PUBLICATIONS
VRINDA NARAIN
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
FACULTY OF LAW, MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Books
1. Reclaiming the Nation: Muslim Women and the Law in India
University of Toronto Press, 2008, 224 pp. Reclaiming the Nation: Muslim
Women and the Law in India - Vrinda ...
2. Gender and Community: Muslim Women’s Rights in India
University of Toronto Press, 2001, 202 pp. Vrinda Narain, <Emphasis
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• Nominated for the Canadian Women’s Studies Association Book of the Year Award,
2003.
Refereed Journal Articles
1. Vrinda Narain, “Taking “Culture” out of Multiculturalism”, (forthcoming) December
2013, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.
2. Vrinda Narain. "Muslim Women's Equality in India: Applying a Human Rights
Framework." Human Rights Quarterly 35.1 (2013): 91-115. Muslim Women's Equality in
India: Applying a Human Rights ...
3. Vrinda Narain, “Water as a Fundamental Right: A Perspective from India”, Vermont
Law Review, 2010 Vol.34 No.4, pp. 917-926. Water as a Fundamental Right: A
Perspective from India Vrinda Nar
4. “Muslim Women, Family Law and Equal Citizenship in India”, Journal for Semitics,
Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007, pp. 498-517.
5. “Muslim Women’s Rights and the Accommodation of Difference”, University of
Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies, Vol. 1, Fall 1998, pp. 43-72.
Prescribed course reading for:
- Islamic family law, School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University.
- Family law, University of Iowa.
Other Refereed Articles/Book chapters
1. Vrinda Narain, “Transformatory Jurisprudence: The Supreme Court of India
and Maintenance for Muslim Women”, in Leela Fernandes, ed., Handbook on Gender in
South Asia Forthcoming (London: Routledge, 2014). Routledge Handbook of Gender in
South Asia (Hardback)
2. Vrinda Narain, “Critical Multiculturalism” in Beverly Baines, Daphne Barak-Erez and
Tsvi Kahana, eds., in Feminist Constitutionalism: Global Perspectives (Cambridge,
U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012). View chapter as PDF Chapter 20 – “Critical
Multiculturalism”, pp. 377-392.
Research reports
1. Vrinda Narain, “The Potential of Human Dignity: Women in Religious Contexts”, p.
47-52, in Dignity: A Special Focus on Vulnerable Groups, F. Mégret & F. Hoffman eds.
(Agenda for Human Rights: a Swiss Initiative, Geneva Academy of International
Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, 2009).
[PDF] Dignity: A Special Focus on Vulnerable Groups - Swiss Initiative to ...
Non-refereed Articles
1. Book Review, Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy, (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2012), Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, forthcoming, 2013.
2. Book Review, Bipasha Baruah, Women and Property in India (Vancouver: UBC Press,
2010), Canadian Journal of Women and the Law: 2012. Vol. 24 Issue 2, p. 496.
Women and Property in Urban India (review) pp. 496-501 | DOI:
10.1353/jwl.2012.0018
Vrinda Narain
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MEDIA
Interview on CBC The National, February 16, 2012 on the Supreme Court of Canada’s
decision on Religious Freedom in S.L. v. Commission scolaire des Chênes, 2012 SCC 7,
[2012] 1 S.C.R. 235. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/02/16/supremecourt-canada-religion-education-challenge.html