Prof. (Dr.) Sumit Baudh

• Constitutional Law
• Criminal Law
• Public International Law
• Human Rights Law
• Jurisprudence
• Critical Race Theory
• South Asian studies race, caste,religion, sex, gender and sexuality.

At the JGU /JGLS (2017-present)

Core courses: 

• Constitutional Law 1/2 Fundamental Rights
• Constitutional Law 2/2 Federalism and Separation of Powers
• Law and Social Transformation

Elective courses:

• Critical Race Theory and Caste
• Intersectionality, Application and Analyses
• Caste, Law and Representation
• Ambedkar Summer School, 2024, Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS) in collaboration with Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, South Asia, Lake Resort, Nainital, Uttarakhand, June 2-5.
• Faculty, Sexuality, Gender and Rights Institute (SGRI), various dates annually. Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA). Delhi, India (2008 – 2012)
• Faculty, Training Course for Capacity Building of NGOs engaged in Prevention and Management of HIV/AIDS (February 3). Department of Social Sciences, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare. Delhi, India (2009)
• Faculty, Regional Training on Sexuality, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (February 15). South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality. Manesar, Haryana, India (2008)
• Law Module, Pedagogy for Social Peace and Civic Restraint, Teaching Assistant, Peace Course, Aman Trust. Delhi, India (2004)

• Visiting Scholar, School of Law, the Center for International and Comparative Law (2023-24)
• Fulbright-Nehru Chair on Civil and Human Rights, Emory University, Atlanta (2022 – 23)
• Dean’s Tuition Fellowship financial aid award, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), School of law (2013 – 16)
• Transnational Law Institute Fellow, King’s College London (2016)
• Fellow, Center for Intersectionality & Social Policy Studies, Columbia Law School, New York (2015 – 16)
• Grant award from Human Capability Foundation, United Kingdom for doctoral research at UCLA (2015)
• University of California Human Rights Fellowship award, Human Rights Center, Berkeley School of Law (2014)
• Michael D. Palm fellowship award, The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law (2013 – 14 )
• British Chevening Scholarship for one year of Masters study in the UK (2001 – 02)
• Merit-cum-Means Scholarship, National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru (1994-95, 1995-96 and 1997-98)

SCOPUS INDEXED

• Demarginalizing the Intersection of Caste, Class, and Sex (2021), JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS. 20:1, 127-142. (available at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14754835.2020.1858402?journalCode=cjhr20)
• Invisibility of “Other” Dalits and Silence in the Law (2017), Shankar, S. and Gupta, C. (Eds). Caste and Life Narratives. BIOGRAPHY, 40:1, 222-243 (available at https://muse.jhu.edu/article/666058)
• Sodomy in India: Sex Crime or Human Right? (2006) SEXUALITY MATTERS. Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Bulletin: 37/5. University of Sussex (available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2006.tb00303.x)

NON-SCOPUS INDEXED JOURNAL ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS AND INSTITUTIONAL REPORTS

• A Passing of the Past, An Epistolary Rumination 1/n Caste and Legal Education (2023), ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL WEEKLY (EPW) ENGAGE, 58:52 (available at https://www.epw.in/engage/article/passing-past-epistolary-rumination-1n-caste-and)
• Transcript – XIII NLSIR Symposium – Session 1 (2020), NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA REVIEW. 32:2 (co-authored with Sudhir Krishnaswamy & Sukumar N., available at https://repository.nls.ac.in/nlsir/vol32/iss2/9)
• Invisibility of “Other” Dalits and Silence in the Law (2019). Shankar, S. and Gupta, C. (Ed.), CASTE AND LIFE NARRATIVES. New Delhi: Primus Books. Pp. 228-249
• Decriminalisation of consensual same-sex sexual acts in the South Asian Commonwealth: struggles in contexts (2013). Lennox C, Waites M (Eds). HUMAN RIGHTS, SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY IN THE COMMONWEALTH. London: School of Advanced Study. Pp 287-311 (available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv512st2.14?seq=1)
• ‘Etch it upon your hearts, this is what I am.’ Life at an intersection: caste, gender, and sexuality (2011). STATE OF WORLD MINORITIES. London: Minority Right Groups International. Pp 145-146
• Documenting the Growth of Community Action Among Sexual Minority Groups in India (2009), lead author, UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, India, available at http://orinam.net/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Documenting-the-Growth-of-Community-Action-among-Sexual-Minority-Groups-in-India.pdf
• Human Rights Interrupted (2008) Cornwall A, Corrêa S, Jolly S (Eds). DEVELOPMENT WITH A BODY. New York: Zed Book. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Pp 93-103 (available at https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/development-with-a-body-sexuality-human-rights-and-development/ch8-human-rights-interrupted-an-illustration-from-india)
• Human Rights and the Criminalisation of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts in the Commonwealth, South and Southeast Asia (2008). New Delhi: THE SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA RESOURCE CENTRE ON SEXUALITY (available at http://bibliobase.sermais.pt:8008/BiblioNET/Upload/PDF4/002996.pdf)
• Police as a service organisation – an agenda for change: Report of international conference on police reform in East Africa (2003) with co-author, Joshua Aurbach. COMMONWEALTH HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE, New Delhi.
• Corporate Criminal Liability – A Review in light of TATA-ULFA Nexus (1998) The Student Advocate: 10. Bangalore: NLSIU. Pp 44-51

