Second Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet) Conference: SITING LAW
DECEMBER 27-30, 2010 at FLAME, Pune
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
DAY 1: DECEMBER 27, 2010
11.30 am – 2.30
pm
3.00 – 3.30 pm
Performing Arts
Studio
Registration
Welcome Address
3.30 – 4.30 pm
Performing Arts
Studio
Inaugural Keynote
4.30 – 5.00 pm
5.00 – 7.30 pm
Plaza
Performing Arts
Studio
Tea
Plenary 1
8.00 pm
FLAME Dining
Hall
DAY 2: DECEMBER 28, 2010
9.00 – 10.45 am Chanakya 1
Chair: Niraja Gopal Jayal
Lawrence Liang on behalf of the LASSnet Steering
Committee
Indira Parikh, President, FLAME
Marc Galanter – Varieties of Variance: Fractures and
Fissure in the Great Pyramid
Law, Violence and Exception
Chair: Milind Wakankar
Deepak Mehta – The Ayodhya Dispute: Legal
Documents and the Status Quo
Anupama Rao – Violence and Humanity: A (Global)
Genealogy
Naveeda Khan – Beyond Exception? Aversive
Thinking within Constitutionalism in South Asia
Shalini Randeria – The Unmaking of Rights in the
Making of SEZs: Some Notes on Mundra
1.1 Law and its Publics: S. P. Sathe
Memorial Panel
Chair: Amita Dhanda
Deepa Das Acevedo – Law in the Public's Interest?
Jayna Kothari – Disability Rights and the Failure of
Public Interest Litigation
Dinner
Session 1
Chanakya 2
Tagore 1
Tagore 2
Tagore 3
Kalyani Ramnath – Terror / Tranquility: Romesh
Thapar and its Precedents Speak on the Subject of
'Public Safety'
1.2 Mapping Law as Culture
Werner Gephart – Law and Religion
Chair: Shalini Randeria
Youssef Dennaoui – Law and Globalization
Raja Sakrani – Entwinement and Conflict of Legal
Cultures
Daniel White – Cultural Forms of Law
1.3 Contemporary Agrarian Radicalism Uday Chandra – Unmaking or Remaking Leviathan?
and Speaking Subjects of Indian
Rulers, Civilizers, and Rebels in Contemporary
Democracy
Jharkhand
Chair: Sangay Mishra
Vikramaditya Thakur – 'Learning' to Lead: Forced
Panel Coordinator: Atreyee Majumdar Displacement, Relocation and the Subaltern
Leadership
Atreyee Majumder– Of Dreamworlds and
Catastrophe: The Case of Leftover Politics in
Contemporary West Bengal
1.4 Restitution of Conjugal Rights in
Faisal Chaudhry – Conjugal Restitution Doctrine and
Indian Matrimonial Law: What is
the Notion of Marriage as a Contract
its History, How is it Used, How
Srimati Basu – Making Whole (Again): Restitution
Does it Impact Women’s Rights
and Reconciliation in the Kolkata Family Courts
and How is it Viewed from the
Flavia Agnes – Notions of ‘Retrievable’ and
Bench?
