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Authored Books

Suresh, Mayur (2023) Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts. New York: Fordham University Press. (Thinking from Elsewhere)

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Suresh, Mayur and Narrain, Siddharth, eds. (2014) The Shifting Scales of Justice: The Supreme Court in Neo-liberal India. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.

Book Chapters

Suresh, Mayur (2019) 'Accountability, Authority and Documentary Fragility: Shadow files and Trial in India.' In: Sterett, Susan M. and Walker, Lee Demetrius, (eds.), Research Handbook on Law and Courts. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (Research Handbooks in Law and Politics)

Suresh, Mayur (2016) 'The file as hypertext: Documents, files and the many worlds of the paper state.' In: Motha, Stewart and Rijswijk, Honni van, (eds.), Law, Memory, Violence: Uncovering the Counter-Archive. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 97-115.

Suresh, Mayur (2015) 'Reading Life and Death into the Legal Text.' In: Das, Samir Kumar, (ed.), India: Democracy and Violence. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 152-166.

Suresh, Mayur (2015) 'Pendulous Penises and Couture Clitorises: What Medical Men do to Intersex Infants.' In: Narrain, Arvind and Chandran, Vinay, (eds.), Nothing to Fix Medicalisation of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity. London: Sage; Yoda Press.

Cullet, Philippe (2014) 'A Meandering Jurisprudence of the Court – The Evolving Case Law Related to Water.' In: Suresh, Mayur and Narrain, Siddharth, (eds.), The Shifting Scales of Justice: The Supreme Court in Neo-liberal India. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, pp. 139-161.

Suresh, Mayur (2011) 'Possession is 9/10ths of the Body: Law, Land and Hijra Identity.' In: Bhan, Gautam and Narrain, Arvind, (eds.), Law Like Love: Queer Perspectives of Law in India. New Delhi: Yoda Press.

Suresh, Mayur (2007) 'Dead Man Walking: The Supreme Court and Sovereignty in the Age of Terror.' In: Narula, Monica, (ed.), Sarai Reader 07: Frontiers. New Delhi: Sarai/CSDS, pp. 121-133.

Journal Article

Suresh, Mayur, Deepa, Das Acevedo and Mohsin, Alam Bhat (2022) 'Authoritarianism in Indian state, law and society.' Verfassung und Recht in Übersee, 55 (4). pp. 459-477.

Acevedo, Deepa Das, Bhat, Mohsin Alam, de Sa e Silva, Fabio Costa Morais, John, Rebecca, Narrain, Arvind, Scheppele, Kim, Singh, Bachittar and Suresh, Mayur (2022) 'Autocratic legalism in India: A roundtable.' Jindal Global Law Review, 13 (1). pp. 117-140.

Suresh, Mayur (2019) 'The Right to be Public: India’s LGBT movement builds an argument about privacy.' Australian Journal of Asian Law, 20 (1). pp. 1-15.

Suresh, Mayur (2019) 'The slow erosion of fundamental rights: How Romila Thapar v. Union of India highlights what is wrong with the UAPA.' Indian Law Review, 3 (2). pp. 212-223.

Suresh, Mayur (2019) 'The “Paper Case”: Evidence and Narrative of a Terrorism Trial in Delhi.' Law and Society Review, 53 (1). pp. 173-201.

Suresh, Mayur (2019) 'The social life of technicalities: 'Terrorist' lives in Delhi's courts.' Contributions to Indian Sociology, 53 (1). pp. 72-96.

Monographs and Working Papers

Suresh, Mayur (2014) Mapping and evaluating the formal and informal lesbian, gay and bisexual networks in England (London: Law Society of England and Wales, 2014).

Book Reviews

Suresh, Mayur (2023) 'Review of Kannabiran, Kalpana (2021); Law, Justice and Human Rights in India: Short Reflections, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan; pp xxvii + 387, Rs 1500.' Economic and Political Weekly, 58 (27).

Suresh, Mayur (2021) 'Review of: The Truth Machines: Policing Violence and Scientific Interrogations in India By Jinee Lokaneeta. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. 262 pp. $34.95 (paper). ISBN 9780472074396.' Law, Culture and the Humanities, 17 (2). pp. 385-388.

Suresh, Mayur (2017) 'Review of: Public Secrets of Law: Rape Trials in India By Pratiksha Baxi, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.' Law, Culture and the Humanities, 13 (1). pp. 169-171.

Suresh, Mayur (2016) 'Review of: Puri, Jyoti. 2016. Sexual States: Governance and the struggle over the antisodomy law in India. Durham: Duke University Press.' Feminist Legal Studies, 24 (3). pp. 337-341.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Suresh, Mayur (2023) A new book explores how defendants on terror charges cope with their grinding cases. Scroll.in [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Suresh, Mayur (2023) Inside The Hidden World Of Incarcerated Indians Accused Of Terrorism. Article 14 [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Suresh, Mayur (2020) आपराधिक लापरवाही. आज तक = Aaj Tak [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Suresh, Mayur (2020) Criminal neglect. India Today online [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Suresh, Mayur (2017) Right to Privacy and Sec. 377. Orinam [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Suresh, Mayur (2014) Irom Sharmila in the Time of Legal Fiction. India Resists [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Audios

Suresh, Mayur and Singh, Shatakshi (2023) New Books Network in South Asian Studies: Mayur Suresh, "Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi's Courts.". New Books Network. [Audio]

Suresh, Mayur (2023) Terror Trials: Life and Law in Delhi’s Courts. Dr. Mayur Suresh in conversation with Neetika Vishwanath. Project 39A. [Audio]

Suresh, Mayur and Batabyal, Somnath (2022) Making Sense with Mayur Suresh: An ethnographic immersion in a courtroom in New Delhi. SOAS University of London. [Audio]

Suresh, Mayur (2020) Civil Liberties Ignored: The UAPA Needs Reform (with Mayur Suresh). Bangalore International Centre's Talk Podcast. [Audio]

Films

Suresh, Mayur (2023) NL Interview: Author Mayur Suresh on UAPA trials and their link with Hindutva. Newslaundry. Available from https://www.newslaundry.com/2023/04/03/nl-intervie....

Suresh, Mayur (2020) The Criminal Law Reforms Committee and The Imagination of Law Reform. Live Law. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyK89KSWa-Y.

Other

Suresh, Mayur and Verghese, Leah (2023) 'Terror and Technicalities: Looking for Life in Delhi's Courts.' Bangalore: Bangalore International Centre.

Suresh, Mayur (2018) 'The Law Invoked to Arrest Activists Has Its Roots in the Emergency.' The Wire (12 Sep).

Suresh, Mayur (2018) 'This is the start of a new era for India’s LGBT communities.' The Guardian (6 Sep).

Suresh, Mayur (2014) 'Policing public sexuality: queerness, intimacy, protection and violence.' openDemocracy [online] .