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Jhuma Sen

Prof Jhuma Sen is an Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Director, Centre for Human Rights Studies and Assistant Director, Mooting and Advocacy at the Jindal Global Law School. Her research interests lie at the intersection of courts and gender, citizenship and constitutionalism and transnational feminist movements and law reforms. She interrogates the multiple ways in which courts and the legislature accommodate, negotiate, resist or facilitate the agenda of the postcolonial nation state. Her current research has two broad themes. She uses the framework of governance feminism to locate how gender is enframed in law at the ‘workplace’ and how ‘workplace’ is regulated and engendered by the courts and the legislature. More broadly, she also looks at the women’s movement in India, and the feminist legal interventions in the 1970s and beyond that informed/transformed the processes of legal reform by the legislature and the courts. Her work also embraces partition historiography, especially in mapping the multiple ways in which the ‘process’ of partition shaped and modified postcolonial India’s legal (and constitutional) order. She convenes the Indian Feminist Judgment Project, a project that situates writing alternative judgments to judgments that could have been written better or written differently by using a feminist lens. She holds an undergraduate law degree from Symbiosis Law School (Pune), and a postgraduate law degree from University of California (Berkeley). She has also been an American Association of University Women’s International Fellow and a member of Translocal Law Research Group (King’s College, London) and a researcher with South Asia Institute (Harvard University) project titled ‘The 1947 Partition of British India: Humanitarian and Demographic Consequences’. She has been a Visiting/Research Fellow with Cornell Law School (USA), Erik Castren Institute (Helsinki) and National University of Singapore (Singapore).

Governing Islam by Julia Stephens: A Response from Jhuma Sen

On July 31, 2019 By Jhuma Sen In Bombay High Court, Book Review, Constitutional Law, Governance, Religion, Supreme Court of India, Women's Rights

(As part of our blog round-table book discussion, this is the third of the substantive responses to Julia Stephen’s Governing Islam: Law, Empire and Secularism in South Asia, by Professor Jhuma Sen.) Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and …

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