Professor Ratna Kapur

Profile

Current Positions

• Global Chair in Law, Professor of International Law, Queen Mary University of London.
• Senior Core Faculty, International Global Law and Policy Institute, Harvard Law School.

Research

Ratna Kapur is a legal scholar on human rights and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). She engages with law and rights from a critical, Global South, and postcolonial feminist perspective. She has written extensively on the rights of marginalised, and precarious subjects, including sex workers and sexual minorities, migrants and religious minorities.  She has also written on the politics of secularism, the right to religious freedom, and equality from a comparative constitutional law perspective.

Her current research interest is on developing a critique of freedom in human rights law and exploring other non-liberal emancipatory possibilities.

Publications

(Selected)

Books

• Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl (Edward Elgar Press, Elgar Legal Theory Series, 2018).
  • Translation into Spanish, February 2024, Género, alteridad y derechos humanos: Libertad en una pecera” in the book series Nuevo Pensamiento Jurídico, published by Universidad de los Andes and Siglo del Hombre Editores.
• Makeshift Migrants and Law: Gender, Belonging and Postcolonial Anxieties (Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2010; subsequent edition by Routledge Chapman and Hall, 2014; eBook edition 2014)
• Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism (Taylor and Francis, Cavendish: London, 2005; Permanent Black: New Delhi, 2005)
• Secularism’s Last Sigh? Hindutva and the (Mis)Rule of Law, (co-authored) (Oxford University Press, 1999)(reprint, paperback, 2001)
• Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India (co-authored) (Sage, 1996; paperback 1999)(partly reproduced in Ratna Kapur, ‘Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with the Law in India’ in Mala Khullar (ed), Writing the Women’s Movement: A Reader 152-174 (Zubaan 2005)
  • Open access to book permanent link: (Since March 2023)

Edited collections

• Signs - Journal of Women and Culture, 44 (3) Special Issue: Gender and the Rise of the Global Right, Co-Editor with Susanna Walters and Agnieska Graff.
• Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains: Interdisciplinary Essays on Women and Law in India (Kali for Women: New Delhi, 1996).
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of the National Law School Journal, Feminism and Law, 1993.

Contributions to books and journals

Third World Approaches to International Law(TWAIL) / Postcolonial Feminist Theory and Human Rights

• “TWAIL and Religion,” in Tony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Michael Fakhri, Karin Mickelson and Vasuki Nesiah (eds.), TWAIL Handbook (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2025.
