Ramnath, Kalyani

Consultation/Advisory Hours

FALL 2024:  I am on research leave for 2024 - '25.

Education

Ph.D. Princeton University, 2018, LL.M (Yale Law School), 2010
BA, LLB (Hons.) National Law School of India University, 2009

Interests and Research

Publications

2023 Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration and Decolonization in South and Southeast Asia (Stanford University Press, 2023)

2023  “Other Partitions: Migrant Geographies, Disconnected Histories between India and Malaya, 1945 - 1965” , South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent (Elisabeth Leake and
Berenice Guyot-Rechard eds., Amsterdam University Press) [Amsterdam University Press]

2022 Making Maritime Boundaries in the Bay of Bengal, 40 (3) Law and History Review (2022) [Cambridge Journals]

2022 ‘Law and the Political Imaginary in Mid-Twentieth Century Southern India’, Political Imaginaries in Twentieth-Century India (Mrinalini Sinha and Manu Goswami eds., Bloomsbury UK) (Bloomsbury UK)

2021 Histories of Indian Citizenship in the Age of Decolonization, Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions [Cambridge Journals]

2020 ‘Intertwined Itineraries: Debt, Decolonization, International Law in Post-World War II South Asia’, 38 (1) Law and History Review (2020) [Cambridge Journals]

2016 ADM Jabalpur’s Antecedents: Political Emergencies, Civil Liberties and Arguments from Colonial Continuities in India, 31 (2) American University International Law Review (2016) [AUILR]

2013 ‘The Colonial Difference between Law and Fact: Notes on the Criminal Jury in India’, 50 (3) Indian Social and Economic History Review (2013) [Sage Publications]

2012 ‘We The People, Seamless Webs and Social Revolutions: Imagination and Expectation in the Constituent Assembly Debates of India’, 32(1) South Asia Research (2012) (reprinted in The Constituent Assembly Reader: Deliberations on Democracy (Udit Bhatia ed., Routledge Publishing, 2018) [Sage Publications]