[*This also contains working papers which have been circulated and articles published in smaller journals other than daily newspapers (which are indexed separately)]
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| 1. | R. Dhavan : | “Is India a federal State?” (1966) Allahabad Law Journal 62-67 |
| 2. | R. Dhavan : | “Legislative simplicity and interpretative complexity” – A comment on the Renton Committee Report on the ‘The Preparation of Legislation’ (1976) 5 Anglo American Law Review 64-67. (Note: This was also reprinted in (1975) 11 Banaras Law Journal 92-95) Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 3. | R. Dhavan : | “Contempt of Court and the Phillimore Committee Report” (1976) 5 Anglo American Law Review 186-253. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 4. | R. Dhavan : | “Professionalisation and English Legal Education” (1976) I S.C.W.R. (Jnl.) 13-24. |
| 5. | R. Dhavan : | “Socio-Legal Research in India – a comment and some proposals for a new Law Commission” (1976) II S.C.W.R. (Jnl.) 21-34. |
| 6. | R. Dhavan : | “Reforming the Indian Constitution: The Swaran Singh Proposals” (1976) II S.C.W.R. (Jnl.) 35-66. |
| 7. | R. Dhavan : | “Nazi decrees and their validity – an English decision” (1978) 7 Anglo-American Law Review 3-12: (1976) 12 Banaras Law Journal 151-161. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 8. | R. Dhavan : | “Engrafting the Ombudsman idea on a parliamentary democracy – A comment on the Lokpal Bill, 1977” (1977) 19 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 257-282. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 9. | R. Dhavan, Alice Jacob : | “The Dissolution Case: Politics at the Bar of the Supreme Court” (1977) 19 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 355-91. |
| 10. | R. Dhavan : | “Juristic Ethnology of Kesavananda’s case” (1977) 19 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 489-497. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 11. | R. Dhavan : | “The Supreme Court and Hindu Religious Endowments”, (1978) 20 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 52-102. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 12. | R. Dhavan, Alice Jacob : | “Introduction to some Basic Contemporary Themes” (1978) in Rajeev Dhavan and Alice Jacob (ed.): Indian Constitution: Trends and Issues (New Delhi, Indian Law Institute) 3-12. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 13. | R. Dhavan : | “The Basic Structure doctrine – a footnote comment” (1978) in Rajeev Dhavan and Alice Jacob (ed.): Indian Constitution: Trends and Issues (New Delhi, Indian Law Institute) 160-178. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 14. | R. Dhavan : | “Existing and Alternative Models of Obscenity Law Enforcement” (1978) in Rajeev Dhavan and C. Davies (ed.): Censorship and Obscenity (London, Martin Robertson) 56-75. |
| 15. | R. Dhavan, Alice Jacob : | “Forum: Centre-State Relations” (1978) XII Indian Political Science Review 229-233. |
| 16. | R. Dhavan : | “The Morality of Trade – A Socialist Supreme Court’s Animadversions to rural debt collectors” (1978) I S.C.C. (Jnl.) 10-24. |
| 17. | R. Dhavan : | “Amending the Amendment: The Constitution (Forty Fifth Amendment) Bill, 1978” (1978) 20 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 249-272. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 18. | R. Dhavan, N.S. Nahar : | “The Compensation Conundrum- Socialism at the Bar of the Supreme Court” (1978) 20 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 408-437. |
| 19. | R. Dhavan, Alice Jacob : | “The Appointment of Supreme Court Judges and Contemporary Politics in India” (1978) 1 Cochin University Law Review 15-32. |
| 20. | R. Dhavan : | “The law of contempt” (1977) XIV Vidura 313-317. |
| 21. | R. Dhavan : | “The British Double-think” (1975) XI Socialist India 5-6. |