‘Irretrievable Marriages’ in the Context of Women’s
Chair: Veena Gowda
Rights
Panel Coordinator: Sylvia Vatuk
Sylvia Vatuk – ‘To Restore the Comforts and Bliss of
Married Life’: Judicial Reasoning in Some Recent
Restitution Cases
1.5 Rethinking the State,
Sumith Leelarathne – Uthuru Wasanthaya and
Development and the National
Negenahira Navodaya: Development as a
Question in Sri Lanka
Hegemonic Discourse
Chair: Aditya Nigam
Ahilan Kadirgamar – Development Discourse and the
Panel Coordinator: Thushara Hewage Decades of Decolonizatifon
Thushara Hewage – Emergency, Legality and the
Tagore 4
10.45 – 11.15
am
11.15 am – 1.00
pm
1.6 Rights Discourses
Chair: Vrinda Grover
Postcolonial State: Reading Counterinsurgency
through its Archives
Anu Varghese – Human Rights as a Conceptual and
Remedial Framework: An Enquiry
Sarada Balagopalan – In The Mean Time: Schooling,
Childhoods and the State
Ipshita Sengupta – Beyond Human Rights:
Understanding the Ethic of Responsibility
Namita Wahi and Sharanjeet Parmar – From
Promise to Progress: Citizens, Courts and the Right to
Health in India
Tea
Chanakya 1
Chanakya 2
Tagore 1
Tagore 2
Session 2
2.1 Affective Leadership: Balagopal
and the Reimagining of Judicial
Activism, Human Rights, and the
State
Chair: Manoranjan Mohanty
Discussant: Arvind Narrain
Panel Coordinator: Jinee Lokaneeta
Ajay Gudavarthy – Human Rights Movements in
India: State, Civil Society and Beyond
Sitharamam Kakarala – Critiquing the Critique:
Balagopal and the Reframing of the Idea of Human
Rights in India
Anuj Bhuwania – The Procedural is Political: Public
Interest Litigation and its Discontents
Jinee Lokaneeta – Paradoxical State Killings:
Encounters and the Death Penalty
2.2 Law, Labour and Neoliberalism
Chair: Ashwini Sukthankar
Rupal Oza – Securing Economic Enclaves in Neoliberal India
Maitreyi Krishnan – Disorganised Labour and the
City
William F. Stafford Jr. – Forced Labour and the
Limits of Imagination
Aakrati Gupta – Bandh: A Lame Ineffective
Movement
Mahendran Thiruvarangan – Home and Homeland:
The Politics of Narrating the Exodus of 1995
2.3 The Nation-State in Law
Chair: Jayati Srivastava
Chunnu Prasad – Between Two Nations: Arunachal
Pradesh and the Politics of Nationality in India’s
North East
Anila Daulatzai – The Living Dead: ‘Official’ Martyr
Status, Citizenship and the Afghan State
Jasteena Dhillon – Lessons from Post Bonn
Western Rule of Law Intervention in Afghanistan
1.00 – 2.00 pm
2.00 – 3.45 pm
Tagore 3
2.4 Social Values, Law and Women’s
Rights in Bangladesh
Chair: Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi
Panel Coordinator: Amanda Sen
Tagore 4
2.5 Law and Colonialism
Chair: Aparna Balachandran
FLAME Dining
Hall
Chanakya 1
Tagore 1
Arafat Hosen Khan – The Role of the Media in
Realizing Women’s Rights in Bangladesh
Kazi Ataul-Al-Osman – Women’s Socio-Economic
Rights and the Enforcement of the Law
Amanda Sen – Social Values and Justice for Rape
Victims in Bangladesh
Aqseer Sodhi – The Colonial State and the
Regulation of Sexuality
Alecia Simmonds – Rousseau's Empire of Love
Prashant Iyengar – Navigating the Public/Private
Divide through the 19th Century Legal Archive
Lunch
Session 3
3.1 Fear, Secrets and Lies: The
Uncanny World of Law after
Media
Chair: Ravi Vasudevan
Panel Coordinator: Lawrence Liang
3.2 Spaces of Displacement and
Futures in Law
Chair: Eesvan Krishnan
Ravi Sundaram – The Secret and the Transparent
after Media Modernity
Ranjani Mazumdar – Framing Conspiracy: Terrorism,
the City and Cinema
Lawrence Liang – The Erotics of Law and Scandal
Nicola Perera – Securing the City: The Kompannya
Veediya Evictions
Swagato Sarkar – Capitalism, Land Acquisition and
the Impossibility of Compensation
Nandini Nayak – Claiming the Landscape: Assertions
for Land and Livelihood in South West Madhya
Tagore 2
3.3 Enframing Technology:
Constructions of Public(s), Law,
and Ethics
Chair: Sanil V.
