Upendra Baxi
Found in 701 Collections and/or Records:
‘Suffering and Governance in Times of Death, Devastation, and Desolation.’ In Werner Gephart and Jule Leko (eds) In the Realm of Corona Normativities II,, 2022
Published by Klostermann, pg 129-146.
“Supreme Error”, 24 December 2014
In The Indian Express.
‘Systemic Governance Corruption : The Dialectics of Law and Nonviolent Social Movements in Contemporary India,’ in Kalpana Kannabiran, Bettina Hollstein and Florian Hoffmann (eds.), Discourses on Corruption : Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives, 2022
This essay examines corruption as a systemic governance problem. Baxi reflects on law’s limits and the role of nonviolent movements, emphasizing dialectical relationships between legal reform, protest, and institutional accountability. Published by SAGE, Series: Politics and Society in India and the Global South, pg 40-65.
T. B. Smith: Basic Rights and Their Enforcement, 1983
This work engages with questions surrounding the nature of basic rights and the mechanisms through which they are enforced. Baxi situates rights within broader legal and institutional frameworks, drawing attention to the gap between constitutional ideals and practical enforcement, especially in societies marked by inequality. In the India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs Vol. 39 No. 4. pg Xiii, 64
‘Taking Suffering Seriously: Social Action Litigation Before the Supreme Court of India’, in Upendra Baxi (ed), Law and Poverty: Critical Essays, 1989
Here, Baxi situates social action litigation within broader concerns of poverty and deprivation. He examines how judicial procedures were reshaped to address suffering, while remaining attentive to the tensions between legal activism, institutional capacity, and the structural roots of poverty. Published by N.M Tripathi Pvt. Ltd, Bombay. pg 387-415
Taking Suffering Seriously: Social Action Litigation in the Supreme Court of India, 1979 - 1980
Taking Suffering Seriously: Social Action Litigation in the Supreme Court of India, 1985
This essay reflects on the emergence of social action litigation in the Supreme Court. Baxi examines how courts began responding to suffering and deprivation through procedural innovation, while also questioning the capacities, limits, and ambiguities of judicial intervention in addressing structural injustice. In Third World Legal Studies Vol 4. No. 1. pg 107-132.
Taking Suffering Seriously: Social Action Litigation in the Supreme Court of India, 1985
Published in Country and Area Studies: Asia, Third World Legal Studies, 1985. pg 107-132.
Talk on judicial reforms, 2013
Published by India Habitat Centre
Talk: Vivekananda international foundation, 2011
Published by Rajiv Malhotra
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