| 22. | R. Dhavan : | Book Review of R. Stead: The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use of Regulations): A Digest of Accident Cases (1977) 6 Anglo American Law Review 130. |
| 23. | R. Dhavan, Balbir Singh : | “Publish and be damned – The contempt power and the press at the Bar of the Supreme Court” (1979) 21 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 1-30. |
| 24. | R. Dhavan : | “On the future of western law and justice in India: Reflections on the Predicament of the Post-Emergency Supreme Court”, (1981) 8 Journal of the Bar Council of India 61-86. |
| 25. | R. Dhavan : | “The need for a new kind of Law Commission and new horizons of legal policy research in India” (1978) 14 The Banaras Law Journal 125-130. |
| 26. | R. Dhavan : | “Judicial Law making and “committed Judges”: Doctrinal differences in the Supreme Court and a recent case” (1977-78) Delhi Law Review 24-47. |
| 27. | R. Dhavan : | “Borrowed Ideas: On the impact of American Scholarship on Indian Law” (1985) 33 The American Journal of Comparative Law 505-526. |
| 28. | R. Dhavan : | “For Whom? And For What? Reflections on the Legal Aftermath of Bhopal” (1985) 20 Texas International Law Journal, (295-306). |
| 29. | R. Dhavan : | “Legitimating Government Rhetoric: Reflections on Some Aspects of the Report of the Second Press Commission” (1984) 26 Journal of the Indian Law Institute, 391-423 Note: The original title was “Transparent Humbug: Reflections on some aspects of the Report of the Second Press Commission”. However, led by U. Baxi, PA Desai, Alice Jacob, a special meeting was called to remove the words “Transparent Humbug” at the third proof stage. This was an exercise of petty censorship and power play. |
| 30. | R. Dhavan : | “On the Law of the Press in India”, (1984) 26 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 288-332. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 31. | R. Dhavan : | “Somewhere in Between – The Predicament of the National Association for Asian Youth” Published by NAAY 105-115 |
| 32. | R. Dhavan, Ravi Jain : | ““Temptations”, “Traps” and “Spaces” in the Fight against Inequality” Published in NAAY 51-66. |
| 33. | R. Dhavan, Alice Jacob : | “Law, Legal Language and Social Reality”, (1983) 10 Indian Bar Review 379-398. |
| 34. | R. Dhavan : | “Judging the Judges” in R. Sudarshan and S. Khurshid (ed): Judges and the Judicial Power: Essays in Honour of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1982) 5-38. |
| 35. | R. Dhavan : | “Judges and Accountability” in R. Sudarshan and S. Khurshid (ed): Judges and the Judicial Power: Essays in Honour of Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 1982) 165-179. |
| 36. | R. Dhavan : | “Legal Research in India: The Role of Indian Law Institute” (1985) 27 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 223-252: (1986) 34 The American Journal of Comparative Law 527-549. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 37. | R. Dhavan : | “Marc Galanter’s Competing Equalities” (July 1986) Vol.8 No. 3 Law and Policy 365-377 |
| 38. | R. Dhavan, J. Cooper : | “Introduction” (1987) in J. Cooper & R. Dhavan (ed) Introducing Public Interest Law (Oxford, Blackwell) 3-16. |
| 39. | R. Dhavan : | “Whose Law? Whose Interest?” (1987) in J. Cooper & R. Dhavan (ed) Introducing Public Interest Law (Oxford, Blackwell) 17-48. |
| 40. | R. Dhavan, Martin Partington : | “Co-optation or Independent Strategy? The Role of Social Action Groups” (1987) in J. Cooper & R. Dhavan (ed.) Public Interest Law (Oxford, Blackwell), 235-260. |
| 41. | R. Dhavan, J. Cooper : | Bibliography (1987) from J. Cooper & R. Dhavan (ed.) Public Interest Law. (Oxford, Blackwell) includes full reference to two articles in R. Dhavan’s collected papers. 435-464. |
| 42. | R. Dhavan : | “Religious Freedom in India” (1987) 35 The American Journal of Comparative Law 209-254. |
