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  • Baxi, Upendra. 2024. Decent Work, Fair Globalisation and the Dreadful ‘J’ Word. Ind. J. Labour Econ. 67, 317–328.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2024. The Crisis in, and of, Constitutional Identity, in Ran Hirschl and Yaniv RoznaI eds. Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity, Pp 89-97, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2023. Equity and Expedition in Consumer Law and Justice: Some Theoretical Reflections and Practical Concerns, International Journal on Consumer Law and Practice: Vol. 11, Article 2.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2023. Foreword. Understanding the Mystery and Miracle of the Basic Structure, 16 NUJS L. Rev. 4.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2023. Book Review. ‘Wither ‘Personal’ Law? Social Change, 53(3), 407-411. 
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2023. Environmental Ethics and Climate Change Denialism in Neo-liberal Times, EPW, 58, 13, 1 April.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2023. Book Review. Vernacular Rights Cultures. International Affairs, 99(2): 825-835.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2023. Ukraine: A sunset or a new dawn for international law? in Popovski, V., & Malhotra, A. (eds.). Reimagining the International Legal Order (1st ed.). Routledge.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2023. Nihilisms, Contradictions, and Anomie in New Constitutionalisms: A View from India in Boaventura de Sousa Santos, B., Araújo, S., & Andrade, O.A. (eds.). Decolonizing Constitutionalism: Beyond False or Impossible Promises (1st ed.). Routledge.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2022. Book Review. An Introduction to Animal Laws in India (1999), 64 JILI, 387-391.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2022. Book Review. Child Sexual Abuse Trials – Laws, Procedures and Precedents – In the Light of Interpretation of POSCO Act, 2012 as amended in 2019, 63 JILI, 265-270.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2022. ‘The Third Message of Islam?’ 36 Emory Int’l L. Rev. 679. Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr/vol36/iss4/5
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2022. ‘Anthropogenic Harms and Market Fundamentalisms’, in The Indian Yearbook of Law and Interdisciplinary Studies, Routledge India, pp 11-25.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2022. ‘Systemic Governance Corruption : The Dialectics of Law and Nonviolent Social Movements in Contemporary India’ In Kalpana Kannabiran, Bettina Hollstein and Florian Hoffmann (eds.), Discourses on Corruption : Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives,  pp. 40-65, SAGE, Series: Politics and Society in India and the Global South.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2022. ‘Suffering and Governance in Times of Death, Devastation, and Desolation.’ In Werner Gephart and Jule Leko (eds) In the Realm of Corona Normativities II, pp. 129-146. Klostermann.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2022. ‘The Globalization of Fatwas amidst the Terror Wars against Pluralism‘, in Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Anne Griffiths eds., The Power of Law in a Transnational World, Berghahn Books.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2021. ‘Disasters, Catastrophes and Oblivion: A TWAIL Perspective [article]‘ Yearbook of International Disaster Law Online, 2, 72-86.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2021. ‘Toward an Optimism of the Intellect,’ contribution to GTI Forum ‘Can Human Solidarity Globalize?,’ Great Transition Initiative (August). https://greattransition.org/gti-forum/global-solidarity-baxi.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2021. ‘Deconstruction, Dissipation and Death, and the “Casting-Away of the Law”?’ Special Issue in Celebration of Peter Fitzpatrick and His Scholarship, International Journal of Law in Context, 17, 1 (March): 32-35.
