Academic Writing
“An exemplary contribution to sensory and material jurisprudential practices and a bold approach to engaging with legal texts and materials and the lives entwined in them ...”
Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia citation for my paper ‘Contracting Love’, which won the Association’s Postgraduate Paper Prize in 2022.
My recent publications explore questions around the use of theatre as a method in legal research and as a tool in legal pedagogy, the practice of storytelling in strategic litigation, and practices of critical reading that might help us live in a world of escalating crises. This research has been published in journals across Australia (Australian Feminist Law Journal and Law Text Culture), the United States (Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Harvard Kennedy School LGBTQ Policy Journal and South Atlantic Quarterly), India (Socio-Legal Review and Economic and Political Weekly) and the UK (Law and Critique).
For a complete list of my publications, please refer to my CV.
Law Text Culture
The Law Scholar as Reparative Dramaturg
South Atlantic Quarterly
Legal Theatre: Staging Critique in the Law School
Australian Feminist Law Journal
A Tale of Two Judgments: The Afterlives of a Defeat and Victory for Queer Rights in India
HKS LGBTQ Policy Journal
Litigating India’s Anti- Sodomy Law
Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal
Coming Up ….
My book, Lawful Repair: Reimagining Law through Queer Dissent, is out with Duke University Press in May 2027. It asks how queer dissent can help us reimagine law, and follows the people who reworked law’s everyday forms in the shadow of Section 377.
Meanwhile, I’ve been exploring what queer reparative thinking might offer to the discourse on climate justice and how it might help us understand creative tactics through which extractivism is resisted. That’s the subject of a paper I’ve recently published with Dr. Arpitha Kodiveri, Assistant Professor at Vassar College.
My Taylor Swift curiosity (obsession) has produced two papers: one on the jurisprudence of Folklore, now published in the Media and Arts Law Review, and one on playful positionality, forthcoming in the Handbook of Law and Popular Culture.