OTHER 

• Rohith Vemula And His ‘Dalit’ Identity: Reality vs Fiction (2024). Opinion, NDTV, May 9. (available at https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/rohith-vemula-and-his-dalit-identity-reality-vs-fiction-5622717)
• Ashoka University Protests: On Casteism And Appeals Against It (2024). Opinion, NDTV, Mar. 30. (available at https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/ashoka-university-protests-on-casteism-and-appeals-to-anti-casteism-5337726)
• Sub-Grouping SCs | ‘Prioritise’, Not Prefer, Treating More Injured (2024). Opinion, NDTV, Feb. 12. (available at https://www.ndtv.com/opinion/india-supreme-court-sub-classifying-scs-scheduled-castes-lets-prioritise-not-prefer-treating-the-more-injured-first-5041896)
• The invisibilising of queer Dalits in Yashica Dutt’s 2019 memoir (2024), Frontline, Jan. 12. (available at https://frontline.thehindu.com/books/essay-sumit-baudh-invisibilising-of-queer-dalits-in-yashica-dutt-2019-memoir-coming-out-as-dalit-made-in-heaven-radhika-apte/article67733977.ece)
• This Constitution Day, Consider the Queer Dalit (2023), Opinion, The Wire, Nov. 26. (available at https://thewire.in/rights/queer-dalit-constitution-day-delhi-pride)
• Marginalities Aren’t Hermetically Sealed. The Decade-Old ‘NALSA’ Judgment Ignores This (2023), Opinion, The Wire, Oct. 10. (available at https://thewire.in/caste/caste-gender-queer-nalsa-judgment-transgender)
• Made in Heaven appropriated queer ‘coming out’ and so did Yashica Dutt, writes Sumit Baudh (2023), Opinion, ThePrint, Sep. 21. (available at https://theprint.in/opinion/made-in-heaven-appropriated-queer-coming-out-and-so-did-yashica-dutt-writes-sumit-baudh/1771206/)
• ‘Bahujan’, not ‘backward’- How to fix regressive legal language related to caste and class (2023), Opinion Column, Indian Express, Sep. 6. (available at https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/how-to-fix-regressive-legal-language-related-to-caste-and-class-8926915/)
• “I felt like an outcaste in more than one way,” (2023), Hindustan Times, Sep 6. (available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/18YW0-KCeqz8Le0TSUKu8_eO1U34aBvBQ/view?usp=sharing)
• Hindi cinema has been woefully inadequate in representation of Dalit, Adivasi, Bahujan characters, says Professor Sumit Baudh (2023), Times of India, Aug. 30. (available at https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/hindi-cinema-has-been-woefully-inadequate-in-representation-of-dalit-adivasi-bahujan-characters-says-professor-sumit-baudh/articleshow/103212553.cms?from=mdr)
• Union of Trinity: Equality, Liberty and Fraternity (2022), Features, The Satysahodhak, Aug. 3. (available at https://thesatyashodhak.com/union-of-trinity-equality-liberty-and-fraternity/)
• I am Dalit, not SC (2016), Op-Ed, The Indian Express, Aug. 27. (available at https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/rohith-vemula-dalit-scheduled-caste-treatment-suicide-opinion-2998129/)
• Roll call of shame (2016), Op-Ed, The Indian Express, Jan. 25. (available at https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/rohith-vemula-suicide-discrimination-against-dalit-students/)
• Groom For Groom (2015), Editorial, The Indian Express, May 25. (available at https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/editorials/groom-for-groom/)
• In the conversion noise, the silence (2015), Op-Ed, The Indian Express, Jan. 21. (available at https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/in-the-conversion-noise-the-silence/)
• Reflections of a Queer Dalit (2007). InPlainspeak. Issue 3. New Delhi: The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality.
• Reel Review Babel (2007), InPlainspeak. Issue 1. New Delhi: The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality.
• Book Review of Because I Have A Voice (2006). InPlainspeak. Issue 1. New Delhi: The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality.
• A Gay God? (2003) South Africa: Behind the Mask
• In Bad Company – Corporate Culture and Criminal Responsibility (1998). The Corporate Counsel. The Economics Times, Jan. 10 (formerly as Nimbekar, Sumit)

