movement for the last two decades. She has written extensively on issues of domestic violence, feminist jurisprudence and minority rights. Her books are widely acclaimed and are popular among advocates, paralegal workers, law students and women who have been victims of domestic violence. Currently she co-ordinates the legal centre of MAJLIS and is also engaged in her doctoral research on Property Rights of Married Women with the National Law School of India. Email: flaviaagnes@gmail.com, flaviaagnes@vsnl.net Francesca Dominello is a Lecturer in law at the Macquarie Law School, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. Her current research interests include legal history, law and social justice issues, and cultural studies and law. Email: francesca.dominello@mq.edu.au G S Bajpai is a Professor at the National Law Institute University, Bhopal. His area of interest includes criminology, criminal law, research method and critique of criminal justice system with a socio-legal leaning. Email: gsbajpai@gmail.com Gaia von Hatzfeldt is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Gaias research is on civil society engagement in transparency and accountability legislation. Email:gaia108@gmail.com Gail Mason is an Associate Professor at the Sydney Law School. Associate Professor Gail Mason is Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney, Australia. Her research examines the nexus between crime, governmentality, social justice and affect, particularly in the context of racist and homophobic violence. She is currently engaged in
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an international analysis of the ways in which 'hate crime laws' contribute to the constitution of hatred as an emotion, as well as a post-colonial critique of resilience and gendered violence amongst former-refugee communities in Australia. Email: gail.mason@sydney.edu.au 129. Gail Pearson, Professor of Business Law, University of Sydney. Email: G.Pearson@econ.usyd.edu.au Gauri Nanayakkara, an Attorney-at-Law from Sri Lanka is currently researching on performers rights in Sri Lanka for the doctoral thesis at the University of Kent, UK. She possesses a Master of Laws from the Queen Mary University of London, UK on Communications and Computer Law. She has been working as a private practitioner and subsequently as a State Counsel at the Attorney Generals Department of Sri Lanka prior to joining the University of Kent. In addition to her research work I also teach at the University. Email:G.C.S.Nanayakkara@kent.ac.uk, gcas2@kent.ac.uk Geetanjali Srikantan is a doctoral student at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore. Her research interests lie in the area of law and religion. Her present research which draws from jurisprudence and legal history revolves around the site of the religious place. Email: geetanjali_srikantan@yahoo.co.in Genevieve Lakier, Weatherhead Center for International and Area Studies, Harvard University. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in The Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. She received a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University. Genevieve is the recipient of a National Science Fellowship, a Josephine de Karman Fellowship, a Fulbright-Hayes and was an Academy Scholar at the Weatherhead Centre for International and Area Studies at Harvard University before coming to NYU. Email: glakier@hotmail.com George (CST), Community Services Trust (CST) Salem is an independent and secular NGO. CST was initiated with the committed efforts of a few social work professionals who were imbibed in Gandhian thoughts and swadeshi movement. During 1988 and 1989 preliminary work was done to set up CST as being an extension of the NGO Tribal Net Work in the neglected
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hill areas like Bodha Hills, Palamalai Hills, Jarugumalai Hills, Yercaud and Kolli Hills. Due to organizational and geographical issues, CST has raised independently in 1990. CST focuses on the poorest of the poor, neglected, uncared tribal rural and slum populations in the Salem and Namakkal districts in TamilNadu, India. Email: georgecst@yahoo.com 134. George H. Gadbois Jr. (Ph.D., Duke University) is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Kentucky, USA. The author of many publications dealing with the Supreme Court of India, his most recent is Judges of the Supreme Court of India: 1950-1989 (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, April 2011). Email: gadboisgh@aol.com George Pulikuthiyil is a human rights lawyer based in Trissur, Kerala. He started practice of law in 1991, in Ernakulam District Court for free-legal aid to the poor and the needy. Moved to the Kerala High Court in 1992 to concentrate on Writ Petitions for the defence of human rights and in the interest of common cause. Cases concerning the weaker and marginalized sections of the society and environmental protection are given priority. He is the founder director of Jananeethi society. Email: geopuli@gmail.com Gilles Tarabout is a social and cultural anthropologist, Senior Fellow ('Directeur de recherche') at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), he has been for long a member of the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CEIAS) before joining in 2010 the LESC (Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative), becoming its Director. His research is focused on Indian society, with a special interest in the relationships between society and religion in Kerala (South India). He currently participates in the coordination of an international research programme funded by the French "Agence Nationale de la Recherche", entitled: "Just-India": Justice and Governance in India and South Asia. Email: gtarabout@free.fr Gopal Guru is a Professor of Social and Political Theory in the Center for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is the author of numerous articles on Dalits, women, politics and philosophy. Email: gopalguru2001@yahoo.com
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Gopika Solanki is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Canada. Her research interests include gender and law, judicial politics, and legal pluralism in South Asia. She is the author of Adjudication in Religious Family Laws: Cultural Accommodation, Legal Pluralism, and Gender Equality in India (Cambridge University Press, 2011). Email: gopikasolanki@gmail.com Gurminder Bhambra is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Social Theory Centre at the University of Warwick. She held Postdoctoral Research Fellowships at the University of Sussex funded by the ESRC and the School of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, University of Sussex. She has also been a Research Associate at the Five College Womens Studies Research Centre at Mount Holyoke College, USA, where she was Visiting Assistant Professor in Critical Social Thought. Email: G.K.Bhambra@warwick.ac.uk Hallie Ludsin is a Fellow in Human Rights and Terrorism at the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and a legal consultant to the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling in Ramallah, West Bank. Email: hludsin@hotmail.com Hans Dembowski has a PhD in Sociology from Bielefeld University. His thesis dealt with urban development and the judiciary in Calcutta. Currently, he is the editor of D+C Development and Cooperation (www.inwent.org/d+c) and the German twin publication E+Z Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit. Law and governance matters are still of core interest to him, though his focus is no longer exclusively on South Asia. Before joining D+C in late 2003, he worked for the economics desks of a national daily in Germany (Frankfurter Rundschau) and Radio Deutsche Welle. He is the author of "Taking the State to Court Public Interest Litigation and the Public Sphere in Metropolitan India" (www.asienhaus.de/taking-state-to-court). The original version was published by OUP in 2001, but distribution was soon discontinued because of contempt-of-court proceedings before the Calcutta High Court. The case is still pending, he was never officially notified of the matter. Email: hans.dembowski@fs-medien.de

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Hester Betlem has completed B.A. in South Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999, went on to complete a Masters in Human Rights Studies from the School for International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, New York City in 2003. She is currently working towards her PhD in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Her interests include Law, Belief and Sexuality. She is presently doing her field research among Mathamma women in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, where she is looking at the manner in which dedicated women inhabit (or not) the languages of law and social reform in everyday practice. Email: hbetlem1@jhu.edu Hilary Charlesworth is a Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. She also holds an appointment as Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the College of Law, ANU. She was awarded a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council (2005-2010) and a Laureate Fellowship from 2010-2015. She has held visiting appointments at United States and European universities. She has worked with various non-governmental human rights organizations on ways to implement international human rights standards and was chair of the Australian Capital Territory government's inquiry into an ACT bill of rights, which led to the adoption of the ACT Human Rights Act 2004. She is an Australian member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration. Her research interests include human rights law, international law and feminist approaches to law. Email: charlesworthh@law.anu.edu.au Hussein Agrama is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Johns Hopkins University. He is also Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of the Social Sciences in the College, has ongoing research interests in the anthropology of law, religion, Islam, and the Middle East; and in secularism, law and colonial power, and the genealogies of sovereignty and emergency states. Email: hagrama@uchicago.edu Ian Duncanson is an Associate Professor, Griffith University & Institute of Postcolonial Studies, University of Melbourne. Email: ian.duncanson1@bigpond.com

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Indira Jaising is Additional Solicitor General, India. She has practiced as a Senior Advocate practicing at the Supreme Court of India. She is the Founder Secretary of the Lawyers Collective, an organisation of lawyers engaged in social change through law. She edits the monthly magazine, The Lawyers, dealing with law and social justice. Indira has argued several cases of public importance such as Olga Tells, for the rights of the homeless, Mary Roy's case, for equal inheritance rights for Syrian Christian women, Geeta Hariharans case for equal guardianship rights for women, Rupal Deol Bajaj's case protesting sexual harassment Ashok Thakur, arguing for affirmative action and reservation of higher learning for backward classes. She has represented the victims of the Bhopal disaster to just compensation. She has argued cases against the setting up of 5 star hotels in the coast line of Goa, to protect the environment. Indira has been awarded the Padma Shri in 2005. She has been currently nominated to be an expert on the CEDAW Committee by the Government of India. More details on the organization can be found onwww.lawyerscollective.org. Email: indirajaising@gmail.com Ingrida Ilgauskiene is a PhD student in the University of Birmingham, School of Law and also teaches at the Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Email:IXB338@bham.ac.uk Jaivir Singh is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Prior to joining the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, he taught in the Department of Economics, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. His current research interests are centred on institutional economics, law & economics and constitutional political economy. He has published articles on the economics of labour law, competition policy, regulation, legal procedure, judicial activism and separation of powers. His recent publications include An Economic Analysis of Judicial Activism Economic and Political Weekly (2002); Incentives and Judicially Determined Terms of Employment Economic and Political Weekly (2003); Central Government Policies: Interface with Competition Policy Objectives in Pradeep S. Mehta ed., Towards a Functional Competition Policy for India (Jaipur: CUTS International 2005) Structuring Regulation: Constitutional and Legal Frame in India Economic and Political Weekly (2006) Separation of Powers and the Erosion of the Right to Property in India Constitutional Political Economy(2006); He has edited Understanding
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Regulation: Institutional and Legal Dimensions (Social Science Press: New Delhi). Email: jaivirs@gmail.com 149. James Jaffe received his Ph.D. From Columbia University in New York in 1984 with a specialty in modern European history. Since then, he has written two books on industrial relations in late eighteenth and early nineteenthcentury Britain and edited a third, the diary of a famous political activist from that period. This work helped to develop a special interest in the history of alternative dispute resolution, especially the history of arbitration, which is now the focus of his research. He has published on the history of arbitration in Britain, but more recently he has spent the last two years expanding this research into the history of arbitration in colonial India. Currently, he is working on a monograph exploring the adaptation and contestation of Indian and British forms of arbitration to resolve civil disputes in colonial Bombay. More generally, the monograph will address competing and complementary concepts of justice and fairness during the colonial era. Email:jaffej@uww.edu Janaka Biyanwila is a (casualised) tutor/lecturer in employment relations at the Business School of the University of Western Australia. His work explores labour relations with particular interests in issues of development, nationalism, social movements, gender and civil society. In addition to numerous articles, He has recently published his first book, Labour Movement in the Global South: Trade Unions in Sri Lanka, Routledge, 2010. Email: janaka.biyanwila@uwa.edu.au Janaki Nair is a Professor of Social Sciences at the Centre for Historical Studies, JNU. Email: nair.janaki@gmail.com Jane Schukoske is the CEO of the Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD), an initiative of the S.M. Sehgal Foundation dedicated to improving the wellbeing of rural communities in India. An experienced legal aid lawyer and law professor in the U.S., she previously directed the Virginia Poverty Law Centre, the Community Development Clinic at University of Baltimore, and the U.S. Educational Foundation in India. She advised the planners of O.P. Jindal Global University and serves on the
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Universitys Governing Body. She joined IRRAD in July 2011 with a goal of promoting greater collaboration between the NGO and academic communities in service of rural communities. Email: jschukoske@gmail.com 153. Jasdeep Randhawa is currently reading for a BCL. Her research interests lie in law and public policy, with a particular focus on judicial reforms, global governance and democratic accountability. She has previously worked as a Law Clerk in the Supreme Court, and, as a Research Assistant in the Government of India. She holds an LLM from Yale Law School. Email: rjasdeep@gmail.com Jason Keith Fernandes, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore (Doctoral Candidate). Email: jason.k.fernandes@gmail.com Jasteena Dhillon is a Lawyer at Zolazen Consulting. Currently, Jasteena is lecturing at University of Windsor Law School in International Human Rights Law. In 2010, she held a Visiting Scholar position at Harvard Law School and an Affiliate Fellow position with Harvard's South Asia Initiative, Previously she was an Associate Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. At Harvard and now, Jasteena does research, teaching and writing on justice and rule of law, informal and formal justice systems in conflict, post-conflict and transitional countries and regions. Jasteena Dhillon attended University of Toronto in majoring in History/Sociology and Anthropology completing that in 1990, then University of Windsor Law School completing a LL.B/JD in 1995. She also completed a LL.M/Masters of Law in Public International law from Leiden University in the Netherlands in 1999.Her work in Canada from 1989 - 1999 was based in Toronto and focussed on community development and advocacy in the violence against women movement and on issues facing immigrants and refugees. She began working in the South Asian student movement in Toronto and continued after graduation as a Community Advocate and Counsellor at Toronto area women's shelters and crisis centres for women and girls and project for the Ministry of the Solicitor General on training police on appropriate intervention techniques for domestic violence. Email: jasteenadhillon@yahoo.com

