Works for Works, Book 1: Useless Beauty tackles "legacy" issues of intellectual property rights (IPR) in artistic production and academic scholarship and proposes a category or class of works that has no relation to IPR nor to proprietary regimes of copyright and academic privilege. Keeney's...

This paper will explore the discursive practices surrounding specific laws, trials, and the ideology of punishment in colonial and independent India. The purpose is to show how through this matrix of law, court and punishment, the penal system, delineated the exceptional and the extra-ordinary,...

The Communal Violence (Prevention, Control and Rehabilitation of Victims) Bill, 2005 provides for (a) prevention and control of communal violence, (b) speedy investigation and trials, and (c) rehabilitation of victims. The state government can declare an area as communally disturbed under...

The relationship between itinerant and sedentary communities has become increasingly problematic in modern times.. The many strands from science, myth, religion, official ethnography which went into a definition of a criminal need to be explored in detail and documented.

The day has arrived when the legislative machinery of the State needs to respond to the industrial and market forces. There are clear signals coming from the judiciary, which now seems to be less active in evolving pro-labour jurisprudence. However, the industrial jurisprudence that developed...

The tribal communities of Orissa face a massive new threat from legislation for conservation and forestry and their judicial interpretations, as well as from the increasing onslaughts of globalisation. The indigenous forest dweller community (mostly the tribal people) as a whole do not get...

This paper will examine the implications of the colonial construction of criminality for our understanding of criminology and gender today.

Abstracts of the theme: The theme of the stream would be the investigation, from a critical legal perspective, of the social and legal construction of disability from a human rights perspective.

This paper will examine the network of consitutional and penal provisions on the question of social exclusion and will explore the implications of these realities for an understanding of criminology in India.