| 43. | R. Dhavan : | “Reform of the Indian Constitution” Essays on Constitutional Law 201-247. |
| 44. | R. Dhavan : | “Means, Motives and Opportunities: Reflecting on Legal Research in India” (Oct. 1987) 50 The Modern Law Review 725-749. |
| 45. | R. Dhavan : | “Managing Legal Activism: Reflections on India’s Legal Aid Programme” Anglo-American Law Review 281-309. |
| 46. | R. Dhavan : | “The Press and the Constitutional Guarantee of free Speech and Expression” (July-Sept.1986) 28 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 299-335. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 47. | R. Dhavan : | “Freedom of the Press” (1987) in Sadasivan Nair & P Lellakrishnan (ed): New Horizons of Law (Cochin, Cochin University) 1-32: Cochin University Law Review 223-254. |
| 48. | R. Dhavan : | “Introduction” to Marc Galanter’s Law and Society in India (Delhi, Oxford 1989) xiii-c. |
| 49. | R. Dhavan : | “Legal Education as restrictive practice: a sceptical view” (1989) in R. Dhavan, Nile Kibble L.W. Twining (ed) Access to legal Education and the Legal Profession (London, Butterworth) 275-301. |
| 50. | R. Dhavan : | “The Modern Indian Press: Its Role, Functions and Place” (1990) 2(1) Think India 31-75. |
| 51. | R. Dhavan : | “… (A)nd of the Press…, and of the people…” (1988) Background paper published as a separate pamphlet as a background paper to the National Colloquium on the press and Mediator between State & Society 1-57. |
| 52. | R. Dhavan, L. Harris & G. Jain : | “Conquest by Patent: The Paris Convention Re-visited” (1990) 32 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 131-178 (This has also been published in the National Working Group on Patent Laws; Conquest by Patent: On Patent Law and Policy (Delhi, 1990) and as an Occasional Paper in the National Working Groups Occasional paper series. |
| 53. | R. Dhavan : | “A Monopoly by Any Other Name: An Introduction” in National Working group on Patent laws Conquest by Patent: On Patent Law and Policy (Delhi, 1990) 1-44. |
| 54. | R. Dhavan : | “Making the world fit for Prey: GATT and Intellectual Property Rights” in National Working group on Patent Laws, GATT Negotiations: Economic Sovereignty in Jeopardy (Delhi, 1991) 1-12. |
| 55. | R. Dhavan : | “A monopoly by any other name” (November 1988) The Lawyers Collective 3-9; Also published in National Working Group on Patent Laws Occasional Paper No.2 (1988) in the Lawyer Collective, 4-9. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 56. | R. Dhavan : | “Conquest by Patent” in National Working Group on Patent Laws’ Occasional paper no. 1 (incorporated in Vol. 3) Pg. 121-127. |
| 57. | R. Dhavan : | “Censorship by Courts: Silencing Public Opinion” (1988) 30 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 88-93. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 58. | R. Dhavan : | “President’s Rule: Recent Trends” Notes & Comments (1989) 31 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 521-33. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 59. | R. Dhavan : | “Implications of the Panchayat Bill” (1989) Mainstream (29.7.89) 6-9. |
| 60. | R. Dhavan : | “Censorship: Stifling the Arts” (1990) 10 (9) India Magazine 58-65. |
| 61. | R. Dhavan : | “Human Rights & Socialism” (1990) Law India Foundation Trust (New Delhi) Souvenir. |
| 62. | R. Dhavan : | “The President’s Discretion” (1991) Competition Success Review (Jan) 14 -16. |
| 63. | R. Dhavan, L. Harris & G. Jain : | “Whose’s Interest? Indian’s Patent Law and Policy” (1990) 32 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 429-477. |
| 64. | R. Dhavan, L. Harris & G. Jain : | “Power without Responsibility: On Aspects of Indian Patents Legislation” (1991) 33 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 1-75. |
| 65. | R. Dhavan : | “Removing Judges: The quest for fair solutions” (1991) XXIII The Indian Advocate 42-57. |
