Prof. Ratna Kapur
LL.M. Harvard Law School
B.A., M.A., Law, Cambridge University
Ratna Kapur is Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, and
lectures at the Indian Society for International Law. Professor
Kapur.She was the Senior Gender Advisor with the United Nations
Mission in Nepal during the transition period from 2007 to 2008.
Kapur practiced law for a number of years in New Delhi, and now
teaches and publishes extensively on issues of international law,
human rights, feminist legal theory and postcolonial theory. She has
been part of the Global Visiting Faculty at New York University School
of Law, visiting faculty at the United Nations Peace University (San
Jose), Georgetown University Law Centre, the Indian Law Soceity (Pune)
and the National Law School of India University. She has been a
Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School, Cambridge University, Zurich
University (ETH), Helsinki University, Drake Law School, and the
University of Miami School of Law. She has held a distinguished Chair
in Human Rights at Dalhousie School of Law, Nova Scotia, as well as
the Endowed Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker and Hostetler Chair in Law at
Cleveland Marshal School of Law. Professor Kapur also works as a legal
consultant on issues of human rights and international law for various
UN organizations, including OHCHR, ILO, and Unicef.
Kapur’s forthcoming visit is to Yale Law School, (Fall Semester, 2010)
Professor Kapur is an Honorary Member of the Senior Society of
Fellows, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science, a member of the
International Advisory Board of Social and Legal Studies (UK), as well
as Feminist Theory: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, (UK)
and on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies,
University of British Columbia and the International Advisory Board,
Routledge, Social Justice Series. She is also on the International
Experts Group of International Idea, advising on the drafting of the
new Constitution in Nepal.
BOOKS:
- The Fear Factor: Gender, Belonging and the Legal Regulation of the
Migrant(forthcoming Routledge 2010)
- Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism
(Glasshouse Press, Cavendish Publishers, 2005).
- Secularism’s Last Sigh? (co-authored, Oxford University Press, 2001)
- Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India
(co-authored Sage, 1996).
Courses taught: Gender, Health and Demography, Gender and Human Rights