Panel Coordinator: Esha Shah
Tagore 3
3.4 Law and the Politics of Religion
Chair: Milind Wakankar
Tagore 4
3.5 Legal Continuities and Legal
Change: Historical and Theoretical
Perspectives
Chair: Bhavani Raman
Panel Coordinator: Rebecca
Grapevine
Chanakya 2
3.6 Resolving Disputes and Dispensing
Pradesh
Naveen Thayyil – GMOs and Re-articulations of the
Scientific as the Legitimate Public in Europe
Sitharamam Kakarala – “Slumbering Sentinels” in
Knowledge Society: Human Rights and the Framing
of the Ethical Publics in the Debates on ‘Harnessing
Technologies for Development’
Koen Beumer – Framing the “Public”:
Nanotechnology and Development in Indian Print
Media
Bhrigupati Singh – Mitra-Varuna: A Bipolar Concept
of Sovereignty
Mathew John – Reinforcing Religiosity: The Peculiar
Case of Indian Equality Jurisprudence
Chandan Gowda – Bracketing Culture and the
Dissatisfactions of Secular Policy
Serene Kasim and Elizabeth Thomas – Legal
Discourses around Social Practices: An Enquiry into
the Cattle Slaughter Bill
Rohit De – “A Constitution for the Butcher, the Baker
and the Candlestick Maker”: The Everyday Life of
Constitutional Law in the Indian Republic (19501962)
Rebecca Grapevine – The Persistence of Coverture in
Post-Colonial India
Sandipto Dasgupta – Understanding Colonial
Continuity Within the Paradigm of State-Society
Relationship: The Gandhi-Nehru Debate on the
Constitution
Arudra Burra – Institutional Continuity and
Continuity of Personnel: The Case of the Indian Civil
Service
Marc Galanter and Niketa Kulkarni – The Mid-
3.45 – 4.00pm
4.00– 6.00 pm
6.00– 6.30 pm
6.30 – 7.30 pm
Performing Arts
Studio
Plaza
Performing Arts
Studio
8 pm
FLAME Dining
Hall
DAY 3: DECEMBER 29, 2010
9.00 – 10.45 am Chanakya 1
Chanakya 2
Tea
Plenary 2
Tea
Book Release
Justice beyond the Courts
Chair: Shalini Randeria
Panel Coordinator: James Jaffe
Twentieth Century Litigation Implosion in India
James Jaffe – Panchayats and Panchayat Justice
Under British Administration in Western India
Surabhi Ranganathan – Do Too Many Fora Spoil the
Debate? Two Accounts of the India - U.S. Nuclear
Deal
Rule of Law: Insurgent Reason and
Public Reason
Chair: Upendra Baxi
Kanak Mani Dixit – Rule of Law: The Question at the
Grassroots
Werner Gephart- Rechtsstaat (Constitutional State)
as Flaw and Export Item of German Legal Culture
G. Haragopal – Rule of Law versus Rule by Law
Flavia Agnes, Family Law Volume I:
Family Laws and Constitutional Claims
from Oxford University Press
Chair:
Discussants:
Upendra Baxi
Marc Galanter
Srimati Basu
4.1 Neelan Tiruchelvam and the
Imagination of Southasian
Constitutionalism
Chair: Veena Das
Kanak Mani Dixit – Constitutionalism in the Time of
Demagougery: Speaking Truth to Populism
Ramaswamy Sudarshan – Constitutions as the
Conscience of Nation-States
Sudhir Krishnaswamy – Constitutional Durability:
The Role of the Basic Structure Doctrine in
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
R. Ramakumar – The Unique ID project in India: A
Skeptical Note
Usha Ramanathan – A Unique Identity Bill
Sahana Basavapatna – The Unique Identity Number
Project: Should Non-Citizen Residents be Concerned?