  • Baxi Upendra. 2021. Book Review. ‘B. S. Chimni, International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2017, Xviii+629’. Indian Journal of International Law 59 (1–4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40901-020-00123-y.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2021. Book Review. ‘Why History Matters: Reading George Gadbois’, EPW, 56:11, March.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. Book Review. Industrial Relations and Labour Law (2020), 62JILI 342-350.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. “The Softening of Hard Law and the Hardening of Soft Law : an Extended Synopsis” in Daniel D. Bradlow and David B. Hunter eds. Advocating Social Change through International Law, Pp 16-32, Leiden ; Boston: Brill | Nijhoff.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. ‘Foreword’ to The Indian Legal System: An Enquiry, edited by Mahendra Pal Singh and Niraj Kumar, OUP.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. ‘Lawless Law, Living Death, and the Insurgent Moral Reason of Babasaheb Ambedkar’ in Aakash Singh Rathore ed., B R Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice, Volume 3 OUP.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. ‘The Development of the Right to Development’ in Janusz Symonides ed, Human Rights: New Dimensions and Challenges, pp 99-116, Routledge.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. ‘Towards Posthuman Human Rights?’ in Mads Rosendahl Thomsen and Jacob Wamberg eds, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism – Toward Posthuman Human Rights, pp 183-196, Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. “Ameliorating human futures through postdevelopment?” in Adelman, S., & Paliwala, A. eds, The Limits of Law and Development: Neoliberalism, Governance and Social Justice (1st ed.). pp 38-53, Routledge.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. ‘Lawless Law, Living Death, and the Insurgent Moral Reason of Babasaheb Ambedkar’ in Aakash Singh Rathore (eds.) B. R. Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice, Vol 3, Legal and Economic Justice, Oxford: OUP.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. Nevsun: A Ray of Hope in a Darkening Landscape? Business and Human Rights Journal, 5(2): 241-251.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. A Community of Judges, South Asia Research, 40(3):434-439.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. ‘The Dreaming, Never to be Lost: A Critique of the Gove Land Rights Decision’ 1 JLHR 24-76.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. ‘Human Rights in the Administration of Criminal Justice: The Concept of Fair Trial’, Journal of the National Human Rights Commission, Volume 19. See discussion here: https://lawandotherthings.com/2021/07/summary-human-rights-in-the-administration-of-criminal-justice-the-concept-of-fair-trial/
  • Baxi Upendra. 2020. ‘Too Old to Laugh and Cry· Some Remarks on The State of Legal Education in India’ Ranbir Singh and T. S. Mann (eds) Reforms in Legal Education and Research,  Delhi, Mohan Law House.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2020. ‘Epilogue: Approaches to Evil’ in Latika Vashist and Jyoti Dogra Sood, eds, Rethinking Law and Violence, pp. 357-380, Oxford University Press and Indian Law Institute.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2019. ‘The Dust of Empire’: The Dialectic of Self-Determination and Re-colonisation in the First Phase of the Cold War. In M. Craven, S. Pahuja, & G. Simpson (Eds.), International Law and the Cold War (pp. 397-413). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2019. ‘The Future of Dissent in the Anthropocene’. Rabi Ray Memorial Lecture. Mainstream, LVII (15) New Delhi, March 30.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2019 ‘Intergenerational justice, water rights, and climate change’ in Philippe Cullet and Sujith Koonan eds  Research Handbook on Law, Environment and the Global South, pp 2-13, Open Access, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2019. “Introduction”. The Indian Yearbook of Comparative Law 2016 edited by Mahendra Pal Singh, Oxford University Press.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2019. Restoring ‘Title deeds to humanity’: Lawless law, living death, and the insurgent reason of Babasaheb Ambedkar (Ambedkar Memorial lecture) in Valerian Rodrigues, ed. Conversations with Ambedkar: 10 Ambedkar memorial lectures, New Delhi: Tulika Books; Delhi, India: Ambedkar University.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2018. ‘“Touch it Not, If You Are Not a Historian” Toward a New Historiography of Colonial Indian Law: Recrafting Clio’. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38 (3): 375-384.
  • Baxi Upendra. 2018. ‘“Heard Melodies Are Sweet but Those Unheard Are Sweeter”: An Unfinished Response’. Jindal Global Law Review 9 (2).