| 66. | R. Dhavan : | “Law as Struggle” (1990) 2 N.L.S.J. 53-61 |
| 67. | R. Dhavan : | “India Faces A Political Paralysis: Is There No Way-out?” (April 1991) Competition Success Review 17. |
| 68. | R. Dhavan : | “Khannan Aur Kanoon”, in ISST Himalaya Main Khann (Report in Hindi Translated, ISST DELHI 1991) 36-43 (Translated and summarised by ISST from Original). |
| 69. | R. Dhavan : | “Leases and the Law” (1991) in R. Sudarshan (ed.): Mining in the Himalayas (Report ISST, Delhi, 1991) Vol.I, 76-95. |
| 70. | R. Dhavan : | “Mining Policy in India: Patronage or Control?” in R. Sudarshan (ed): Mining in the Himalayas (Report ISST, Delhi, 1991) Annexure Volume 1-46: (1992) 34 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 218-246. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 71. | R. Dhavan : | “Republic of India – The Constitution as the Situs of Struggle: India’s Constitution Forty Years On” in L.W. Beer (Ed) : Constitutional Systems in late twentieth century Asia (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1992) 373-461 |
| 72. | R. Dhavan : | “Human Rights and Socialism: India’s unfinished experiment” J. Chan and Y. Ghai (ed): The Hong Kong Bill of Rights: A comparative Approach (Hong Kong, Butterworths Asia, 1993) 451-466. |
| 73. | R. Dhavan : | “Putting Our World to Rights: Towards a Commonwealth Human Rights Policy” (1991) Advisory Group’s 204-207. |
| 74. | R. Dhavan : | “The sound of thunder” (June 1992) Seminar 394 31-34. |
| 75. | R. Dhavan : | “A Ticket to Ride” (1992) The India Magazine 93-94. |
| 76. | R. Dhavan : | “Imperfect balance” (March-April 1992) Critique 29-32. |
| 77. | R. Dhavan : | “Constitutional Fait Accompli” National Working Group on Patent Laws (ed): Dunkel Draft Text: Institutional, Legal and Constitutional Issues (Delhi-1992) 1-4. |
| 78. | R. Dhavan : | “Borrowed Ideas: On the Impact of American Scholarship On Indian Law” (1985) 33 The American Journal of Comparative Law 18-28. |
| 79. | R. Dhavan : | “Borrowed Ideas: On the impact of American scholarship on Indian Law- Part II” (1985) 33 The American Journal of Comparative law 24-33. |
| 80. | R. Dhavan : | “The Jurisprudence & Sociology of Modern Indian Law- Part I” (1989) Introduction to Law & Society in modern India by Marc Galanter 23-33. Note: Republished |
| 81. | R. Dhavan : | “The Jurisprudence & Sociology of Modern Indian Law – Part II” (1989) Introduction to Law & Society in Modern India by Marc Galanter 7-18. Note: Republished |
| 82. | R. Dhavan : | “The Jurisprudence & Sociology of Modern Indian Law – Part III” (1989) Introduction to Law & Society in Modern Indian by Marc Galanter 41-56. Note: Republished |
| 83. | R. Dhavan : | “The Jurisprudence & Sociology of Modern Indian Law – Part IV” (1989) Introduction to Law & Society in Modern Indian by Marc Galanter 43-52. Note: Republished |
| 84. | R. Dhavan, B.P. Jeewan Reddy : | “The Jurisprudence of Human Rights” in D.M. Beatty (ed): Human Rights & Judicial Review (Kluwer Publishers, 1994) 175-226. |
| 85. | R. Dhavan : | “Ambedkar’s Prophecy: Poverty of Human Rights in India” (1994) 36 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 8-36. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 86. | R. Dhavan, Maya Prabhu : | “Patent Monopolies & Free Trade: The Basic Contradiction in the Dunkel Draft” National Working Group on Patent Laws 1-15. |
| 87. | R. Dhavan : | “Law as Struggle: Public Interest Law in India” (1994) 36 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 302-338. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 88. | R. Dhavan : | “Dharmasastra and Modern Indian Society: A Preliminary Exploration” (Oct-Dec 1994) 34 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 515-540. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 89. | R. Dhavan : | “GATT – The Final Solution: A Fraud Twice Confounded” (May 1994) The Lawyers Collective 4-23. |
