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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.

The ‘Vulnerable’ Hindu Woman, Love-jihad, and the Indian Courts: The Hadiya Case - Commentary on Asokan KM vs State of Kerala (2017) 2 KLJ 974 (2023)
Journal Article
Sharma, K. (2023). The ‘Vulnerable’ Hindu Woman, Love-jihad, and the Indian Courts: The Hadiya Case - Commentary on Asokan KM vs State of Kerala (2017) 2 KLJ 974. Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 56(1), 59-69. https://doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2023-1-59

In Asokan K.M. v. State of Kerala (2017) at the behest of a disgruntled Hindu father whose daughter had converted to Islam and married a man of her choice, the Kerala High Court (HC) cast the daughter, Hadiya, as a ‘vulnerable’ woman bef... Read More about The ‘Vulnerable’ Hindu Woman, Love-jihad, and the Indian Courts: The Hadiya Case - Commentary on Asokan KM vs State of Kerala (2017) 2 KLJ 974.

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.

Colonial courts, judicial iconography and the Indian semiotic register (2022)
Journal Article
Sharma, K. (in press). Colonial courts, judicial iconography and the Indian semiotic register. Law and Humanities, 16(2), 331-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2022.2080943

In From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India's High Courts, Rahela Khorakiwala brings together germinal works on the uses of architecture and iconology in and by law with thick descriptions... Read More about Colonial courts, judicial iconography and the Indian semiotic register.

Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India (2021)
Journal Article
Sharma, K., Lammasniemi, L., & Sarkar, T. (in press). Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India. Indian Law Review, 5(3), 265-287. https://doi.org/10.1080/24730580.2021.1962083

Through an examination of the late nineteenth century case of Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai this article traces the history of the doctrine of restitution of conjugal rights (“RCR”) in Hindu law in colonial India. It highlights the importance of caste i... Read More about Dadaji Bhikaji v Rukhmabai: Rewriting Consent and Conjugal Relations in Colonial India.

Groundwater Law and Management in India: From an Elitist to an Egalitarian Paradigm (2021)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (2021). Groundwater Law and Management in India: From an Elitist to an Egalitarian Paradigm. In S. A. Khan, T. G. Puthucherril, & S. R. Paul (Eds.), From Elite to Egalitarian: The Changing Landscape of Groundwater Law in India (337-347). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2617-3_24

Groundwater law has been structured around a direct relationship between access to land and control over groundwater since the middle of the nineteenth century. The premises for the existing legal framework are not suited to today’s conditions. The p... Read More about Groundwater Law and Management in India: From an Elitist to an Egalitarian Paradigm.

Governing Conjugality: Social Hygiene and The Doctrine of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in England and India in the Nineteenth Century (2021)
Journal Article
Lammasniemi, L., & Sharma, K. (in press). Governing Conjugality: Social Hygiene and The Doctrine of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in England and India in the Nineteenth Century. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 47(1), 67-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2021.1923252

This article focuses on the doctrine of restitution of conjugal rights (RCR) as a colonial legal transplant and examines how ideas of social and moral hygiene manifested in the debates around the doctrine in late-nineteenth century England and India.... Read More about Governing Conjugality: Social Hygiene and The Doctrine of Restitution of Conjugal Rights in England and India in the Nineteenth Century.

英国刑事法律中关于性侵儿童案件的基本问题 (Rules and Principles on Sexual Offences against Children in the UK) (2021)
Book Chapter
Mou, Y. (2021). 英国刑事法律中关于性侵儿童案件的基本问题 (Rules and Principles on Sexual Offences against Children in the UK). In H. Wu (Ed.), 刑事法学研究 (Criminal Law Studies) (130-179). China University of Political Society and Law Press

性侵未成年人案件涉及刑事规范的多个层面，既包括刑事实体法中相关的性犯罪构成问题，也包括证据法中侵害事实的证明问题，以及在确定构成性犯罪以后，如何有效地对侵害人进行危险性评估及相应的管理与惩戒等问题。本文以英国的刑事法律制度为例，深入介绍和分析英国刑事... Read More about 英国刑事法律中关于性侵儿童案件的基本问题 (Rules and Principles on Sexual Offences against Children in the UK).

Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case (2020)
Book Chapter
Sharma, K. (2020). Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case. In S. Bonnerjee (Ed.), Subaltern Women’s Narratives: Strident Voices, Dissenting Bodies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003121220-18

Trial transcripts remain an under utilised source through which colonial women’s lived experiences as well as their narratives of resistance can be recovered. This paper aims to explore Indian Hindu women’s resistance to attempts to control their bod... Read More about Restitution of conjugal rights and the dissenting female body: The Rukhmabai Case.

The Transplanted Appropriate Adult Scheme in China (2020)
Journal Article
Mou, Y. (2021). The Transplanted Appropriate Adult Scheme in China. The Howard journal of crime and justice, 60(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12393

Borrowed from England and Wales, the Chinese Appropriate Adult Scheme involves a dynamic of selective adaptation. This article analyses two salient features of the appropriate adult scheme within the Chinese context, in comparison with its counterpar... Read More about The Transplanted Appropriate Adult Scheme in China.

Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight (2020)
Journal Article
Sharma, K. (2020). Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight. Law and History Review, 38(1), 151-175. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248020000024

Married at the age of eleven, Rukhmabai refused to go and live with her husband who had filed a suit for restitution of conjugal rights against her in 1884. This paper analyses the transplantation of the notion of restitution of conjugal rights into... Read More about Withholding Consent to Conjugal Relations within Child Marriages in Colonial India: Rukhmabai's Fight.