Meghashree Dev

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

Published by N.M. Tripathi, Bombay.

Published in the Houston Law Review Vol. 6 No. 4, pg 657-684

Published by EBCPublishing, Lucknow.

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.

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.

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.

This essay develops Baxi’s critique of abstract universality in human rights. He emphasizes fragmented experiences of suffering and argues for rights frameworks attentive to diverse contexts, inequalities, and power relations shaping whose suffering is recognized and whose remains marginalized. Published by Transnational Publishers. New York Ardsley, pg 101–56.

Presented at the Indian Performing Rights Society, New Delhi