• “TWAIL and Religion,” in Tony Anghie, Bhupinder Chimni, Michael Fakhri, Karin Mickelson and Vasuki Nesiah (eds.), TWAIL Handbook (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming 2025).
• “From Necropolitics to Piety: TWAIL and the ‘Other’ Subject of Human Rights”, American Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2025/2026).
• “TWAIL and Tracing the Bullet: Reflections on the ‘Worth’ of War and Peace” National University of Juridical Sciences Law Review (forthcoming 2025).
• “TWAIL and Alternative Visions: ‘Talking about a Revolution’: Afterword to the Foreword by Antony Anghie,” 34(4) European Journal of International Law 771-778 (2023) online at https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad054, 22 November 2023.
• “On Violence, Revolution and the Self”, 24(2) Postcolonial Studies 251-269 (2021).
• “Transnational Law and Feminist Legal Theory,” in Peer Zumbansen (ed.), Oxford Handbook on Transnational Law, pp. 1007–1028 (Oxford University Press, 2021).
• “Sexual Subalterns, Human Rights, and the Limits of the Liberal Imaginary,” in Alejandro Abraham-Hamanoiel, Des Freedman, Gholam Khiabany, Kate Nash, and Julian Petley (eds.), Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions and Limits, pp. 51–54 (Goldsmiths, University of London, 2017).
• “The Colonial Debris of Bandung: Gender, Equality and Facilitating the Rise of the Hindu Right,” in Luis Eslava, Michael Fakhri, and Vasuki Nesiah (eds.), Bandung, Global History and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures, pp. 311–321 (Cambridge University Press, 2017).
• “Precarious Desires and Ungrievable Lives: Human Rights and Postcolonial Critiques of Legal Justice”, 3(2) London Review of International Law 267-294 (2015).
• “In the Aftermath of Critique We are not in Epistemic Free Fall: Human Rights, Gender, and the Subaltern Subject, and the Non-Liberal Search for Freedom and Happiness”, 25(1) Law and Critique 25-45 (2014).
• “Un-Veiling Equality: Disciplining the ‘Other’ Woman through Human Rights Discourse,” in Mark Ellis and Anver Emon (eds.), Islamic and International Law: Searching for Common Ground, pp. 265–290 (Oxford University Press, 2012).
• “Human Rights in the 21st Century: Taking a Walk on the Dark Side”, 28(4) Sydney Law Review 665-687 (2006).
• “Revisioning the Role of Law in Women’s Human Rights Struggles,” in S. Mekled-Garcia (ed.), The Legalisation of Human Rights, pp. 101–116 (Routledge, 2005).
• “The Tragedy of Victimization: Implications for International Women’s Rights and Post-Colonial Feminist Legal Politics”, 15 Harvard Human Rights Journal 1-37 (2002).
• “Collateral Damage: Sacrificing Legitimacy in the Search for Justice”, 24(1) Harvard International Review 42-46 (2002).
• “Imperial Parody”, 2(1) Feminist Theory 79-88 (2001).
• “Neutrality and Universality in Human Rights Law,” in Norman Dorsen and Prosser Gifford (eds.), Democracy and the Rule of Law, pp. 390–394 (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2001).