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in the wake of global "modernity" and commodification. Her current research concerns problems of public order, state sovereignty and policing in postcolonial contexts, and the challenging relation of legitimacy to force. Email: jcomaro@uchicago.edu 160. Jeff Redding teaches Civil Procedure and Comparative Law at Saint Louis University School of Law. Prior to joining the SLU LAW faculty, Professor Redding was an Oscar M. Ruebhausen Fellow in Law at Yale Law School. Prior to his time at Yale, he held research positions at Harvard Law School (Islamic Legal Studies Program) and Columbia Law School (Centre for the Study of Law and Culture). He has also worked with various law-related organizations in Pakistan, India, and Egypt. Professor Redding earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School. Professor Redding's research interests are in the areas of comparative law and religion, comparative secularism, legal pluralism, and family law, and he is a participant in the transnational JUST - India research consortium concerning justice and governance in South Asia. As a result of his work with this consortium, Professor Redding was recently invited to spend six months in residence at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, where he began work on a book-length manuscript concerning contemporary Islamic legal institutions and their impact on debates about legal pluralism in South Asia, Europe, and North America. Email: jreddin3@slu.edu Jennifer Beard is a barrister as well as an academic. In addition to holding a Senior Lectureship at Melbourne University, Jennifer has been a Visiting Fellow at the University of British Columbia Law School in Canada where she taught a PhD Seminar on Legal Theory and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Law; a teacher of International Law, Trade and Development in the LLM Programme in the Department of International Law and Human Rights at the United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica; and a visiting fellow at the University of Lund Law School in Sweden where she works in collaboration with Professor Gregor Noll on an analysis of the RHD processes of the UNHCR. Jennifer teaches property law, international law and international law and development at either a graduate or undergraduate level. Jennifer undertakes research and writing in the fields of international law, law and development and critical legal theory and ethics. She has published a book called The Political Economy of Desire: International Law, Development and the Nation State (Cavendish-Routledge 2007). She has two
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further books due to be published in 2008: one is a text co-edited with Dr Andrew Mitchell on Public International Law; the other is a critical text on Law and Development (co-authored with Sundhya Pahuja). Email: jlbeard@unimelb.edu.au 162. Jennifer Jalal is an Urban Sociologist. Previously she has been an Assistant Professor in Urban Governance, at Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU. Her expertise includes Urban Planning and Governance, with specialization in issues dealing with State-civil society in the matter of service delivery and decentralization. Email: jennifer_jalal@hotmail.com Jeremy Roche is Dean and Director of Studies in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the Open University and senior lecturer in law. He served on the Management Committee of the Childrens Legal Centre for four years from 1990-1994 and has worked on a number of important projects at the Open University including externally funded initiatives on the Children Act 1989, child witnesses and chairing Family Proceedings Courts. He was on the Editorial Board of Social and Legal Studies An International Journal from 1992 till 2003 and is currently on the editorial board of Children and Society The International journal of Childhood and Children's Services. He has written widely on childrens rights, social policy and the law. Email: J.B.Roche@open.ac.uk Jhuma Sen is a lawyer currently working as a Research and Advocacy Officer at Lawyers Collective (WRI), having worked with Amnesty International India before. Email: sen.jhuma@gmail.com Jinee Lokaneeta is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Drew University, New Jersey. Her areas of interest include Law and Violence, Political Theory, Public Law, Jurisprudence, and Cultural Studies. She teaches courses on Torture: Pain, Body and Truth; Civil Rights and Liberties and Law, Politics, and Society. She has previously published in journals such as Theory and Event; Law, Culture and Humanities; Studies in Law, Politics, and Society and Economic and Political Weekly. She has also co-edited a text book in Hindi for an undergraduate course on women and politics with Nivedita Menon and Sadhna Arya, Feminist Politics: Struggles and Issues, Delhi: Hindi Medium Directorate, 2001. More recently, she is the author of
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Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Power in the United States and India. New York: New York University Press, 2011. Email: jlokanee@drew.edu 166. Jiti Nichani graduated with a Political Science (Hons.) from Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi, and went on to further complete a LLB degree from the University of Warwick, England. Her focus areas are gender and the law, mechanics of juvenile justice, environment and everyday practice of intellectual property. Alongside this, she is also interested in mediation, dispute resolution and the politics of urban planning. Email: jiti@altlawforum.org John Gray is an instructor at the Law Faculty of Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia. Email: titibesi@yahoo.com John Manyitabot Takang of Cameroonian nationality is a holder of an International Master of Environmental Sciences Degree from the University of Cologne-Germany. He graduated from this program in December of 2008 (with an overall grade of 95%) and specialized in International Environmental Law, Policy and Governance. The subject of his Master Thesis was "The Effectiveness of Formal and Informal Agreements in Global Water Governance". He carried out this research within the framework of the "Earth System Governance" and the "Global Water System Projects" of the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change at the United Nations University (UNU-IHDP) in Bonn-Germany. He has interned at the International Forest Policy Department of the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and co-organised the plenary meeting of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership in Yaound-Cameroon in November of 2009. He is currently working as a Research/Teaching Assistant (in international Environmental Law) at the Chair of American Law at the University of Cologne; that equally coordinates out International Master of Environmental Sciences Program. As Academic Officer for this Program, he is contributing to the Academic development of the Program. Email: john.takang@uni-koeln.de Jonathan Gingerich, Ph.D Student, UCLA Department of Philosophy; Student Empirical Research Fellow, Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession.
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Email: jgingerich@jd10.law.harvard.edu 170. Josyula Lakshmi is a post-graduate in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics and an M Phil from JNU. She also holds a Diploma in Human Rights from the University of Hyderabad. Currently she is a PhD scholar in Dr B R Ambedkar University (Hyderabad) pursuing a study on inclusive education. She has been working in the development sector for the past 14 years. Currently she works as a Program Manager in the Centre for Good Governance (Hyderabad) with sectoral interest in Education, Health and Welfare. She is keen on issues like transparency and accountability in governance and in quality public service delivery. She coordinates a network called the South Asia Social Accountability Network (SASANet) - a webbased resource site on Social Accountability. Email: josyulalakshmi11@gmail.com Juan Obarrio is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology, in the John Hopkins University. Email: jmo@jhu.edu Judith Grbich is a Research Associate at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, University of Melbourne and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Socio-Legal Research Centre, Griffith Law School, Griffith University, and Senior Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne. She is the General Editor, Australian Feminist Law Journal. Her research areas include history of international law, political theology and colonization, and critical legal theory. Email: judith.grbich@bigpond.com Julia Eckert is Professor at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Bern, Switzerland. She was Associate Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany where she directed the research group Law against the State which examines the juridification of protest and the globalisation of transnational legal norms. Her research interests are in legal anthropology, conflict theory, the anthropology of the modern state, and the anthropology of security. She is currently writing a book on the police in Bombay focusing on everyday conflicts over norms of justice, citizenship and authority. Among her publications on this research are "The Trimurti of the State" in: Sociologus 2005; "From Subject to Citizen: Legalism from Below and the Homogenisation of the Legal Sphere" in: Journal of Legal Pluralism,
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2006. Her work on a Hindu-nationalist movement in India resulted in her book "The Charisma of Direct Action" (Oxford University Press, 2003). Other than India, she conducted research in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan. She was a researcher at the German Institute for International Pedagogical Research, Frankfurt am Main, and Lecturer at the Humboldt University, Berlin and the Free University of Berlin from where she holds a PhD. Email:eckert@anthro.unibe.ch 174. Kalpana Kannabiran is a Professor of Sociology and regional director Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, India and founder member of a women's collective, Asmita Resource Centre for Women where she coordinates research and legal outreach for women. She was Chair of RC32 (Women in Society) of the International Sociological Association from 20022006 and General Secretary of the Indian Association for Womens Studies in1998-2000. Her areas of specialisation are Sociology of Law, Jurisprudence and Gender Studies. She received the Rockefeller Humanist in Residence Fellowship at Hunter College, CUNY 1992-1993 and VKRV Rao Award for Social Science Research in the field Social Aspects of Law in 2003 from the Indian Council for Social Science Research and the Institute of Social and Economic Change. A contributor to the Economic and Political Weekly and The Hindu, she has co-authored a volume of essays, De-Eroticizing Assault: Essays on Modesty, Honour and Power (Stree, Calcutta, 2002), co-edited Muvalur Ramamirthammal's Web of Deceit: Devadasi Reform in Colonial India (Kali for Women, New Delhi, 2003), edited The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities (Women Unlimited in association with Kali for Women, Delhi, 2005); co-edited The Situated Politics of Belonging (London: Sage, 2006). She is also a contributor to the Routledge International Encyclopaedia on Women and the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilisation, Volume IX Part 3 (New Delhi: Sage, 2005). Most recently, she has co-edited, Challenging the Rule(s) of Law: Essays on Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights, Sage, New Delhi, forthcoming 2008. Kalpana was a Member of the Expert Group on the Equal Opportunities Commission, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India in 2007-2008. Email: kalpana.kannabiran@gmail.com Kalyani Ramnath graduated from National Law School of India University in 2009 with a B.A., LL.B (Hons.) and from Yale Law School in 2010 with an

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LL.M. Her research interests are constitutional law and legal history and she focuses on civil liberties and judicial processes. Email: kal.ramnath@gmail.com 176. Kamal Nayan Choubey is a Ph.D. student in Political Science from Delhi University. His Ph.D. topic is 'A Study of Tribal Forest Land Rights in India'. His area of interest is Indigenous peoples rights and their struggle. Email: kamalnayanchoubey@gmail.com Kamala Sankaran is a Reader at the Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. She has been Research Professor at the Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, Visiting Scholar on a Fulbright Fellowship at the Georgetown University Law Centre, Washington DC and was earlier at the Faculty of Law, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Her areas of research and writing include constitutional law, the informal economy, international labour standards, and women and the law. She has contributed two volumes to the Halsbury's Laws of India: Employment Law (Unorganized Labour) (LexisNexis Butterworths 2003) and Industrial Law (LexisNexis, 2006), and has co-edited Towards Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Law in India (Oxford University Press, 2008). Email: kamala.sankaran@gmail.com Karen Gabriel is affiliated with St Stephen's College, Delhi University, Linkoping University as a European Union Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow and National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions. She has published Imaging a Nation: The Sexual Economies of the Contemporary Mainstream Bombay Cinema (1970-2000), Maastricht: Shaker Publishers, 2005, Melodrama and the Nation New Delhi: Kali/ Women Unlimited, 2010 and Rethinking Transnational Men: Beyond and Between Nations, Jeff Hearn, Marina Blagojevi and Karen Gabriel (eds.). London: Routledge (forthcoming) 2011. Her research areas include Censorship in Cinema, Contemporary Challenges of Gender Studies, Indian Perspectives: Feminist Theory and Practice, Exploring Masculinities, Media and Democracy and The Commercial basis of the Pornographic Industry. Email: karengabriel@yahoo.com Karine Bates is Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal. After having completed a combined Undergraduate program in Civil Law and Common Law (B.C.L., LL.B.) at McGill University,
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in Montreal, Canada, she chose to pursue studies in law and legal pluralism through the perspective of legal anthropology. In 2005, Karine obtained a Ph.D. in Arts (Anthropology) from McGill University. Main research themes: legal anthropology, kinship anthropology, gender studies, South Asian cultures. Email: karine.bates@umontreal.ca 180. Karuna Nundy is a Delhi based advocate. Email: karuna.nundy@gmail.com Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life (Duke, 2006), which was a study of genomics and postgenomic marketplaces in the United States and India; and the editor of Lively Capital: Biotechnologies, Ethics and Governance in Global Markets, forthcoming with Duke University Press. His work explores the relationships between the life sciences and global capital, with a specific empirical focus on the United States and India. He is currently working on a number of projects relating to various aspects of pharmaceutical development in the Indian context, such as global clinical trials; intellectual property regimes; and translational research. Email: ksunderr@uchicago.edu, ksunderr@e4e.nacs.uci.edu Kaushiki Sanyal is a Senior Analyst at PRS Legislative Research. She has a Doctoral degree in International Relations and a Masters Degree in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her professional qualification includes a stint with NDTV as a website reporter. She is presently working as a Senior Analyst at PRS Legislative Research, a unit of Centre for Policy Research. They provide legislative assistance to Members of Parliament. As part of this objective, they analyse Bills that are tabled in Parliament. Email: kaushiki.sanyal@gmail.com Kedar Deshmukh (Project Fellow, Dept of Politics, University of Pune) from last 3 years he is engaged with gender studies. He has completed M.Phil. work (in Pune University under the guidance of Mangesh Kulkarni) on Pro Feminist Mens Groups in India. Email: kedarunipune@gmail.com

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Kriti Kapila completed her PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics in 2003. Shes currently a Lecturer in Anthropology and Law at Kings College, London. She is currently working on a manuscript on the relationship between the legal government of the household and Gaddi domestic modernity. Email: kk356@cam.ac.uk Kunal Parker is the James A. Thomas Distinguished Professor of Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. He holds a B.A. from Harvard College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a PhD (History) from Princeton University. He has written on British colonial legal history in India, the history of U.S. immigration and citizenship law, and is currently at work on a book on the relationships between historical consciousness and common law thought in the nineteenth century United States. Email: kmparker@princeton.edu Lalit Batra is Nirman Foundation Visiting Fellow in Governance and Sustainability at the University of Westminster. Lalit is an independent researcher and consultant based in New Delhi, India. Mr Batra's current research interests concern environmental governance in India, particularly relating to the social and ecological impacts of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. He has worked extensively on issues related to urban poverty, governance, informal sector, urban renewal and city planning in India. His more recent research pertains to studying the impact of neoliberal urban policies on urban poor, particularly, slum dwellers and street vendors, in Delhi. Lalit has been the Ford Foundation Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where he did a research project on tracing the trajectory of urban reform policies in India. His visiting fellowship at the University of Westminster runs during October and November 2008. Email: lalitbatra@gmail.com Laura Ribeiro Rodrigues Pereira is a legal scholar currently researching issues of law and space in the occupied Palestinian territories. She has recently published a paper on the new technologies of quasi-sovereignty, in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law. She holds LLB Honours and LLM degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London University, and currently lives and works in the occupied Palestinian
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territories. She worked as a Legal Researcher at Birzeit University for three years, establishing a documentation and advocacy unit for the Right of Education, and since 2009, works as a consultant for the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) on the mainstreaming of basic human rights standards within the agency's programmes and service delivery to refugees. For brief periods she was also a tutor at SOAS on the undergraduate course 'Legal Systems of Asia and Africa' and tutored Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law in Birzeit University. Email: l.ribeiro10@gmail.com 188. Lavanya Rajamani is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. She holds an LL.M from Yale, and a D.Phil and B.C.L. from Oxford. She was previously a University Lecturer in Environmental Law, and Fellow & Director of Studies in Law at Queens College, Cambridge, where she lectured in international and European environmental law, international law and tort. Lavanya Rajamani is author of the Oxford University Press monograph titled, 'Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law'. In it she studies the industrialdeveloping country dynamic in the creation and implementation of international environmental law. She looks in particular at the global effort to combat climate change through the Kyoto Protocol, 1997. She is also co-editor of 'Implementation of International Environmental Law' (Hague Academy of International Law, 2011), 'Promoting Compliance in an Evolving Climate Regime' (CUP, 2011), and 'Climate Change Liability: Transnational Law and Practice' (CUP, 2011). She is the Rapporteur for the International Law Associations Committee on Legal Principles Relating to Climate Change, and an Indian member of the Academic Advisory Group of the Section on Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Infrastructure Law of the International Bar Association. She served as English Director of Studies for the 2008 research session on Implementation of International Environmental Law at The Hague Academy of International Law, and taught at the Academys External Program in Beijing in October 2009. She frequently visits the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford, as a Senior Academic Visitor, and participates in the Annual World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment. She has worked as a consultant to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Secretariat, the Danish Ministry of Climate Change and Energy, the UNDP, the World Bank, the Alliance of Small Island States, and the International Institute of Sustainable Development. She has worked on and followed the climate negotiations since 1997, in different
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Livia Holden is an anthropologist of law. She is Research Fellow within the international research project Justice and Governance in India and South Asia funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche in Paris where she leads the section Conflicts of Law in Transnational Cases. She is also Associate Research Fellow at the French Institute of Pondicherry (Department of Social Sciences). She carries out extensive and longitudinal fieldwork in South Asia, in Southern Italy and in North America with a specific stress on collaborative approaches. At present she is extending her focus to Pakistan regarding the analysis of the legal discourse in criminal cases at the lower and appellate jurisdiction. Email: livia.holden@lums.edu.pk Maddula Venkata Narasimha Moorty currently works at Varam Power Projects Pvt. ltd. He is involved with legal services, law department management, land acquisition, contracts, agreements, liaising, advocacy, corporate laws, information technology laws, business laws, civil laws, consumer laws, negotiable instruments. He had worked earlier at Moorty and Co (1991-2000). He did his BL,Laws from Andhra University. Email: moortymvn@gmail.com Madhav Khosla a Yale Law School graduate is at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. His study of the Supreme Court's approach to social rights, Making Social Rights Conditional, is forthcoming in International Journal of Constitutional Law. Email: madhavkhosla@gmail.com Madhu Sudan Sharma is a research professional and has earned double Masters in Anthropology and Sociology after graduating in Biology. After acquiring 8 years of work experience in social sector and serving as a Research Fellow for Indian Council of Medical Research, he is associated as a Project Officer with the CUTS International a NGO working for Consumer Rights and Good Governance. He is working on good governance especially responsible for Access to Information related projects. Email: mss2@cuts.org Maitreyi Misra is pursuing LLB from Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Email: maitreyi.misra@gmail.com

