Eminent legal scholar, Professor (Dr.) Upendra Baxi is one who has made pathbreaking contributions in the domains of Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Law of Torts, and International Law.
Prof. Baxi started his journey in academics as at the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law in the University of Sydney in 1969. Thereafter, he served as Professor of Law at several eminent institutions such as Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, Duke University, the American University, the New York University Law School Global Law Program, the University of Toronto and the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
Prof. Baxi also held important positions such as Dean of the Faculty of Law, Delhi University; honorary Director (Research) of Indian Law Institute; Vice Chancellor, University of South Gujarat and Delhi University; President of the Indian Society of International Law; Emeritus Professor of Law in Development at the University of Warwick; and Ford Foundation Professor of Human Rights at the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata. He is also an honorary professor of law at the National Law School of India University (Bangalore); the National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR, Hyderabad); the National Law University (Delhi), and the Gujarat National Law University (Gandhinagar); Jindal Global Law School (Delhi).
For his path-breaking contributions to the development and discourse on law in India, Professor Baxi was awarded Padma Shri in 2011.
Scholarly Works of Prof. (Dr.) Upendra Baxi:
Books
The Indian Supreme Court and Politics (1980)
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Indian_Supreme_Court_and_Politics/DuFaAAAAIAAJ?hl=en
The Crisis of the Indian Legal System (1982)
Courage, Craft and Contention: The Indian Supreme Court in the Eighties (1985)
Inconvenient Forum and Convenient Catastrophe: The Bhopal Case (1986)
Mass Disasters and Multinational Liability: The Bhopal Case (1986)
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Mass_Disasters_and_Multinational_Liabili/MeqPAAAAMAAJ?hl=en
Towards a Sociology of Indian Law (1986)
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Towards_a_Sociology_of_Indian_Law/xlFkQgAACAAJ?hl=en
The Right to be Human (1987)
Law and Poverty: Critical Essays (1988)
Liberty and Corruption: The Antulay Case and Beyond (1989)
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Liberty_and_Corruption/6eWSAAAAMAAJ?hl=en
Marx, Law, and Justice (1993)
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Marx_Law_and_Justice/DbuepwAACAAJ?hl=en
Mambrino’s Helmet?: Human Rights for a Changing World (1994)
Crisis and Change in Contemporary India (1995)
Reconstructing the Republic (1999)
Memory and Rightlessness (2003)
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Memory_and_Rightlessness/WkraAAAAMAAJ?hl=en
The Future of Human Rights (2007)
Human Rights in a Posthuman World: Critical Essays (2007)
Human Rights, Southern Voices (2009)
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Human_Rights_Southern_Voices/WTBZTNPLOGEC?hl=en
Transformative Constitutionalism: Comparing the Apex Courts of Brazil, India and South Africa (2013)
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Transformative_Constitutionalism/9o2hoAEACAAJ?hl=en
Law’s Ethical, Global and Theoretical Contexts: Essays in Honour of William Twining (2015)
Human Rights Contemporary Issues : a Festschrift in the Honour of Professor Upendra Baxi (2019)
https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Human_Rights/fTfDxQEACAAJ?hl=en
Articles
Taking suffering seriously: Social action litigation in the Supreme Court of India
https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/twls1985&div=11&id=&page=
Voices of suffering and the future of human rights https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/tlcp8&div=20&id=&page=
The Indian Supreme Court and Politics https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1130282273059261824
Human Rights Education: The Promise of the Third Millennium?. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED409221
‘The state’s emissary’: the place of law in subaltern studies https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=5688308489242031294
Constitutionalism as a site of state formative practices https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/cdozo21&div=47&id=&page=
Crisis and change in contemporary India https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1130282272679718528
The war on terror and the war of terror: nomadic multitudes, aggressive incumbents, and the new international law-prefactory remarks on two wars https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/ohlj43&div=9&id=&page=
The colonialist heritage https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=10525604482820474344
Postcolonial legality https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470997024#page=555
Towards a sociology of Indian law https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=srsHOeMAAAAJ&citation_for_view=srsHOeMAAAAJ:4JMBOYKVnBMC#:~:text=Scholar%20articles-,Towards%20a%20sociology%20of%20Indian%20law,-U%20Baxi%20%2D%201986
Market fundamentalisms: business ethics at the altar of human rights https://academic.oup.com/hrlr/article-abstract/5/1/1/606744
Preliminary notes on transformative constitutionalism https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=3559430127901035051
The avatars of Indian judicial activism: Explorations in the geographies of [In] Justice https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=14638814849797534643
Inhuman wrongs and human rights: unconventional essays https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=613366360662053781
Panchayat justice: an Indian experiment in legal access https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=srsHOeMAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=srsHOeMAAAAJ:LPZeul_q3PIC
From Human Rights to the right to be Human: Some heresies https://www.jstor.org/stable/23001445
What may the ‘Third World’ expect from international law? https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203926512-4/may-third-world-expect-international-law-upendra-baxi
Voices of suffering, fragmented universality, and the future of human rights https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315199955-4/voices-suffering-fragmented-universality-future-human-rights-upendra-baxi
Towards a climate change justice theory? https://www.elgaronline.com/view/journals/jhre/7-1/jhre.2016.01.01.xml?