Paper presentations at conferences etc. 

• Dalit and LGBTQ Identities and Citizenship, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Oxford Department of International Development and The Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme, South Asia Day: Political Thought in South Asia, May 20, 2016.
• Invisibility of queer Dalits in the law and social movements in India, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), Centre for Gender Studies, May 18, 2016.
• Use of Personal Narrative in Critical Race Theory and the Silence of Legal Theory on Caste, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, KINGS COLLEGE LONDON (KCL) SCHOOL OF LAW, Transnational Law Institute Methods Lab., May 17, 2016.
• Intersectionality: Knowing and Doing, panel discussion co-organized by JAGORI and SANGAT (women’s NGOs), India International Centre Annexe, New Delhi, Aug. 17, 2015.
• Creating collaborative spaces and partnership opportunities to address the issue of sexual harassment: legal erasure of Dalit women, BREAKTHROUGH (human rights NGO), India Islamic Centre, New Delhi, Mar. 12, 2015.
• Legal Invisibility of Other Dalits, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY, University of California Human Rights Fellowship Conference, Nov. 7, 2014.
• Law at the Intersection of Caste, Gender and Sexuality: Legal Invisibility of Other Dalits, UCLA, SCHOOL OF LAW, The Williams Institute, Los Angeles, Oct. 14, 2014.
• Beyond Sochi: A Conversation on the State of LGBTQ International Human Rights, UCLA, SCHOOL OF LAW, OUTLaw and International Human Rights Law Association, Los Angeles, Apr. 14, 2014.
• Dalit Castes and Queer Sexualities in India, HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE, 2nd Asia-Pacific Outgames, Wellington, New Zealand, Mar. 17, 2011.
• Working Paper: Criminalisation of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts in the Commonwealth, South and Southeast Asia, INSTITUTE OF COMMONWEALTH STUDIES (ICS) and Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), LGBT rights in the Commonwealth, London, Jan. 17, 2011
• Working Paper: Criminalisation of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts in the Commonwealth, South and Southeast Asia, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS, 2nd World Outgames, Copenhagen, Denmark, Jul. 28, 2009.
• Working Paper: Transgender Issues in South and Southeast Asia, NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE, Beginning a Global Dialogue on Transgender Rights, A Meeting of The Global Dialogue on Sexual Health and Well Being, New York, Apr. 17, 2008.
• Working Paper: Criminalisation of Consensual Same-Sex Sexual Acts in the Commonwealth, South and Southeast Asia, HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE, 1st Asia-Pacific Outgames. Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 31, 2008.
• Human rights and the criminalisation of consensual sex in India, BRAC UNIVERSITY, JAMES P. GRANT SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH, International Conference on Gender & Sexuality, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jul. 28, 2007.
• Reflections of a Queer Dalit, KEELE UNIVERSITY, Gender unbound: an international conference on law, gender and sexuality, Keele, UK, Jul. 10, 2007.
• Human rights and the criminalisation of consensual sex in India, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LGBT HUMAN RIGHTS, 1st World Outgames, Montreal, Canada, Jul. 28, 2006.
• Realizing Sexual Rights: Human rights and the criminalisation of consensual sex in India, UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton-Hove, UK, Sep. 29, 2005.

