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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.

The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution? (2019)
Book Chapter
Caldwell, E. (2019). The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?. In W. Alford, J. Cohen, & C. Lo (Eds.), Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (pp. 155-172). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0350-0_10

This chapter contributes to the growing literature on international human rights and National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Taiwan. Despite decades of debate, Taiwan has never established a NHRI that complies with international human rights no... Read More about The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?.

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 (pp. 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
P. Cullet, S. Koonan, & L. Bhullar. (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.

Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus (2018)
Book
Caldwell, E. (2018). Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351180689

The legal institutions of the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BCE) have been vilified by history as harsh and draconian. Yet ironically, many Qin institutional features, such as written statutory law, were readily adopted by subsequent dynasties as... Read More about Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus.

China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications (2018)
Journal Article
Dave, B., & Kobayashi, Y. (2018). China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications. Asia Europe Journal: Studies on Common Policy Challenges, 16(3), 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10308-018-0513-x

The Silk Road Economic Belt (SREB) initiative, launched by Xi Jinping in 2013 as the Central Asian component of the Eurasian Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), is presented as a trade and infrastructural developmental initiative that benefits all to del... Read More about China’s silk road economic belt initiative in Central Asia: economic and security implications.

Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration (2018)
Journal Article
Caldwell, E. (2018). Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration. Washington International Law Journal, 27(2), 449-484.

The Republic of China on Taiwan (“Taiwan”) successfully and peacefully transitioned from authoritarian, one-party rule into a constitutional democracy in the early 1990s. However, due to the island’s complex international status and fraught relations... Read More about Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration.

‘Whither the Law (and the State) in Southeast Asian Histories?’ (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, January 1). ‘Whither the Law (and the State) in Southeast Asian Histories?’ [Presentation / Talk]. The IGLP Asian Regional Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Bangkok, Thailand.

Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments, 2nd edition (2017)
Book
P. Cullet, & S. Koonan. (Eds.). (2017). Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments, 2nd edition. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199472475.001.0001

First published in 2011, Water Law in India is the only book to offer a comprehensive survey of the legal instruments concerning water in India. It presents a variety of national and state-level instruments that make up the complex and diverse field... Read More about Water Law in India: An Introduction to Legal Instruments, 2nd edition.

Chinese Constitutionalism: Five-Power Constitution (2017)
Book Chapter
Caldwell, E. (2017). Chinese Constitutionalism: Five-Power Constitution. In R. Grote, F. Lachenmann, & R. Wolfrum (Eds.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford University Press.

‘Gender-Variance, Society and Law in Indonesia’ (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2017, January 1). ‘Gender-Variance, Society and Law in Indonesia’ [Presentation / Talk]. The IGLP Asian Regional Workshop, Institute for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Bangkok, Thailand.