Distinguished Professor @ SLS Pune

Ratna Kapur


Ratna Kapur is a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Global Legal Studies and Human Rights at Symbiosis Law School. She is also a Senior Faculty at the Institute of Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School. Professor Kapur writes and publishes on issues of feminist legal theory, postcolonial theory, human rights and international law. Her latest book is "Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl." She has also taught as a visiting professor in a large number of law schools around the world including Yale Law School, NYU School of Law, the UN Peace University, Melbourne School of Law, amongst others.

Ratna Kapur's co-authored classic and pathbreaking book Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India is now available online. The open access link to the the pdf version of the book available at: https://hdl.handle.net/1807/127053 

Professor Ratna Kapur
Symbiosis School of Law, Pune
email: ratna.kapur@symlaw.ac.in