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Empirical Approaches to Criminal Procedure (2019)
Book Chapter
Hodgson, J., & Mou, Y. (2019). Empirical Approaches to Criminal Procedure. In D. Brown, J. Turner, & B. Weisser (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Process (43-66). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190659837.013.3

This chapter discusses empirical approaches to criminal procedure, focusing on three broad and recurring themes that reflect the complex nature of the criminal justice system as a social institution: legal culture, discretion, and policy. It first co... Read More about Empirical Approaches to Criminal Procedure.

Introduction: Gender and the Law of the Sea - Oceans Apart? (2019)
Book Chapter
Papanicolopulu, I. (2019). Introduction: Gender and the Law of the Sea - Oceans Apart?. In I. Papanicolopulu (Ed.), Gender and the Law of the Sea (1-21). Brill | Nijhoff. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004375178_002

The chapter provides an introduction into the topic of the book. It contextualises its content within the wider discussion of gender equality and the role of international law in ensuring this objective, as well as within feminist approaches to inter... Read More about Introduction: Gender and the Law of the Sea - Oceans Apart?.

Feminist Dialogues on International Law: successes, tensions, futures (2019)
Book
Heathcote, G. (2019). Feminist Dialogues on International Law: successes, tensions, futures. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199685103.001.0001

In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the increased jurisprudence on gender based crimes in ar... Read More about Feminist Dialogues on International Law: successes, tensions, futures.

The social life of technicalities: 'Terrorist' lives in Delhi's courts (2019)
Journal Article
Suresh, M. (2019). The social life of technicalities: 'Terrorist' lives in Delhi's courts. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 53(1), 72-96. https://doi.org/10.1177/0069966718812523

How do we imagine the place of courtrooms in relation to society? There have been two dominant ways that ethnographers have viewed trials. The first treats trials as ways of understanding social structures and political power. In relation to terroris... Read More about The social life of technicalities: 'Terrorist' lives in Delhi's courts.

The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges (2019)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2019). The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges. In P. Cullet, S. Koonan, & L. Bhullar (Eds.), Right to Sanitation in India – Critical Perspectives (75-110). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489855.003.0004

The right to sanitation has been recognized for many years by the Supreme Court of India and high courts. Its recognition is not in question but there is a lack of a comprehensive legal framework that can contribute to making the right a reality on t... Read More about The Right to Sanitation – Multiple Dimensions and Challenges.

The Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives (2019)
Book
Cullet, P., Koonan, S., & Bhullar, L. (Eds.). (2019). The Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489855.001.0001

Sanitation has received little attention from law and policy makers, and implementers for a long time although it was not completely outside the purview of laws and policies in India. The past couple of decades have witnessed a significant change in... Read More about The Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives.

Model Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Bill, 2017: A New Paradigm for Groundwater Regulation (2019)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2019). Model Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Bill, 2017: A New Paradigm for Groundwater Regulation. Indian Law Review, 2(3), 263-276. https://doi.org/10.1080/24730580.2019.1565567

The Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Bill, 2017 drafted by the Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation provides a new template that states can use to adopt legislation capable of addressing the fast-increasing groundwa... Read More about Model Groundwater (Sustainable Management) Bill, 2017: A New Paradigm for Groundwater Regulation.

For whom the bell tolls: London’s Iraq and Afghanistan memorial 1990-2015 (2019)
Journal Article
Grady, K. (2019). For whom the bell tolls: London’s Iraq and Afghanistan memorial 1990-2015. London Review of International Law, 7(3), 353-376. https://doi.org/10.1093/lril/lraa003

Following the recent turn to materiality in international legal scholarship, this article considers London’s Iraq and Afghanistan Memorial 1990-2015. By examining the memorial’s politics in respect of death quantification, gender, and lawfulness, the... Read More about For whom the bell tolls: London’s Iraq and Afghanistan memorial 1990-2015.

The war mode of visual art production: a feminist geopolitical analysis of art producing masculinities in Kabul from 2014-2018 (2019)
Thesis
Musawi Natanzi, S. P. The war mode of visual art production: a feminist geopolitical analysis of art producing masculinities in Kabul from 2014-2018. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Since 2004, “Afghan women” producing contemporary art became online in virtual, visual and print the driving agents of a national art under construction centred in Kabul. However, the ethnographical insights gathered between 2014 until 2018 show that... Read More about The war mode of visual art production: a feminist geopolitical analysis of art producing masculinities in Kabul from 2014-2018.

Hindu law perspectives: The legal other (2019)
Book Chapter
Menski, W. F., & Headley, Z. (2019). Hindu law perspectives: The legal other. In S. Ferrari, & R. Bottoni (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws (335-350). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315518978-25

In legal discourses about Hinduism and the related laws as ‘the West’s other’, this comes out prominently today in fierce ideologically grounded battles over the continued recognition of personal law systems. Given that Hinduism is a family of cultur... Read More about Hindu law perspectives: The legal other.

Hindu law: marriage (2019)
Book Chapter
Menski, W. F., & Solanki, G. (2019). Hindu law: marriage. In S. Ferrari, & R. Bottoni (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Religious Laws (263-278). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315518978-20

The phrase ‘for a long time’, rather than the much tighter earlier definition under Anglo-Hindu law, which demanded proof of custom followed ‘since time immemorial’, gives the game away. The reformed Hindu law of 1955 silently supported strong presum... Read More about Hindu law: marriage.