BOOK: Baxi, Pratiksha. 2014. Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India. Oxford University Press, New Delhi. Reviewed at: Murthy, Laxmi, In Need of ‘Therapeutic Jurisprudence’, The Book Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 6, June 2014 Roy, Vaishna, The legalisation of the illegal, The Hindu, 5 August 2014 http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/public-secrets-of-law-book-review/article6281104.ece Arathi, P.M. Social Change, September 2014, Vol. 44: 488-492 Dutoya, Virginie, http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Repenser-le-genre-en-Inde.html, 16 October 2014 (in French) Datta, Saurav, When courts turn cruel, Fountain Ink, 3 June 2014, http://fountainink.in/?p=5414&all=1 Makhija, Sonal. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 4:73-74, 2014 Basu, Srimati. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 49: 102-104, February 2015 Mitra, Durba, Law and Society Review, Volume 49, Issue 2, pages 535-537, June 2015 Journal Articles: Sexual Violence and its Discontents, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 43: 139-154, October. 2014. Understanding Rape Law Reform, YOJANA, Vol. 58: 38-42, June. 2010. Justice is a Secret: Compromise in Rape Trials. Contributions to Indian Sociology 44, 3: 207–233. 2009. Violence of Political Rhetoric on Rape: Commentary, Economic and Political Weekly, August 8, Vol. XLIV No. 32, 15-16. 2008. Access to Justice and Rule-of-[Good] Law: The Cunning of Judicial Reform in India, Indian Journal of Human Development, 2, 2: 279-302. 2008. Feminist Contributions to Sociology of Law: A Review. Economic and Political Weekly, XLIII, 43: 79-85, 25 October. 2007. Adjudicating the Riot: Communal Violence, Crowds and Public Tranquility. Domains (Special Issue), edited by Deepak Mehta, 3: 70-105. 2006. Habeas Corpus in the Realm of Love: Litigating Marriages of Choice in India. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 25:59-78. 2006. with Shirin M. Rai and Shaheen Sardar Ali. Legacies of Common Law: “Crimes of Honour” in India and Pakistan. Third World Quarterly, Special Issue on “Politics of rights-based development: Feminist Perspectives”, Guest Editors: Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux 27, 7: 1239-1253. 2001. Sexual Harassment. Seminar. 505: 54-59. 2000. Rape, Retribution, State: On Whose Bodies? Economic and Political Weekly, XXXV, 14: 1196-1200. with Jinee Lokaneeta. “Numa”, Malati Debi Choudhury: Some Memories. Mainstream, April 11. Essays in Edited Volumes Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya: On Criminalising Love. In Daniela Berti and Devika Bordia ed. Ethnographies of Criminal Law: Comparative Perspectives from South Asia and France, Delhi: OUP. On Interpreting Rape as Atrocity. In Werner Gephart and Jan Christoph Suntrup. eds. “Rechtsanalyse als Kulturforschung II”, Frankfurt: Klostermann. 2014. Child Bears Witness: menace, despair and hope in a courtroom in Roma Chatterji ed. Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance, New York: Fordham University Press. La spécificité des procès pour viol en Inde: médicalisation du consentment et falsification, Dorothée Dussy ed. L’inceste, bilan des savoirs. Pp: 105-121. Marseille: Les Editions La Discussion (translated in French). 2012. Justice is a Secret: Compromise in Rape Trials. In Agnes, Flavia ed Negotiating Spaces: Legal Domains, Gender Concerns, and Community Constructs. Delhi: OUP. Adjudicating the Riot: Communal Violence, Crowds and Public Tranquility. Riot Discourses (Mehta & Chatterji eds.) (New York: Domains Books). with Uma Chakravarti, Suman Bisht and Janaki Abraham. Reclaiming Spaces: Gender Politics on a University Campus. In Radhika Coomaraswamy and Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham [eds] Constellations of Violence: Feminist Interventions in South Asia. Women Unlimited, Delhi. … with Shirin M. Rai and Shaheen Sardar Ali. 2008. Legacies of Common Law: “Crimes of Honour” in India and Pakistan in Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux (ed) The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis. London and New York: Routledge. 2005. Medicalisation of Consent and Falsity: The Figure of the Habituated Woman in the Indian Rape Law in Kalpana Kannabiran (ed) The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities. New Delhi: Women Unlimited [in association with Kali for Women]. REPORTS: 2002. with Radhika Chopra. 2002. Directory of Research and Interventions in Radhika Chopra (ed) From Violence to Supportive Practice: Family, Gender and Masculinities in India, New Delhi: UNIFEM. WORKING PAPERS: 2009. Habeas Corpus: juridical narratives of sexual governance. Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Working Paper Series, CSLG/WP/09/02, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. 2007. Access to Justice and Rule-of-[Good] Law: The Cunning of Judicial Reform In India. Paper commissioned by the Institute of Human Development for the UN Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor. Book reviews & Comments 2015. Current Anthropology Vol. 56, Issue 2, p217-218, April. Comment in response to the article on the increasing colonization of the field of human rights in Tanzania by Sally Engle Merry and Summer Wood. Broken Promises of Justice: Review of Law and Social Transformation in India by Oliver Mendelsohn (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014), The Book Review, Volume, XXXIX No. 1, January 2015 Violence Against Women: Review of The Fear That Stalks: Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces, edited by Sara Pilot and Lora Prabhu (Zubaan: Delhi, 2012), The Book Review, Volume XXXVIII Number 10, October. A Unique Crime: Understanding Rape in India edited by Swati Bhattacharjee, The Book Review, Volume XXXIII No. 4:26. Review of From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence against Women in India by Kalpana Kannabiran and Ritu Menon, The Book Review, Volume XXXI, Number 10, October 2007, 66-67. Reading the Law within Public Discourses: Review of Law and the New Erotic Justice: Politics of Postcolonialism by Ratna Kapur. The Book Review, March, pp: 18-19. Review Essay. Injurious Rape laws. The Book Review 29-31. 1996. Review of Vasudha Dhagamwar, Law, power and justice: The protection of personal rights in the Indian Penal Code (rev. ed.). New Delhi: Sage, 1992; and Towards the Uniform Civil Code. Bombay: M.N. Tripathi, 1989, Contributions to Indian Sociology, May 1, Volume 30, No 1

