Panel sessions
The LASS conference consists of 49 panels spread over eight sessions, along with three plenary sessions. On this page you will find a list of the different sessions and the panels which compose them. Please see the downloadable schedule and conference brochure for additional details.
Session 1
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
9.00 am - 10.45 am
- Law and its Publics: S. P. Sathe Memorial Panel (Deepa Das Acevedo, Dinesha Samararatne and Dipika Jain, Jayna Kothari, Kalyani Ramnath)
- Mapping Law as Culture (Werner Gephart, Youssef Dennao, Raja Sakrani, Daniel Witte)
- Contemporary Agrarian Radicalism and Speaking Subjects of Indian Democracy (Uday Chandra, Vikramaditya Thakur, Atreyee Majumder)
- Restitution of Conjugal Rights in Indian Matrimonial Law: What is its History, How is it Used, How Does it Impact Women's Rights and How is it Viewed from the Bench? (Faisal Chaudhry, Srimati Basu, Flavia Agnes, Sylvia Vatuk)
- Rethinking the State, Development and the National Question in Sri Lanka (Sumith Leelarathne, Ahilan Kadirgamar, Thushara Hewage)
- Rights Discourses (Anu Varghese, Sarada Balagopalan, Ipshita Sengupta, Namita Wahi and Sharanjeet Parmar)
Session 2
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
11.15 am - 1.00 pm
- Affective Leadership: Balagopal and the Reimagining of Judicial Activism, Human Rights, and the State (Ajay Gudavarthy, Sitharamam Kakarala, Anuj Bhuwania, Jinee Lokaneeta)
- Comparative Law in South Asia (Menaka Guruswamy, Fayazuddin Ahmad)
- Law, Labour and Neoliberalism (Rupal Oza, Maitreyi Krishnan, William F. Stafford Jr., Aakrati Gupta)
- The Nation-State in Law (Darryl Li, Mahendran Thiruvarangan, Chunnu Prasad)
- Social Values, Law and Women's Rights in Bangladesh (Arafat Hosen Khan, Kazi Ataul-Al-Osman, Amanda Sen)
- Law and Colonialism (Laura Ribeiro, Aqseer Sodhi, Alecia Simmonds, Prashant Iyengar)
Session 3
Tuesday, 28 December 2010
2.00 pm - 3.45 pm
- Fear, Secrets and Lies: The Uncanny World of Law after Media (Ravi Sundaram, Ranjani Mazumdar, Lawrence Liang)
- Spaces of Displacement and Futures in Law (Nicola Perera, Nandan Nawn, Swagato Sarkar, Sudha Vasan)
- Enframing Technology: Constructions of Public(s), Law, and Ethics (Naveen Thayyil, Sitharamam Kakarala)
- Law and the Politics of Religion (Bhrigupati Singh, Mathew John, Chandan Gowda, Serene Kasim and Elizabeth Thomas)
- Legal Continuities and Legal Change: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives (Rohit De, Rebecca Grapevine, Sandipto Dasgupta, Arudra Burra)
- Resolving Disputes and Dispensing Justice beyond the Courts (Marc Galanter and Niketa Kulkarni, Menaka Guruswamy and Aditya Singh, James Jaffe, Surabhi Ranganathan)
Session 4
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
9.00 am - 10.45 am
- Neelan Tiruchelvam and the Imagination of Southasian Constitutionalism (Kanak Mani Dixit, Ramaswamy Sudarshan)
- Who's AADHAAR is it anyway? Reflections on the UID debate (Usha Ramanathan, Nishant Shah, R. Ramakumar, Sahana Basavapatna)
- Politics of the Judiciary (Bhargavi Raman and Badrinarayanan Seetharaman, Nicholas Robinson, Chitra Balakrishnan and Usha Rao, Rakesh Shukla)
- Law and Social Exclusion (Hezzy Smith, Parthasarathi Muthukkaruppan, Ratna Appnender, Madhu Mehra and Gayatri Sharma)
