Occupation Indian academic Name Upendra Baxi | Role Scholar | |
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Born November 9, 1938 (age 86) ( 1938-11-09 ) Books The Future of Human Rights Similar People Granville Austin, Bhikhu Parekh, Lotika Sarkar, Rajeev Dhavan | ||
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Upendra Baxi (born 9 November 1938) is a legal scholar, since 1996 professor of law in development at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He has been the vice-chancellor of University of Delhi (1990–1994), prior to which he held the position of professor of law at the same university for 23 years (1973–1996). He has also served as the vice-chancellor of the University of South Gujarat, Surat, India (1982–1985).
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- Early life and education
- Career
- Scholarly articles
- Edited volumes
- Contributions
- Books
- Columns
- References
In 2011, he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award in India, by the Government of India.
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Early life and education
Baxi earned LL.B. from Rajkot (South Gujarat) University. He holds LL.M. degrees from the University of Bombay and the University of California, Berkeley. Additionally, he holds a degree of Doctorate of Juristic Sciences (S.J.D.), also from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
He taught law at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, where he remained dean 1975–1978 and vice-chancellor of the university.
He has taught various courses at Universities of Sydney, Duke University, the American University, the New York University Law School Global Law Program, the University of Toronto and the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad.
He was a former Ford Foundation Professor of Human Rights at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, and was succeeded by Justice Ruma Pal. He has also served as the honorary director (research) at the Indian Law Institute (1985–1988) and the president of the Indian Society of International Law (1992–1995).
Baxi's areas of special expertise in teaching and research include comparative constitutionalism, social theory of human rights, human rights responsibilities in corporate governance and business conduct, and materiality of globalisation.