Dinner
Session 4
4.2 Who’s AADHAAR is it anyway?
Reflections on the UID debate
Chair: Ravi Sundaram
Panel Coordinators: Subasri Krishnan
and Reetika Khera
Tagore 1
4.3 Politics of the Judiciary
Chair: Vasudha Dhagamwar
Tagore 2
4.4 Law and Social Exclusion
Chair: Chandan Gowda
Tagore 3
4.5 Eroticism and Violence –
Continuities and Some Difficult
Questions
Chair: Nivedita Menon
Panel Coordinator: Akshay Khanna
Tagore 4
4.6 Picturing Law
Chair: Rajan Krishnan
Reetika Khera – The UID Project and Social Welfare
Schemes
Bhargavi Raman and Badrinarayanan Seetharaman
– Subsumption of Critique? Understanding
Interpretative Processes of Judicial Decision Making
Nicholas Robinson – Summing up the Supreme
Court: Statistics and the face of the Court
Chitra Balakrishnan and Usha Rao – Judge-Speak:
An Analysis of the Judicial Discourse on Citizens,
Rights and Demands of the New Economy
Parthasarathi Muthukkaruppan – Modernity, Law
and the Violence on Dalits
Ratna Appnender – Feminist Politics/Sexuality
Politics and the Law
Madhu Mehra and Gayatri Sharma – Re-visiting
Gender Justice and the Family
Rituparna Borah – Domestic Violence and Sexuality
Paul Boyce – Telling Sad Stories: Narratives of Sexual
Violence and the Wounded Sexual Subject
Akshay Khanna – A State of Arousal: Eroticism and
Violence in the Making of Homophobia
Nayanika Mookherjee – The Absent Piece of Skin:
Gendered, Racialised and Territorial Inscriptions of
Sexual Violence During the Bangladesh War
Jaya Sharma and Kaushik Gupta – Power, Pain and
Pleasure: Some Reflections on Bondage, Domination,
Sado-Masochism
Chakravarti Patil – Conflicting Ideologies of Society,
its Laws and the Cinema
Shireen Mirza – Cityscapes of Islamic Media: Rethinking Counterpublics through Practices of Shi’a
Reformism
Siddharth Narrain – Indecent Proposals, Vulgar
Judgements: Satellite Television and Obscenity
Debates in Contemporary India
10.45 – 11.00
am
11.00 am – 1.00
pm
Tea
Chanakya 1
Session 5
5.1 Doing Legal Philosophy in India:
Reflections on the Legacy of
Chhatrapati Singh
Chair: Mohini Mullick
Panel Coordinators: Arudra Burra and
Mathew John
Chanakya 2
5.2 Employment, Discrimination and
the Law
Chair: Gayatri Singh
Tagore 2
5.3 Adivasis in the Interstices of Law
in Jharkhand
Chair: Agathe Mora
Panel Coordinator: Roger Begrich and
Kaushik Ghosh
Tagore 3
5.4 Narratives of Law
Chair: Maya Dodd
Upendra Baxi – Chhatrapati Singh and the Idea of a
Legal Theory
Sanil V. – Critique and the Possibility of a Science of
Law
Navjyoti Singh – Chhatrapati’s Unfinished Project on
Dharma and Obligation to be Just
Rajeev Bhargava – Revisiting 'Law from Anarchy to
Utopia'
Roopa K.L. – Limited Right to Work: A Study of
Women Involved Labour Cases in Various Courts of
India
Maithreyi Mulupuru – Income Tax and Women’s
Labour
Paul Merry – Recognition of Unconscious Bias as
Actionable Signals Change in Enforcement of
Discrimination Statutes in the USA
Tarunabh Khaitan - Fundamental Issues in
Antidiscrimination Law and the Equal Opportunities
Commission Bill
Roger Begrich – Difference and Drunkenness:
Adivasi, Alcohol and the Law in Jharkhand
Ratnaker Bhengra – Tribal Religion and the Law in
Jharkhand
Kaushik Ghosh – From the Law of the Landscape to
the Landscape of Law: Burial Stones and the