Feminist Interventions / Gender / Women’s Rights

• "Gender , Equality, and the Predicaments of Faith,” in Anmol Jain and Tanja Herklotz, 161-172, Indian Constitutionalism at Crossroads (verfassungsbooks, 2025), open access.
• “#MeToo, Speech and Defamation,” in Lakkimsetti Chaitanya and Vanita Reddy (eds.), MeToo and Transnational Gender Justice (NYU Press, forthcoming 2025)
• “Gender Equality Redux”, 16(1) National Law School Journal 58-65 (2022). DOI:10.55496/FLYJ7684
• “The First Feminist War in All History”: Epistemic Shifts and Relinquishing the Mission to Rescue the ‘Other Woman’”, 116 American Journal of International Law – Unbound 270-274 (2022).
• DOI:10.1017/aju.2022.45
• “Victims, Whores and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law,” in Kalpana Kannabiran (ed.), Dispossessions, Marginalities and Rights (Routledge, 2022) [reproduced from Makeshift Migrants and Law]
• “Subversive Sites 20 Years Later: Rethinking Feminist Engagements with Law”, 44(2) Australian Feminist Law Journal 221-243 (2019) (co-authored).
• “Gender Equality,” in Surjit Chaudhry, Madhav Khosla and Pratap Banu Mehta (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, pp. 742–754 (Oxford University Press, 2016)
• “Girls Will Be Girls: Evaluation of SCR 1325, 1820, and 1889 on Women’s Rights in Conflict Situations,” in Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet, Hélène Ruiz Fabri, and Mark Toufayan (eds.), International Law and New Approaches to the Third World: Between Repetition and Renewal, pp. 167–186 (Paris: Society for Comparative Law, 2013)
• “Feminism’s Estrangement: Critical Reflections on Feminist Engagements with Law in India,” in Ashleigh Barnes (ed.), Feminisms of Discontent: Global Contestations (Oxford University Press, 2015)
• "Brutalized Bodies and Sexy Dressing on the Indian Street”, 40 SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 9-14 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1086/676890
• “Gender, Sovereignty, and the Rise of a Sexual Security Regime in International Law and Postcolonial India”, 14(2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 1-26 (2013).
• “Girls Will Be Girls: Evaluation of SCR 1325, 1820, and 1889 on Women’s Rights in Conflict Situations,” in Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet, Hélène Ruiz Fabri, and Mark Toufayan (eds.), International Law and New Approaches to the Third World: Between Repetition and Renewal, pp. 167–186 (Paris: Society for Comparative Law, 2013)
• “Pink Chaddis and Slutwalk Couture: The Postcolonial Politics of Feminism ‘Lite’”, 20(1) Feminist Legal Studies 1-20 (2012).
• “Freedom of Expression in South Asia,” in Suad Joseph (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (Brill, 2009)
• “Challenging the Liberal Subject: Law and Gender Justice in South Asia,” in Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay (ed.), Gender Citizenship and Development, pp. 116–170 (Zubaan and International Development Research Council, 2007)
• “Speaking from the Margins: The Legal Regulation of Sexuality in Postcolonial India,” in Karen Gabriel (ed.), Gender Justice in India: A Reader (Katha, 2005)
• “Revisioning the Role of Law in Women’s Human Rights Struggles,” in S. Mekled-Garcia (ed.), The Legalisation of Human Rights, pp. 101–116 (Routledge, 2005)
• “Babe Politics and the Victim Subject: Negotiating Agency in Women’s Human Rights,” in David Barnhizer (ed.), Effective Strategies for Protecting Human Rights (Ashgate, 2002)
• “Un-veiling Women’s Rights in the ‘War on Terror’”, 9 Duke Journal on Gender, Law and Policy 211-225 (2002).
• “Feminism, Nationalism and the Authentic (Victim) Subject: Implications for Women’s Human Rights Discourse”, Nethra: International Centre for Ethnic Studies (1999).
• “The Profanity of Prudery: The Moral Face of Obscenity Law in India”, 8(3) Women’s Cultural Review 293-302 (1997).
• “Gagging the Bandit Queen”, Fireweed: Feminist Quarterly on Arts, Culture and Writing (1996).
• “Damming Women's Rights: Gender and the Narmada Valley Project”, 13(3) Canadian Journal of Women’s Research 60 (1993).
• “On Women, Equality and The Constitution: Through the Looking Glass of Feminism Judiciary's Approach to Equality and Gender Difference”, National Law School Journal Special Edition on Feminism and Law (1993).
• “Women and Poverty in India: Law, Legal Literacy, and Social Change”, 6 Canadian Journal of Women and Law 278 (1993).
• “Feminism, Fundamentalism and Rights Rhetoric”, 5(1) Indian Journal of Social Sciences 33 (1992).
• “From Theory to Practice: Some Reflections on Doing Legal Literacy for Women,” in Margaret Schuler (ed.), Legal Literacy: A Tool for Women’s Empowerment, pp. 93–116 ( UNIFEM, 1992); partly reproduced in Rachel Slocum et al. (eds.), Power, Process, and Participation, pp.145–147 (Intermediate Technology Publications, 1995).
• "Trespass, Impasse, Collaboration: Doing Research on Women's Rights in India", The Journal of Human Justice 2(2): 99–123 (1991) (co-authored).