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Malavika Kasturi is a historian at the University of Toronto. She teaches in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. She finished her B.A. and M.A at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India and received her PhD at Cambridge University. Professor Kasturis areas of research include women in South Asia; Hindu, colonial, and postcolonial law; and popular religion and the public sphere under colonialism. Her first book is entitled Embattled Identities: Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century North India (2002). Other publications include Taming the Dangerous Rajput: State, Marriage and Female Infanticide in Nineteenth Century Colonial North India (2004), and Embattled Identities: Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth Century North India. Email: malavika.kasturi@sympatico.ca Manas Ray is a Fellow at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. He has written on cultural and film theory, ethics, governmentality, the Indian diaspora, and post-partition Calcutta and has been published in collections like Global Television: views from the periphery (OUP, London, 1998), Floating Lives: negotiating cultural identity through media (Rowman and Littlefield, New York, 2002), Media of the Diaspora (Routledge, New York, 2003), City Flicks (Seagull, Calcutta 2004), Partitioned Lives (Pearson Longman, Delhi, 2007) and Penguin Anthology of Writings on Calcutta (New Delhi, 2008). At present, he is working towards a monograph entitled, Theorizing the Illiberal: Essays on Sovereignty and (Neo) Liberal Technologies Of Governance. Email: manas04@gmail.com Manjira Datta is a filmmaker, based in Delhi. Email: manjira.datta@gmail.com Manoranjan Mohanty is a Professor of Political Science, currently at Institute of Chinese Studies at CSDS and Council for Social Development, India. Email: dr_mohanty@yahoo.com Manav Ratti is Visiting Fulbright Scholar at New York University. He is also an Assistant Professor at Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, Warwick University. He has attained his D.Phil. from Oxford University and M.Phil. from Cambridge University; His interests
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include Transnational Anglophone literatures; postcolonial literary and cultural studies; continental philosophy; literary, critical, and semiotic theory. Email: m.ratti@ymail.com 202. Manavi Belgaumkar has graduated from NUJS Kolkata with a BA LLB (Hons) and then completed her BCL from Oxford. She is currently a faculty fellow with Azim Premji University, Bangalore. Email: bh.manavi@gmail.com Manvi Priya graduated from the Symbiosis International University, Pune (2008) and undertook her Masters at the University of Warwick in International Development Law and Human Rights as a Commonwealth Scholar (2009). She has worked with Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, assisting him in litigation in the Supreme Court as well as at the Public Interest Legal Support and Research Centre, and as a legal researcher with Justice Muralidhar at the High Court of Delhi. Manvi has also worked with sex workers in Pune and Coventry on issues of their rights and livelihood. She visited Nepal post-Jan Andolan II interviewing various actors involved in the political and constitution-making process in 2007 and was a member of the South Asian Partnership-International (SAP-I) team of International Observers for the Constituent Assembly Elections in 2008. Her primary interest is to explore the emancipatory potential of law, and ways by which the epistemology of care ethics can enhance justice theory as well as the workings of the judicial system. After finishing her clerkship, she plans to join litigation being based in Delhi. Email: manvipriya@gmail.com Marc Galanter is the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and LSE Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. http://marcgalanter.net/. This website provides access to his studies of lawyers, litigation, legal culture and other topics, as well as some biographical information and commentary on his work and its reception. [Mobile 608-239-7254] Email: msgalant@wisc.edu, marc.galanter@googlemail.com

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recently in Afghanistan, where, from August 2007 until June 2008, he headed the European Commission Justice Sector Reform Project in Kabul. He edits, with Eugene Cotran, the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law and is the author of The Role of Islam in the Legal System of Pakistan, published by Brill in 2006. Email: martinlau@mac.com 208. Martin Macwan is a powerful advocate for the human rights of the Dalits, Martin Macwan works to end discrimination and violence against the "untouchable" caste of Indian society. Martin is the Founder and Director of the Navsarjan Trust, a group based in the West Indian state of Gujarat. Navsarjan Trust is organizing Dalits in 2,000 villages to fight the practice of "Untouchability" and to improve their socioeconomic conditions. For his leadership and commitment to securing the rights of the Dalits, Martin was elected by a national coalition of organizations to be the National Convenor of the National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights. Email: martin.macwan@gmail.com Mary John is the Director of the Centre for Women's Development Studies. She has recently published a Women's Studies Reader (published by Penguin India, 2008). Email: iawsgsec@gmail.com Mathew John is a doctoral candidate at the Law Department, London School of Economics and Political Science who is working on aspects of Constitutional Secularism in India at present. Email: matheujohn@gmail.com Maya Dodd received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in Modern Thought and Literature. Subsequently, she received a post-doctoral fellowship and taught in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. Currently, she teaches Literary and Cultural Studies at FLAME and is also the Director of FLAME's Centre for South Asia. Email: mayadodd@gmail.com Mayur Suresh is a researcher at the Alternative Law Forum. He holds a BA LLB (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (2004) and LLM from Columbia University School of Law (2006). He was previously employed by the Centre for the Study of Casteism, Communalism
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transnationalism and diaspora formation. He is also co-editing a book on Suffering in Arts and has ventured into documentary filmmaking. Email: nijhawan@yorku.ca 220. Michel Troper, Professeur mrite luniversit de Paris X-Nanterre. Email: troper@u-paris10.fr Mihir Samson has done his LLB from Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Email: mihirsamson@gmail.com Mirjam Knkler (PhD, Political Science, Columbia University) is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Apart from contributions to Political Science journals, Encyclopedias of Political Science and of Islamic Thought and edited volumes, Knkler has edited two books: with Julia Leininger, Zur Rolle von Religion in Demokratisierungsprozessen (On the Role of Religious Actors in Democratization Processes), VS-Verlag fr Sozialwissenschaften (2009); and with Alfred Stepan, Indonesia, Islam and Democracy, Columbia University Press, 2011, and a special journal issue forthcoming this fall in Die Welt des Islams on New Jurisprudential Approaches to the Question of Government in Iran. Knkler just finished a book manuscript that analyzes the impact of contemporary Islamic thought and social movement activism on the transformation of authoritarian rule in Iran (1989-2005) and Indonesia (1974-1998), and is now working on a monograph on the politics of law in Iran. Previously, Dr. Knkler was a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Tehran, Iran, and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Jakarta, Indonesia. She is coPI of a British Academy-funded project on Female religious authority in Iran and co-PI of the "Iran Social Science Data Project" funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Email:kuenkler@princeton.edu Mithran Tiruchelvam is a U.S qualified attorney and has practiced as a corporate lawyer at the New York offices of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. He has also served as in-house counsel for TCS America, a technology outsourcing company in New York. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, technology and general corporate transactions. He is a member of the New York bar. He divides his time between Colombo

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and New Delhi where he is an Adjunct Lecturer in Media and Telecommunications Law. Email: mithran@gmail.com 224. Mitra Sharafi studies the history of law in colonial India. She holds two UK law degrees and a Doctorate in history. At the University of Wisconsin Law School, she teaches Contracts I to first-year law students. She is also part of UW's Legal Studies program, an interdisciplinary undergraduate major that combines law with the humanities and social sciences. Sharafi teaches two Legal Studies courses: "Legal Pluralism" and "Law and Colonialism." Sharafi is affiliated with the History Department, and is involved with the UW Center for South Asia. Having grown up in Canada with an Iranian father and American mother, Sharafi's personal interest in comparative cultures led her to India, where the state-run "personal law" system applies the religious legal traditions of Hindu, Muslim, and other ethno-religious communities. Her work takes her frequently to India, particularly to Mumbai and Gujarat. Sharafi spent part of 2009-10 at the Bombay High Court, completing archival research for her current book project on the legal culture of the Parsis (or Zoroastrians) of British India. Her next big project will be a study of medical jurisprudence in colonial South Asia. Email: sharafi@wisc.edu Mortimer Sellers is a law professor, philosopher, and historian. His work primarily concerns constitutions, rights, and public international law. He has been Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland since 2003, the highest honor in the UM System. Sellers is best known for his books on republican constitutions, global justice, and universal human rights. He has been Director of the Baltimore Centre for International and Comparative Law since 1994. Email: mortimer.sellers@gmail.com Muhammad Siddique is a Pakistani academic/lawyer/public policy consultant/activist. He has four years of practice experience in New York and another four in Pakistan; has been involved in several law reform/public policy/governance reform projects in Pakistan; has taught interdisciplinary law courses at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) since 2001; helped set up and acted as the first Chair of the Department of Law and Policy at LUMS, and is a regular participant in international academic seminars - have published four international law journal articles and a book.
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School, Bangalore he practised public law in Delhi till 2006. His work involved a mixture of research and litigation generally in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law and environmental law, and specifically in the interstices of human rights and democratisation of access/ownership/management of natural resources. Email: tk.naveen@gmail.com 236. Navita Mahajan is an independent researcher and a teacher educator. She teaches the pedagogical courses in Counseling & Guidance, training /initiating the students in deeper realms of mind particularly in Personal Counseling at the Faculty of Education, Dev Samaj College of Education, Panjab University. She works and writes in the areas of Partition of South Asia, conflict transformation and role of education in Peace-building through track II. She is currently working on a book project based on the narratives of the third generation of Post-Partitioned Punjab and is also working on exploring the South East Asian concept of Peace. Email: navita_mahajan@hotmail.com Navroz K Dubash is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. His current research looks at the emergence of a regulatory state in the developing world, with particular reference to infrastructure sectors, and to the interface between global climate negotiations and national policy instruments and politics. Other major areas of work include the political economy of energy in India and Asia, climate change policy, the role of civil society in global environmental governance, international financial institutions, and local institutions for water management. In addition to publishing in various journals he is also active in Indian policy fora and is on the editorial board of several international journals. Dr. Dubash formerly held positions as Associate Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, IDFC Chair Professor of Governance and Public Policy at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (New Delhi), and Senior Associate at the World Resources Institute, Washington DC. He has a long history of engagement with civil society organizations, including as the first international coordinator of the Climate Action Network, from 1990-92. He has also consulted and conducted training programs for a variety of international and Indian institutions. Dr. Dubash holds Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.B. in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University.

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Email: ndubash@gmail.com 238. Nawab Haque is working as Senior Project Assistant for a digital archiving project building a digital virtual lab for North East India at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati Assam. He has previously worked for HSBC (Hong Kong and Sanghai Bank) Delhi as marketing executive and TATA AIG Life Insurance Company Delhi as an Insurance Advisor before joining V.V Giri National Labour Institute. Email: nresearch04@gmail.com Nazan stnda is an Assistant Professor at the Sociology Department at Boazii University, Istanbul. She received her Ph.D. from the Sociology Department at Indiana University in Bloomington. Her dissertation research concerned the constitution of migrant women's subjectivities and narratives in urban margins as they are formed at the intersection of state violence, patriarchal violence and the violence of capitalism. She is currently working on the materialization of state violence in Northern Kurdistan in places, bodies, documents and things. At Bo azii University she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on social theory, theories of modernity, narrative methods, ethnography of the state, state and violence and social materiality. Besides her academic work, she regularly publishes commentaries on current political events in newspapers and weekly journals. She is also a founding member of the Peace Parliament in Turkey and a member of the oppositional Kurdish political party BDP. Email: nazanust@hotmail.com Neal O'Connor is a Program Manager at Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School. Email: noconnor@law.harvard.edu Nidhi Srivastava is a Research Associate, Centre for Global Agreements Legislation & Trade, Resources and Global Security Division at The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi. She has done her LLB from Delhi University. She looks at implications of management of sustainable development on fiscal federalism in India for the XIIIth Finance Commission of India Focus on Water and forests. She has Analyzed Legal and Constitutional aspects involved in Compensation for Natural Resources to Resource bearing States (Minerals, Coal, Hydropower, Oil and gas) for the Inter State Council Secretariat/ Prime Ministers Office, Government of India
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and assessed the role of coal in ensuring Indias energy security in future. Email: sriv.nidhi@gmail.com 242. Nilesh Sinha has completed his second LLM from the University of Pennsylvania, having done his first from the University of London. He has joined Jindal Global Law School as an Assistant Professor. He is keenly interested in the area of law and social sciences and has taken modules such as Jurisprudence and Constitutional Theory, Law & Economics and Health Law Economics and Policy at Penn. Email: nielsinha@yahoo.com Nimushakavi Vasanthi has been teaching at the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, A.P, India for the past 8 years. She has taught a range of courses in Constitutional law, Administrative law, Criminal law, Contracts II, Property law, Poverty and law, Labour law, Taxation and Clinic courses. She is currently teaching the Legal methods and Taxation course and a seminar in Discrimination Law. She has over nine years experience in litigation prior to joining the university. She is a graduate of Osmania University and has also taught part time at the university. Her LLM was in Constitutional law. She took her Doctoral Degree in 2005. Her publications include a book titled Constitutional Policy and Environmental Jurisprudence in India. She has interests in gender, disability and clinical legal education. She co-chaired the panel on labour rights in a Session: Resurrecting/Renegotiating Labour Rights in a Globalising World and presented a paper "Critical Theory and Contract Labour" at the CLC Hyderabad in Sept 2006. Email: vasanthi_nkavi@yahoo.com Niraja Gopal Jayal is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has served as Chair of the Centre (2002-04 and 2008-09) and as Director of the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (2004-07). She is the author of Representing India: Ethnic Diversity and the Governance of Public Institutions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) and Democracy and the State: Welfare, Secularism and Development in Contemporary India (OUP, 1999); and editor or co-editor of several volumes, including The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (2010); Democracy in India (OUP, 2001); Local

