Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice

Dispossessions, Marginalities, Rights

Kalpana Kannabiran editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:11th Jul '22

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This book offers a profound exploration of social justice and law in South Asia, making it essential for scholars and practitioners alike. Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice is a valuable resource.

This collection features some of the most insightful essays on social justice, rights, and public policy. The book, Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice, includes a new Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of various pressing issues, serving as a valuable resource for understanding law and socio-legal studies in South Asia. It delves into critical themes such as the jurisprudence of rights, justice, and dignity, while examining the complex dynamics of patriarchy, labor, and dispossession.

The fourteen chapters are thoughtfully organized into three sections, each exploring contested aspects of the constitution, courts, prisons, and land, as well as intricate processes of migration, trafficking, and digital technology. This multidisciplinary volume highlights the interplay between law and politics, offering diverse perspectives from prominent authors who have significantly contributed to academic and policy discussions in this field. Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice effectively foregrounds the plural lives and experiences shaped by legal frameworks.

This book is an essential read for students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners interested in a deeper understanding of law, particularly those focusing on marginality and violence. It is particularly relevant for those engaged in law, socio-legal studies, human rights, gender studies, and various other disciplines, including sociology and social anthropology. Furthermore, it will attract the attention of legal historians and professionals in public administration and development studies, making it a comprehensive resource for a wide audience.

'Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice will be of immense use to anyone whose study relates to social justice and public policy. Over seven decades after the Constitution came into force the community of transgenders, the sex workers, adivasis, women, children, the scheduled castes and tribes, are yet to realise their rights and live with fundamental human dignity. This volume compels practitioners and students of law to engage with these issues. Not dealing with rights in an abstract way, it engages with them in very practical terms, which is what we need if Constitutional rights are to be realised.'

V.S. Elizabeth, Tamil Nadu National Law University, Trichy, India

'Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice is an important and much needed collection of rich, textured, critical and updated articles on most significant themes in law. The narrative of marginalities, rights, justice and the legal systems emerge in a seamless flow. While each section is distinct, the continuity among them is very well brought out. This volume is ideal as a ready reckoner on important issues in law and justice in India.'

Ruchira Goswami, West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, India

Routledge Readings on Law and Social Justice offers comprehensive resource material for those interested in contemporary politico-legal scholarship. The contested sites of the constitution, courts, prisons, land or complex processes of migration, trafficking, or geographical indications and their entanglements are covered in this volume, which makes it a compelling read for any student of law, socio-legal studies, legal historian or practitioner of law. This volume foregrounds the politics and plural lives of/in law and becomes an essential reading for everyone who takes law, marginality and violence seriously. It will be of extraordinary interest to legal scholars and practitioners.

Rukmini Sen, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University Delhi, India

ISBN: 9781032269276

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 712g

380 pages