| 90. | R. Dhavan : | “More is not always More: Unto us a Human Rights Commission is Given – But Why?” Legal Resources for Social Action 3-46. Note: This is Working Paper no. 18 of Public Interest Litigation Support and Research Centre (PILSARC). |
| 91. | R. Dhavan : | “Law as Struggle: Notes on Public Interest Law in India” (1993) Institute for Legal Studies 1-68. Note: This is Working Paper no. 10 of Public Interest Litigation Support and Research Centre (PILSARC) |
| 92. | R. Dhavan : | “The Promise of Human Rights: Courts, Institutions and Processes” (16 -19 December, 1994) Indo-British Legal Forum 1-55. Also published in Legal Resources for Social action: Legal Perspectives Annual number on Human Rights in Demonstration File No. 34 106 – 125. Note: This is a Working Paper of Public Interest Litigation Support and Research Centre (PILSARC) |
| 93. | R. Dhavan Aparna Vishwanathan: | “Patents by Another Name: An Analysis of the (Draft) Plant Variety Protection Act, 1993 and its International Compulsions” (May 1994) Pgs. 1-18. Note: This is Working Paper no. 58 of Public Interest Litigation Support and Research Centre (PILSARC). |
| 94. | R. Dhavan, Aparna Vishwanathan: | “On the Working of the Environmental Protection Act, 1986 and its Subordinate Legislation – Preliminary Submission to the Committee on Subordinate Legislation, Lok Sabha” (June 1994) Pgs. 1-26. Note: This is Working Paper no. 59 of Public Interest Litigation Support and Research Centre (PILSARC). |
| 95. | R. Dhavan : | “Its finest hour? Supreme Court averts a crisis: What next?” (1994) Legal Perspectives: Annual Number on Human Rights Documentation file No. 34 134 -145. |
| 96. | R. Dhavan : | “The Wealth of Nations: Lands, Forests and People” in A People Oriented Drafts Forest Bill – N 906 (Samaj Parivartan Samudaya Dharwad, 1995) 12 – 26. |
| 97. | R. Dhavan, Maya Prabhu : | “Patent Monopolies And Free Trade: The Basic Contradiction in the Dunkel Draft” (1995) 2 S.B.R.R.M. Journal of Law 1 – 18 (1995) 37 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 195-208. |
| 98. | R. Dhavan : | “GATT – The Final Solution: A fraud twice confounded” (May 1994) The Lawyers Collective. |
| 99. | R. Dhavan : | “The Quest for Economic and Social Rights in India: A New Judicial Model” (1996) 9(3) Interights Bulletin 97-99. |
| 100. | R. Dhavan : | “Press Versus Judiciary” (1996) 33(2) Vidura 14-15. |
| 101. | R. Dhavan : | “The Press Council as Super Editor: V.N. Gadgil’s Right to Reply Bill.” (1995) 37 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 364-377. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 102. | R. Dhavan : | “The Ayodhya Judgment – Encoding Secularism in the Law” Vol. 29 Economic & Political weekly 3034-3039. Note: Issue No. 48, 26 Nov, 1994 |
| 103. | R. Dhavan : | “The Supreme Court as Problem Solver: The Mandal Controversy” in Panandikar (ed): The Politics of Backwardness (Delhi, Konark, Publishers 1997) 262-332. Note: This is also PILSARC Working Paper No. 109 |
| 104. | R. Dhavan : | “India” in Cheryl Saunders & Graham Hassall (ed): Asia Pacific Constitutional Year Book (Melbourne, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, 1997) pp 109-131. |
| 105. | R. Dhavan : | “The Unbearable Lightness of India’s Legal Aid Programme” in Sara Hossain, Shahdeen Malik, Bushra Musa (ed) : Public Interest litigation in South Asia – Rights for search of Remedies (Bangladesh, The University Press Ltd., 1997) |
| 106. | R. Dhavan : | “Law as Concern: Reflecting on Law and Development” in Yash Vyas, Kivutha Kibwana, Okech-Owiti, Smokin Wanjala (ed): Law and Development in the Third World (Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, 1994) 25 – 50. |
| 107. | R. Dhavan : | “Treaties and people: Indian Reflections” (1997) 39 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 1-46. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 108. | R. Dhavan : | “India” (1996) Asia-Pacific Constitutional Year Book 175-198. |
