Human Rights Law
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
‘Justice of Human Rights,’ in Thomas Pantham and V.R. Mehta (eds), Modern Indian Political Thought, 2005
This work situates human rights within Indian political thought. Baxi reflects on justice as a normative and constitutional ideal, examining how rights discourse intersects with democracy, constitutionalism, and struggles against inequality in modern India. Published by Sage Publications.
“Long Live Human Rights Learning”, 6 August 2021
Market Fundamentalisms: Business Ethics at the Altar of Human Rights, 2005
Published in the Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 5 No. 1,Pg 1-26.
‘Politics of reading human rights: inclusion and exclusion within the production of human rights’ in S. Meckled-García and B. Cali (eds.), The legalization of human rights: multidisciplinary perspectives on human rights and human rights law, 2006
Published by Routledge, London,Pg 167-184.
Protection of Human Rights and Production of Human Rightlessness in India,’ in Randall Peerenboom, Carole J. Petersen, Albert H.Y. Chen (eds.), Human Rights in Asia: A Comparative Legal Study of Twelve Asian Jurisdictions, France and the USA, 2005
Baxi examines the paradox by which institutions tasked with protecting rights may simultaneously produce conditions of rightlessness. The essay reflects on governance, legality, and exclusion, emphasizing structural processes that undermine human rights despite formal commitments. Published by Routledge.
‘Re-Silencing Human Rights,’ in Gurminder K, Bhambra and Robbie Shillman (eds), Silencing Human Rights, 2007
Published in the Cambridge University,Press Cambridge
‘Reinventing human rights in an era of hyper-globalisation: A few wayside remarks’. In C. Gearty & C. Douzinas (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law, 2012
Baxi reflects on the future of human rights under hyper-globalization. The essay examines risk, inequality, and institutional change, emphasizing the need to rethink rights frameworks responsive to global power asymmetries. Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge pg 150-170.
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 Development of the Right to Development,' in Janusz Symonides (ed. Human Rights: New Dimensions and Challenges, 1998
This work examines the emergence of the right to development within international human rights discourse. Baxi reflects on its conceptual foundations, political contestation, and normative significance, situating development within debates on equity, sovereignty, and global justice. Published by UNESCO, Dartmouth Ashgate and Paris, pg 99-116.
The Future of Human Rights, 2002
Published by Oxford University Press, Delhi.