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2018. ‘Impoverishment in the Anthropocene’. in Juergensmeyer, Mark and Sassen, Saskia and Steger, Manfred B. and Faessel, Victor, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Global Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 454-476.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2018. ‘Transgressions, Demosprudence, and Justice’. in Leïla Choukroune., Parul Bhandari, (eds) Exploring Indian Modernities. Springer, Singapore.
  • Baxi, Upendra, 2018. ‘Sources in the Anti-Formalist Tradition: ‘That Monster Custom, Who Doth All Sense Doth Eat’’, in Samantha Besson, and Jean d’Aspremont (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Sources of International Law, Oxford Handbooks (2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 5 Feb 2018). Abstract
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2017. ‘Towards socially sustainable globalization: reflections on responsible contracting and the UN guiding principles on business and human rights’. Indian Journal of International Law 57, 163–177.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2017. Some Reflection on Justice D.M. Dharamdhiari’s Human Values and Human Rights, NHRC Journal, Volume 16: 131-141.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2017. ‘Rethinking India’. Social Change, 47(1):134-144.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2017. ‘Human Rights to do a Moral Wrong’. Nirma University Law Journal 6 (2): 7-13.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2017. ‘Farewell to Adjudicatory Leadership: Some Thoughts on Dr. Anuj Bhuwania’s Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India’. Nat’l LU Delhi Stud. LJ, 4, 1-19.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2017. ‘Book Reviews: Rage for Order: The British Empire and the Origins of International Law, 1800-1850’, Journal of Law and Society, 44, 4: 715-718.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2017. Book Review. V.Sudhish Pai The Judicial World of A Multi Splendoured Genius Sir Asutosh Mookerjee (2014), 59 JILI, 200-210.
  • Baxi Upendra. 2016. ‘Book Review: Shirin M. Rai and Janelle Reinelt (eds), The Grammar of Politics and Performance’. Social Change 46 (1).
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2016. Towards a climate change justice theory? Journal of human rights and the environment, 7(1): 7-31.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2016. ‘The Aesthetics of Human Rights: Law, Language and Performatives.’ Journal of the Indian Law Institute 58, 1: 1-14.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2016. ‘Some Newly Emergent Geographies of Injustice: Boundaries and Borders in International Law’. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 23, 1: 15-37.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2016. ‘Human Rights Responsibility of Multinational Corporations, Political Ecology of Injustice: Learning from Bhopal Thirty Plus?’ Business and Human Rights Journal. 1(1): 21-40.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2016. ‘Demosprudence and Socially Responsible/Response-Able Criticism: The NJAC Decision and Beyond’. NUJS Law Review 9 (3-4): 153-172.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2016. ‘Law, Politics, and Constitutional Hegemony: The Supreme Court, Jurisprudence, and Demosprudence’, in Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta, The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, OUP.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2016. Reversing Gramsci: Notes on Optimism of the intellect and the Pessimism of the Will?, (Dec. 10–12, 2016) (presented at the LASSNet Conference, New Delhi).
