KAPUR, RATNA

Education

LL.M. Harvard Law School

B.A., M.A., Law, Cambridge University

Professional Experience

Ratna Kapur is Visiting Professor at the Yale Law School and at the Geneva School of Diplomacy.

She is Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, and lectures at the Indian Society for International Law.

From 2007 to 2008, she was the Senior Gender Advisor with the United Nations Mission in Nepal during the transition period.

Kapur practiced law for a number of years in New Delhi, and now teaches and publishes extensively on issues of international law, human rights, feminist legal theory and postcolonial theory.  She hasbeen part of the Global Visiting Faculty at New York University School of Law, visiting faculty at the United Nations Peace University (SanJose), Georgetown University Law Centre, the Indian Law Soceity (Pune)and the National Law School of India University. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School, Cambridge University, Zurich University (ETH), Helsinki University, Drake Law School, and the University of Miami School of Law. She has held a distinguished Chairin Human Rights at Dalhousie School of Law, Nova Scotia, as well as the Endowed Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker and Hostetler Chair in Law at Cleveland Marshal School of Law.

Professor Kapur also works as a legal consultant on issues of human rights and international law for various UN organizations, including OHCHR, ILO, and Unicef.

Professor Kapur is an Honorary Member of the Senior Society of Fellows, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science, a member of the International Advisory Board of Social and Legal Studies (UK), as well as Feminist Theory: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, (UK) and on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, University of British Columbia and the International Advisory Board, Routledge, Social Justice Series.

She is also on the International Experts Group of International Idea, advising on the drafting of the new Constitution in Nepal.

Courses taught

Gender, Health and Demography

Gender and Human Rights

Publications

• The Fear Factor: Gender, Belonging and the Legal Regulation of theMigrant (forth coming Routledge 2010)
• Erotic Justice: Law and the New Politics of Postcolonialism(Glasshouse Press, Cavendish Publishers, 2005).- Secularism’s Last Sigh? (co-authored, Oxford University Press, 2001)
• Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India (co-authored Sage, 1996).