• Caste, Constitution and Democracy in India: Commemorating the 133rd Birth Anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar, O.P. JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITY, Jindal Global Law School, Ambedkarite studies, Sonipat, Apr. 19, 2024
• Queer Methodology: Theory, Praxis, Politics. And the Law? UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, O.P. JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITY, Jindal Global Law School, The Centre for Justice, Law and Society, and The Centre for Women’s Rights, Queer Research Methodology Workshop, New Delhi, Nov. 3, 2023.  
• The Intersections of Caste, Gender, and Identity EQUALITY LABS and Airbnb, Oakland, California, via Zoom session on Aug. 29, 2023. 
• American Caste: The University and its Exclusions, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia Journalism School, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Teachers College, New York, Apr. 16, 2023. 
• Re-Caste-ing the Use of English Language, EMORY UNIVERSITY, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, The Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA), the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS), Roundtable with graduate students and faculty, Atlanta, Mar. 15, 2023. 
• One hundred years of Bhagat Singh Thind (1923): a comparative review of Civil and Human Rights in India and in the United States—from a Critical Race and Dalit perspective, EMORY UNIVERSITY, School of Law, Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Works in Progress Session, Atlanta, Mar. 1, 2023. 
• Institutional discrimination against Dalit, Adivasi and Bahujan faculty within the Academia in India, NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY (NLSIU), Bengaluru, Jul. 24, 2021.
• Engendering Caste, Sexualizing Race, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, ASHOKA UNIVERSITY, respective Centers for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, webinar series Theory and Practice: Transnational Conversations, Nov. 11, 2020.
• Affirmative Action Pride, ALL INDIA QUEER ASSOCIATION (AIQA) Study Circle, National Webinar on Gender Sexuality and Queer Issues in India, Jun. 21, 2020.
• Champakam Dorairajan at 70: Defining Moment of Indian Constitution, ILS LAW COLLEGE, Center for Public Law, Pune, India, Jun. 20, 2020.
• Reservations: Rethinking Roots in Constitutionalism, NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA REVIEW (NLSIR) and Samvād Partners, NLSIU, Bangaluru, India, Dec. 8, 2019.
• “Me, Us and Them”–enhancement programme for students be aware of their self, impact of social realities on their “I” and self-expression through creative means, INSTITUTE OF LAW, NIRMA UNIVERSITY, Supplementary Course, Feb. 26, 2019.
• Invisibility of “Other” Dalits and Silence in the Law, SOUTH ASIAN UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF LAW, Faculty of Legal Studies (FLS) Seminar Series, New Delhi, India, Nov. 9, 2017.
• Can we measure LGBTI inclusion? UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, Salzburg Global Seminar, Being LGBTI in Asia, Chiang Rai, Thailand, Oct. 3, 2016.
• Queering Dalit History Month: A Survey of the Legal Battle for Queer Dalit Liberation, Boalt Hall, SCHOOL OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY, Apr. 11, 2016.
• Juggling between experiential and classroom teaching, NIRMA UNIVERSITY, INSTITUTE OF LAW, Faculty Refresher Program, Pedagogical Innovations and Best Practices for Skill Based Legal Education, Ahmedabad, India, Jun. 15, 2015.
• Invisibility of Other Dalits in Law and Social Movements & Changing the climate for the Indian LGBT community, panel discussion on the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia panel discussion, EMBASSIES OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS AND THE UNITED KINGDOM, AND THE EUROPEAN UNION DELEGATION, New Delhi, India, May 22, 2015.
• Status of Sexual Minorities in India, DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) AND MEMBER STATES EMBASSIES IN DELHI, EU Human Rights Working Group, EU-India Civil Society Consultations – in preparation of the EU-India Human Rights Dialogue and India’s Universal Periodic Review, Delhi, Mar. 13, 2012.
• Status of Sexual Minorities in India, Working Group on Human Rights in India, and the United Nations WGHR, in collaboration with NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY DELHI, National Consultation on the Universal Periodic Review Process, Oct. 12, 2011.
• The condition of Sexual Minorities in India, EMBASSY OF FRANCE, Alliance Française, Delhi, Jul. 7, 2011.
• Decriminalization of homosexuality in India, THE GAY AND LESBIAN COALITION OF KENYA (GALCK), Decriminalization of homosexuality in Kenya, Nairobi, Apr. 3, 2011.
• Judicial decriminalization of consensual sexual acts in India, UK DEPARTMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (DFID), Delhi, Jul. 10, 2009.
• South Asian Human Rights Association of Marginalized Genders and Sexualities, WORLD CONGRESS on Human Rights, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity, Co-convened by the Governments of France, the Netherlands, and Norway. Paris, May 15, 2009.
• Human rights and the criminalisation of consensual sex in India, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, Miranda House (college), Department of Sociology, Delhi, Nov. 27, 2008.
• Human rights and the criminalisation of consensual sex in India, SWEDISH MINISTRY FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS, Expert Group on Development Issues, Sexuality, Development, and Human Rights, Stockholm, Apr. 6, 2006.
• Human rights and the criminalisation of consensual sex in India, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI, Lady Shri Ram College, Women’s Development Cell, Dec. 17, 2005
• Human rights and the criminalisation of consensual sex in India, NARIPOKKHO (women’s NGO), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nov. 25, 2005.

