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Meghashree Dev

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Crimes against women X, 19 March 1980

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Identifier: UB-005-01-09-25
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In Indian Express.

Dates: Publication: 19 March 1980
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Media articles by Others on the Mathura Case

Crisis and change in Contemporary India, 1995

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Identifier: UB-005-01-03-18
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Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi.

Dates: Publication: 1995
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Published Books

‘Critiquing Rights: The Politics of Identity and Difference’ in Rathore, A.S., & Cistelecan, A. (eds.), Wronging Rights?: Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights (1st ed.), 2011

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Identifier: UB-005-01-02-52
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Baxi examines critiques of rights discourse from the standpoint of identity and difference. The essay reflects on how rights both empower and constrain political struggles, emphasizing the need to attend to exclusion, recognition, and power. Published by Routledge India. pg 61-78.

Dates: Publication: 2011
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Published Book Chapters

“Cruelty Vs Culture: Rewriting the Magna Carta of the Rights of Nature?”, 3 June 2023

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Identifier: UB-005-01-06-206
Abstract Prof. Upendra Baxi examines the Supreme Court's 2023 reversal of its 2014 ban on Jallikattu and bullock cart races. The Court controversially held bulls can be "performing animals," upholding ownership rights while rejecting animal rights as fundamental or natural. Baxi criticizes the Court for deferring cultural heritage questions to Parliament and failing to recognize animals' inherent dignity rights established in the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960. He argues the decision...
Dates: Publication: 3 June 2023
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Newspaper Articles

“Curbs on Defections: Some Constitutional Conundrums”, 27 November 1989

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Identifier: UB-005-01-06-11
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Curbs on Defections (Times of India, 1988): Analysis of anti-defection legislation aimed at preventing legislators from switching political parties. Baxi examines constitutional implications, tensions between party discipline and individual conscience, impact on parliamentary democracy, and whether such laws strengthen or weaken democratic representation and accountability. In The Times of India.

Dates: Publication: 27 November 1989
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Newspaper Articles

“Datar and Dieter: The origins of basic structure”, 24 February 2023

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Identifier: UB-005-01-06-199
Abstract Baxi traces the intellectual history of the "Basic Structure Doctrine," crediting German scholar Dieter Conrad and jurist Nani Palkhivala. He explains how Conrad’s insights on "implied limitations" to amendments—born from the trauma of Nazi Germany—helped Indian judges protect democracy from similar fates. The article demystifies the doctrine, showing it was a necessary response to political instability. Baxi argues that the Basic Structure is a "safety valve" that prevents a majority from...
Dates: Publication: 24 February 2023
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Newspaper Articles

Day long dharna by women outside supreme court, 17 March 1980

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Identifier: UB-005-01-09-15
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In Times of India.

Dates: Publication: 17 March 1980
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Media articles by Others on the Mathura Case

Decent Work, Fair Globalisation and the Dreadful ‘J’ Word, 2024

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Identifier: UB-005-01-01-158
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This essay examines labor, globalization, and justice. Baxi reflects on decent work frameworks, inequality, and distributional conflict, emphasizing justice as a contested and politically charged concept in global economic governance. Published in the Ind. J. Labour Econ. 67, pg 317–328.

Dates: Publication: 2024
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Published Academic Articles

Deconstruction, Dissipation and Death, and the “Casting-Away of the Law”? Special Issue in Celebration of Peter Fitzpatrick and His Scholarship, 2021

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Identifier: UB-005-01-01-152
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Published in the International Journal of Law in Context, Vol. 17 no. 1 (March), pg 32-35.

Dates: Publication: 2021
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Published Academic Articles

“Defamation: Forum of Catastrophic Convenience?”, 4 November 2018

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Identifier: UB-005-01-06-88
Abstract Baxi critiques the weaponization of criminal defamation laws to silence dissent and investigative journalism. He describes the practice of filing multiple cases in far-flung jurisdictions as "catastrophic convenience" for the powerful. The article argues that such "strategic lawsuits against public participation" (SLAPP) chill free speech and violate the spirit of Article 19. Baxi advocates for a higher threshold for admitting defamation complaints and suggests that the judiciary must...
Dates: Publication: 4 November 2018
Found in: NLS Law and Society Archives / Upendra Baxi Collection / Bibliography / Newspaper Articles

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