Secularism / Faith / Religion

• “The Ayodhya Case, Freedom of Religion and the Making of Modernist ‘Hinduism’”, 32(1) Contemporary South Asia 10-25 (2023).
• “Race-making, Religion and Rights in the Post-colony: Unmasking the Pathogen in Assembling the Hindu Nation”, 18(4) International Journal of Law in Context 499-516 (2022).
• “Gender and the ‘Faith’ in Law: Equality, Secularism, and Rise of the Hindu Nation”, 35(3) Journal of Law and Religion 407-431 (2020).
• “Secularism’s Others: The Legal Regulation of Religion and Hierarchy of Citizenship,” in Susanna Mancini (ed.), Constitutions and Religion: Research Handbooks in Comparative Constitutional Law Series, pp. 41–58 (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020)
• “The Radical Intellectual Legacy of Saba Mahmood”, Radical Philosophy 2.05 48-53 (2019).
• “‘Belief’ in Law and Hindu Majoritarianism: The Rise of the Hindu Nation,” in Angana Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen, and Christophe Jaffrelot (eds.), Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India, pp. 353–374 (Oxford University Press, 2019)
• “The “Ayodhya” Case: Hindu Majoritarianism and the Right to Religious Liberty”, 29 Maryland Journal of International Law 305-365 (2014).
• “A Leap of Faith: The Construction of Hindu Majoritarianism through Secular Law”, 113(1) South Atlantic Quarterly 109-128 (2014). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2390446
• “Un-Veiling Equality: Disciplining the ‘Other’ Woman through Human Rights Discourse,” in Mark Ellis and Anver Emon (eds.), Islamic and International Law: Searching for Common Ground, pp. 265–290 (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• “‘Faith’ in Law”, 3(1) Jindal Global Law Review 1-20 (2011).
• “Normalizing Violence: Transnational Justice, Gender, and the Gujarat Riots”, 15(3) Columbia Journal of Gender and Human Rights 885-927 (2006).
• “Secularism: India,” in Suad Joseph (ed.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume II, 726 (Brill, 2005)
• “The Right to Freedom of Religion and Secularism in the Indian Constitution,” in Mark Tushnet and Vicki Jackson (eds.), Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law, pp. 199–213 (Praeger, 2002)
• “The Two Faces of Secularism and Women’s Rights in India,” in Courtney Howlan (ed.), Religion and Fundamentalism,143–154 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999)
• “Communalising Gender\Engendering Community: Women, Legal Discourse and the Saffron Agenda,” Economic and Political Weekly, 28(17): WS35–44 (April 24, 1993) (co-authored); reproduced in Tanika Sarkar and Urvashi Butalia (eds.), Women and the and the Hindu Right, pp. 82-120 ( Zed 1998).
• “The Fundamentalist Face of Secularism and Women’s Rights in India”, 47(3) Cleveland State Law Review 323-333 (1999).
• “Secularism’s Last Sigh? The Hindu Right, the Courts, and India’s Struggle for Democracy”, 38(1) Harvard International Law Journal 113-170 (1997).
• “Who Draws the Line? Contemporary Issues of Speech and Censorship in India”, Economic and Political Weekly WS15 (1996).
• “More Than a Matter of Words: Secularism(s) and the Challenge of Hindutva”, 6(1) The Thatched Patio 1 (1993).

Migration / Anti-Trafficking

• “Victims, Whores and Wives: Migrant Women and the Law,” in Kalpana Kannabiran (ed.), Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice: Disposessions, Marginalities and Rights (Routledge, 2022)
• “International Law and Cross Border Movements: Engaging with Difference,” in Kamala Kempadoo, Badana Patnaik, and Jyoti Sanghera (eds.), Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work and Human Rights, pp. 25–42 (Paradigm Press, 2004)
• “Faith and the Good Liberal: Construction of Female Subjectivity in Anti-Trafficking Discourse,” in Vanessa Munro and Carl Stychin (eds.), Sexuality and the Law: Feminist Engagements, pp. 223–258 (Cavendish, 2007)
• “Human Rights Impact of Anti-Trafficking Laws: A Case Study of India,” in Collateral Damage (Bangkok, Global Alliance Against the Trafficking of Women, 2007), pp. 114–141
• “Citizen and the Migrant: Postcolonial Anxieties, Law and the Politics of Inclusion/Exclusion”, 8(2) Theoretical Inquiries in Law 537-570 (2007).
• “Travel Plans: Border Crossings and the Transnational Migrant Subject”, 18 Harvard Human Rights Journal 85 (2005).
• “The ‘Other’ Side of Globalization: The Legal Regulation of Cross-Border Movements”, 22(3,4) Canadian Journal of Women’s Studies 6 (2003).
• “The Legal Regulation of the Family in a Transnational World”, Proceedings of the Ninety-Sixth Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law 198 (2003).
• “The Political Economy of Desire: A Post-Colonial Perspective on Sex Work”, 78 Denver University Law Review 855-885 (2001).
• “Tricks and the Law: Evaluating the South Asian Regional Co-operation Strategy on the Legal Regulation of Trafficking”, 5 Asian Women Weave: A Journal on Human Rights 93 (2000).