- Eroticism and Violence - Continuities and Some Difficult Questions (Rituparna Borah, Paul Boyce, Akshay Khanna, Nayanika Mookherjee, Jaya Sharma and Kaushik Gupta)
- Picturing Law (Chakravarti Patil, Shireen Mirza, Amar T. Khoday, Anja Kovacs)
Session 5
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
11.00 am- 1.00 pm
- Doing Legal Philosophy in India: Reflections on the Legacy of Chhatrapati Singh (Upendra Baxi, V. Sanil, Navjyoti Singh, Rajeev Bhargava)
- Employment, Discrimination and the Law (Roopa K.L., Maithreyi Mulupuru, Paul Merry, Tarunabh Khaitan)
- Adivasis in the Interstices of Law in Jharkhand (Roger Begrich, Ranaker Bhengra, Kaushik Ghosh)
- Narratives of Law (Sivamohan Sumathy, Rukmini Sen, Sarim Naved, Carmel Christy)
- Law and Life in Contemporary Gujarat (Mona Mehta, Farhana Ibrahim, Prita Jha and Surabhi Chopra)
- The Paper Trail: Documentary Forms and Practices (Bhavani Raman, Taringini Sriraman, Shrimoyee Nandini Ghosh)
Session 6
Wednesday, 29 December 2010
2.00 pm- 3.45 pm
- Book Discussion - Subalternity and Religion: The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia (Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Deepak Mehta, Bhrigupati Singh)
- Authorising Culture: The Challenges of (and to) Property (Kriti Kapila, Allison Fish, Rosemary Coombe and Nicole Aylwin, Dwijen Rangnekar)
- International Law and Global Justice (Radha D'Souza, Jagjit Plahe, Sundhya Pahuja, Abdul Paliwala)
- Courting the City: Law and the (Un)Making of Millennial Delhi (Diya Mehra, Anuj Bhuwania, Awadhendra Sharan, Gautam Bhan)
- Theatres of Justice (Deva Prasad, Debasis Poddar, Jhuma Sen, Sonal Makhija)
- Framing Constitutionalism (Prabhakar Singh, Smriti Upadhyay, Jaivir Singh, Durgambini Patel)
Session 7
Thursday, 30 December 2010
9.00 am - 10.45 am
- Religion and Constitutionalism in India (Abhik Majumdar, Gilles Tarabout)
- Speaking Evidence, Making Secrets (Mayur Suresh, Ruchi Chaturvedi, Devika Bordia, Pratiksha Baxi)
- In-sights: Aesthetics and Law (Namita Malhotra, Akshay Khanna, Pratibha Menon, Arnab Chatterjee)
- Gender/Governmentality/Violence (Vibhuti Ramachandran, Dina M. Siddiqi, Rebecca John, Prashant Iyengar)
- Sight Me If You Can: The Law in the Everyday (Priya Thangarajah, Vivek Shivakumar, Anusha Hariharan)
- Land and the Constitution (R. Rajesh Babu, Namita Wahi, Eesvan Krishnan, Nandini Nayak)
Session 8
Thursday, 30 December 2010
11.00 am - 1.00 pm
- On Impunity: Ram Narayan Kumar and Rhonda Copelon Memorial Panel (Anuradha Bhasin, Farah Naqvi, Navsharan Singh, Warisha Farasat)
- Law, Resistance and Change (Kamal Nayan Choubey, Jawahar Raja, Suneetha Achyuta)
- Affective Life of Law and Justice (Eleanor Newbigin, Sivakumar Arumugam, Alecia Simmonds, Sruti Chaganti)
- Water Law and Water Policy: Relationship in the Context of Water Law Reforms (K.J. Joy and Suhas Paranjape; Sachin Warghade, Subodh Wagle, Mandar Sathe, and Aditya Khebudkar, Philippe Cullet)
- Intellectual Property Rights in South Asia (Rahul Cherian and Joyojeet Pal, Ruchira Goswami, Joy Dasgupta, Anungla Aier, Tika Laxmi Gurung and Raquibul Amin, Sophy Joseph)
- Court-ing Law: Ethnographies of Court Practice (Vasudha Nagaraj, Anu Sharma, Gaia von Hatzfeldt, Daniela Berti)
- After the Naz Judgment: Examining Legal Controversies and Debates in the Wake of Section 377 (Tarunabh Khaitan, Arvind Narrain, Ashwini Sukthankar, Siddharth Narrain)