Dr. Vasanthi Venkatesh

Publications

International Casteist Governance and the Dalit Radical Tradition: Reimagining a Counter-hegemonic Transnational Legal Order", Third World Approaches to International Law Review, Issue 3, 2022

“Radical Resistance in the Penumbra of the Law: Legal Mobilisation for Migrant Farm Workers under Neo-colonial Racial Capitalism", Osgoode Journal of Law and Social Policy, 2023 (Forthcoming)

"Rewriting India: The Construction of the 'Hindutva' Citizen in the Indian state," (co-authored with F. Ahmad), Third World Approaches to International Law Review: Reflections, No. 22, 2020.

"Confronting Myths: Agricultural Citizenship and Temporary Foreign Worker Programs." International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 2019. 

Mobilizing under “Illegality”: The Arizona Immigrant Rights Movement’s Engagement with The Law,” Harvard Latino Law Review, vol. 19, 2017.

"Criminalizing Sexual Violence Against Women in Intimate Relationships: State Obligations Under Human Rights Law" (symposium lead article co-authored with M. Randall). American Journal of International Law (AJIL) Unbound, vol. 109, 2015.

"Why Sexual Assault in Intimate Relationships Must be Criminalized as Required by International Human Rights Law: A Response to the Symposium Comments" (co-authored with M. Randall). American Journal of International Law (AJIL) Unbound, vol. 109, 2015.

The Right to No: The Crime of Marital Rape, Women 's Human Rights, and International Law,” (co-authored with M. Randall). Brooklyn Journal of International Law, vol. 41, no. 1, 2015.

Book Chapters

“Solidarities of Resistance: A Decolonized Legal Epistemology of Migration and Borders”, Racism, Antiracism Solidarity and Interdisciplinary Scholarship, edited by Jane Ku et al. (In Progress)

Pluralistic Legal Systems and Martial Rape: Cross-national Considerations.” The Right to Say No: Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, edited by M. Randall, J. Koshan, P. Nyaundi, Hart Publishing, 2017.

Normative and Human Rights Law Imperatives for Criminalising Intimate Partner Sexual Violence: The Marital Rape Impunity in Comparative and Historical Perspective” (co-authored with M. Randall). The Right to Say No: Marital Rape and Law Reform in Canada, Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, edited by M. Randall, J. Koshan, P. Nyaundi, Hart Publishing, 2017.

“Should the United States Congress adopt a guest-worker program?” Reference Encyclopedia on Contemporary Issues and People of Color Volume 5, edited by A. Huerta, N. Iglesias-Prieto, D. Brown, ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2015.