| 109. | R. Dhavan : | “One Step Forward?” (1996) 38 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 362-376. (Notes on the first Report of the National Human Rights Commission) Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 110. | R. Dhavan : | “Judge and be judged” (1998) Seminar 461 79-84 |
| 111. | R. Dhavan : | “The Road to Xanadu: India’s Quest for Secularism” in K.N. Panikkar (ed): The Concerned Indian’s Guide to Communalism (Delhi, Viking, 1999) 34-72. Also in Gerald James Larson: Religion and Personal Law in Secular India A Call to Judgment (Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 2001) 300-329. |
| 112. | R. Dhavan, Geetanjili Goel : | “Indian Federalism and its Discontents: A Review” in Gert W Kueck, Sudhir Chandra Mathur and Klaus Schindler (ed.): Federalism and Decentralisation – Centre-State Relations in India and Germany (New Delhi, Konrad Adnauer Foundation, 1998) 43-83. |
| 113. | R. Dhavan : | “India” in Cheryl Saunders & Graham Hassall (ed): Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook 1997 (Melbourne, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, The University of Melbourne, 1999) 75-108. |
| 114. | R. Dhavan : | “Judicial Activism and the Anguish of the Minorities” (1997) 8 Humanist Outlook 1001 to 1009. |
| 115. | R. Dhavan : | “Promises, Promises…: Human Rights in India” (1997) 39 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 149-185. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 116. | R. Dhavan, Geetanjli Goel: | “One More Step? Comment on the Second Annual Report of the National Human Rights Commission 1994-95” (1997) 39 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 392-410. |
| 117. | R. Dhavan, Geetanjli Goel: | “Another Step? Notes on Third Annual Report of National Human Rights Commission 1995-96” (1999) 41 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 1-29. |
| 118. | R. Dhavan : | “Kill them for their Bad Verses: On Criminal Law and Punishment” in Rani D. Shankardass (ed): Punishment and the Prison: Indian and International Perspectives (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 1999) 261-343. |
| 119. | R. Dhavan : | “Judges and Indian Democracy: the lesser evil?” in Fracine R. Frankel, Zoya Hasan, Rajeev Bhargava, Balveer Arora (ed): Transforming India – Social And Political Dynamics of Democracy (Oxford Universal Press, 2000) 314-352. |
| 120. | R. Dhavan,Fali S.Nariman : | “The Supreme Court and Group Life: Religious Freedom, Minority Groups, and Disadvantaged Communities” in BN Kirpal, Ashok H. Desai, Gopal Subramanium, Rajeev Dhavan, Raju Ramachandran (ed) : Supreme But not Infallible – Essays in Honour of Supreme Court of India (New Delhi, Oxford Universal Press, 2000) 256-287. |
| 121. | R. Dhavan, Jasleen K. Oberoi, Niharika Bahl, Dhruv Dhavan: | “Step by Step: Fourth Annual Report of National Human Rights Commission: 1996-97” (1999) 41 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 160-200. |
| 122. | R. Dhavan : | “Midnight to Millennium: A Metaphor looking for a purpose” in Nicolae Parel, Auriol Weigold (ed): Midnight to Millennium: Australia-India Interconnections (Canberra, Published by the High Commission of India, 1999) 33-37. |
| 123. | R. Dhavan : | “Fighting For Rights: Dr. Ambedkar Story” in Mohammad Shabbir: B.R. Ambedkar: Study in Law and Society (New Delhi, Rawat Publication, 1997) 145-196. |
| 124. | R. Dhavan : | “Looking Back and Forging Ahead: Reflecting on the National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) Sixth Report (1998-99)” (2002) 44 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 225-257: (2004) Criminal Justice – A Human Rights Perspective of the Criminal Justice Process in India 164-199. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 125. | R. Dhavan : | “Strengthening Capabilities: Reflecting on the National Human Rights Commission’s (NHRC) Fifth Report (1997-98)” (2002) 43 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 469-499. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 126. | R. Dhavan : | “Constitution of India” (from Indian) Encyclopaedia Britannica 377-385. |
