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Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts. Dr. Mayur Suresh in conversation with Neetika Vishwanath (2023)
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Suresh, M. Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts. Dr. Mayur Suresh in conversation with Neetika Vishwanath. [Podcast]

In this podcast, Project 39A's Director (Sentencing) Neetika Vishwanath speaks to Dr. Mayur Suresh (Senior Lecturer, SOAS University of London) on his recently published book 'Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts'. The book is an ethnographi... Read More about Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts. Dr. Mayur Suresh in conversation with Neetika Vishwanath.

Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts (2023)
Book
Suresh, M. (2023). Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts. Fordham University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531501792

An ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtro... Read More about Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts.

Authoritarianism in Indian state, law and society (2022)
Journal Article
Suresh, M., Deepa, D. A., & Mohsin, A. B. (2022). Authoritarianism in Indian state, law and society. Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 55(4), 459-477. https://doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2022-4-459

While India possesses features conventionally associated with liberal democracies, it has lately been understood to suffer from “democratic backsliding”. Commentators have used descriptions like “authoritarianism”, “electoral autocracy”, “ethnic demo... Read More about Authoritarianism in Indian state, law and society.

Autocratic legalism in India: A roundtable (2022)
Journal Article
Acevedo, D. D., Bhat, M. A., de Sa e Silva, F. C. M., John, R., Narrain, A., Scheppele, K., Singh, B., & Suresh, M. (in press). Autocratic legalism in India: A roundtable. Jindal Global Law Review, 13(1), 117-140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-022-00171-y

At a moment when democracy seems to be experiencing an unprecedented level of crisis worldwide, this roundtable focuses on one country, India, to ask what we can learn from its ongoing challenges. The participants take as their starting point Scheppe... Read More about Autocratic legalism in India: A roundtable.

Review of: The Truth Machines: Policing Violence and Scientific Interrogations in India By Jinee Lokaneeta. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 262 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 9780472074396 (2021)
Journal Article
Suresh, M. (2021). Review of: The Truth Machines: Policing Violence and Scientific Interrogations in India By Jinee Lokaneeta. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 262 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 9780472074396. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 17(2), 385-388. https://doi.org/10.1177/17438721211015646

Civil Liberties Ignored: The UAPA Needs Reform (with Mayur Suresh) (2020)
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Suresh, M. Civil Liberties Ignored: The UAPA Needs Reform (with Mayur Suresh). [Podcast]

Mayur Suresh talks to host Pavan Srinath about the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA), and how thousands of Indians are in prison or in custody, without recourse to bail, and awaiting a trial that may never take place. Mayur discusses how the... Read More about Civil Liberties Ignored: The UAPA Needs Reform (with Mayur Suresh).