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Governance in India: Decentralization and Beyond (OUP, 2005). Her current book project is about contestations over ideas of citizenship in India across the twentieth century. As with her previous work, this is also located at the intersection of the normative and the empirical. In 2009, she delivered the Radhakrishnan Memorial Lectures at All Souls College, Oxford. She was Visiting Fellow in Democracy and Development at Princeton University (2009-10). She has held a Senior Fellowship of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi and visiting fellowships at, among others, the University of Melbourne, and the Maison des Sciences de lHomme, Paris. She directed a project on Democracy and Pluralism in South Asia, funded by the Ford Foundation, as well as an all-India survey of womens participation in institutions of local governance. Email: niraja.jayal@gmail.com 245. Nishita Trisal is a second-year doctoral student in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She works on questions of tribal and caste politics and debt and economic sovereignty in southern Orissa. Email: ntrisal@gmail.com Niti Saxena represents AALI, a feminist legal advocacy group, which has been working on issues related to women in human right perspective, in Uttar Pradesh (India) a State fraught between entrenched feudalpatriarchal system and extremely poor developmental indicators. Over the past 10 years AALI has undertaken research, advocacy as well as direct response to violations of womens human rights, with a focus on their rights within the private sphere in partnership with other organizations. The organization has intervened in cases where womens right to sexual autonomy has been violated and supported them in upholding and exercising the same. AALI has undertaken a national initiative aimed at enabling a holistic response to the violations of the womens right to choice and decision making in sexual relationship (hetero or same sex) as well as to ensure ideological understanding of the issue. Along with the larger alliance emerging from this national initiative, AALI and other women human rights groups/individuals from different parts of India have been working to establish this issue on the human rights agenda. The upcoming alliance recognizes the identification of varied manifestations of violations as critical to building a holistic understanding of the lived experiences of women. Email: niti@aalilegal.org
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Nitya Vasudevan is currently doing her Phd in the Centre for Study of Culture and Society. Her research is on the history of the relationship between visibility and sexuality, in the domains of cinema, law and public health. She has taught Cultural Studies in Christ College, Bangalore. Email: nitya.vasudevan@gmail.com Nupur Chowdhury studied Public International Law at the Amsterdam Law School (University of Amsterdam, LL.M.) in 2007. She has done her LL.B. at University of Delhi (Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, 2004) and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Political Science (Lady Shri Ram College, 2001). She joined the Department of Legal and Economic Governance Studies (LEGS) as a PhD student in March 2009. She was earlier an Associate Fellow with the Science and Technology Area of the Resources and Global Security Division at TERI. She is trained as a lawyer with a specialisation in environmental law. She has researched extensively on the issues of natural resources law, intellectual property rights and biodiversity, biotechnology and nanotechnology regulation. She was also an adjunct faculty at the TERI University, where she lectured on biodiversity, wildlife, forestry law and international environmental law, a member of the CISDL (Centre for International Sustainable Development Law) Research Group, McGill Law Faculty. She was also a member of the editorial team of ILDC (International Law in Domestic Courts) and is a member of the team authoring the ASIL Reports on International Organization Report on WIPO. She is also a member of the Bar Council of Delhi; India, Netherlands Institute of Government, the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law. Email: nupurchow@gmail.com Oishik Sircar is Assistant Professor and Assistant Director of the Centre for Penology, Criminal Justice and Police Studies. Prior to joining JGLS, Prof. Sircar was Research Fellow, Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Studies, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. Email: oishik.sircar@utoronto.ca Oliver Mendelsohn is a Professor at the School of Law, La Trobe University, in Australia. He finished his term as Dean of La Trobe University's Law School at the end of 2003. He teaches Australian and comparative constitutional law, is a long-time student of Indian legal and social affairs, and is co-author (with Marika Vicziany) of The Untouchables -

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Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India (Cambridge 1998). He is editor of the international journal Law in Context. Email: O.Mendelsohn@latrobe.edu.au 251. Osama Siddique has been a Visiting Lecturer at the Pakistan Administrative Staff College. He has also served as a member of the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee of Pakistan. He is also currently the Senior Program Advisor for the George Soros Foundations Open Society Institute (OSI) in Pakistan for its justice sector reform initiatives He is a regular participant in local, regional and international discussion groups, seminars, symposia and academic conferences and an active commentator on legal and political developments for local and international print and electronic media. Email:osiddique@sjd.law.harvard.edu, osama@lums.edu.pk Padma Govindan is the founder and co-director of the Shakti Centre, a sexuality advocacy and research non-profit organisation in Chennai. Email: padma@shakticenter.org, padma.shakticenter@gmail.com Pallavi Bahar is a student at the Centre for Study of Law and Governance, JNU, and currently pursuing doctoral research on state run institutions for women in India, and more generally looking at issues of gender, institutions, and justice. She has served as a lecturer in political science with Delhi University for two years. Other than this, she has two articles published to her credits whereas the third one is under publication. Her research interest primarily revolves around issues of gender justice, welfare state and sociological jurisprudence. She was part of the students team that organised and attended the inaugural LASSNET conference in JNU in the year 2009. Email: bahar.pallavi@gmail.com Papia Sengupta, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi. She has been teaching for 10 years after doing her Masters and M.Phil from Center for Political Studies, JNU. Her areas of interests include language, diversity, multiculturalism, minority politics, womens rights especially domestic violence law in India. Her publications include in 2010, Justice Towards Group: A Multicultural Critique of Rawls Theory of Justice, Journal of Social-Political Theory, Volume 1 (1) University of Allahabad. (2009) Endangered Languages: Some Concerns, Economic and Political Weekly, (2009) August 8-14th Volume XLIV No.32, pp 17-19. (2009a) Linguistic Diversity and Economic Disparity: An Issue for
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Multiculturalism in India, International Journal on Diversity of Organizations, Communities and Nations. Common Ground Publishing Australia and University of Illinois, Urbania. Vol.9. No.1. Linguistic Diversity and Disparate Regional Growth, Economic and Political Weekly. August 16, 2008. Rights, in Rajeev Bhargava and Ashok Acharya (ed.) Political Theory: An Introduction. Pearsons Longman 2008. Email:papia410@gmail.com 255. Paromita Goswami is a direct Ph.D. student at the Centre for Study in Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her current area of research is around contesting claims to water. She is a community organiser working in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra on tribal land rights, womens' rights and cooperatives. She was Yale World Fellow in 2005 and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Gender Studies, National Institute for Rural Development, Hyderbad in 2007. She has published on various issues like unorganised labour (EPW), tribal land rights (Indian Journal of Social Work), reading Gandhi as a community organiser (Oxford Journal of Community Development), womens' land rights (NIRD). Email: goswami.paromita@gmail.com Partha Ghosh based in Boston, is a renowned strategist and an innovator of Business and Economic models. He is currently in an advisory role with multiple organizations worldwide. He is the Chairman & the Chief Mentor of Boston Analytics, a firm specializing in providing precision analytical services/financial modeling tools to corporate and government agencies. He is also the Chairman of the Board of Advisors of Boutique Cross Border M & A/Strategic Alliance Advisory firm Access International, and Chairman of Business Intelligence firm Intersoft K.K based in Tokyo. Earlier Mr. Ghosh was a partner at McKinsey & Company and is the founder/Managing director of Strategy/Policy advisory firm Partha S Ghosh & Associates. Email: parsarg@gmail.com Partha Mukhopadhyay, PhD has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research since 2006. His last assignment, over the previous seven years, was with the Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC), where as a part of their Policy Advisory Group, he was involved in nurturing the development of policy and regulatory frameworks necessary for the flow of private capital into infrastructure projects in a manner that
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provided efficient service to the final user. Prior to this, he was with EXIM Bank of India, as the first Director of their Eximius Learning Centre in Bangalore, and before that, with the World Bank, in what then was the Trade Policy Division in Washington. He has also taught at IIM, Ahmedabad and XLRI, Jamshedpur. His research interests are in infrastructure, urban development and comparison of service delivery in India and China. He has a PhD in Economics from New York University and an MA and MPhil from the Delhi School of Economics. Email: pmukhopadhyay@gmail.com 258. Parveen Ara Khan is an Asst. Prof. at M.B. Khalsa Law College, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. He has teaching experience of more than 10 yrs. His focal areas of research include environment, status of women and jurisprudence. He has completed his Ph.D. in 2007 entitled Maintenance right of a Muslim woman with special reference to personal laws. Email: parveenarakhan@gmail.com Paul E Amar is a Visiting Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at the Federal University Fluminense in Rio de Janeiro. Email:amar@global.ucsb.edu Pawas Suren is a doctoral student at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He is working in the area of pollution Regulation in India where he is using the tools of Law and Economics. Previously, he has done his M.Sc. in geology from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Email: pawassuren@gmail.com Perveez Mody, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Delhi, and specifically in a District court, where she looked at the legal and informal processes whereby couples legitimate their love through marriage. She is interested in anthropological theories about the constitution of castes and communities in India, the history of civil marriage law from the colonial into the post-colonial period, the politics of religious nationalism, changes in South Asian kinship, marriage and urban sexuality (sexual relations, conjugality, gender and the family), law and human rights and the ways in which the modern state transforms and bears witness to intimate relations
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such as those expressed in a love-marriage. Her current work concerns an ethnography of South Asian marriage and kinship amongst two ethnoreligious groups in East London. Email: pm10012@cam.ac.uk 262. Peter Anderson, Associate Professor, Institute of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Email: peterba@hum.ku.dk Peter Fitzpatrick is currently Anniversary Professor of Law at Birkbeck, University of London, Honorary Professor of Law in the University of Kent, and was a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick. In 2007 he was awarded the James Boyd White Prize by The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities. He has taught at universities in Europe, North America and Papua New Guinea and published many books on legal philosophy, law and social theory, law and racism, and imperialism, two of the recent ones being Law as Resistance (Ashgate, 2008) and with Ben Golder, Foucaults Law (Routledge, 2009). Outside the academy he has been in an international legal practice and was also in the Prime Ministers Office in Papua New Guinea for several years. Email: peter.fitzpatrick@clickvision.co.uk Peter Samuels, PhD candidate, Program in Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford University, USA. Email: psamuels@stanford.edu Philippe Cullet is a Professor of International and Environmental Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London (SOAS). He is a Founding Research Director and the Convenor of the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC.org) and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi. He has published widely in the fields of environmental law, natural resources, human rights and the socio-economic aspects of intellectual property. His monographs include Water Law, Poverty and Development Water Law Reforms in India (Oxford University Press, 2009), Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development (Butterworths, 2005) and Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law (Ashgate, 2003). His publications are listed and available at ielrc.org/about_cullet.php. Email: pcullet@gmail.com
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University, Chandigarh. He has five years of experience in teaching and research. Email: p.mehta@irrad.org 275. Pradip Prabhu, Advocate BPh, BTh, LLB, MA(PM&IR), LLM, Professor School of Rural Development, Head-Center for Rights and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Tuljapur, Osmanabad, Maharashtra, ActivistKashtakari Sanghatna, Malyan, Maharashtra. Email: pradip.prabhu@gmail.com Prakash Shah is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London. His specialist areas include ethnic minorities and diasporas in law, religion and law, immigration, refugee and nationality law and comparative law and legal pluralism. He is editor of a book series with Ashgate on Cultural Diversity and Law and managing editor of the Journal of Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Law. Dr. Shahs recent publications include: Legal practice and cultural diversity (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, joint editor), Law and ethnic plurality: Socio-legal perspectives (Leiden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff, 2007, editor), Migration, diasporas and legal systems in Europe (London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2006, co-editor), The challenge of asylum to legal systems (London: Cavendish, 2005, editor), and Legal pluralism in conflict: Coping with cultural diversity in law (London: Glass House, 2005, sole authored).Dr. Shah is currently a participant in an EU FP7 programme project 'RELIGARE' researching the status of religion in European legal systems. Dr. Shah welcomes research proposals which focus on migration, cultural diversity, religion and secularism, and legal pluralism. Email: prakash.shah@qmul.ac.uk Prashant Iyengar, works with the Alternative Law Forum. Prashant is a Technology/IP lawyer, academic and a new media activist. He runs a free database of Indian Supreme Court cases, and a free Daily Legal Newsletter. He has also previously (2006-07) been an International Policy Fellow with the Open Society Institute. He is a visiting faculty at the Christ College of Law, Bangalore and is currently teaching Contract Law. Prashant has graduated from the National Academy of Legal and Advanced Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad. Email: prashant@altlawforum.org

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta was previously Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University and Associate Professor of Government and of Social Studies at Harvard. He was also Professor of Philosophy and Law and Governance, JNU. He has published widely in reputed national and international journals in a variety of fields including, political philosophy, intellectual history, constitutional law, international politics, society and politics in India. His most recent books are "The Burdens of Democracy" and "Public Institutions in India: Performance and Design". He has been a prolific contributor to public debates and his columns have regularly appeared in The New Republic, Foreign Policy, The Hindu, Indian Express, Telegraph, Yale Global, and numerous other papers. He has served as Editorial Consultant to the Indian Express. He is co-editor of The Oxford Companion to Politics in India (2010), and serves on the editorial board of numerous journals. He has lectured widely in universities in the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Europe and Japan. Mehta's current research projects centre around four themes. The first is understanding India's Great Transformation, the profound social, political and economic changes of the last two decades, and the trajectory they are likely to take in the future. This will result in a book. The second project looks at the role of law in Indian society. It will specifically focus on the justiciability of social and economic rights, and whether judicial intervention is a good means of achieving those objectives. This project will result in a series of papers. The third project - a collaborative project-related to the first two is on Globalization and the Indian State, that looks at the legitimacy challenges facing the Indian State in an era of globalization. The fourth project continues Mehta's long standing interest in philosophical ethics and explores what it means to lead an examined life. In addition Mehta will continue to perform the role of loyal opposition and engage the public and government through columns on topical issues. Email: pratapbmehta@yahoo.co.in Pratiksha Baxi anchors the Law and Social Sciences Research Network at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, JNU, India. As Assistant Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, she teaches MPhil courses on Sociology of Law and Law, Gender and Violence. Dr. Baxi holds a doctoral degree in Sociology from Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. Her doctoral work, an ethnographic study of rape trials in a court in Gujarat, brings together her interest in sociology of law, feminist theory and violence. She is also interested in approaching issues of violence

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against women from the divergent perspectives of medical jurisprudence, practices of policing and legal pluralism. Pratiksha is currently working on her book on the ethnography of rape trials in India. Email: Pratiksha.Baxi@gmail.com 280. Prem Chowdhry is a product of Delhi University; PhD from Jawaharlal Nehru University; taught in Miranda House, University college for women from 1966 to 1988 ; a senior fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences, 1983-85; a University Grants Commission fellow at Jawaharlal Nehru University from 1988-1994; a fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, New Delhi from 1994-2006; author of Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste and Patriarchy in Northern India, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2007; Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2000; The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana, 1880-1990, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1994; and Punjab Politics, Vikas Publications, Delhi, 1984; Other publications include research articles on politics, society, popular culture and gender both in colonial and contemporary India, in edited works and reputed national and international journals. Email: chowdhryprem@gmail.com Prita Jha is a researcher and lawyer at Nyayagrah, Ahmedabad. Prita Jha was earlier currently practicing as a Family Lawyer in the U.K. Email: pritajha@btinternet.com Pritam Baruah teaches at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. She completed by undergraduate degree in law from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad and went on to complete the BCL from the University of Oxford. After the BCL, she practiced law in Delhi, primarily in the Supreme Court of India. She also had the opportunity to appear and work on cases in various High Courts across the country and other adjudicatory forums in Delhi. While practicing as a lawyer, she worked as a member of the legal team of the Central Vigilance Commission on the Public Distribution System set up by the Supreme Court of India. At present she teaches jurisprudence and constitutional law in Kolkata. My interests lie in the areas of legal philosophy, constitutional theory and Regulation. Email: pritam.baruah@gmail.com