BOOK:

Baxi, Pratiksha. 2014. Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India. Oxford University Press, New Delhi.

Reviewed at:

Murthy, Laxmi, In Need of ‘Therapeutic Jurisprudence’, The Book Review, Volume XXXVIII, Number 6, June 2014

Roy, Vaishna, The legalisation of the illegal, The Hindu, 5 August 2014 http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/public-secrets-of-law-book-review/article6281104.ece

Arathi, P.M. Social Change, September 2014, Vol. 44: 488-492

Dutoya, Virginie, http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Repenser-le-genre-en-Inde.html, 16 October 2014 (in French)

Datta, Saurav, When courts turn cruel, Fountain Ink, 3 June 2014, http://fountainink.in/?p=5414&all=1

Makhija, Sonal. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society 4:73-74, 2014

Basu, Srimati. Contributions to Indian Sociology, 49: 102-104, February 2015

Mitra, Durba, Law and Society Review, Volume 49, Issue 2, pages 535-537, June 2015

Journal Articles:

2014.Sexual Violence and its Discontents, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 43: 139-154, October.

2014. Understanding Rape Law Reform, YOJANA, Vol. 58: 38-42, June.

2010. Justice is a Secret: Compromise in Rape Trials. Contributions to Indian Sociology 44, 3: 207–233.

2009. Violence of Political Rhetoric on Rape: Commentary, Economic and Political Weekly, August 8, Vol. XLIV No. 32, 15-16.

2008. Access to Justice and Rule-of-[Good] Law: The Cunning of Judicial Reform in India, Indian Journal of Human Development, 2, 2: 279-302.

2008. Feminist Contributions to Sociology of Law: A Review. Economic and Political Weekly, XLIII, 43: 79-85, 25 October.

2007. Adjudicating the Riot: Communal Violence, Crowds and Public Tranquility. Domains (Special Issue), edited by Deepak Mehta, 3: 70-105.

2006. Habeas Corpus in the Realm of Love: Litigating Marriages of Choice in India. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 25:59-78.

2006. with Shirin M. Rai and Shaheen Sardar Ali. Legacies of Common Law: “Crimes of Honour” in India and Pakistan. Third World Quarterly, Special Issue on “Politics of rights-based development: Feminist Perspectives”, Guest Editors: Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux 27, 7: 1239-1253.

