Mutinies for Equality
Contemporary Developments in Law and Gender in India

Editors

Tanja Herklotz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Tanja Herklotz, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Public and Comparative Law at Humboldt-University of Berlin and the principal investigator of two Indo-European research projects on legal cultures and transformative constitutionalism that are funded by the DAAD. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Warwick, the Center for the Study of Law and Society at Berkeley Law and the Centre of Law and Society at Cardiff University. Her research interests and areas of publication include comparative constitutional law with a particular focus on the Global South, law and gender, legal pluralism and religion-based law, and law and social movements. In her PhD project entitled 'Streets and Courtrooms: Feminist Legal Activism in India' (pursued at Humboldt-University of Berlin), she assessed the impact of the Indian women's rights movement on legislation and case law.

Siddharth Peter de Souza, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Siddharth Peter de Souza is a Post Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Law, Technology Markets and Society, Tilburg University and works at the intersection of data and society. He was previously a researcher at the Chair of Public Law and Comparative Law, Humboldt University. He has an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge and was a German Chancellor Fellow at the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and Rule of Law, Heidelberg. Siddharth is also the founder of Justice Adda, a law and design social venture and a researcher with the FemLab.Co project. Siddharth has edited two books, Crowdsourcing, Constructing and Collaborating: Methods and Social Impacts of Mapping with World Today with Nida Rehman and Saba Sharma (2020) and Technology, Innovation and Access to Justice: Dialogues on the Future of Law with Maximilian Spohr (2021).

Contributors

Tanja Herklotz, Siddharth Peter de Souza, Krithika Ashok, Medha Srivastava-Kehrer, Jayna Kothari, Katharina Wommelsdorff, Fritzi-Marie Titzmann, Saumya Saxena, Sameena Dalwai, Mandira Kala, Jason Keith Fernandes, Sourav Mandal, Saptarshi Manda, Kalindi Kokal, Poornima Hatti, Aparna Ravi