Meghashree Dev
Found in 706 Collections and/or Records:
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
TALK|Judicial Reforms Panelists: Prof. Upendra Baxi.17th February 2013 - YouTube, 2013
TALK | Judicial Reforms' (February 17, 2013): Discussion of necessary reforms in India's judicial system, addressing backlog, access to justice, judicial appointments, accountability, infrastructure, and procedural reforms needed to make justice accessible, timely, and effective. Published by India Habitat Centre
‘Teaching as Provocation’ in Amrik Singh (ed), On Being a Teacher, 1990
Published by Konark Publishers, Bengaluru. pg 150-8
“Terror of Performance”, 3 April 2015
The review reads Terror and Performance as a probing exploration of terror’s banality, mediatisation, and everyday cruelties beyond “terrorism.” Through performance, law, memory, nonviolence, and sovereignty, Bharucha unsettles state, civil society, and legal certainties, foregrounding human suffering, ethical ambiguity, and interpretive pluralism. In Frontline
“The Absence of Women: What India Can Learn from Kenya”, 7 October 2020
In The Indian Express.
The Aesthetics of Human Rights: Law, Language and Performatives, 2016
This essay develops Baxi’s interest in the performative dimensions of rights. He examines how legal language, ritual, and symbolism shape human rights practice, emphasizing meaning-making processes alongside institutional enforcement. Published in the Journal of the Indian Law Institute Vol 58 no. 1, pg 1-14.
‘The Avatars of Judicial Activism: Explorations in the Geography of (In) Justice’, in S.K. Verma and Kusum (eds), Fifty Years of the Supreme Court of India: Its grasp and reach, 2000
This essay maps different forms of judicial activism across social and spatial contexts. Baxi explores how activism produces uneven outcomes, highlighting disparities in access, recognition, and justice while situating judicial intervention within broader constitutional geographies. Published by Oxford University Press and Indian Law Institute, Delhi, pg 156–209.
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