Human Rights Law
Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:
The Future of Human Rights, 2nd Edition, 2007
Published by Oxford University Press, Delhi.
The Future of Human Rights, 3rd Edition, 2013
This book examines evolving challenges facing human rights. Baxi reflects on globalization, violence, and inequality, emphasizing uncertainty and contestation in rights discourse rather than linear progress or decline. Published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
‘The Politics of Reading Human Rights,’ in Basak Çali and Saladin Meckled- Garica ed. Fin de Legalization, 2005
This essay examines interpretive practices surrounding human rights. Baxi reflects on how rights texts are read, framed, and mobilized, highlighting the political stakes of interpretation and the power relations shaping whose readings gain authority. Published by Routledge, London
The Promise and Peril of Transcendental Jurisprudence: Justice Krishna Iyer’s Mortal Combat with the Production of Human Rightlesness in India,’ in C. Raj Kumar and K. Chockalingam (eds.) Human Rights, Justice, and Empowerment, 2007
Baxi reflects on Justice Krishna Iyer’s jurisprudence, examining its ethical ambition and practical limits. The essay situates transcendental reasoning within struggles against injustice, highlighting tensions between moral vision and institutional constraint. Published by Oxford University Press, Delhi.
The Right to be human, 1987
This book develops Baxi’s long-standing concern with human suffering and dignity. It reflects on the moral and legal foundations of rights, emphasizing the need to move beyond formal entitlements toward recognizing the conditions required for people to live as fully human beings. Published by Lancer International in association with India International Centre, New Delhi.
‘The State and the Human Rights Movements in India’, in Manoranjan Mohanty, Partha Nath Mukherji and Olle Törnquist (eds) People’s Rights: Social Movements and the State in the Third World, 1998
Published by Sage Publications, New Delhi, pg 335–52.
“The struggle for sanspapiers human rights, 15 March 2015
The essay argues for a dual strategy on migration: operationalizing existing refugee law while renegotiating a new treaty fit for the 21st century. It critiques sovereignty, border control, and migrant “rightlessness,” and calls for reimagining human rights through hospitality, dignity, and global social solidarity. In Open Global Rights
The Twilight of Human Rights in India, 2003
This essay reflects on perceived decline in the effectiveness of human rights protections in India. Baxi examines institutional erosion, political pressures, and normative retreat, raising concerns about the weakening of accountability and the shrinking space for rights-based claims. Published in the India International Centre Quarterly Vol. 30 No. 2, pg 19-28.
Towards an Aesthetics of Human Rights, 2015
Baxi examines human rights through cultural and aesthetic lenses. The essay reflects on language, symbolism, and performance, emphasizing how rights are communicated, felt, and represented beyond doctrinal legal analysis. Published by Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, in Law as Culture Series of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities, edited by Werner Gephart, Vol. 9, pg 163- 179.
‘Towards Posthuman Human Rights?’ in Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg (eds), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism – Toward Posthuman Human Rights, 2020
Published by Bloomsbury Publishing, pg 183-196.