Queer / Sexual Subaltern / LGBTQ+ Rights

• “The Sexual Subaltern and Law: Postcolonial Queer Imaginaries,” in Brenda Cossman and Joe Fischel (eds.), Enticements: Queer Legal Imaginaries, pp. 59–84 (New York University Press, 2024)
• “The (Im)-Possibility of Queering International Law”, in Dianne Otto, ed., Queering International Law : Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities 131-147 (Routledge 2017)
• “De-Criminalizing Queer Lives: Viewing Through a Postcolonial Feminist Optic,” in Leanne Weber, Elaine Fishwick, and Marinella Marmo (eds.), Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights, pp. 301–308 (London: Routledge, 2016)
• “Unruly Desires: Gay Governance and the Makeover of Sexuality in Postcolonial India,” in Nikita Dhawan, Antke Engel, Christophe F.E. Holzhey, and Volker Woltersdorff (eds.), Global Justice and Desire: Queering Economy, pp. 115–132 (London: Taylor and Francis, 2015)
• “Multi-tasking Queer: Reflectiosn on the Possibilities of Homosexual Dissidence in Law”, 4(1) Jindal Global Law Review 36-59 (2012).
• “Pink Chaddis and Slutwalk Couture: The Postcolonial Politics of Feminism ‘Lite’”, 20(1) Feminist Legal Studies 1-20 (2012).
• “De-Radicalizing the Rights Claims of Sexual Subalterns Through ‘Tolerance’,” in Kim Brooks and Robert Leckey (eds.), Queer Empire: Comparative Theory, pp. 37–52 (New York, London, Delhi: Routledge, 2010)
• “Law and the Sexual Subaltern: A Comparative Perspective”, 48 Cleveland State Law Review 15-23 (2001).
• “A Love Song to Our Mongrel Selves: Hybridity, Sexuality and the Law”, 8(3) Social and Legal Studies 353 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1177/096466399900800304

Comments/reviews/reports

• “Four Hours to Lockdown: The Biopolitics of Law, Life and Death,” 14(1) Journal of Indian Law and Society (2023-24): 45-60.
• `Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl' 122 Feminist Review (2019):1-4.
• “There’s a problem with the LGBT rights movement – it’s limiting freedom” The Conversation, 18 September 2018.
• Book Discussion: Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy - Rohit De, A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in teh Indian Republic (2018), Part III: Husna Bai, Sex Work, and the Constitution , 5 January 2019.
• Book Review: On Ben Golder, Foucault and the Politics of Rights,39(4) University of New South Wales Law Journal 1472 (2016).
• Book Review: On Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum, eds. Pluralism and Democracy in India” 31(3) Journal of Religion and Law 406 (2016) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2016.27.
• Background Paper, World Bank Report on Violence Against Women in South Asia, (World Bank Spring Meetings, March 2014).
• Book Review: Critical International Law: Postrealism, Postcolonialism and Transnationalism, Prabhakar Singh and Benoît Mayer, eds. (OUP, 2014) in 6(2) Asian Journal of International Law 381 (July 2016) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S2044251316000096.
• Book Review: Women, Borders, and Violence – Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migration, and Trafficking, Springer 2011, 1 State Crime Journal of the International State Crime Initiative 149 (March, 2012).
• Book Review: “A Magisterial Text in Review.” Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (London: Allen Lane, 2008). 33 (12) The India Book Review (Dec. 2009).
• Book Review: “Challenging Metaphysical Truth Claims.” Martha Nussbaum, The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious violence and India’s Future (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2007); The Crisis of Secularism in India, Anuradha Dingwaney Needham and Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, eds. (New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2007). 31(10) The India Book Review 28-31 (Oct. 2007).
• Book Review: “A Contested Arena.” Rina Williams, Postcolonial Politics and Personal Laws – Colonial Legacies and the Indian State (Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 2006). 31(1) The India Book Review (Jan. 2007).
• Book Review: “Inhabiting Two Worlds.” Transnational Migration and the Politics of Identity, Meenakshi Thapan, editor (New Delhi: Sage, 2005). 30(1-2) The India Book Review (Jan.- Feb. 2006).
• Book Review: Doris Buss and Abreena Manji, eds., International Law: Modern Feminist Approaches, (London: Hart Publishing, 2005). Indian International Law Journal, 433 (2005).
• Book Review: Martha Nussbaum, Hiding from Humanity: Disgust, Shame and the Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004). 32:2 Journal of Law and Society 317 (2005).
• International Symposium on the International Legal Order, Theme I: Economy, Prosperity, and Social Justice 16(4) Leiden Journal of International Law 841-879 (2003).
• Monsoon in a Teacup” Legal Affairs, September/October, 2002, 46-48 (New Haven: Yale Law School).
• “In God We Trust”: Hindutva and the War on Terror”Lines (Sri Lanka, Quarterly Magazine, Summer 2002).
• “Sexual Harassment or the Harassment of Sexuality” Seminar: A Monthly News Magazine (Issue # 501 September 2001, New Delhi).
• “Trafficking in Nepal: Policy Analysis and Assessment of Laws and Politics for the Prevention and Control of Trafficking in Nepal, December 2000 (OHCHR, Nepal, and sponsored by Population Council, 2000).