| 127. | R. Dhavan: | “Refugees and the Law in India” Marking Fifty Years of Refugee Protection 1951-2001 43-45. |
| 128. | R. Dhavan : | “In Memoriam: Anil Agarwal – Death of a Legend” (2001) 2 Indian Journal of Environmental Law 1-6. |
| 129. | R. Dhavan : | “Message” dated 25.01.2002 for Souvenir – The Bar Association of India – 50 years in the Service of Legal Profession 55 |
| 130. | R. Dhavan : | “Rewriting Secular Governance: 1992-2002” in K.N. Panikkar and Sukumar Muralidharan (ed): Communalism, Civil Society and the State – Reflections on a Decade of Turbulence (Sahmat, 2002). |
| 131. | R. Dhavan : | “Law’s Magic and Empire Revisited: Public Spaces and Private Lives — The Domain of the Law” in Gurpreet Mahajan: The Public and the Private – Isssues of Democratic Citizenship (New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2003) 149-180. |
| 132. | R. Dhavan : | “Democracies in Quest of Secular Governance – Indian and Israel” – An introduction in Shimon Shetreet: Law and Social Pluralism (New Delhi, LexisNexis- Butterworths, 2002) xxv-cxxi. |
| 133. | R. Dhavan : | “Assault on Secularism” (2002) All India Lawyers Union (Kochi, AILU) 52-53. |
| 134. | R. Dhavan : | “Justice, Justice and the Best Bakery Case” (2003) India International Centre Quarterly (Monsoon Part) 1-11. |
| 135. | R. Dhavan : | “The Babri Masjid: Subterranean Fishing Expedition” in Sahmat (ed): Against the Communalisation of Archaeology: A Critique of the ASI Report (New Delhi, Sahmat, 2003) 23-26. |
| 136. | R. Dhavan : | “Information and democracy in India” in SAFMA (South Asia Free Media Association) (ed): Access to and Free Flow of Information (Islamabad, Safma, 2003-4) 57-77. |
| 137. | R. Dhavan : | “Babri Masjid-2003” in India: Book of the Year 2004 (Chennai, Britannica, Hindu, 2003-4) 273-5. |
| 138. | R. Dhavan : | “Nani Palkhivala: Lawyer Extraordinary” in Maj. Gen. Nilendra Kumar (ed): Nani Palkhivala : A Tribute (New Delhi, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.) 39-41. |
| 139. | R. Dhavan : | “Finding Direction Again? Reflecting on the Seventh Report of the National Human Rights Commission: 1999-2000” (2004) 46 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 3-54. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 140. | R. Dhavan : | “The Criminal (In)justice System” (2003) 2 Journal of the NHRC 60-87. |
| 141. | R. Dhavan : | “Censorship, Media and Democracy” (2003) Media Monitor – South Asia 21-23. |
| 142. | R. Dhavan : | “Official and Unofficial Secrecy” (2003) Media Monitor – South Asia 24-26. |
| 143. | R. Dhavan : | “Information and everyday democracy” (2004) South Asian Free Media Association 27-28. |
| 144. | R. Dhavan : | “Our daring whistleblower” (2004) South Asian Free Media Association 37. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 145. | R. Dhavan : | “Gujarat main Nyay” (Justice in Gujarat) (2004) Udbhavana 41-42. |
| 146. | R. Dhavan : | “India’s Apartheid” in Sukhadeo Thorat, Umakant (ed): Caste, Race and Discrimination – Discourses in International Context (2004) 164-167. |
| 147. | R. Dhavan : | “Riots as Murder – Re-examining the Best Bakery Case” (2004) in Ajay Kumar (ed): The Case of Best Bakery – MODI-fied Justice and Rule of Law (An Udbhavana Publication) 9-37. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 148. | R. Dhavan : | “Information and Democracy in India” (July-September 2005) 47 Journal of the Indian Law Institute 295-325. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 149. | R. Dhavan, Aparna Ray : | “Hate Speech Revisited: The “Toon” Controversy” (2006) 2 Socio-Legal Review 9-45. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 150. | R. Dhavan : | “Censorship and Intolerance in India” (2006) Iconography Now (Sahmat) 91-126. |
