GALA - Gender And Law Association

Member Profiles - Dr. Kamala Sankaran

Contact: Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007 INDIA.
Email: kamala_sankaran@hotmail.com.

Books/ Monographs

  • Towards Legal Literacy: An Introduction to Law in India (Co-edited), on behalf of the BA Programme Committee, Delhi University (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2008).
  • Halsbury's Laws of India, Volume 30 on Industrial Law II (New Delhi, LexisNexis, 2007)
  • Labour Law in South Asia: Need for an Inclusive Approach, ILO/IILS, Geneva, 2007.
  • Halsbury's Laws of India, Volume 25 on Industrial Law (New Delhi, LexisNexis, 2006)
  • Halsbury's Laws of India, Volume 17 on Employment (Unorganised Labour), New Delhi, LexisNexis Butterworths, 2003).

Articles in books

  • 'Water in India- Constitutional Perspectives' in Ramaswamy R. Iyer (ed.) Water Law in India, published by Centre for Policy Research (forthcoming Sage, 2008).
  • 'Bonded Labour and the Courts' in Jan Breman, Isabelle Guerin and Aseem Prakash (eds.) Bonded Labour in India (forthcoming, Oxford University Press 2008).
  • Chapters on 'Seniority' and 'Promotion' in Indian Law Institute, Services under the State, second edition (New Delhi, Indian Law Institute, 2008).
  • 'Family, Work and Matrimonial Property: Implications for Women and Children', in Archana Parashar and Amita Dhanda (eds.), Towards and Inclusive Family Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Sivaramayya (New Delhi, Routledge 2008).
  • Protecting the Worker in the Informal Economy: The Role of Labour Law, in Guy Davidov and Brian Langille (eds.), Boundaries and Frontiers of Labour Law: Goals and Means in the Regulation of Work (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2006).
  • Women, Work and Empowerment in Anjali Gandhi (ed), Women's Work, Health and Empowerment, (New Delhi, Aakar Books, 2006).
  • Child Labour in India: Strategies for its Elimination, in Ved Kumari and Susan L. Brooks (eds.) Creative Child Advocacy, (New Delhi /Thousand Oaks/ London, Sage Publications 2004).
  • Unfair Labour Practices - An Overview in Labour Adjudication in India, Z.M. Siddiqi and M. Afzal Wani (eds.), (Indian Law Institute, New Delhi 2001)

Selected Journal articles

  • 'Special Provisions and Access to Socio-Economic Rights: Women and the Indian Constitution', South African Journal of Human Rights, 2007 (2).
  • 'From Brooding Omnipresence to Concrete Textual Provisions: The IR Coelho judgement and the Creation of a Hierarchy of Fundamental Rights' Journal of the Indian Law Institute, 2007.
  • 'Access to Justice or Delivery of Justice: Some Reflections on the Role of Legal Education', Delhi Law Review 2006.
  • 'Women and Law', Annual Survey of Indian Law, Indian Law Institute, Regular Contributor - 2003, 2004, 2006. ASIL 2007 (forthcoming).
  • Book Review of N.K. Chakrabarti and Shachi Chakrabarty (eds.) Gender Justice, Journal of the Indian Law Institute, Vol. 48 (2006).
  • 'Dealing with International Migration: Need for Gender Sensitive Migration Policy', Delhi Law Review, 2005.
  • Night Work by Women: How Should Special Protective measures for Women be Defined?, New England Journal of International and Comparative Law, Vol. 9, No. 2 (2003). Available at http://www.nesl.edu/intljournal/vol9/sankaran.pdf.
  • Labour Standards and the Informal Economy in South Asia: Need for a Rights Centred Approach, Delhi Law Review, Vol. 24 (2003).
  • The ILO, Women and Work: Evolving Labour Standards to Advance Women's Status in the Informal Economy, Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Vol. III, No. 3 (2002).
  • The Second Sex, Book Review of "The Fractured Scales: The Search for a Uniform Personal Code", Faustina Pereira, Biblio, Vol. 7, Nos. 11 & 12 (2002).
  • Book Review of "The Law Relating to Public Service", Samaraditya Pal, Delhi Law Review, Vol. 23 (2002).
  • Human Rights and the World of Work, Journal of the Indian Law Institute, Special Issue on Human Rights (1998).

Selected Conference Presentations

  • Legislation to Protect the Worker in the Indian Economy, WIEGO India China Research Workshop, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston, April 1-4, 2007. Available at www.wiego.org.
  • Discussant Paper presented at the International Conference on Access to Justice: Law, Policy and Institutions , LEARS, Yale Law School, UNDP New Delhi, August, 2006
  • Paper on Migration Policy in South Asia presented at the IOM, SARIQ, UNIFEM, USAID Regional Conference on Revisiting the Migration Trafficking Nexus, April 4-6, 2005, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • Gender Justice and Family Law: Economic Contribution of the Woman in the Family, paper presented at the Institute of Chinese Studies Workshop on Women & Family Law in India and East Asia, Delhi, 2004.
  • Decent Work, Women and Family: The Dilemma Facing the Employment Guarantee Law, National Institute of Rural Development Foundation Seminar, Hyderabad, November 2004.
  • Economic Growth, Employment Generation and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, (co-authored with TCA Anant), Background paper for ILO-CIE Conference on Globalisation, Decent Work and the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, February 24-25 2003, Kolkata, available at http://www-ilo-mirror.cornell.edu/public/english/region/asro/newdelhi/download/tcakamla.pdf
  • Models of Employment Relations in India. Paper presented at the Labour Law and the Informal Economy Working Group WEIGO Meeting, Geneva, June 2002.
  • Labour Standards and the Informal Economy in South Asia: Need for a Rights Centred Approach, Paper Presented at the Conference on Globalization, Labor and South Asian Communities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, November 9-10 (2001).