Challenging The Rules(s) of Law: Colonialism, Criminology and Human Rights in India

ISBN 10: 0761936653 / ISBN 13: 9780761936657

Editore: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2008

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Titolo: Challenging The Rules(s) of Law: Colonialism...

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd

Data di pubblicazione: 2008

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Like New

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This collection of essays re-examines the field of criminology through an interdisciplinary lens, challenging in the process unproblematic assumptions of the rule of law and opening out avenues for a renewed and radical restatement of the contexts of criminal law in India. This collection is a significant step towards mapping the ways in which interdisciplinary research and human rights activism might inform legal praxis more effectively and holistically. The contributors are a diverse group widely respected activists, bureaucrats, scholars, and professionals who share concerns on criminal justice systems and the need to entrench human rights in the Indian polity.

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Kalpana Kannabiran is the recipient of the inaugural Amartya Sen Award for Social Scientists, 2012, for her work in Law. She is a sociologist and legal researcher and is currently Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, an autonomous research institute supported by the Indian Council for Social Science Research. She was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research in the field of Social Aspects of Law by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in 2003. She was part of the founding faculty of National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law where she taught sociology and law for a decade (1999–2009) and is a founder member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women where she has coordinated research and legal outreach for women. Kannabiran has been the general secretary of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (1998–2000) and is active in the International Sociological Association. She was a member of the Expert Group on the Equal Opportunity Commission, Government of India (2007–2008) and member of the Expert Group on Legal Education Reform in Kerala, Government of Kerala. She has been an activist in the women’s movement since the late 1970s.

Prof. (Dr.) Ranbir Singh is the founder Vice-Chancellor of National Law University, Delhi established by the Delhi Government in 2008. He is a Council Member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK. He is Vice-President & EXCO Member of SAARCLAW India. He is Member of the Eminent Persons Advisory Group (EPAG) of Competition Commission of India. He is Member of the State Higher Education Council, constituted by the Govt. of NCT of Delhi. He is Past- President of the Association of India Universities (AIU) and Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI). He was the founder Vice-Chancellor of NALSAR, University of Law, established by the Andhra Pradesh Government in 1998. He has been there for ten years as the Vice-Chancellor of the well-known premier institution for legal education and research in the country which was rated as one of the Best University in the Country in the year 2008 in ‘India Today’. He has been a Vice-Chancellor for over 18 years now.

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