2001. Sexual Harassment. Seminar. 505: 54-59.

2000. Rape, Retribution, State: On Whose Bodies? Economic and Political Weekly, XXXV, 14: 1196-1200.

1998.with Jinee Lokaneeta. “Numa”, Malati Debi Choudhury: Some Memories. Mainstream, April 11.

Essays in Edited Volumes

2015.Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya: On Criminalising Love. In Daniela Berti and Devika Bordia ed. Ethnographies of Criminal Law: Comparative Perspectives from South Asia and France, Delhi: OUP.

2015.On Interpreting Rape as Atrocity. In Werner Gephart and Jan Christoph Suntrup. eds. “Rechtsanalyse als Kulturforschung II”, Frankfurt: Klostermann.

2014. Child Bears Witness: menace, despair and hope in a courtroom in Roma Chatterji ed. Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance, New York: Fordham University Press.

2013.La spécificité des procès pour viol en Inde: médicalisation du consentment et falsification, Dorothée Dussy ed. L’inceste, bilan des savoirs. Pp: 105-121. Marseille: Les Editions La Discussion (translated in French).

2012. Justice is a Secret: Compromise in Rape Trials. In Agnes,

Flavia ed Negotiating Spaces: Legal Domains, Gender Concerns, and Community Constructs. Delhi: OUP.

2009.Adjudicating the Riot: Communal Violence, Crowds and Public Tranquility. Riot Discourses (Mehta & Chatterji eds.) (New York: Domains Books).

2008.with Uma Chakravarti, Suman Bisht and Janaki Abraham. Reclaiming Spaces: Gender Politics on a University Campus. In Radhika Coomaraswamy and Nimanthi Perera-Rajasingham [eds] Constellations of Violence: Feminist Interventions in South Asia. Women Unlimited, Delhi.

… with Shirin M. Rai and Shaheen Sardar Ali. 2008. Legacies of

Common Law: “Crimes of Honour” in India and Pakistan in Andrea Cornwall and Maxine Molyneux (ed) The Politics of Rights: Dilemmas for Feminist Praxis. London and New York: Routledge.

2005. Medicalisation of Consent and Falsity: The Figure of the

Habituated Woman in the Indian Rape Law in Kalpana Kannabiran (ed) The Violence of Normal Times: Essays on Women's Lived Realities. New Delhi: Women Unlimited [in association with Kali for Women].

REPORTS:

2002. with Radhika Chopra. 2002. Directory of Research and Interventions in Radhika Chopra (ed) From Violence to Supportive Practice: Family, Gender and Masculinities in India, New Delhi: UNIFEM.

WORKING PAPERS:

2009. Habeas Corpus: juridical narratives of sexual governance. Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Working Paper Series, CSLG/WP/09/02, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

2007. Access to Justice and Rule-of-[Good] Law: The Cunning of Judicial Reform In India. Paper commissioned by the Institute of Human Development for the UN Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor.

Book reviews & Comments

2015. Current Anthropology Vol. 56, Issue 2, p217-218, April. Comment in response to the article on the increasing colonization of the field of human rights in Tanzania by Sally Engle Merry and Summer Wood.

2015.Broken Promises of Justice: Review of Law and Social Transformation in India by Oliver Mendelsohn (Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2014), The Book Review, Volume, XXXIX No. 1, January 2015

2014.Violence Against Women: Review of The Fear That Stalks: Gender-Based Violence in Public Spaces, edited by Sara Pilot and Lora Prabhu (Zubaan: Delhi, 2012), The Book Review, Volume XXXVIII Number 10, October.

2009.A Unique Crime: Understanding Rape in India edited by Swati Bhattacharjee, The Book Review, Volume XXXIII No. 4:26.

2007.Review of From Mathura to Manorama: Resisting Violence against Women in India by Kalpana Kannabiran and Ritu Menon, The Book Review, Volume XXXI, Number 10, October 2007, 66-67.

2006.Reading the Law within Public Discourses: Review of Law and the New Erotic Justice: Politics of Postcolonialism by Ratna Kapur. The Book Review, March, pp: 18-19.

2002.Review Essay. Injurious Rape laws. The Book Review 29-31.

1996. Review of Vasudha Dhagamwar, Law, power and justice: The protection of personal rights in the Indian Penal Code (rev. ed.). New Delhi: Sage, 1992; and Towards the Uniform Civil Code. Bombay: M.N. Tripathi, 1989, Contributions to Indian Sociology, May 1, Volume 30, No 1