Events & Speaking Engagements

TRAFFICKING
Current Legal Problems Lecture, UCL Faculty of Law, 2018

From Sex Panic to Extreme Exploitation: Prospects for a Gendered Approach to Trafficking”. Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne. 2016

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Roundtable presented by David Foster: Is India Failing its Women? July 2018

GOVERNANCE FEMINISM
On September 17 2018, the Harvard Law School Library hosted a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of Governance Feminism: An Introduction, edited by Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché and Hila Shamir

Centre for the Study of Law and Governance CSLG, Jawaharlal Nehru University
2016
OTHER TALKS
World Academic Summit 2017: the future of world-class research

EVENTS AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

  • Beyond Unfreedom: Bridging Silos in South Asia, South Asia Workshop on Trafficking, Forced Labour and Extreme Exploitation, in collaboration with the National Law School of India University, Bangalore. August 7-10 2017.
  • Beyond Trafficking and Slavery (BTS)-Global Alliance against the Traffic in Women (GAATW) Conceptual Clarity Workshop for partner organizations, Bangkok. August 16-20, 2017.
  • Transnational Lawyering and Judging: Evolving Concepts and Practices, Transnational Law Summer InstituteDickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London. Co-convened with Peer Zumbansen. June 21-30, 2016. 
  • Shifting Tides: Reimagining Sex Work, Law and Activism in the 21st Century, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London. Co-organised with Eva Klambauer with support from the Research Committee, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London. June 15, 2016.
  • Beyond the Domestic: Inaugural Transnational Law Summer Institute, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London. Co-convened with Peer Zumbansen under auspices of Transnational Law Institute. June 28-July 10, 2015
  • Workshop titled “Governance Feminism”, at Harvard Law School. Co-convened with Janet Halley, Rachel Rebouche and Hila Shamir. January 16-17, 2015
  • Workshop titled “Governance Feminism”, at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London. Supported by the School of Law. May 9, 2014
  • Dickson Poon Thought Salon titled “Future Directions in Anti-Trafficking Law”, at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London. May 6, 2014.
  • International Workshop titled “Shaping the Definition of Trafficking in the Palermo Protocol”, at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College, London. Supported by the School of Law and the King’s Policy Institute, King’s College London. May 7-8, 2014. 
  • International Workshop titled “Towards an Economic Sociology of Law”,at the SOAS School of Law, London. Supported by the Journal of Law and Society and School of Law, SOAS. September 19-20, 2012.
  • Author-Meets-Reader Panel discussing Janet Halley’s Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism. SOAS, supported by the Faculty for Law and Social Sciences, SOAS; Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS and the AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, Kent, Keele and Westminster Law Schools. October 8, 2007.
  • Organised for reviews from this event and from an Author-Meets-Reader panel at the Law and Society Association Meeting in Berlin 2007, published in 2010 as a Book Review Symposium in the International Journal of Law in Context, 6(1), 91-116.
  • Workshop titled “Towards a Theory of Law and Social Movements in India”, in Bangalore, India. Academics and activists from the US, UK and India included Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Raka Ray, Balakrishnan Rajagopal and Upendra Baxi. June 25-27, 2006.