Public Engagement

• Walter S. Owen Lecture, Annual Public Lecture, Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver “The Politics of ‘Faith’ and Human Rights’, April 9th, 2024.
• “The Global Political Economy of War” Institute of Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Advanced Faculty Colloquium, The Global Political Infrastructures of Political Economy, Plenary Panel Speaker, January 17th, 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark. 
• “The Politics of ‘Faith’ in Human Rights: Alternative Registers and Postcolonial Feminist Reflections” October 5th, 2023, SciencePo, Paris. 
• Public talk, “Archives of Desire: The Case of Husna Bai”, Premchand Archives, Jamia Islamia Milia University, New Delhi, 28th February, 2023.
• Speaker, ‘Belief’ in Human Rights, Islamophobia and the Politics of the Veil, September 22, 2021, Amsterdam Centre for International Law (online). 
• Speaker, Faculty Roundtable, Global Scholars Academy in Geneva, Institute of Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School (online), August 18, 2021
• Speaker, Turn on the Light: Sparking Critical Energy in International Law Research” Thursday, May 6th 2021 (Institute of Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School)(online)
• Keynote Lecture, “Seeking Freedom Beyond the Liberal Fishbowl: A Postcolonial Feminist Vision”, International Conference on Sexual Politics of Freedom, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, National University of Ireland, September 17th- 18th, 2020 (online)
• Speaker, “Can the Subaltern Speak? Reflections”, Crunching the Core: Exercises in Critical Theory, Fall Series, Harvard Law School – Institute of Global Law and Policy, October 30, Zoom Online)
• Keynote Lecture, “Seeking Freedom Beyond the Liberal Fishbowl: A Postcolonial Feminist Vision”, International Conference on Sexual Politics of Freedom, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, National University of Ireland, September 17th- 18th, 2020 (Zoom Online)
• Panelist, “The Politics of Race, Law and the Postcolonial Location”, Panel on Race and Law in times of COVID-19 organised by SOAS School of Law (Webinar), July 29, 2020
• Paper Presenter, “The Sexual Subaltern and Law : Postcolonial Queer Imaginaries”, Mini Workshop Series, organized by Joe Fischel and Brenda Cossman, editors of Research Handbook on Queer Legal Theory (NYU), June 25th, 2020 (Zoom Online)
• “Is Sexuality a Right?” Summer of Ishq: Issues in Society, History and Queerness, Speaker Series. Co-panelist with Judith Butler, Centre for Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Ashoka University (NCR-Delhi), June 18th, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1bTXwvN9v0
• 'Human Rights and Excluded Epistemologies’, Keynote Address, Conference on Critical Approaches to International Law, Griffiths Law School, Dublin, August 1-3, 2019.
• Panelist on “The State of Human Rights in the World”,17th International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights Film Festival, Geneva, Switzerland, March 10th, 2019.
  “Precarious Desires and the Politics of Rights”, Lecture, Human Rights Centre, Essex University, February 27th, 2019.