Possibilities of Living in Adivasi Modernity
Sarim Naved – 'Roadside Romeos' to Lalit Kala
Awardees: Denunciations in the Name of the
Obscene
1.00 – 2.00 pm
2.00 – 3.45 pm
Tagore 4
5.5 Law and Life in Contemporary
Gujarat
Chair: Farah Naqvi
Tagore 1
5.6 The Paper Trail: Documentary
Forms and Practices
Chair: Radhika Singha
Panel Coordinators: Taringini
Sriraman and Shrimoyee Nandini
Ghosh
FLAME Dining
Hall
Chanakya 1
Carmel Christy – Mediating/Constituting Sexualities:
An Analysis of Media Culture and Legal Discourse
Mona Mehta – Fog of Facts: Democracy and
Accountability in Gujarat
Farhana Ibrahim – Match Made in Law: Organ
Transplants, the State and Social ‘Integration’ in
Gujarat
Pritarani Jha and Surabhi Chopra – Interrogating
Judicial Discourses: The Struggle to Define the “AntiNational”
Bhavani Raman – Forgery, Perjury and Attestation in
Early Colonial Madras
Taringini Sriraman – In the Image of the Document:
The Ration Card and the ID Documents Regime in
India
Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh – The Many Lives of
Stamp Paper: The Telgi Stamp Paper Scam
Lunch
Session 6
6.1 Book Discussion – Subalternity
and Religion: The Prehistory of
Dalit Empowerment in South Asia
by Milind Wakankar
Chanakya 2
6.2 Authorising Culture: The
Challenges of (and to) Property
Chair: Prashant Iyengar
Panel Coordinator: Dwijen Rangnekar
Tagore 1
6.3 International Law and Global
Chair: Anupama Rao
Discussants:
Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Deepak Mehta
Bhrigupati Singh
Kriti Kapila – Made in India: Commerce, Heritage
and Other Properties of Culture in 19th Century
British India
Allison Fish – “It’s Gurus All the Way Back”: The
Inalienable Nature of Yogic Knowledge Transference
Dwijen Rangnekar – Investments of Hope and Fear:
Reading the Global Trade Negotiations in
Geographical Indications
Radha D’Souza – Imperial Agendas, Global
Justice
Chair: Amit Prakash
Tagore 2
6.4 Courting the City: Law and the
(Un)Making of Millennial Delhi
Chair: Dalia Wahdan
Panel Coordinator: Gautam Bhan
Tagore 3
6.5 Theatres of Justice
Chair: Vibodh Parthasarathi
Tagore 4
6.6 Framing Constitutionalism
Chair: Rajeev Bhargava
Solidarities and Socio-legal Scholarship on the “Third
World”: Methodological Reflections
Jagjit Plahe – Implications of the “Global Europe”
Strategy for South Asia: A Political Economy
Perspective
Abdul Paliwala – Justice Indicatorology: A New
Theatre for Justice?
Diya Mehra – Campaigning Against its Eviction: Local
Trade in New ‘World-Class’ Delhi
Anuj Bhuwania – Yeh Court Is Sheher Par Raj Karti
Thi: ‘Public Interest Litigation’ in Delhi
Awadhendra Sharan – Delhi’s Yamuna
Gautam Bhan – Residual Publics and Improper
Citizens: Reflections on Urban Planning in the
Juridical City
Deva Prasad – Media Induced Notion of Justice
Delivery System in India: Tracing the Effect of “Trial
by Media” on Public Opinion and Judicial Outcome
Debasis Poddar – Mass Media and (Global) Theatre
of Climate Justice: A Critical Appreciation of
International Jurisprudence
Jhuma Sen – All the World's a Stage: Media and
Kasab in the Playground of Justice
Sonal Makhija – Social Media Activism and the
Rhetoric of Rights
Prabhakar Singh – How should the Third World See
Constitutionalism in International Law?
