Zahira Contempt Case: Towards a Legal Critique, 2025

Widely regarded as one of the most eminent legal thinkers of his time, Upendra Baxi is a leading scholar on matters relating to human rights, legal and social theory, and comparative constitutional law and theory. A set of four volumes, Law, Justice, Society: Selected Works of Upendra Baxi documents and critically engages with Upendra Baxi's thoughts and writings. The volumes are a conglomeration of Baxi's essays and lectures centred on the major themes of his writings-human rights, constitutionalism, law and society, and legal education. Structurally, the essays in each volume are introduced by an expert in the field who provides an assessment of Upendra Baxi's works over the years. Each volume informs the reader with an interview of Baxi conducted by the expert, which contextualizes his research and discusses the themes covered. The respective volumes essentially conserve and reflect on pedagogic and research contributions made by Baxi to the concepts of law, justice, and society. For building a rule of law society, Baxi has oft stated that both law and lay people need to be educated in the law. Legal education cannot be restricted to the academy but needs to engage with people's experiences of justice and fairness. This task of teaching and learning law has to be a lifelong exercise. This volume captures Baxi's tireless efforts in education, be it as a legal thinker, law teacher, colleague, public intellectual, or administrator. The task of learning may alter, but the need to think, understand, and communicate is unceasing. This five-part volume includes Baxi's theories on legal education, the methods by which different areas of law need to be studied and taught, his critical appreciations of collegial contributions, efforts in public education, and how, as vice chancellor of a large university, he even undertook administration as education.