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With the landmark Delhi High Court victory in July 2009, sexuality and the law entered mainstream, legal and public discourse in India, inviting both celebration and resistance. How do we understand this conversation? The July judgement stands on the shoulders of a much longer history, argue the writers in this contemporary and critical volume on queering the law. A longer history that shapes, unsettles and challenges both legal and queer histories and begins new conversations on the intersections between bodies, politics, activism, sexuality, identity and law. Some playful, some critical and others reflective and irreverent, this unique collection of pieces brings the life, structures and institutions of law alive and shine with relevance in the contemporary moment.
ISBN: 978-9380403144
Arvind is a visiting faculty at the School of Policy and Governance.He has been involved with research, writing and practice related to law and social concerns. He has a bachelor’s in law from the National Law School of India University(NLSIU), followed by a master’s at the University of Warwick on a Chevening scholarship. He is currently in the process of doing his PHD on ‘Mapping the elements of an Ambedkarite jurisprudence’ at the NLSIU.
He is the author of co-editor of Law Like Love: Queer perspectives on law as well as the co-author of Breathing Life into the Constitution. He was also a part of the team of lawyers challenging Section 377 of the IPC right from the High Court in 2009 to the Supreme Court in 2018.