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Priya Sangameswaran is a researcher based at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. She works at the intersection of developmental studies and environmental studies. Most of her recent research has been on questions of equity in water particularly in relation to discourses of development (neoliberal and others). In the course of this, she has engaged both with water law (formal and informal) as also the changing role of law and legal regimes in development. Email: psangameswaran@gmail.com Priya Thangarajah is currently researcher based in Colombo. She finished her LLB at the National Law School of India University. She is Sri Lankan and has worked on a range of Human Rights issues related to conflict for three years. In India, she works consistently with a number of independent collectives with a focus on issues of gender and sexuality. Email: ipriyat@gmail.com Rachana Patni is a lecturer in Social Work at Brunel University, UK. Email:rachana.patni@gmail.com Rachel Wahl is a PhD student in International Education at New York University. She is pursuing dissertation research on how state actors respond to human rights education, with attention to how they use the language of human rights and how they draw from their beliefs and perceptions to interpret human rights. She will pursue this research in Delhi between the summer of 2011 and the summer of 2012. She welcomes contact with scholars and students with similar interests. Email: rachel.wahl@gmail.com Rachita Bansal finished the five-year law course from Symbiosis Law College, Poona in 2005 after which she pursued Masters in Law from University of Warwick (International Economic Law). She worked as a corporate lawyer in Bombay for Kochhar and Co. for one year and has been now working in Delhi for Ms. Indira Jaising. She worked on the recent writ petition against the stay of the smoke-free rules and was the counsel for the anti-tobacco NGOs. Email: rachitabansal@gmail.com

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Radha DSouza is a Reader in Law, Dy. Research Director, Dept. of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Law, University of Westminster, London. She is a Barrister, Counsel, Columnist and Writer and Social Justice Activist. Currently she is interested in socio-legal studies in third world and in India and specialise in Third World Legal Studies. Email: R.Dsouza1@westminster.ac.uk Radhika Kolluru is a lawyer, presently based in Bangalore. She spent around four-and-a-half years in court practice in Delhi where she was involved in some cases relating to civil and political rights. While she has a larger interest in discussions relating to processes of exclusion and inclusion perpetrated by the language of the law, of late, seeing the rise of fascist influences, she has been more concerned with the erosion of the very legal tenets (such as due process) which have been the subject of academic critique. Email:radhika.kolluru@gmail.com Radhika Singha, Professor, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She has written a book, A Despotism of Law: Crime and Criminal Justice in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1998; Paperback, 2000. Some of the articles written by her include, `Providential Circumstances: The Thuggee Campaign of the 1830s and Legal Innovation', Modern Asian Studies, 27 (1), February 1993, `The Privilege of Taking Life: Some "Anomalies" in the Early Law of Homicide in the Bengal Presidency', Indian Economic and Social History Review, 30, 2 (1993) and "No Needless Pains or Unintended Pleasures": Penal Reform in the Colony, 1825-1845', Studies in History, 11, 1, n.s. (1995). Email: radhika_singha@yahoo.co.in Rahul Govind is a Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He has done his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2008. His dissertation used the vantage point of the East India Company to critique the development and conceptualization of political and economic theory as distinct -- yet paradoxically, methodologically indistinguishable -- sites of analysis in England. Email: govind.rahul@gmail.com Rajat Kathuria, Professor, ICRIER, Delhi has over 20 years teaching experience and over 10 years experience in policy and regulation. He was

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economic advisor with the telecom regulatory authority for 8 years. In addition, he has worked as a Consultant for international organisations such as World Bank, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, International Labour Organisation and LirneAsia. His areas of research interest are climate change, regulation and institutions and the way in which political and economic institutions affect sectoral performance, and industrial organisation. Prof Kathuria India has published in international and national journals on failure of markets and the attendant need for regulation. Besides, he has hands on experience with telecom regulation in India in an environment changing rapidly towards competition. His research on telecommunications formed the basis of the sector negotiations for the Indo EU Trade and Investment Area. Email: rajatkathuria@gmail.com 293. Rajendra Pradhan, the Chair of Social Science Baha, an NGO dedicated to promoting social sciences in Nepal, received his Doctorate in Sociology from the University of Delhi. A researcher with varied research interests, he has studied religion among the Hindu Newars of Kathmandu, the care of the elderly in a Dutch village, food beliefs and practices in the Nepal Tarai, (irrigation) water rights and history and culture of water in Nepal, traditional dispute resolution processes, social exclusion and inclusion and more recently an ethnography of the state. Over the past 12 years, he has developed an interest in and used legal anthropological and especially legal pluralism perspectives for his research search on water rights, dispute process and ethnography of the state. He has published numerous articles and edited several books including Water Rights, Conflict and Policy (1997), Water, Land and Law: Changing Rights to Land and Water in Nepal (2000), Law, History and Culture of Water in Nepal (2003), Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law in Social, Economic and Political Development (2003). He is currently working on several books, including on Legal Anthropology and Traditional Disputing Processes in Nepal and on an ethnography of the statecitizen interaction at the local level. Email: rpradhan@soscbaha.org Rajat Rana, an advanced degree student (Stanford Program in International Legal Studies Fellow) at the Stanford Law School. Email: rrana@stanford.edu

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Rajni Palriwala was awarded her PhD by the University of Delhi in 1991. She has taught at the University of Delhi since 1982, holding various positions, and at the University of Leiden as a visiting fellow. Since 2004, she has been a Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi. She has done fieldwork on a range of topics and fields, including a village in Rajasthan (gender, work and family), in Leh, Ladakh, (on the theme of urban forms and social organization), in slums in Delhi (womens collective action), and in Leiden, The Netherlands (single parents and the welfare state). Her research and writings have been within the broad area of gender relations, covering women and work, kinship and gender, dowry, womens movements, fieldwork methodology, and more recently care, citizenship, and the state. Email: rajnip@gmail.com Rajshree Chandra is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi. Amongst the papers taught have been Indian Political Thought, Colonialism and Nationalism in India and Political Theory. Her research interest is in the area of the Intellectual Property Rights interface with human rights; forms of bio-cultural property, traditional resource rights and their contemporary articulations. Her doctoral work in an inquiry into the moral premises both deontological and consequentialist of intellectual property rights. Her publications include Knowledge as Property: Issues in the Moral Grounding of Intellectual Property Rights (OUP, 2010); The Role of National Laws in Reconciling Constitutional Right to Health with TRIPS Obligations: An Examination of the Glivec Patent Case in India, in Incentives for Global Health: Patent Law and Access to Essential Medicines, (eds) Thomas Pogge, Matthew Rimmer, Kim Rubenstein (CUP, 2010); Intellectual Property Rights: Excluding Other Rights of Other People, EPW, 1 Aug, 2008; Round Four of the NovartisGleevec Case Will the 3d Effect Sustain? EPW, 10 Sept, 2011;Forthcoming: Farmers Rights in India: Limited and Limiting Conceptions in EPW. Email: rajshreechandra@yahoo.in Ratna Kapur is the Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi, and on the Faculty of the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations. She is also a part of the Global Law Faculty at NYU School of Law. She is currently on mission as the Senior Gender Advisor for the United Nations Mission in Nepal, during the period of the Constituent

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Assembly elections. She has written and published extensively on law from a postcolonial, feminist legal theory perspective. She has focussed specifically on international and human rights laws. She has held chairs and been a fellow at a large number of law schools around the world, including Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Centre, Dalhousie Law School, Zurich University, National Law School of India University, and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She teaches courses on feminist legal theory, constitutional law, international law, and human rights law. Kapur is the author of several books, including Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism (Cavendish, 2005), Secularism's Last Sigh? Hindutva and the (Mis) Rule of Law, (coauthored) (Oxford University Press, reprint, 2001), Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law (Sage, 1999). Her latest book Alien Insurrections: Gender, Migration and Law (2008) is from Routledge. Email: rkcflr@gmail.com 298. Rebecca Grapevine is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Michigan. During 2008 and 2009, Rebecca conducted dissertation research in Delhi and Lucknow as a Fulbright Fellow. Her doctoral dissertation examines gender, citizenship and community in the late colonial and early post-colonial period. She has completed minor fields in Law (at the University of Michigan Law School), Ancient Indian History, and Modern British History. Email: grapevin@umich.edu Rebecca John is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Email: johnrebecca@gmail.com Renisa Mawani is Associate Professor of Sociology and Founding Chair of the Law and Society Minor Program at the University of British Columbia (2009-2010). She works on the conjoined histories of Indigeneity, Asian migration, and settler colonialism and has published in the areas of law and coloniality and legal geography. Her articles have appeared in journals including, Law/Text/Culture, Social and Legal Studies, Social Identities, Theory, Culture, and Society, and Cultural Geographies. Her first book, Colonial Proximities: Cross-racial Contacts and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871-1921(2009) details the dynamic encounters between aboriginal peoples, Chinese migrants, mixed-race populations, and
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Europeans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially focused on the epistemic truths and modes of governance these contacts inspired. Her second book (in progress) is a transnational history of the Komagata Maru, a Japanese steamship which carried 376 Punjabi migrants from Hong Kong to Canada and back to India in 1914. This project focuses on questions of mobility and temporality, including the circulations of law. Email: renisa@interchange.ubc.ca 301. Renu Addlakha, Ph.D. is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi. Her areas of specialisation include the sociology of medicine, mental illness and the psychiatric profession, public health, anthropology of infectious diseases, bioethics, gender and the family, disability and society. She has published in peer reviewed national and international journals. She is the author of Deconstructing Mental Illness: An Ethnography of Psychiatry, Women and the Family (2008). Email: addlakhar@gmail.com Ridwanul Hoque, Associate Professor, Department of Law, University of Dhaka, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh. His interests are comparative public law, judicial behaviour studies, human rights, good governance and the law, corporate governance, and Muslim personal laws. Email: ridwancu@yahoo.com Rinku Lamba is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Political Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to taking up this appointment she was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She obtained her doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Toronto. She read for the M.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford on an Inlaks Scholarship, and holds Masters degrees in Political Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research interests are in contemporary political theory, particularly in the doctrines of secularism and multiculturalism with a focus on institutional arrangements to enable the political accommodation of religious and cultural diversity. She is also very interested in modern Indian political thought, and is presently working on a project that probes the content of an Indian variant of liberalism. Email: rlamba9@hotmail.com

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Rishabh Sancheti is presently an Associate at the Office of Assistant Solicitor General of India at the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan. He is also a part-time faculty of law at the National Law University, India where his teaching portfolio includes Company Laws, Corporate Restructuring & Governance and Securitization laws. He has been a Law Trainee-cumResearch Assistant to Hon'ble Justice N. Santosh Hegde, at the Supreme Court of India. He completed European Master in Law and Economics with a full scholarship from the European Union as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar. He received LL.M. from University of Hamburg, Germany, Diploma di Master Universitario di I livello in Law and Economics from University of Bologna, Italy and LL.M. from University of Vienna, Austria. He graduated cum laude from the National Law University, India with S.R. Bhandari Memorial Gold Medal qualifying for B.B.A.-LL.B. (Hons.) with a specialization in the area of International Trade and Investment laws. Email: rsancheti@gmail.com Risham Garg is currently teaching Legal History (History of Legal & Constitutional development in India) in the National Law University Delhi. His specialization is in the area of Mercantile Laws. His areas of interest are Contract, Private International Law, Arbitration, Legal Theory. He has taught for 8 years at various law schools including NLUD, Amity Law School, Delhi, Indian Law Institute. He was a Visiting Research Scholar at UNCITRAL, Vienna, Austria in April 2007. He is presently pursuing Ph.D. in International Commercial Laws and Arbitration. He has presented paper on Jurisprudential Aspects of Law and Economics at Seminar on Law and Economics, IIT Kanpur, in October 2005; Access to Justice at Law Faculty, Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi; October 2006; on Arbitration as the preferred Dispute Resolution Mechanism for Commercial matters; Seminar at Amity Law School, Delhi, August 2008, "Jurisdictional Issues in IT/IPR" LC-1, DU, March 2010. Email: garg.risham@gmail.com Robert Barnidge, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Reading. BA, summa cum laude, University of Notre Dame, 1999; JD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003; LLM Public International Law, University of Amsterdam, 2004; PhD, School of Law, Queens University Belfast, 2007. Email: r.barnidge@reading.ac.uk

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Rochana Bajpai is a Lecturer in the Politics of Asia/Africa, Department of Politics and International Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She is a member of Centre of South Asian Studies and Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice. Her research includes contemporary liberal theory and comparative multiculturalism as well as the South Asian Politics including the state and political ideologies in India. Email: rb6@soas.ac.uk Rochelle Pinto, Convenor, Ph.D. Committee, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, India. Rochelle has written a book, Between Empires: Print and Politics in Goa, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007. Email: rochelle@cscs.res.in Roger Begrich is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University and a Lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zrich. He is currently writing his dissertation based on research conducted in Jharkhand on questions relating to adivasis and alcohol, and teaching legal and political anthropology. Email: begrich@jhu.edu Rohan dsouza, Assistant Professor, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He has been short Term Visiting Fellow, Resources Management Asia-Pacific, Australian National University in 2005 and Senior Research Associate, Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex in 2003. Some of his published work includes From Natural Calamity to Natural Resource: Flood Control and the Politics of Natural Limits, Amita Baviskar (ed.), Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource, Permanent Black, New Delhi, 2007, Drowned and Dammed: Colonial Capitalism and Flood Control in Eastern India (18031946), Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2006 and Environmental Discourses and Environmental Politics in Smithu Kothari et al, (ed.), The Value of Nature: Ecological Politics in India, Rainbow Publishers, New Delhi, 2003. Email: rohanxdsouza@gmail.com Rohini Chaturvedi is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge working on forest law and governance in India.
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Email: rohini.chaturvedi@gmail.com 312. Rohit De is a graduate student at the Department of History at Princeton. His primary interest is in South Asian legal history and he is particularly interested in studying the courtroom as a space where the relationship between the state and the citizen is mediated. His recent research focuses on Muslim family law, gender and the discourses of modernity in late colonial India. Rohit graduated with a B.A, LL.B (Hons) degree from the National Law School of India University and completed his LL.M at the Yale Law School in 2006. Before starting at Princeton, Rohit spent a year as the Fox International Fellow at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Email: de.rohit@gmail.com Roopa Madhav, currently a Research Fellow at IELRC, holds an LLM from New York University and a BA/LLB from National Law School of India University, Bangalore. She has been a visiting faculty at the National Law School, has worked with trade unions and was the President and Founder Member of the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. Her research interests include labour law, environmental law and human rights. Email: mroopam@gmail.com Roosemary Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication and Culture, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Graduate Studies, York University.Email: rcoombe@yorku.ca Roshan de Silva Wijeyeratne School of Law, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Email: r.desilva@griffith.edu.au Rubina Saigol received her MA in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University and Ph.D in the Sociology of Education from the University of Rochester, New York. She has written books, articles and research papers for national and international journals in both English and Urdu. Her writings include her books Knowledge and Identity (1995), Education: Critical Perspectives (1993), Symbolic Violence (2000) and Qaumiyat, Taleem Aur Shanakht in Urdu and several co-edited books and articles on the subjects of women's rights, feminism, the state,

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nationalism, terrorism and human rights. The latter include Aspects of Women and Development (1995), Engendering the Nation-state (1997), Aurat Aur Mazahmat and Insaani Huqooq ki Tehreek. She is a member of Women's Action Forum and is active in human rights and justice issues. Email: rubina.saigol@gmail.com 317. Rubya Mehdi is associate Research Professor at Carsten Niebuhr Institute University of Copenhagen. Her field of research is Islamic law and South Asia. Dr Mehdi has written several articles and books such as "Islamization of Laws in Pakistan" Curzen Press and "Gender and Property Law in Pakistan" DJF Publishing Copenhagen. Email: rubya@hum.ku.dk Ruchi Chaturvedi, Visiting Assistant Professorat Northampton, USA. Email: rc355@columbia.edu Ruchi Sinha, Centre of Criminology and Justice, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Email: ruchi@tiss.edu Rukmini Sen is Lecturer NUJS, Kolkata teaching courses in Sociology of Law, Disability and Law, Law, Culture and Pluralism and Law and Social Change. She has submitted her doctoral thesis titled Gendered Construction on Culture of Silence/Insignificant Articulation which is a feminist methodological exploration into the silenced spaces in twenty Bengali womens autobiographies. She has been working on the interface between legal documents and feminist methodology, pedagogy of sociology in law schools, disability jurisprudence in India. Email: rukminisen18@yahoo.co.in Rupal Oza is the Director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at Hunter College, CUNY. Her book, The Making of Neoliberal India: Nationalism, Gender, and the Paradoxes of Globalization was published by Routledge, New York and from Women Unlimited, India. She has several articles in peer reviewed journals. Her current project is on examining the link between special economic zones and the discourse of security in India. Her research interests include race, gender, postcolonial theory, feminist theory, cultural studies, social theory and globalization.

