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Meghashree Dev

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Upendra Baxi What is Justice, 2014

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Identifier: UB-005-01-08-13
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Upendra Baxi What is Justice': Baxi interrogates the meaning of justice beyond formal legal definitions, examining justice from perspectives of suffering communities, social transformation, and human rights. He likely discusses distributive justice, procedural justice, restorative justice, and the relationship between law and justice in contexts of poverty, oppression, and systemic inequality. Published by Beyond Bhopal Project

Dates: 2014

USLLS,GGSIPU Cyber Utopianism | Prof. Upendra Baxi - YouTube, 2021

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Identifier: UB-005-01-08-59
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Cyber Utopianism' | GGSIPU: Critically examines utopian claims about internet and digital technologies, discussing surveillance, digital rights, privacy, online governance, and whether technology liberates or oppresses, particularly in contexts of state power and corporate control. Published by GGSIPU

Dates: 2021

Valiant Victims and Lethal Litigation, 1990

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Identifier: UB-005-01-03-13
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Published by N.M. Tripathi, Bombay.

Dates: Publication: 1990

Validity of Professio Juris Stipulations in Maritime Passage Contracts – A Study in American Conflicts Law, 1967

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Identifier: UB-005-01-01-05
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Published in the Houston Law Review Vol. 6 No. 4, pg 657-684

Dates: Publication: 1967

“Vexatious Litigation: A Refreshing Message from Michigan”, 3 September 2021

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Identifier: UB-005-01-06-176
Abstract Inspired by a US court ruling against frivolous lawsuits, Baxi discusses the need to curb "legal bullying" in India. He argues that while access to justice is a fundamental right, the weaponization of the legal system to harass opponents or delay justice is an "abuse of process." Baxi suggests that the Indian judiciary should adopt stricter penalties for vexatious litigants who waste precious judicial resources. By cleaning up the "litigation landscape," the courts can focus on genuine...
Dates: Publication: 3 September 2021

Violence, Dissent and Development, 1988

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Identifier: UB-005-01-01-62
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Baxi explores the entanglement of development policies with violence and dissent. The essay examines how law responds to protest, resistance, and social conflict generated by development projects, highlighting tensions between state authority, popular movements, and constitutional promises. In the Reprint from the Law and Social Change, ILI.

Dates: Publication: 1988

Violence, Dissent and Development, 1983

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Identifier: UB-005-01-05-02
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Reprint from Law and Social Change examining the relationship between state violence, political dissent, and development processes in India, analyzing how development projects generate conflict and the legal system's role in mediating or perpetuating violence. Presented at the Indo-US Commissions Seminar on Law and Social Change, Boston.

Dates: Publication: 1983

Voices of Suffering and the Future of Human Rights, 1998

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Identifier: UB-005-01-01-84
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Baxi foregrounds suffering as central to the future of human rights. The essay emphasizes listening to marginalized voices, questioning abstract universality, and reimagining rights frameworks that remain responsive to pain, exclusion, and injustice. Published in the Symposium: International Human Rights at Fifty: a Symposium to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems, Vol. 8, No. 2 pg 125-170.

Dates: Publication: 1998