Monday 30 June, 2014 12:30 – 14:00 (Lunch provided) in Wolfson Exchange

Praktiksha Baxi will present her work in her recently published book on rape in the criminal courts in India Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India (OUP: New Delhi 2014).

Pratiksha Baxi is Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India since 2006.

Her book Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India is a courtroom ethnography that brings together her interest in sociology of law, feminist theory and violence.

Her research interests include critical perspectives on medical jurisprudence, ethnographies of courts, sociology of violence, gender studies, politics of judicial reform, judicial iconography, courtroom architecture and feminist legal theory.

See Pratiksha Baxi’s media contributions.