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Email: roza@hunter.cuny.edu 322. S Vivek is an undergraduate student at the National Law School, Bangalore. His area of interest is public law and jurisprudence and in this context, the interlinkages between law, language and the state. Email: shivakumar.vivek@gmail.com S. Muralidhar began his law practice in Chennai in September 1984 and in 1987 shifted to the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court. He was active as a lawyer for the Supreme Court Legal Services Committee and later was its member for two terms. His pro bono work included the cases for the victims of the Bhopal Gas Disaster and those displaced by the dams on the Narmada. He was appointed amicus curiae by the Supreme Court in several PIL cases and in cases involving convicts on the death row. Muralidhar was counsel for the National Human Rights Commission and the Election Commission of India and a part-time member of the Law Commission from December 2002 till May 2006 when he was appointed a judge of the Delhi High Court. Muralidhar was awarded the PhD by the Delhi University in 2003. He is the author of Law, Poverty and Legal Aid: Access to Criminal Justice a book published by LexisNexis Butterworths in August 2004. Email: murush@gmail.com Saadia Toor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the College of Staten Island, University of New York. Her research area is gender politics. Email: saadiatoor@hotmail.com Sabeena Gadihoke Sr. Lecturer, Video and TV Production, AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia. Email: sgadihok@gmail.com Sahana Mukherjee is a PhD student in Social Psychology from the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on socio-cultural constructions of national identity and its implications in understanding issues of oppression and liberation. Recently, she has been examining immigration policiesparticularly related to undocumented immigration - in the U.S. and the extent to which support for tough measures against undocumented
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immigration do not reflect 'neutral' concern for law; rather, it legitimizes forms of oppression. Much of her work is grounded within the perspective of Liberation Psychology and Critical Race Theory which represents a departure from forms of research and analysis which consider the law as 'neutral' and positionless. In her thesis, she deconstructs the professed ideals of the 'rule of law' and 'equal protection before law' and reveals the (invisible) positionality of the legal framework. Rather than arguing for the need to be neutral or 'positionless', she argues that it is important to take into account different ideologies and 'positions' and recognize that the so-called positionless and neutral standard is also positioned (in the context of my research in US grounded predominantly Euro or Anglo-centric understandings). Email:sahana@ku.edu 327. Samia Bano is a lecturer in Family Law at the University of Reading. She obtained her PhD at the University of Warwick, Department of Law where her doctoral research explored the relationship between 'Muslim Family Law and South Asian Muslim Women in Britain' (Sept2005). Her research interests include, gender, migration, human rights and the law. She has worked on a number of research and policy initiatives in the area of gender, migration, multiculturalism and the law, most recently contributing to the CIMEL/INTERIGHTS project to develop legal strategies to combat 'crimes of honour.' Her current work explores the relationship between informal religious legal systems, state law and gender relations within South Asian Muslim communities in the UK and is due to be published as a book in Spring 2009 (Palgrave MacMillan). Email: s.bano@reading.ac.uk Sammy Adelman teaches Legal Theory and Comparative Human Rights at undergraduate level and several modules in the LLM in International Development Law and Human Rights. He has degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand, Harvard University and Warwick University. He was banned, detained and exiled during the struggle against apartheid. His writings cover legal theory, development and human rights, and he is currently completing a book on sovereignty. Email: S.Adelman@warwick.ac.uk Sandhya Pahuja is an Associate Professor at the Law School, University of Melbourne and the Co-Director of the Law and Development research Programme at the Institute for International Law and the Humanities. Her

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and Human Rights; she has led discussions and lectured on Environmental Human Rights. She has taught undergraduate Political Science courses as a lecturer at Gargi College, Delhi University in India. She has recently worked as a researcher and writer on democracy and human rights issues in Asia at Taiwan Foundation for Democracy and Judicial Reform Foundation in Taiwan. Her publications include From Green Bench to Green Courts:Executive and Judicial Battles over Environment and Secularism and Justice: A Case Study of Indian Supreme Court Judgments, published in leading Indian journals and presented at American Political Science Association, Mid-West and Law and Society Association. Email: spadhy15@hotmail.com 334. Sanjay Reddy is an Associate Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research. His areas of work include development economics, international economics, and economics and philosophy. Professor Reddy possesses a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, an M.Phil. in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and an A.B. in applied mathematics with physics from Harvard University. He has held fellowships from the Centre for Ethics and the Professions, the Centre for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University, and the Centre for Human Values at Princeton University. Most recently he received a research grant from the inaugural grants program of Institute for New Economic Thinking. He has conducted extensive research for development agencies and international institutions, including the G-24 (group of developing countries), ILO, Oxfam, UNDESA (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, UN Secretariat), UNICEF, UNDP, UNU-WIDER (World Institute for Development Economics Research), UNRISD (UN Research Institute for Social Development), and the World Bank. He has been a member of the advisory panel of the UNDP's Human Development Report, and of the UN Statistics Division's Steering Committee on Poverty Statistics and is a member of the advisory board of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. He has been or is a member of the editorial advisory boards of Development, Ethics & International Affairs, the European Journal of Development Research, Humanity, the Review of Income and Wealth, and the Journal of Globalization and Development. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities and is Editor of the New School India China Institute working paper series. His work has been translated into Catalan, French, German, and Portuguese. He is a citizen of India.
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Email: sr793@columbia.edu 335. Sanjeev Routray is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is looking at urban restructuring and politics of poverty in Delhi. Email: sanjeevkroutray@gmail.com Saptarshi Mandal is a student of law at the National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata. His primary interest is in understanding the relationship between law and marginality. He seeks to do this by bringing together perspectives from Dalit, Queer, Disability and Feminist studies and the way law interacts with each of these. He has been working on the idea of jurisprudence of caste, and has published on Dalit conceptions of justice and the legal discourse around manual scavenging. At present, he is working on the theme of disability and citizenship, of which the present effort is a part. Email: saptarshi.nujs@gmail.com Sara Abraham is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Toronto-Mississauga. She has a forthcoming book entitled The Multiracial Project in the Caribbean: Its History and its Promise (Rowman and Littlefield). Email: sara.abraham@sympatico.ca Sara Hossain is a barrister practicing in the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, mainly in the areas of constitutional, public interest and family law, since 1992. She is a partner at the law firm of Dr. Kamal Hossain and Associates (www.khossain.com) responsible for, among others, pro bono work. She is actively involved with the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Service Trust (www.blast.org.bd). She writes and speaks widely on public interest litigation, womens human rights and access to justice as well as on the impact of the religious right on rights. She is currently Chairperson of the Madaripur Legal Aid Association, and member of, among others, Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK), a national human rights organization, the Human Rights Committee of the International Law Association (ILA), the Advisory Committee of the Womens International Coalition on Gender Justice (WICG); Board Member of the South Asia Womens Fund (SAWF); and Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). Email: shossain@khossain.com

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Satoko Okamoto works at the Rural Research Centre, Institute of Rural Research and Development (IRRAD). Email: s.okamoto@irrad.org Scott Nicholas Romaniuk is affiliated with the University of Aberdeen, Department of Politics and International Relations, and the University of St. Andrews, Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence. He is a specialist in the fields of Military and Strategic Studies, and International Security and Politics. His current research foci include issues related to Genocide, Ethnic Conflict, Political Violence, Religious Extremism, and Terrorism in the contemporary geopolitical world. Recipient of the 2007 Geoff Weller Memorial Prize from the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies, he has authored and edited numerous books, chapters, and articles in international journals. His books include, The Second Front, 1943-1944 (2010), Competing Powers: Security in the Wider Black Sea Region (2011), New Polar Horizons: Conflict and Security in the Arctic (2011), and Global Arctic: Sovereignty and the Future of the North (2012). Email: scottromaniuk@hotmail.com Seema Kazi is a Fellow at Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS). Her research interests are Gender and conflict, gender and governance, democracy, human rights, human security and international relations. Email: seemakazi1@gmail.com Shaheen Sardar Ali is Professor of law at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom and Professor II at the University of Oslo, Norway. She was formerly Professor of Law, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. Her teaching and research interests include Islamic Law and Jurisprudence, International Law of Human Rights in particular Womens Human Rights, Childrens Rights, Public International Law, Gender and the Law, Constitutional Theory and Alternate Dispute Resolution. Some of her more recent publications include monographs, Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law: Equal Before Allah, Unequal Before Man? (2000) The Hague: Kluwer Law International; Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities of Pakistan (2002) Richmond: NIAS/Curzon Press (with J. Rehman), edited collections including Anne Hellum, Shaheen Sardar Ali, Julie Stewart & Amy Tsanga (eds.) Human Rights, Plural Legalities and Gendered Realities. Paths
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are Made by Walking, Weaver Books (2006); Conceptualising Islamic law, CEDAW and Womens Human Rights in Plural Legal Settings: A Comparative Analysis of application of CEDAW in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan (2006) UNIFEM Regional Office: Delhi. Email: s.s.ali@warwick.ac.uk 343. 344. Shailendra Kumar is LL.M student from Delhi University. Email: attrishailu@yahoo.co.in Shalini Randeria has been Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Zurich since 2003. She is also a member of the scientific board of the University Priority Research Programme "Asia and Europe". She studied Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Universities of Delhi and Heidelberg and completed her PhD and habilitation at the Free University of Berlin. She was a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies Berlin, Max Weber Professor for Sociology at the University of Munich and Full Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Central European University Budapest. In 2007 she was elected President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and Member of the International Sociological Association (ISA) Board of the Research Committee (RC 09) on Transformation and Sociology of Development. She is a member of the steering committees and scientific advisory boards of a number of European research networks and institutions both within and outside universities. Email: randeria.shalini@gmail.com Shamnad Basheer joined NUJS in November 2008 as the first Ministry of Human Resource Development Chaired Professor in Intellectual Property Law. Prior to this, he was the Frank H Marks Visiting Associate Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the George Washington University law school and a research associate at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre (OIPRC). He is also regularly consulted by the government and Parliamentary Committees on IP policy issues and legislations. He graduated from India's premier law school, the National law school of India University, Bangalore. He then joined Anand and Anand, a leading intellectual property law firm in New Delhi, and worked on a variety of contentious and non contentious IP matters before being called upon to head the firm's IT and Telecommunications law division. India. Whilst in practice,

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the IFLR 1000 guide rated him as a leading technology lawyer. Prof Basheer went on to do his post-graduate studies at the University of Oxford. He completed the BCL (as a Shell Centenary scholar) and MPhil with distinction; his thesis dealing with biotechnology and patent law in India was awarded the second prize in a writing contest held by the Stanford Technology Law Review. He is currently reading for the DPhil (PhD) as a Wellcome Trust scholar. In the past, he has been an invited research fellow at the Institute of Intellectual Property (IIP), Tokyo, an International Bar Association (IBA) scholar and an Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) scholar. Email: shamnad@gmail.com 346. Shilpi Bhattacharya is an Assistant Professor at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of the O.P. Jindal Global University. Her research interest is in the field of Law and Economics and she is an Assistant Director of the Centre for International Trade and Economic Laws at JGLS. She has worked for two years as an Associate at the British law firm, Linklaters LLP. She has a B.A., LL.B. (Hons.) degree from the National University of Juridical Sciences and an LL.M. from the University of Virginia, School of Law where she also received the Olin Graduate Fellowship in Law and Economics. She has also worked for one year as an Associate in the Indian law firm, The Economic Laws Practice. Email: sbhattacharya@jgu.edu.in Shilpi Srivastava is a D.Phil Candidate (2010-2014) at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (UK). Her doctoral research looks at the policy and practice of water privatization and regulation in India. Shilpi has her Masters degree in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. She also completed her M.Phil in Law and Governance from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Prior to joining IDS, she worked as a Researcher on projects with the National Institute of Administrative Research (India) and Centre for Policy Research (India). Email: S.Srivastava@ids.ac.uk Shohini Ghosh, Professor, Dr. Zakir Hussain Chair, AJK MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. Email: shohini@vsnl.com

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Shomi Brian is an M.A. in Social Work (MSW), with specialisation in Criminology and Correctional Administration (TISS, Mumbai). He has done MPhil, from Centre for the Study of Law and Governance (JNU), at present pursuing PhD. He is working on 'Non State Dispute Resolution System' Looking at customary law within the framework of Legal Pluralism and debates or discourse on Alternative Dispute Resolution. Email: shomi7brian@gmail.com Shomona Khanna is a lawyer practicing in the Supreme Court of India, and her area of interest is constitutional law, with a focus on human rights issues, tribal rights, forests and environmental law, etc. She has recently coauthored a book entitled "India and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples" and her earlier writing includes studies on the Godavarman case, one of the longest lasting continuing mandamus in Indian legal history. Email: shomona@gmail.com Shraddha Chigateri is an independent researcher based in the UK. Her main research interests are on feminist politics, intersectionality and the politics of difference, especially in the context of caste and religion. Currently she is working on the socio-legal aspects of cow slaughter and the food hierarchy in India, including an analysis of the ecological, economic and religious discourses around the production and consumption of beef, as well as the use of the symbol of the cow as a marker of cultural difference. She has previously taught both undergraduate and postgraduate courses on Gender and Law and Gender and Development at the Universities of Warwick and Keele. Email: shraddha.chigateri@gmail.com Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh is a doctoral student at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at JNU, Delhi. She is working on the social life of the stamp paper for her doctoral research, and at present avails the Fox Fellowship at Yale University. She graduated from the National Law School, Bangalore, and has a M.Res (Masters in Research) from Birkbeck College. She worked at the Majlis Legal Centre as a practising lawyer, between 2003 and 2005, litigating on issues of conjugality, sexuality and women's economic rights and worked as an independent human rights lawyer/researcher in Delhi since 2006. Email: shrimoyee@gmail.com

