‘Human Rights: Contemporary Issues’, is a Festschrift in honour of the well-known jurist Professor Upendra Baxi who has made a significant contribution to the human rights jurisprudence over the years. The Festschrift deals with the contemporary issues of human rights, and incorporates the latest developments till date. It is a compendium of 30 papers on diverse themes on human rights.
The themes of the book include the latest judgments of the Supreme Court on privacy, passive euthanasia, transgender, triple talaq, Sabarimala and Delhi High Court judgment on beggars. The papers inter alia discuss human rights angle on diverse areas, such as intellectual property rights, privacy, begging, euthanasia, animal rights, statelessness, disabilities, environment, acid attack, Indus Water Treaty, UNCLOS for landlocked states.
The Festschrift has a Foreword by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and a contribution by Justice A.K. Sikri of the Supreme Court.
The other contributors include Prof. S.K. Verma, Prof. Vijender Kumar, Prof. Moolchand Sharma, Dr V.K. Ahuja, Prof. Manoj Kumar Sinha, Prof. TSN Sastry, Prof. Amber Prasad Pant, Prof. Gargi Chakrabarti, Prof. Amar Pal Singh, Prof. V.C. Vivekanandan, Prof. V.G. Hegde, Prof. Siddhartha Misra, Prof. Jaya Vasudevan and Prof. Furqan Ahmad.
Extract from the foreword
“This Festschrift aims to expand the horizons of contemporary human rights discourse. … The contributors must be commended for the innovative and interesting range of concerns they raise on topics ranging from animal rights, sexual minorities, reproductive rights of women with disabilities, stateless persons and transparency in arbitral proceedings, among others.”
–Justice Ranjan Gogoi
Chief Justice of India