Smriti Upadhyay – Transformative Constitutionalism
in Nepal
Jaivir Singh – The Multifarious Constitution:
Searching for an Analytic of Activism
Durgambini Patel – New Global Economic
Constitutionalism: International Trade and Gender
Performing Arts
Studio
3.45 – 4.00 pm
4.00 – 6.00 pm
6:00 – 6:30 pm
6.30 – 7.30 pm
Performing Arts
Studio
Plaza
Performing Arts
Studio
7:30 pm – 9:00
FLAME Dining
pm
Hall
9:00 pm – 10:00 Chanakya 1
pm
DAY 4: DECEMBER 30, 2010
8.30 – 10.15 am Chanakya 1
Tea
Plenary 3
Tea
Book Release
6.7 Water Law and Water Policy:
Relationship in the Context of Water
Law Reforms
Chair: Sailen Routray
Panel Coordinator: Philippe Cullet
K.J. Joy and Suhas Paranjape – The
Interconnectedness of Law and Policy in the Water
Sector
Sachin Warghade, Subodh Wagle, Mandar Sathe
and Aditya Khebudkar – Exploiting the Conundrum
around Water Law and Water Policy: Case of Water
Distribution Reforms in Maharashtra
Philippe Cullet – Realisation of the Human Right to
Water: Contributions and Limitations of Water Policy
Broken Attachments: Envy, Hatred
and Vengeance in Law
Chair: Veena Das
Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller – Law and Love in a Time
of Envy
Nivedita Menon – Death, Dishonour and the Law
(Or, Kanoon ke panje se kaise nikal paoge?)
Lawrence Liang – Wild Justice: The Stubborn
Memory of Rage in Grief
Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives on
Law from Yoda Press
Editors: Arvind Narrain, Alok Gupta,
Akshay Khanna, Mayur Suresh, Ponni
Arasu and Siddharth Narrain
Chair: Gautam Bhan
Discussants:
Nivedita Menon
Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh
Rahul Rao
7.1 Religion and Constitutionalism in
India
Chair: Arvind Narrain
Rohit De – Judging History: Evidencing the Past in
the Ayodhya Judgement
Sudhir Krishnaswamy- Deciphering
the Ayodhya Judgment
Gilles Tarabout – Religion and the Courts: The
Dinner
LASSnet Business
Meeting
Session 7
Chanakya 2
Tagore 1
Tagore 2
Tagore 3
Tagore 4
Secular Management of Gods’ Affairs in Some Kerala
Cases
Abhik Majumdar – Privileging Communal Identities
and Marginalising the “Other”: Constitutionalism in
India and Cow Slaughter
7.2 Speaking Evidence, Making
Mayur Suresh – Organising Terror: Banning of the
Secrets
Students Islamic Movement of India
Chair: Jinee Lokaneeta
Ruchi Chaturvedi – “Not Even a Faint Legal Idea
Panel Coordinator: Pratiksha Baxi
about What Transpired”: Political Agency, Violence
and the Criminal Courts Pratiksha Baxi – Pyar Kiya to
Darna Kya: Notes on Law, Love and Violence
7.3 In-sights: Aesthetics and Law
Namita Malhotra – Pornography and Law:
Chair: Ashish Rajadhyaksha
Embarrassments and Hidden Pleasures
Panel Coordinators: Akshay Khanna
Akshay Khanna – The Cleavage on the Queer Body
and Namita Malhotra
Arnab Chatterjee – Post- Conventional Moral
Consciousness and the Legal- Semiotics of Assaultive
Intimacy
7.4 Gender/Governmentality/Violence Vibhuti Ramachandran – Rank, Reputation and Risk
Chair: Tejaswini Niranjana
in Global Governance: The Politics of the US State
Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report in India
Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi – Consenting to Coercion?
