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Vasuki Nesiah

Publications

Journal Articles

  • “The Specter of Violence That Haunts The UDHR: The Turn To Ethics And Expertise”, Maryland Journal Of International Law, Volume 24 (2009).
  • “Feminist Interventions: Human Rights, Armed Conflict and International Law,” Proceeding of ASIL 2009 (forthcoming)
  •  “Resistance in the Age of Empire” in Falk, Richard ed. Third World Quarterly Special Issue: Reshaping Justice: International Law and the Third World, Vol.27: Number 5, pp. 903-922. (2006).
  • “Gender and Transitional Justice: Reflections on Conversations in Bellagio”, Columbia Journal of Gender and the Law, (Spring 2006)
  • “From Berlin to Bonn: Militarization and Multilateral Decision-Making,” in Harvard Human Rights Law Journal (Spring 2004); To be republished in The Conflicting Sources of International Legitimacy, eds. Hilary Charlesworth and Jean-Marc Coicaud (Tokyo: United Nations University, forthcoming).
  • “Placing International Law: White Spaces on a Map” Leiden Journal of International Law (2003),16:1-35
  • “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: Third World Feminist Debates,” Journal of International Women’s Studies, Vol. 4 (May 2003); Re-published in Anthony Anghie et. al. eds., The Third World and International Order: Law, Politics and Globalization (Kluwer Law International: The Netherlands 2003)
  • “Overcoming Tensions between Family and Judicial Procedures”, International Review of the Red Cross, December 2002, Volume 84; No. 848
  • “Response to ‘Challenging Restorative Justice’ by Richard Wilson”, with Paul Van Zyl, Human Rights Dialogue, Series 2; No. 7; Winter 2002.
  • Territorial Sovereignty in ICJ Jurisprudence, 92 ASIL Proc. 376, April 1998.
  • “Feminist Internationality”, 16 Harvard Women's Law Journal 189-210, Spring 1993; Re-printed in Kapur, R, ed., Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains, Kali for Women: New Delhi 1996; And in Wing, Adrien K., ed., Global Critical Race Feminism: An International Reader, NYU Press: New York (1999).

Book Chapters

  • Missionary Zeal For A Secular Mission: Bringing Gender To Transitional Justice And Redemption To Feminism in Between Resistance And Compliance, Edited By Zoe Peterson And Sari Kuovo (forthcoming 2009)
  • Uncomfortable Alliances: Women, Peace And Security, in South Asian Feminisms, Edited By Ania Loomba And Ritty Lukose (forthcoming 2009)
  • The Princely Imposter: Stories of Law and Pathology in the Exercise of Emergency Powers in Emergency Powers in Asia: Comparative Constitutionalism, Ed. By Victor V. Ramraj & Arun K. Thiruvengadam eds., (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming 2009)
  • “Truth vs. Justice? Commissions and Courts”, in Jeff Helsing and Julie Mertus eds., Human Rights and Conflict, USIP (2006)
  • “Coming to Terms with Irreconcilable Truths”, in Elin Skaar, Siri Gloppen, and Astri Suhrke (eds.), Roads to Reconciliation, Lexington Books (2004)
  • “Human Rights and Sacred Cows: Framing Violence, Disappearing Struggles,” with Alan Keenan in Neve Gordon ed., From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Lexington Books (2004)
  • “Federalism and Diversity in India,” in Ghai, Yash ed., Autonomy and Ethnicity: Negotiating Competing Claims in Multi-Ethnic States, Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge, UK 2001. Presented at Conference on 'Comparative Federalism', Institute for Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, January 1998.

Encyclopedia Entries

  • “International Tribunal on Crimes against Women,” in Encyclopedia of Women in World History, New York: Oxford University Press, (2006).
  • ‘Free Trade Zones” in Encyclopedia of Globalization, NY: Routledge, 2006.

Handbooks and Resource Material for Teaching

  • “Gender and Truth Commissions: Principle, Policies and Procedures”, International Center for Transitional Justice, New York, NY (2006)
  • “Debates in the Feminist Movement”, Social Scientists’ Assoc., Sri Lanka 2003.

Editorial Board

  • Brown University Research Paper Series on International Law, Global Governance and Social Thought, 2009-present
  • Nivedini, A South Asian Journal Focused on Gender, 2005-present