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2015. ‘Remaking Progressive Global Governance: Some Reflections with Reference to the Judiciary and the Rule of Law’. In: Gill, S. (eds) Critical Perspectives on the Crisis of Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2015. ‘Towards an Aesthetics of Human Rights’ in Werner Gephart ed. Legal analysis as cultural research II, Law as Culture Series, Volume 9, pp 163- 179, Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2014. Granville Austin: A Tribute [article] Journal of Indian Law and Society, 5, I2 (Monsoon): 173-190.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2014. ‘Naz 2: A Critique.’ Economic and Political Weekly 49, 6: 12-14.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2014. ‘Demosprudence versus Jurisprudence: The Indian Judicial Experience in the Context of Comparative Constitutional Studies’. Macquarie Law Journal 14(3), 3-23.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2014. ‘Chhatrapati Singh and the Idea of a Legal Theory.’ Journal of the Indian Law Institute, 56, no. 1: 5–24.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2014. ‘International Development, Global Impoverishment and Human Rights’, in Scott Sheeran and Sir Nigel Rodley (eds.) Routledge Handbook of International Human Rights Law. London and New York: Routledge, pp 597-614.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2014. The place of dignity in the Indian Constitution. In M. Düwell, J. Braarvig, R. Brownsword, & D. Mieth (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Human Dignity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 429-436). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2014. “Unlearning the law with Lotika Sarkar: Lotika Sarkar Memorial Lecture.” Journal of the Campus Law Centre 2: 1-10.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2013. ‘Restoring “Title Deeds to Humanity”: Lawless Law, Living Death, and the Insurgent Reason of Babasaheb Ambedkar’. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture, Ambedkar University Delhi.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2013. ‘India – Europe‘, Bardo Fassbender, Anne Peters, and Simone Peter eds, The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law, Chapter 31, OUP.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2013. ‘Law and Unmet Social Needs.’ Journal of National Law University Delhi 1, 1 (June): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277401720130101.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2013. ‘“Ordering” constitutional transfers: a view from India’ in Günter Frankenberg ed Order from Transfer, pp 189–208, Elgar Online. Abstract
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2013. “Preliminary notes on transformative constitutionalism.” in Transformative constitutionalism: Comparing the apex courts of Brazil, India and South Africa. Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press,19-47.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2012. Epilogue. ‘Changing Paradigms of Human Rights’ in Julia Eckert, Brian Donahoe, Christian Strümpell, and Zerrin Özlem Biner, eds Law against the State: Ethnographic Forays into Law’s Transformations, pp 266–85. Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2012. ‘Modelling ‘Optimal’ Constitutional Design for Government Structures: Some Debutant Remarks’, in Sunil Khilnani, Vikram Raghavan, and Arun K. Thiruvengadam (eds), Comparative Constitutionalism in South Asia, pp 23–44, (Delhi, 2012; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 Jan. 2013). Abstract
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2012. ‘Postcolonial Legality: A Postscript from India.’ Verfassung Und Recht in Übersee / Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America 45, no. 2 (2012): 178-94. https://doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2012-2-178.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2012. ‘Reinventing human rights in an era of hyper-globalisation: A few wayside remarks’. In C. Gearty & C. Douzinas (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law (Cambridge Companions to Law, pp. 150-170). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2012. ‘Convocation Address’, NUJS Law Review, 5, 2 (April-June, 2012): 163-170.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2012. ‘Development as a Human Right or as Political Largesse.’ in Rathinasamy Maria Saleth (ed), From Individual to Community: Issues in Development Studies, New Delhi: Sage Publications.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2011. ‘Humiliation and Justice’ in Gopal Guru ed. Humiliation: Claims and Context, Delhi: OUP.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2011. ‘Public and insurgent reason: Adjudicatory leadership in a hyper-globalizing world’, in Stephen Gill ed., Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership, pp. 161-178, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Abstract
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2011. ‘Critiquing Rights: The Politics of Identity and Difference’ in Rathore, A.S., & Cistelecan, A. (eds.). Wronging Rights?: Philosophical Challenges for Human Rights (1st ed.). Pp 61-78, Routledge India.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2011. “Human Rights in ‘Controlling and Combating Corruption’: The ‘Uselessness of Good Ideas?’– Synoptic Remarks”. NAVEIÑ REET: Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research, 2,1:4-15, Special Issue on Law and Corruption, edited by Livia Holden and Rubya Mehdi.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2011. “Afterword. The Struggle for Sans-Papier Human Rights”, in Marie Bénédicte Dembour and Tobias Kelly (eds.), Are Human Rights for Migrants? Critical Reflections on the Status of Irregular Migrants in Europe and the United States, pp.222-232, New York, Routledge.
  • Baxi, Upendra. 2011. ‘Foreword’ in Raghbir Singh, K. N Chandrasekharan Pillai. The Legislature and the Judiciary : Judicial Pronouncements on Parliament and State Legislatures. New Delhi: Published for the Rajya Sabha Secretariat by Orient Blackswan.

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