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Shripad Dharmadhikary completed his graduation in 1985 with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. He worked for a couple of years with industry, and then for a year with a research institute studying development policy issues. He was a full time activist of the Narmada Bachao Andolan for 12 years, before setting up the Manthan Adhyayan Kendra in 2001. Manthan is a centre set up to research, monitor and analyse water and energy issues. He is the coordinator of the Manthan Adhyayan Kendra. His publications include Unravelling Bhakra, the report of a three year study led by him of the Bhakra Nangal project. He writes regularly on the issues of water, energy and development. Email: manthan.kendra@gmail.com Shyama Prasad Rout has done his Masters in Political Science from the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, JNU in 1994. Thereafter, he completed M.Phil from the Centre for West Asian and African Studies, School of International Studies, JNU in 1996 with dissertation on "Civil Strife in Rwanda and the French Intervention". He shifted to the Centre for Political Studies for PhD programme. He joined Civil Services in Orissa in 1999. Presently working at Sambalpur University. He is closely associated with the Commission for Legal Pluralism and its Asian sister organisation, Asian Initiative for Legal Pluralism. In 2009 he presented a paper in an international Conference held in Yunnan University, Kunming, China organised by International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES). In the same year, he presented a paper on Livelihood of Tribal people in an International Conference held in the University of Zurich, Switzerland organised by the Commission of Legal Pluralism. His research area includes Legal Pluralism, Indigenous Peoples' Rights & Ethnicity. Email: shyama2u@rediffmail.com Shylashri Shankar is a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi, India. She is the author of Scaling Justice: India's Supreme Court, Anti-Terror Laws, and Social Rights (Oxford University Press, 2008). Dr. Shankar was previously an Assistant Professor in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her degrees from the University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, and

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Columbia University. She has contributed book chapters, and has written opinion pieces for Indian newspapers and agencies. Email: shylashris@hotmail.com 356. Somya Gupta is a PhD Scholar at Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Previously, in her M.Phil she researched on Martha Nussbaums capabilities approach which deals with capabilities of both human and non-human species. In addition she has specifically focused on the space attributed to women in this approach. Email: somyaviolin77@gmail.com Siddharth Narrain is a legal researcher at The Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. His areas of interest include sexuality rights, media laws and judicial decisions related to socio-economic rights in India. Mr Narrain has worked as a journalist for Frontline Magazine and The Hindu newspaper in New Delhi, writing extensively on socio-legal and human rights issues. He graduated from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. Email: siddharth.narrain@gmail.com Sidharth Chauhan is a L.L.M. graduate from University of Pennsylvania. He has done his L.L.B. from National Law School of India University, Bangalore. He has been Research Assistant to the Chief Justice of India. His academic interests include Indian legal history and public law with a special focus on how law treats religious differences -with respect to beliefs, practices and institutions. He is also interested in learning more about the formal and informal processes that seek to regulate the flow of information through various media - such as popular literature, periodicals, drama, cinema and the internet. Email: sidharth.chauhan1983@gmail.com Sital Kalantry is Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Faculty Director at Avon Global Centre for Women & Justice (www.womenandjustice.org), Cornell Law School, Ithaca, N.Y. Email: sital-kalantry@lawschool.cornell.edu Sitharam Kakrala Director and Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society. He completed an LLM in Human Rights Law,

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She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property and Propriety (Kali for Women, 2001), and she is also the editor of the Dowry and Inheritance volume in the Women Unlimited series Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism. Some other pieces on property, law, popular culture and resistance appear in the anthologies Signposts: Gender in Post-Independence India (Kali for Women, 1999), Religion and Personal Law in India (Indiana U Press, 2001), and Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Anthem Press, 2002), and in the journals Feminist Media Studies, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Cultural Dynamics and Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law. Her principal present project is an ethnography of Family Courts and the management of Family Violence in Kolkata. Email: srimati.basu@uky.edu 369. Srinivas Chokkakula is a Ph D candidate at the Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, USA. He is pursuing his doctoral research on interstate water disputes and democratization in India. He has his earlier degrees in civil engineering, environmental planning and geography. Before moving to US for doctoral studies, he worked in India for about ten years in the broad areas of development planning and environmental management in non-profit settings. His research interests include local planning and governance in India, state-society relations, natural resource planning and development, and, disaster management. Email: svas@u.washington.edu Stephan Parmentier studied law (Lic., 1983; Ph.D., 1997), political science (Cand., 1982) and sociology (Lic., 1987) at the K.U.Leuven (Belgium), and sociology and conflict resolution (M.A., 1987) at the Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (U.S.A.). He currently teaches sociology of crime, law and human rights at the Faculty of Law of the K.U.Leuven, and serves as the Chairman of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology and the co-ordinator of the SOCRATES exchange programme in criminology. Stephan Parmentier has been a Visiting Professor at the International Institute for Sociology of Law in Oati (Spain), and a visiting scholar at the University of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia). He is the editor-in-chief of the Flemish Yearbook on Human Rights since 1998, and has served as an Advisor to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, the Belgian Minister of the Interior, the King Baudouin Foundation, and
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colour to serve in this position, Ms. Thobani's tenure was committed to making the politics of anti-racism central to the women's movement. In her community work she has written and spoken on many issues, including the impact of globalization on women's citizenship; Canadian immigration and social policy; new reproductive technologies; violence against women; and women and APEC. She is also a founding member of the cross-Canada Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equity (RACE) network. Email: sth@interchange.ubc.ca 381. Sunny Ujala is pursuing L.L.B. from KIIT Law School, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. Email: jaibihar1671@gmail.com Surabhi Ranganathan is a PhD candidate in law in Cambridge, with degrees also from New York University (LLM) and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore (BA LLB Hons.). Her area of interest is the role of international law in the accommodation of treaty conflicts. Email: surabhi.ranganathan@gmail.com Suria Akter Sume is an MBA student from Bangladesh, studying at Bangladesh University of Professional. Email: suriasume@gmail.com Susan Visvanathan is the author of Christians of Kerala (OUP 1993), An Ethnography of Mysticism (IIAS, Shimla 1998), Friendship, Interiority and Mysticism (Orient Longman 2007) and the editor of Structure and Transformation: Theory and Society in India (OUP 2001). She has been a Fellow of NMML (1989-1992) Hon. Fellow of IIAS, Shimla (1990-1995) Charles Wallace Fellow to Queen's University Belfast, (1997) and Visiting Professor to MSH, Paris, (2004). She is also a writer of fiction and poetry. Email: susanvisvanathan@hotmail.com Susanta Kumar Mallick is a PhD scholar at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He has written his MPhil dissertation on the RTI and local governance. Email: susantajnu@gmail.com Sushanta K. Mallick is a Reader [Associate Professor] in International Finance School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of

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London. Prior to being at Queen Mary, he spent nearly three years as a Lecturer at the Department of Economics at Loughborough University. Before that, he worked as a Research Fellow for more than two years in the International Economics Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. He also has substantial experience working as a Sovereign Research Analyst covering Asian emerging markets for nearly three years (1999-2001) at JPMorgan Chase (previously Chase Manhattan Bank), based in Hong Kong. He began his research career in the early nineties (1991-1995) at the Institute for Social and Economic Change (with a year at Indian Statistical Institute), Bangalore, India, followed by a Commonwealth Scholarship to study for a Ph.D. in economics (1995-1998) at the University of Warwick. He has published articles in several refereed journals, including many Indian economics journals (in the 1990s), as well as a book based on his Ph.D. dissertation, Modelling Macroeconomic Adjustment with Growth in Developing Economies (Ashgate Publishing, 1999). His main research interests include issues in international macroeconomics and finance. Email: manu.sushant@gmail.com 387. Svati P. Shah is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Transnational Sexuality Studies, Duke University. Email: svasreally@gmail.com Swethaa Ballakrishnen is a '04 graduate of the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research and a recent ('08) graduate of Harvard Law School (where she did an LL.M with a shared focus in international finance and the sociology of legal education). Before coming to Harvard, she was a corporate lawyer with the Mumbai offices of Amarchand Mangaldas and a research associate and lecturer at the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (where she taught parts of the legal methods and family law courses and offered for senior students a seminar in international finance). At HLS, she worked closely with the Harvard History Project (her graduate thesis was a paper on the history of South Asian law students at HLS) and was on the board of the South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA). Email: swethaa.ballakrishnen@gmail.com Syed Azeem is a member of the Punjab Bar Association (Lahore), and currently engaged in a PhD in Law at Osgoode Hall, York University, Toronto. Email:syed_azeem1789@yahoo.com
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Sylvia Vatuk is a Professor Emerita at Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago. She has a PhD from Harvard University and an M.A. from University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. Some of her publications include, Divorce at the Wife's Initiative in Muslim Personal Law: What are the Options and What are Their Implications for Women's Welfare? IN Redefining Family Law in India: Essays in Honour of B. Sivaramayya, pp. 200-235. Archana Parashar & Amita Dhanda, eds. London and New Delhi: Routledge(2008), The 'Cancer of Dowry' in Indian Muslim Marriages: Themes in the Popular Rhetoric from the South Indian Muslim Press. IN Living With Secularism: The Destiny of India's Muslims, Mushirul Hasan, ed. pp. 155-176.NewDelhi: Manohar Publishers and Distributors (2007), Bharattee's Death: Domestic SlaveWomen in Nineteenth-Century Madras. In Slavery and South Asian History, Indrani Chatterjee & Richard Eaton, eds. pp. 210233. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2006). Email: vatuk@uic.edu Tanya Rana is working as an Assistant Program Leader, Policy, Governance and Advocacy Centre, Institute of Rural Research and Development, Gurgaon, Haryana, India. She has studied B.B.A.L.L.B at Symbiosis Law School, Pune. Email: t.rana@irrad.org T.C.A. Anant is currently the Chief Statistician of India. He is also a Professor at Department of Economics in Delhi School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University. His areas of specialization are game theory, econometrics and industrial economics. Email: tca.anant@gmail.com Takashi Miyamoto is a PhD scholar, University of Tokyo. Takashi is studying the history of prison systems in South and South East Asia. Email: miyamoto_takashi@hotmail.com Tamara Relis is an Assistant Professor at Touro Law School, New York and a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics, Department of Law. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University Law School and the LSE (2005-09). She holds a Ph.D. in law and an LL.M. degree with Honors Merit from the LSE (focusing on conflict resolution, procedural
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law and human rights in the developing world), where she taught two LL.B courses for two years. Dr. Relis also holds an LL.B. degree with honors from the University of London. She is a trial lawyer (barrister) with experience in trial court practice, as well as having qualified as a solicitor, working primarily in litigation. Dr. Relis is currently working on her second book based on a large-scale four-year empirical study (qualitative, partly ethnographic) of formal courts and quasi-legal non-state justice processing of international human rights violation cases of violence against women in eight states of India (400 case hearing observations, as well as interviews, questionnaire data from victims, accused, families, lawyers, judges, and nonstate mediators/arbitrators in mahila panchayats and nari adalats). Her doctoral findings have been published as a book by Cambridge University Press (New York, 2009) entitled Perceptions in Litigation and Mediation: Lawyers, Defendants, Plaintiffs and Gendered Parties. The book is now in paperback edition (2011). Her interests are international human rights, legal pluralism, postcolonial orders and feminist legal theory. Email: t.relis@lse.ac.uk, TamaraRelis@msn.com 395. Tanya Matthan has done her M.A. in Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics. Currently, she is doing a Post-Graduate Diploma in Human Rights Law at NLSIU, and an Urban Studies course at NIAS, Bangalore. Her interests include religion, indigenous social movements, gender and legal anthropology. Email: tanyamatthan@gmail.com Tarunabh Khaitan completed his undergraduate law degree from National Law School, Bangalore in 2004 and the BCL and M.Phil. from Oxford thereafter. He is currently finishing his Doctorate on comparative aspects of anti-discrimination law and teaches constitutional law to Oxford undergraduates. His past research activities include a conference paper on the use of litigation as a political tool by social interest groups; and another on the characterisation of the crimes committed in Gujarat 2002 under international criminal law. A forthcoming article deals with the equality jurisprudence under the Indian constitution and the extremely deferential standards of review evolved by the Supreme Court, which has ensured that Article 15(1) remains a non-starter. More broadly, his research interests include studying constitutional, criminal and family law from socio-legal and comparative perspectives. Email: tarunabh@gmail.com

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Tayyab Mahmud joined Seattle University School of Law in 2006, and is Director of the Centre for Global Justice. He served as the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development from 2007-2009. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and before going to law school taught International Relations and Political Science at various universities in Pakistan and the United States. A graduate of University of California Hastings College of the Law, he is licensed to practice in California and Pakistan. His legal experience includes working with the California Attorney General's Office, the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, the San Francisco-based firm Pettit & Martin, and the Pakistan-based firm Walker Martineau Saleem. He started his career as a law professor at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1989. He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School in 1997-1998, and a Visiting Professor at Seattle University School of Law in 2003-2004. Between 2004 and 2006, he was Professor of Law and Chair, Global Perspectives Group, at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago. From 2006-2008, Professor Mahmud was Co-President of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), an organization of progressive law teachers working for justice, diversity, and academic excellence. His current research is focused on extra-constitutional usurpation and exercise of power in post-colonial states. Email: mahmud@seattleu.edu Tebello Thabane is a lawyer working in the litigation department of a regional NGO based in South Africa. Email: tthabane@gmail.com Thulasidhass P.R. is a doctoral student at Centre for International Legal Studies, School for International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Email: dhassbrothers@gmail.com Tobias Kelly is a Senior Lecturer at Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. His research interests include human rights, legal anthropology, law and development, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He has recently started a long term ESRC funded project that explores the role of law and medicine in the recognition of torture. The research draws on fieldwork in the UK, Israel/Palestine, and at the UN, to produce a multi-sited study of the implications of international human rights claims for understandings of cruelty and suffering. He has also
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carried out long term fieldwork amongst West Bank Palestinians, concentrating on issues of citizenship and everyday experiences of violence. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics in 2003, and has worked at the Institute of Law of Birzeit University, the Crisis States Programme at the LSE, and the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University. He is planning two separate future research projects. The first is a collaborative project that looks at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, which was established by the UN Security Council to prosecute those deemed legally responsible for the death of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The second looks at the ethical, legal and social dilemmas of conscientious objectors in Britain during the Second World War. He is also an editor of the 'Ethnographies of Political Violence' series with University of Pennsylvania Press. Email: toby.kelly@ed.ac.uk 401. Tomas Butvilas is an Associate Professor at Department of Education Activities at Mykolas Romeris University (Social Science based institution in Lithuania). Email: tbutvilas@mruni.eu Tony Blackshield is an Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University and an Adjunct Professor at the ANU and UNSW. Professor Blackshield holds a masters degree in law from the University of Sydney and was a founding member of the Faculty of Law at UNSW. He has had a long interest in, and has written extensively about, the High Court as an institution and the nature of the judicial process. He is well known as a commentator on constitutional law, international law, and jurisprudence, among other areas. His works include, as co-editor, The Judgments of Justice Lionel Murphy (1986) and, as co-author, Australian Constitutional Law and Theory: Commentary and Materials (2nd edition, 1998). Email: ablacksh@bigpond.net.au Ujjwal Kumar Singh is a Professor at Department of Political Science at University Campus of South Delhi, Delhi University. He is a Ph.D. from School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK. His areas of interest include State, Constitutionalism and Democracy - Laws and their relationship with state, democracy and constitutionalism, issues of rights and peoples movements, Judiciary, Election Commission. Some of his publications are: Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and
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Movements, Volume IV of the Peace Studies Series. Delhi: Sage (2009), Towards Legal Literacy: An Introduction to the Laws in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press (2008), The State, Democracy and Anti-Terror Laws in India. Delhi: Sage (2007) and Political Prisoners in India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1998 (paperback 2001). Email: ujjwalksingh@gmail.com 404. Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who has taught at Miranda House, University College for women in Delhi University for over four decades. She has been associated with the women's movement and the movement for democratic rights since the late seventies. As part of this engagement she has been a member of many fact-finding teams on communal violence and democratic rights violations. In 2002 she was a member of a feminist International Initiative on Justice for Gujarat. Following from that work she has been part of a feminist group that has been pursuing the legal dimensions of gendering the proposed Communal Violence Bill to factor in the redressal of sexual violence and putting command responsibility into it. Email: umafam@gmail.com Umesh Chandra Jha, Wg Cdr (Retd) is currently an independent researcher in the fields of environmental law, human rights, international humanitarian law and military law. In 2008, he was awarded PhD in Law and Governance by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has served in the Indian Air Force for 24 years and took pre-mature retirement in 2001. He has also worked as Legal Consultant for National Human Rights Commission for more than three years. Dr Jha is a visiting faculty at a few institutions in New Delhi. He has authored seven books and has published more than 60 articles on subjects relating to environment, military law, human rights, international humanitarian and refugee laws. Email: ucjha1@rediffmail.com Umesh. O. is a doctoral student at Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. He is engaged in a sociolegal study of communal riots in Marad, Kerala. Email: umesh.kadampanad@gmail.com Upendra Baxi currently is Emeritus Professor of University of Warwick, and University of Delhi. He served as Professor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick (since 1996). He also served as Professor of Law,

