Publications: PROF Ratna Kapur

Kapur R ( 2026 ) . From Necropolitics to Piety: TWAIL and the ‘Other’ Subject of Human Rights . American Journal of International Law vol. Book Review Special Issue , ( 1 )

Kapur R ( 2026 ) . Human Rights . The Globalization of World Politics 10e: An Introduction to International Relations , Edition. 10e , Oxford University Press

( 2025 ) . Religion . Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) , Edward Elgar Publishing

Kapur R, Cossman B ( 2025 ) . #MeToo, Speech, and Defamation (India,United States, and Pakistan) . #MeToo and the Politics of Transnational Feminism: An Anthology , NYU Press ( New York ),

Kapur R ( 2025 ) . TWAIL and Religion . Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law, Anghie A.T, Chimni, B.S., Fakhri, M. Nesiah, V., Mickelson, K. , Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2025) , Edward Elgar Publishers

Kapur R ( 2024 ) . The Sexual Subaltern and Law : Postcolonial Queer Imaginaries . Enticements Queer Legal Studies , NYU Press ( New York ),

Kapur R ( 2024 ) . "The Sexual Subaltern and Law: Postcolonial Queer Imaginaries” . Enticements: Queer Legal Imaginaries , Edition. 1st , New York University Press ( New York ),

Kapur R, Cossman B, Kapur R ( 2024 ) . #MeToo, Speech and Defamation . MeToo and Transnational Gender Justice (forthcoming 2024) , New York University ( New York ),

Kapur R ( 2024 ) . TWAIL and Alternative Visions: ‘Talking About a Revolution’: Afterword to the Foreword by Antony Anghie . European Journal of International Law vol. 34 , ( 4 )

Kapur R ( 2023 ) . TWAIL and Alternative Visions: ‘Talking About a Revolution’: Afterword to the Foreword by Antony Anghie . European Journal of International Law vol. 34 , ( 4 ) 771 - 778 .

Kapur R ( 2023 ) . The Ayodhya case, freedom of religion, and the making of modernist ‘Hinduism’ . Contemporary South Asia vol. 32 , ( 1 ) 10 - 25 .

Kapur R, Cossman B ( 2023 ) . Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India . Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd. ( New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London ),

Kapur R ( 2022 ) . “The First Feminist War in all of History”: Epistemic Shifts and Relinquishing the Mission to Rescue the “Other Woman” . AJIL Unbound vol. 116 , 270 - 274 .

Kapur R ( 2022 ) . Race-making, religion and rights in the post-colony: unmasking the pathogen in assembling a Hindu nation . International Journal of Law in Context vol. 18 , ( 4 ) 499 - 516 .

Kapur R ( 2021 ) . Transnational Law and Feminist Legal Theory . The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Law , Oxford University Press (OUP)

Kapur R ( 2020 ) . GENDER AND THE “FAITH” IN LAW: EQUALITY, SECULARISM, AND THE RISE OF THE HINDU NATION . Journal of Law and Religion vol. 35 , ( 3 ) 407 - 431 .

Kapur R ( 2020 ) . Secularisms others: the legal regulation of religion and hierarchy of citizenship . Constitutions and Religion , Edward Elgar Publishing

Kapur R ( 2020 ) . On violence, revolution and the self . Postcolonial Studies vol. 24 , ( 2 ) 251 - 269 .

Kapur R ( 2019 ) . The Radical Intellectual Legacy of Saba Mahmood . Radical Philosophy vol. 205 , 48 - 53 .

Kapur R ( 2019 ) . On Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl . Feminist Review vol. 122 , ( 2 ) 167 - 171 .

Kapur R, Cossman B ( 2019 ) . Subversive Sites 20 Years Later: Rethinking Feminist Engagements with Law . Australian Feminist Law Journal vol. 44 , ( 2 ) 265 - 287 .

Enloe C, Graff A, Kapur R, Walters SD ( 2019 ) . Ask a Feminist: Gender and the Rise of the Global Right . Signs vol. 44 , ( 3 ) 823 - 844 .

Graff A, Kapur R, Walters SD ( 2019 ) . Introduction: Gender and the Rise of the Global Right . Signs vol. 44 , ( 3 ) 541 - 560 .

Kapur R ( 2018 ) . Gender, alterity and human rights: Freedom in a fishbowl .

Otto D ( 2017 ) . Queering International Law, Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks . Taylor & Francis

Kapur R ( 2016 ) . Pluralism and Democracy in India: Debating the Hindu Right. Edited by Wendy Doniger and Martha C. Nussbaum . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. 400. $35.00 (paper). ISBN: 978-0195395532 . Journal of Law and Religion vol. 31 , ( 3 ) 406 - 410 .

Kapur R ( 2016 ) . (De)criminalizing queer lives: Viewing through a postcolonial optic . Routledge International Handbook of Criminology and Human Rights ,

Kapur R ( 2016 ) . Foucault and the Politics of Rights . UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES LAW JOURNAL vol. 39 , ( 4 ) 1472 - 1478 .

Kapur R ( 2015 ) . Precarious desires and ungrievable lives: human rights and postcolonial critiques of legal justice . London Review of International Law vol. 3 , ( 2 ) 267 - 294 .

Kapur R ( 2014 ) . The “Ayodhya” Case: Hindu Majoritarianism and the Right to Religious Liberty . Maryland Journal of International Law vol. 29 , 305 - 365 .

Kapur R ( 2012 ) . S. Pickering, Women, Borders, and Violence: Current Issues in Asylum, Forced Migration, and Trafficking . State Crime Journal vol. 1 , ( 1 ) 149 - 152 .

Kapur R, Cossman B ( 1996 ) . Subversive Sites Feminist Engagements with Law in India . SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited

Kapur R, Baylis J, Smith S, Owens P . Human Rights”, in John Baylis, Steve Smith and Patricia Owens, The Globalisation of World Politics, pp. 498-513 (London: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2019, 8th edition) . Oxford University Press

Kapur R . Under the Shadow of 'The Bullet': TWAIL Reflections on the 'Worth' of War and Peace . National University of Juridical Sciences Law Review vol. Symposium on TWAIL ,