Narrating Sexual and Other Entanglements
Rebecca John – Scandal, Law and Governmentality:
Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces of Kerala
7.5 Sight Me If You Can: The Law in
Priya Thangarajah – The Everyday and the Exception
the Everyday
Vivek Shivakumar – The Everyday, Justice and the
Chair: Saumya Uma
Indian Constitution
Panel Coordinator: Anusha Hariharan Anusha Hariharan – Locating “Exception” in
Constitutional Discourse: The Case of Jammu and
Kashmir, India
7.6 Land and the Constitution
R. Rajesh Babu – The Indian Constitution and the
Chair: Usha Ramanathan
Changing Dimensions of Property Rights
Namita Wahi – The Paradoxical Debate on
Constitutional Property in India
Eesvan Krishnan – Private Speculations and the
Public Interest: N.C. Kelkar’s Land Acquisition Bill
10.15 – 10.30
am
10.30 am –
12.15 pm
Tea
Chanakya 1
Session 8
8.1 On Impunity: Ram Narayan Kumar
and Rhonda Copelon Memorial
Panel
Chair: Uma Chakravarti
Chanakya 2
8.2 Law, Resistance and Change
Chair: Mihir Desai
Tagore 1
8.3 Affective Life of Law and Justice
Chair: Jonathan Goldberg- Hiller
Tagore 2
8.4 Intellectual Property Rights in
Anuradha Bhasin – Impunity and Sexual Violence in
Kashmir
Farah Naqvi – Impunity for Sexual Violence in
Conflict Situations:
A Search for Elements of Justice
Navsharan Singh – Sexual Violence Against Women
in the Punjab
Warisha Farasat – Challenges in Ensuring
Accountability for Mass Crimes
Kamal Nayan Choubey – Tale of Two ‘Progressive
Laws’: State, People’s Movement and Resistance
Jawahar Raja – Suspect Communities and Excepted
Persons: Criminalising Speech and Association
through the Power to Ban Associations
Suneetha Achyuta – Mobilizing Support for 'TerrorSuspects': The Case of Civil Liberties Monitoring
Committee, Hyderabad
Eleanor Newbigin – For Love or Money? Income Tax
and the Making of ‘Modern’ Hindu Family Law
Sivakumar Arumugam – Spinning Affect:
Neoliberalism and the Science of Cricket
Alecia Simmonds – Pork, Perfidy and the Death of
Public Passions
Sruti Chaganti – Law, Death and the Sovereignty of
Self
Rahul Cherian, Apoorvaa Paranjpe, Krithika Dutta
South Asia
Chair: Dwijen Rangnekar
12.15 – 1.00 pm
1.00 – 2.00 pm
2.00 – 2.30 pm
Tagore 3
8.5 Court-ing Law: Ethnographies of
Court Practice
Chair: Sally Engle Merry
Tagore 4
8.6 After the Naz Judgment:
Examining Legal Controversies and
Debates in the Wake of Section
377
Chair: Alok Gupta
Panel Coordinator: Ashwini
Sukthankar
FLAME Dining
Hall
Performing Arts
Studio
Performing Arts
Narayana and Joyojeet Pal – Copyright and
Accessibility in India
Ruchira Goswami – Naming the Unnamed: Folk
Music and Intellectual Property Rights in India
Joy Dasgupta, Anungla Aier, Laxmi Gurung Tika and
Raquibul Amin – Who Owns the Chilli? Discourses of
Traditional Biodiversity Based Knowledge Systems
Across National “Borders” in the Eastern Himalayas
Sophy Joseph – Farmers' Rights under Plant Variety
Protection (PVP) Legislation: Issues and Concerns
Vasudha Nagaraj – Interrogating Practices of
Criminal Law: Notes from a Murder Trial
Anu Sharma – Niptara Courts: Critique of Official
Discourse on Access to Justice
Gaia von Hatzfeldt – Vernacular Justice: Adjudicating
Corruption in Rural Rajasthan
Daniela Berti – Suicide Notes as Legal Evidence: An
Ethnography of Criminal Proceedings in Domestic
Violence Cases
Tarunabh Khaitan – The Anti-Discrimination
Principle
Arvind Narrain – Gender Neutral Rape Laws: Are
They the Way Forward?
Ashwini Sukthankar – Do Children Have a Right to
Consent?
Siddharth Narrain – New Asian Values: Emerging
Jurisprudence on Sexual Orientation and Gender
Identity in Asia
Lunch
Closing Keynote
Vote of Thanks
Chair: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
Sally Engle Merry – Indicators as a Technology of
Global Governance
Studio