| 151. | R. Dhavan : | “Arguments, protests, strikes and free speech: The career and prospects of the right to strike in India” (2006) 392-393 Social Scientist 21-69. |
| 152. | R. Dhavan : | “Contempt of Court and the Press” (2006) Courts Legislatures Media Freedom (National Book Trust, Delhi) 35-78. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 153. | R. Dhavan : | “Introduction – Indian Governance and Treaties: The Advent of the WTO” in Shiva Kant Jha (ed): Final Act of WTO: Abuse of Treaty-Making Power (2006) vi-xvi. |
| 154. | R. Dhavan : | “Harassing Husain – Uses and Abuses of the Law of Hate Speech” (Jan-Feb.-2007) Vol.35 Social Scientist p.16-60: (March 2007) in Sahmat 1-45. |
| 155. | R. Dhavan : | “India’s Constitution and its Discontents” (2007) in India Independent – Economics, Politics, Culture 53-91. |
| 156. | R. Dhavan, Rekha Sexena: | “Republic of India” in Katy Ley Roy and Cheryl Saunders (ed): Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Governance in Federal Countries, A Global dialogue on Federalism Vol. III (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007) 166-197. |
| 157. | R. Dhavan : | “Governance by Judiciary: Into the Next Millennium” in BD Dua, MP Singh & Rekha Saxena (ed): Indian Judiciary and Politics: The Changing Landscape (Manohar, 2007) 73-105. |
| 158. | R. Dhavan : | “Federalism in Tension” (5-7 Nov. 2007) – Conference Reader: 4th International Unity Conference on Federalism Unity in Diversity “Learning from Each Other” (New Delhi) 301-319. |
| 159. | R. Dhavan, Bhairav Acharya : | “Implication of India – US Nuclear Agreement” (Sept. 2007) in Center for Study of Global Trader System and Development-Delhi 1-48. |
| 160. | R. Dhavan, Bhairav Acharya : | “The Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between India and United States of America” [(2008) 2 MLJ-CIVIL-6-3-2008] 19-64. |
| 161. | R. Dhavan : | “The Imperial Judiciary” (2008) (1) Kerala High Court Cases (Jnl.) 22-24. |
| 162. | R. Dhavan : | “Reservation for Women: The Way Forward” (2008) 20(1) National Law School of India Review 1-45. Link to Full Text: Click Here |
| 163. | R. Dhavan : | “Obtaining Moral Consensus in a Law and Order Society: Indian Responses” in Arvind Rajagopal (ed) The Indian Public Sphere: Readings in Media History (Oxford University Press, 2009) 88-99. |
| 164. | R. Dhavan : | “Arguments, Protests, Strikes and free Speech – The Career and Prospects of the Right to Strike in India” in Sanam Roohi, Ranabir Samaddar (ed): Key Texts on Social Justice in India (Sage Publications, 2009) 546-559. |
| 165. | R. Dhavan : | “Policing Faith – India’s anti-Conversion legislation: Lasting damage endless repercussions” (Aug.-Sep 2009) Communalism Combat 43-51. |
| 166. | R. Dhavan: | “Death of Distinguished Lawyers – Where Will the Next Ones Come From?” (June 2017) 52 Economic & Political Weekly 33-36. |
| 167. | R. Dhavan, Rekha Sexena: | “Indian Constitution: Design and Institutional Functioning” in Mahendra Prasad Singh and Subhendu Ranjan Raj (ed): The Indian Political System (Delhi, Pearson, 2012) 72-105. |
| 168. | R. Dhavan: | “How Parliament Discusses Reservations – Examining the Debates on the Central Educational Bill” in Zoya Hasan and Martha C. Nussbaum (ed): Equalizing Access: Affirmative Action in Higher Education in India, United States, and South Africa (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2012) 168-201. |
| 169. | R. Dhavan: | “Book Review – Sarbani Sen: Popular sovereignty and Democratic Transformation: The Constitution of India” (Oxford University Press, 2007) pp 214 |
| 170. | R. Dhavan: | New Artiicle to be written |