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University of Delhi (1973-1996) and as its Vice Chancellor (1990-1994). He has also served as Vice Chancellor, University of South Gujarat, Surat (19821985); Honorary Director (Research) The Indian Law Institute (1885-1988). He was the President of the Indian Society of International Law (1992-1995). Professor Baxi graduated from Rajkot (Gujarat University), read law in University of Bombay, and holds LLM degrees from University of Bombay and University of California at Berkeley, which also awarded him with a Doctorate in Juristic Sciences. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates in Law by the National Law School University of India, Bangalore, and the University of La Trobe, Melbourne. Professor Baxi has taught various courses in law and science, comparative constitutionalism and social theory of human rights at Universities of Sydney, Duke University, The American University, the New York University Law School Global Law Program, and the University of Toronto. Professor Baxi's current areas of teaching and research include comparative constitutionalism, social theory of human rights, human rights responsibilities in corporate governance and business conduct, and materiality of globalization. Email: baxiupendra@aol.com 408. Usha Ramanathan is an internationally recognized expert on law and poverty. She studied law at Madras University, the University of Nagpur and Delhi University. She is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, teaches environmental law, labour law and consumer law at the Indian Law Institute and is a regular guest professor many universities around the world. She is a frequent adviser to non-governmental organisations and international organizations. She is for instance a member of Amnesty International's Advisory Panel on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and has been called upon by the World Health Organisation as a expert on mental health on various occasions. Dr Ramanathan is also the South Asia Editor of the Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD Journal), a peer-reviewed academic journal jointly published by IELRC and SOAS. Her research interests include human rights, displacement, torts and environment. She has published extensively in India and abroad. In particular, she has devoted her attention to a number of specific issues such as the Bhopal gas disaster, the Narmada valley dams or slum eviction in Delhi. Email: urushar@gmail.com, uramanathan@ielrc.org

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V Basil Hans, Associate Professor and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Coordinator, Research Committee, Director, E-Learning Centre, St Aloysius Evening College, Mangalore (INDIA). His research areas include Business Economics, Education and Human Development, Environment and Economy, Gender Equity, Health Economics, Human Capital, Inclusive Growth, Indian Diaspora, Religion Ethics and Development, IPRS and India, Rural Infrastructure, Sustainable Agriculture, and Tourism Development. Email: vbhmeadows@airtelmail.in V. Venkatesan is a Deputy Editor of Frontline. He holds L.L.B. from Delhi University. He has been a Lecturer, Department of Public Administration, South Gujarat University, Surat, and Assistant Editor, Edit Page, The Times of India, New Delhi A regular blogger on Law and Other Things, V Venkatesan has also been a keen conversational presence at most events organised around law and social sciences. His publications include "Role of Election Commission in Free and Fair Elections: Its Narrative Reports", Journal of Constitutional and Parliamentary Studies, January-June 2006 and "The Dynamics of Anti-Reservation Protests of 2006: A Lens on Medicos' Political Actions". Email: venkat.venkatesan@gmail.com V.G. Hegde is an Associate Professor at Centre for International Legal studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Email: vghegde@gmail.com Vaibhav Rai Asthana, L.L.B., Delhi University. Email: vaibsrai@gmail.com Varun Gauri is Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. His research focuses on politics and governance in the social sectors and aims to combine quantitative and qualitative methods in economics and social science research. His research has addressed HIV/AIDS policies in Brazil, South Africa, and Mozambique, basic immunization in Pakistan, the behavior of development NGOs in Bangladesh and Uganda, payment modalities for health care providers in Costa Rica and Nigeria, litigation for social and economic rights in developing countries, and the relationship between international human rights treaties and development outcomes. He is the author of School Choice in Chile: Two Decades of Educational Reform. He has published widely in development journals,

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including World Development, the Journal of Development Studies, Studies in Comparative International Development, World Bank Research Observer, and Health Policy and Planning. Since joining the World Bank in 1996, he has also worked on and led a variety of operational and analytic tasks, including project and program evaluations, investments in privately owned hospitals, health care decentralization, and public expenditure reviews. Email: Vgauri@worldbank.org

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Vasudha Dhagamwar is a legal researcher and activist and the Director of the Multiple Action Research Group (MARG), based in Delhi, India. She is a serving member of the Legal Experts' Group of the National Commission on Women. Her book, Law, Power and Justice includes a chapter that documents and analyses judgments of the Indian Supreme Court and several High Courts on 'honour killings' among various communities in India. The judgments documented relate to cases of both women and men who have been murdered or subjected to extreme violence or public humiliation by family or community members in the name of 'honour' where they are perceived as having transgressed community norms. Email: vasudhagam2007@airtelmail.in Vasudha Nagaraj works in the Law and Critical Legal Theory Initiative at Anveshi. She is currently working on a project titled 'Feminist Politics, Rights Discourse, the Family and Sexuality: Rethinking Women's Suffering and Agency.' She is also a practicing lawyer in the Family Courts in Hyderabad defending women in various aspects of marital rights and obligations. Her primary interests are in understanding the structure of the law and its complex relationship with the family. Email: vasudhanagaraj13@gmail.com Vasuki Nesiah, Prior to joining Brown, Nesiah was Senior Associate and Head of the Gender Program at the International Centre for Transitional Justice, an international organization engaged with human rights law and policy. Nesiah has also been Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University for the last three years where she has been teaching on issues related to identity, rights and conflict. Nesiah completed her Doctorate in public international law at

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Harvard Law School. She has published and lectured in international and comparative law, feminist theory, law and development, postcolonial studies, constitutionalism, and governance in plural societies. She is currently working on a manuscript regarding the post-conflict industry. Email: vasuki.nesiah@nyu.edu 417. Vasuman Khandelwal is a lawyer practicing in Supreme Court of India. He has an L.L.B. from NLS Bangalore and an L.L.M. from SOAS, UK. Email: vasumank@yahoo.com Ved Kumari teaches law at University of Delhi since 1985. She taught law at Jammu University during 1983-1985. She is the Fellow of Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute, Canada. She did team teaching in Vanerbilt University, USA as a Fulbright Fellow, Post-doctoral research at Warwick University, UK as the Commonwealth Fellow, and spent a year doing sabbatical research in Russia. She was the Chairperson of the Delhi Judicial Academy from July 2009- July 2011, on deputation from the University of Delhi, India. The primary areas of her teaching, training and publications are juvenile justice, criminal law, gender discrimination, clinical education, judicial education and training. Prof. Ved Kumari has conducted and participated in many national and international train-the-trainer workshops on teaching methods and professional skills trainings for lawyers and judges. She is member of the Sub-group under the Ministry of Law, Justice and Legal Affairs as part of the National Innovation Council. Email: vedkumari@gmail.com Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. She also serves on the Executive Board of the Institute of Socio-Economic Research on Development and Democracy in India. She studied at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi and taught there from 1967 to 2000. She has published extensively as an ethnographer of India and thus is an established figure within Indian anthropology. Beyond India, her research has broad appeal within the anthropology of violence, suffering, and the State. Das completed her Ph.D. in 1970 at the University of Delhi under the supervision of M.N. Srinivas. She was Professor of Anthropology at the New School for Social Research from 1997-2000 before moving to the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. Some of her research interests include: feminist movements, gender studies, sectarian violence, medical anthropology, post117

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colonial and post-structural theory. Her first book Structure and Cognition: Aspects of Hindu Caste and Ritual (Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1977) brought the textual practices of 13th to 17th century in relation to self representation of caste groups in focus. Her identification of the structure of Hindu thought in terms of the tripartite division between priesthood, kinship and renunciation proved to be an extremely important structuralist interpretation of the important poles within which innovations and claims to new status by caste groups took place. Email: veena.das@gmail.com 420. Veer Mayank is a graduate student at Centre for International Legal Studies, School for International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Email: veer.mayank@gmail.com Venudha Routiya holds an LL.M. and is currently working as a Protocol Officer in Chhattisgarh Legislative Assembly, Raipur. His papers under publication include Parliamentary Privilege in India, Political Corruption in India, RTI of Chhattisgarh State and Right of women in India. Email: venucgvs@gmail.com Vibhuti Ramachandran is a graduate student at Department of Anthropology, NYU. Email: vibhuti.ramachandran@gmail.com Victoria Lobay is a Phd Candidate at Macquarie University, Sydney. Email: victoria.loblay@mq.edu.au Vidya Raja is an advocate Madras High Court, with Nalini Chidambaram, Senior Advocate, Madras. She finished her LLB from the Symbiosis Societys Law College Symbiosis International University, Pune. Among the many research projects Vidya has undertaken, she also worked at the Lawyers Collective, Mumbai in April - May, 2004. Email: vidya.v.raja@gmail.com Vik Kanwar is an Assistant Professor at Jindal Global Law School (JGLS), NCR of Delhi, India and founding Assistant Director/ Academic Head of the Centre on Public Law and Jurisprudence (CPLJ). He is a legal theorist working primarily in the field of the history and theory of international law.

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His empirical and theoretical writings concern the legal sources of lethal force and resources for regulating coercion in public and private law especially international law. Ongoing projects include work on the concepts of necessity and "salus populi" in various legal systems, including public international law. Recently completed articles include, Two Crises of Confidence: Securing Non-Proliferation and the Rule of Law through Security Council Resolutions (2008) and "Re-Tooling the Rule of Law: Instrumentalism and the Implementation of Humanitarian Law in Failed and Fragile States"(2009), based on research commissioned by the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Resolution at Harvard School of Public Health. He holds a JD from Northeastern (2000) and an LLM from NYU. (2001), where he also pursued advanced doctoral research in international law until 2006, while working in a number of legal, academic, and institutional settings in New York. In addition to JGLS, he has taught at Loyola in New Orleans and Clemson University. He currently teaches Public International Law, International Relations, and Global History, and has taught past seminars on Transnational Impact Litigation Human Rights Litigation and "Political Violence and Terrorism". His interest areas include Public International Law: NGO, government & private sector. CSR, sovereign rights, good governance, IHL/LOAC, PSO, U.S. & collective security, administration, legislation, treaty promotion, inter-governmental. Negotiation, dispute resolution, coalition-building. Email: vkanwar@jgu.edu.in; kanwar@nyu.edu 426. Vipin Krishna has completed MA in Sociology from the University of Hyderabad. He is planning for a doctoral research in future and wish to explore things such as sexuality, nationalism and intellectual property (or rather the notion of private property in general) and study the contemporary functions of marriage if any (as popular feminist rhetoric suggests that it now remains an obsolete institution). Email: vipiak@gmail.com Vrinda Grover is a Researcher and Lawyer based in New Delhi. As part of her research work, Grover has studied judgments rendered in 126 riot cases and found that in most cases, the accused were acquitted because the investigation was casual and there was no serious attempt to collect evidence. Email: vrindagrover@gmail.com

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Wazhma Frogh is currently a Post-graduate fellow at University of Warwick in UK is an advocate for the realization of women's human rights in development in Afghanistan. The 2009 recipient of International Woman of Courage Award, Frogh has dedicated the last decade of her life towards mobilizing the civil society activism for Afghan women. She has focused on issues such as Women and Security, Legislative Advocacy and reform including the recent first ever Afghanistan Elimination of Violence against Women Law, and the Shia Personal Status Law. Frogh started her career with community outreach in Pakistan at 17 and is a leading expert on Gender-based Violence against women and girls in Afghanistan. Email: Wazhma.Frogh@gmail.com Werner Gephart studied from 1968 to 1974 rights at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn and graduated with the first state law examination. Gephart then studied sociology and philosophy at the University of Cologne. From 1977 to 1990 she worked at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Heinrich-Heine-University in various capacities, 19851986 a scientific monitoring of pilot projects under the Federal Youth Plan to combat youth unemployment (in conjunction with the International Federation of Social Work ). 1986 PhD Werner Gephart to Dr. jur. at the Law Faculty of the Georg-August-University . Since 1990, Gephart was a research assistant at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Edition of the Sociology of Law Max Weber's , located in Dusseldorf ) and his habilitation in 1991 at the Philosophical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine University in Dusseldorf with the Venia legendi of Sociology. First, he accepted a Visiting Professor at the Sociology Department at the University of Bonn, 1992 was appointed to the University Professor . Email: w.gephart@uni-bonn.de Werner Menski Professor of South Asian Laws at School of Law, SOAS, UK. He is also a Chair at Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies and a Member of Centre of South Asian Studies. His interests include Law; socio-legal and cultural studies, religion and law. Some of his Publications include Comparative Law in a Global Context: The Legal Systems of Asia and Africa. Cambridge University Press (2006), Hindu Law: Beyond Tradition and Modernity. Oxford University Press (2003) and Modern Indian Family Law. Curzon Press (2000). Email: wm4@soas.ac.uk

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Global Change. Her interests include Recovery and Rehabilitation, Crisis, Urban Studies, History, Theory and Method in Social Anthropology. Email: arif.yasmeen@gmail.com 436. Yksel Sezgin is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Comparative Law at the City University of New York. His work deals with issues of legal pluralism, personal law and religio-legal systems in the Middle East and South Asia. Email: ysezgin@jjay.cuny.edu

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