• “Human Rights, Freedom and Excluded Epistemologies” Signature Lecture Series, Transnational Law Institute, Kings College, London, October 24th, 2018
• Keynote Lecture, “Shaping Law, Shaping Gender: Experiences from India”, Humboldt University, Department of Law, October 11-13, 2018.
• Keynote Lecture, “Gender, Alterity and Human Rights” International Doctoral Week, SciencePo, School of Law, Paris, June 21, 2018
• 'Human Rights and Excluded Epistemologies’, Keynote Address, Conference on Critical Approaches to International Law, Griffiths Law School, Dublin, August 1-3, 2019.
• Public Lecture, “Belief in Law”: Hindu Majoritarianism in Indian Constitutional Law”, Institute of Advanced Studies, John Hopkins University, Bologna, 12 October 2016
• Keynote Address, “The Death of Human Rights and Gender?” Department of Legal Philosophy in co-ordinations with the Gender Research Centre, University of Vienna, Vienna, 28-30 June 2016 (Gender Talks Series)
• “Comparative Secularisms: Turning the Postcolonial Gaze on Secularism in Constitutional Law”, SciencePo, School of Law, Intensive Doctoral Week, June 15th, 2016
• “The Complex Politics of LGBT/Queer advocacy in International Human Rights,” SciencePo, School of Law, Intensive Doctoral Week, 14 June 2016
• “Women’s Rights : A Carceral Project or Liberatory Schema?” International Graduate Seminar on Legal Education, Sciences Po, School of Law, Paris, 14 June 2016
• Keynote Address, “Gender and Human Rights: Success, Failure or a New Imperialism?”, University of Geneva, Public Lecture, 12 May 2016
• Paper presentation, “Introduction” to book manuscript, Freedom in a Fishbowl, Law and Literature seminar, Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, 11 May 2016
• Keynote address, ”Bodies that Matter: Gender, Postcolonialism and Human Rights”, Bodies, Data and Belief, Gender Research Co-ordination and Danish Institute of Human Rights, University of Copenhagen, 2-16 April 2016
• Keynote address, “Complicating the Right to Freedom of Religion”, International Workshop on Religion and Law: Colonial and Post-Colonial Encounters 9-11, 2-16 March 2016 Centre for the Study of Comparative Religions and Civilizations, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi
• Keynote Address, “Precarious Desires and Postcolonial Justice, and the Epistemic Fishbowl of Human Rights”, conference on Gender and the Colonial, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 12-14 May 2015
• Keynote Address, “‘Belief’ in Law: Hindu Majoritarianism, the Supreme Court and the Right to Freedom of Religion”, European Conference on South Asian Studies, Zurich University (University Research Priority Program Asia and Europe) 25 July 2014
• Keynote Address, “Precarious Desires, Postcolonial Justice and Human Rights”, Conference on the Limits of Human Rights, Potsdam University/University of Berlin, on “Postcolonial Justice”, 31 may 2014
• “Postcolonial Justice, Precarious Desires and Human Rights” talk presented at the Centre for Postcolonial Studies in collaboration with the Frankfurt University School of Law, 27 May 2014
• Keynote Address, “Gender Equality in Neo-Liberal Times”, School of Law, Bournemouth University, 6-17 May 2014, Conference on Gender Equality and Corporate Social Responsibility.

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