Workshops and training programmes organised and attended.

• Caste and Life Narratives, Biography Workshop and Special Issue, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA, USA, Aug. 31 – Sep. 2, 2016.
• Law at the Intersection of Caste, Gender and Sexuality, Roundtable presentation, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF DALIT STUDIES (IIDS) AND THE FORD FOUNDATION, India International Center, Delhi, Aug. 6, 2014.
• Law at the Intersection of Caste, Gender and Sexuality, IINDIAN INSTITUTE OF DALIT STUDIES (IIDS), Delhi, Jul. 5, 2014.
• Law at the Intersection of Caste, Gender and Sexuality, NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY, Bangalore, Center for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Jul. 17, 2014.
• Dalit Castes and Queer Sexualities in India, Sexuality without Borders: Dialogues on Pleasure. EVENING PRIMROSE EDUCATION AND CARE CENTRE, AND PINK SPACE SEXUALITY RESEARCH CENTER. Beijing, China, May 12, 2013.
• Reflections on Caste Based Discrimination and Laws in India, with Prof. S. Japhet. INDIANA UNIVERSITY MAURER SCHOOL OF LAW, USA, NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL OF INDIA UNIVERSITY (NLSIU), Bangalore, and Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, International Conference on Diversity, Discrimination and Social Exclusion  in India & the USA., Oct. 23, 2012.
• Law, Constitution and Social Justice, PONDICHERRY UNIVERSITY, Department of Philosophy, CPR National Workshop on Issues in Ambedkar Studies, Jul. 24, 2012.
• Coordinator, Research Methodology Course on Social Exclusion and Discrimination, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF DALIT STUDIES, New Delhi and Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, NLSIU, Bangalore. Supported by the INDIAN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (ICSSR), New Delhi. Held at NLSIU, Bangalore, May 31 – June 2, 2012.

Consultancy assignments.

• LLH Norway, Annual report of South Asian Human Rights Association of Marginalized Genders and Sexualities (SAHRA) 2016, and legal registration of SAHRA, 2011
• Arcus Foundation, New York, ‘Potential investment on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) human rights in India,’ 2015
• United Nations Development Program, India, lead author, Documenting the Growth of Community Action Among Sexual Minority Groups in India (2009), available at http://orinam.net/content/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Documenting-the-Growth-of-Community-Action-among-Sexual-Minority-Groups-in-India.pdf
• Minority Rights Group International, London, contributor to annual report, ‘State of World Minorities,’ 2011
• International Development Research Center, Canada, lead researcher for a book project on rural poverty, 2010
• Ford Foundation, USA, lead researcher for a book project on HIV/AIDS, 2010
• CARE India, consultant, evaluation of SAKSHAM (project on sex workers coalition), 2009
• Occasional /honorary advisor to various foreign missions in New Delhi: European Union (E.U.) Delegation to India 2011 and 2015, the embassies of the United Kingdom, France and Canada 2009-12, the United States (U.S.), and the United Nations Working Group on Human Rights (WGHR) India 2011