Emancipation as justice: Babasaheb Ambedkar’s legacy and vision https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=8580240933353261481
Politics of reading human rights: Inclusion and exclusion within the production of human rights https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=8163964881934556676
The juvenile justice system in India: From welfare to rights https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1130282272869024128
Human rights responsibility of multinational corporations, political ecology of injustice: Learning from Bhopal thirty plus? https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-and-human-rights-journal/article/human-rights-responsibility-of-multinational-corporations-political-ecology-of-injustice-learning-from-bhopal-thirty-plus/2CF5AD99289B07941601A9AFBB877BE9
“Global Neighborhood” and the “Universal Otherhood”: Notes on the Report of the Commission on Global Governance https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/030437549602100406?journalCode=alta
THE LITTLE DONE, THE VAST UNDONE”—SOME REFLECTIONS ON READING GRANVILLE AUSTIN’S” THE INDIAN CONSTITUTION https://www.jstor.org/stable/43949944
Suffering between movements and markets https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=sKmpQAjYfgEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA33&ots=JQ4ambQeMV&sig=H7RcDKXn-ydWaCkSCZEI-LZMKtI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
Comment-Durkheim and legal evolution: some problems of disproof https://www.jstor.org/stable/3052887
What happens next is up to you: Human rights at risks in dams and development https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/amuilr16&div=38&id=&page=
Valiant victims and lethal litigation: the Bhopal case https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1130000796943532032
The development of the right to development https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429398629-4/development-right-development-upendra-baxi
An open letter to the Chief Justice of India https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=14339915693106760674
Writing about impunity and environment: the ‘silver jubilee’ of the Bhopal catastrophe https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315254135-20/writing-impunity-environment-silver-jubilee-bhopal-catastrophe-upendra-baxi
The second Gujarat catastrophe
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4412519
Judicial Discourse: Dialectics of the Face and the Mask https://www.jstor.org/stable/43952322
Demosprudence versus jurisprudence: The Indian judicial experience in the context of comparative constitutional studies https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/agis.20190322008158
The New International Economic Order, Basic Needs and Rights: Notes Towards Development of the Right to Development https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=8207630213688022687
Some Newly Emergent Geographies of Injustice: Boundaries and Borders in International Law https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/ijgls23&div=5&id=&page=
Too many, or too few, human rights https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/hrlr1&div=9&id=&page=
The state and human rights movements in India https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=14389574516943008821
Taking Suffering Seriously https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=4637704965194708817
The Right to be human
https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1130282271333280896
Mass torts, multinational enterprise liability and private international law https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=srsHOeMAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=srsHOeMAAAAJ:5nxA0vEk-isC
Reflections on the reservations crisis in Gujarat https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=2321452712268909560
Notes on constitutional and legal aspects of rehabilitation and displacement https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=2237745762082607709
Postcolonial legality: a postscript from India
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43256851
Outline of a ‘theory of practice’ of Indian constitutionalism https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=2794354653690365584
The rule of law in India https://www.scielo.br/j/sur/a/NvbrFtRLjZt6yyhhVVTjqbm/?lang=en&format=html
From Takrar to Karar: The Lok Adalat at Rangpur: A Preliminary Study https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=5741508692776180320
The Constitutional Quicksands of Kesavananda Bharati and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=2059954456642755013
The Gujarat catastrophe: notes on reading politics as democidal rape culture https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=8844030731984193546
Geographies of injustice: Human rights at the altar of convenience https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=10323802100815279973
DIRECTIVE PRINCIPLES AND SOCIOLOGY OF INDIAN LAW—A REPLY TO DR. JAGAT NARAIN
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43950028
The place of the human right to health and contemporary approaches to global justice: some impertinent interrogations https://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=eEdZBwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA12&ots=f57T6am5C5&sig=N5D1p6ofOTOpbn6_G9p2U_6K6vM&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
A Known but an Indifferent Judge: Situating Ronald Dworkin in Contemporary Indian Jurisprudence https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/injcl1&div=50&id=&page=
Caste, Class and Reservations (In Memoriam: IP Desai) https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=srsHOeMAAAAJ&cstart=20&pagesize=80&citation_for_view=srsHOeMAAAAJ:ZHo1McVdvXMC
Towards a socially relevant legal education https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&cluster=11879382719580801838
People’s Law, Development, Justice
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43108795
People’s Law in India–The Hindu Society https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203037904-5/people-law-india-hindu-society-upendra-baxi
Speeches
‘Constitutionalism and Identity’ | Prof. Upendra Baxi’ | Nalsar University
Professor Upendra Baxi on Constitutional Silences | SCC Online
Judicial Review : Professor Upendra Baxi
‘Constitutionalism and Identity’ Q/A| Prof. Upendra Baxi’ | Nalsar University
“Is the Whole World Becoming a Third World?” by Upendra Baxi
Nurturing Smart Teachers -Constitution of India: Prof Upendra Baxi (Part 1/2)
Introduction to Climate Change and Anthropocene | Prof. Upendra Baxi | NALSAR University
Climate Change Litigation in National Courts and Tribunals | Prof. Upendra Baxi
Renowned law scholar Upendra Baxi speaks on Citizenship Amendment Act
Prof Upendra Baxi on The Future of Human Rights Learning & Experiential Education | Crafting Justice
The Enigma of the Basic Structure the Need for a Slow Reading of Judicial I By Prof. Upendra Baxi
Future of Global Governance 5 | Prof Upendra Baxi | Law and Legitimacy Pt 4 | YorkU
Late Holocene Environmental Law and Jurisprudence | Prof.Upendra Baxi | Nalsar University of Law
Forum Recht als Kultur: Upendra Baxi – Sovereign Debt, Human Rights, and Global Impoverishment
Democratic Constitutionalism in Crisis by Prof. Upendra Baxi
Conversations on International Development: Prof Upendra Baxi on the Right to Development
Upendra Baxi What is Justice
TLSI Distinguished Lecture: Professor Upendra Baxi
Conversations with Fellows – Werner Gephart conversing with Upendra Baxi
Prof. Upendra Baxi on Institutions of Democracy-Judiciary, a Colloquium organised by PPF
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