Law, Justice, Society: Selected Works of Upendra Baxi

Widely regarded as one of the most eminent legal thinkers of his time, Upendra Baxi is a leading scholar on matters relating to human rights, legal and social theory, and comparative constitutional law and theory. A set of four volumes, Law, Justice, Society: Selected Works of Upendra Baxi documents and critically engages with his thoughts and writings over four decades. The volumes are a collection of Baxi’s essays and lectures centred on the major themes of his writings: human rights, constitutionalism, law and society, and legal education. Structurally, the essays in each volume are introduced by the volume editor, an expert in the field, who provides an assessment of Baxi’s works over the years. Each volume informs the reader with an interview conducted between the editor and Baxi, contextualizing the latter’s research and discussing the themes covered. The respective volumes essentially conserve and reflect on pedagogic and research contributions made by Baxi to the concepts of law, justice, and society.

The first volume, edited by Amita Dhanda, examines Baxi’s writings on the contemporary discourses on the nature of human rights. The second volume, edited by Arun Thiruvengadam, presents a selection of Upendra Baxi’s works on the broad theme of constitutionalism. The third volume, edited by Kalpana Kannabiran, presents a selection of Upendra Baxi’s work, illustrative of his intellectual engagements and writing over five decades, in the field of the sociology of Indian law. The fourth volume, edited by Amita Dhanda, shows how Baxi’s writings reflect his vision of studying law in context and training students as soldiers of constitutional justice.

Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law, Universities of Warwick and Delhi, Amita Dhanda, Professor Emerita, NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad, Arun Thiruvengadam, Professor of Law, National Law School of India University, Bengaluru, Kalpana Kannabiran, Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, New Delhi

The most acclaimed and respected legal scholar in India, Upendra Baxi is presently an Emeritus Professor of Law at the Universities of Warwick and Delhi. Having graduated from Rajkot (Gujarat University) and read law at the University of Bombay, he studied at the Law School at University of California at Berkeley, where he was awarded a Doctorate in Juristic Sciences. He taught at the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law at Sydney Law School (1969-1973). In 1973, he joined the University of Delhi. He was one of the youngest professors to have joined the Faculty of Law. Subsequently, he was Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Delhi (1975-1978). He continued teaching at the University of Delhi until 1994 (and has been Professor Emeritus since 2010). During this period, he also served as the Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University; Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Gujarat, Surat; the Honorary Director (Research) of the Indian Law Institute; and the President of the Indian

Society of International Law.