Meghashree Dev
Found in 708 Collections and/or Records:
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.
The Battle Cry or The Bogey of No More Forcible Annexation?, 4 September 2024
“The Bhopal Award: Another Calamity for Gas Victims”, 16 February 1989
The Bhopal Award: Another Calamity for Gas Victims (Times of India, February 16, 1988): Baxi criticizes the inadequacy of compensation awarded to Bhopal gas tragedy victims, arguing the settlement represents another injustice. He examines how legal processes failed victims, inadequate compensation amounts, and systemic failures in providing justice for mass disaster victims against powerful multinational corporations. In The Times of India.
The Big Picture - Anti-Rape ordinance: Balancing Demands - YouTube, 2013
The Big Picture - Anti-Rape ordinance: Balancing Demands' (Rajya Sabha TV, February 5, 2013): Baxi discusses India's anti-rape ordinance following the 2012 Delhi gang rape, examining legal reforms, death penalty debates, victim protection, gender justice, and balancing punitive measures with systemic reforms addressing violence against women. Published by Sansad TV
The collegium system is law of the land; the idea of absolute parliamentary sovereignty is erroneous, 19 January 2023
In The Indian Express.
‘The Colonial Heritage’, in Pierre Legrand and Roderick Munday (eds), Comparative Legal Studies: Traditions and Transitions, 2003
Published by Cambridge UniversityPress, Cambridge,Pg 46–75.
‘The Constitutional Discourse on Secularism’, in U. Baxi, A. Jacob and T. Singh (eds), Reconstructing the Republic, 1999
Published by Indian Association of Social Science Institutions and Har-Anand Publication, Delhi, pg 211-233.
The constitutional quagmire of judicial appointments, 2015
Published by PLPDG
The Constitutional Quicksands of Kesavananda Bharati and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment, 1974
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