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B.A. LL.B. (University of Mumbai)


LL.M. (University of Warwick)


Ph.D. (Keele University)


 

Prof. (Dr.) Sameena Dalwai

Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Women, Law and Social Change

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Key Expertise Caste, gender and law Erotic labour, sexuality and law Cultural politics Identity politics Law and society in colonial and post-colonial India

B.A. LL.B. (University of Mumbai)


LL.M. (University of Warwick)


Ph.D. (Keele University)


 


Biography

Prof. (Dr.) Dalwai specializes in gender, sexuality and law. Her PhD thesis analyses the legal ban on dancing in the bars of Mumbai. In this work she focuses on sexuality and law during globalisation in India with a specific reference to caste capital of hereditary dancers. She has published in international journals, offered conference papers in many international conferences. Ms. Dalwai has worked as a lawyer with human rights organisations in Mumbai as well as health NGOs in rural Maharashtra. She envisioned and heads Development and Human Rights Institute (www.dhri.org ) a human rights education and exposure programme for students of western universities. Ms. Dalwai is a Research Consultant with Manndeshi Mahila Bank, where she is assisting research on financial inclusion of rural poor communities. She is a bi-linguial writer and her fortnightly column published in Marathi is called, “No Taboo Please”.

“Caste on UK shore: lessons from the diaspora” in Economic and Political Weekly, January 23, 2016, Vol. 51, Issue No. 4

“Caste in Legal Education: A survey of law schools in Delhi” in Asian Journal of Legal Education, NUJS, Calcutta (Forthcoming, January 2018)

“Caste as a framework to study Domestic Labour” a book chapter in Domestic Labour in India– Co-edited by Indranath Gupta and Upasana Mahanta, Orient Blackswan, (Forthcoming, April 2018)

“Babri Masjid- 25 years on” a Special Volume of the Indian Journal of Secularism coedited with Ramu Ramnathan and Irfan Engineer, to be published by Gyan Prakashan (Forthcoming, December 2017)

“Road safety via the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2016” in Law and Policy Brief, Volume 2, Issue 9, September 2016

“Dance bar ban: Doing feminist legal ethnography” in Social- Legal Review, NLS, Bangalore, Volume 12 (1), January 2016

“Caste and the Bar Dancer” in Economic and Political Weekly, November 30, 2013, Volume XLVIII, No 48, pp. 131, 132

“The world is not enough: From travelers and tourists to activist humanitarian volunteers.” Co-authored with Dr. Brendan Donegan Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice, Volume 4, No. 1, 2012

“The Field of Law, Gender and Sexuality: Inclusions and Exclusions” in Feminist Legal Studies, Volume 17, No 3, October 2009
Key Expertise Caste, gender and law Erotic labour, sexuality and law Cultural politics Identity politics Law and society in colonial and post-colonial India
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