The Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) & VIDHI Centre for Legal Policy 

are pleased to invite you to a public lecture ‘The Law Through the Lens of Hard Data’,

by

Bina AGARWAL

(Professor, University of Manchester)

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Do courts grant women their inheritance claims?

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Speaker:

Dr. Bina Agarwal is Professor of Development Economics and Environment, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. She is also affiliated to and ex-Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. She has held distinguished positions at Harvard, Cambridge (UK), Princeton, and the New York University School of Law (where she taught inheritance law). She has written extensively on gender inequality in agriculture, environment and law. Her multiple award-winning book: “A field of One’s Own” pioneered the issue of women’s land rights, with global impact. In 2005 she led a civil society campaign that made India’s Hindu Inheritance law gender equal. Her awards include a Padma Shri 2008; book prizes; Leontief Prize, USA; International Balzan Prize, Switzerland & Italy; 2023 Kenneth Boulding award in Ecological Economics, and the 2024 Global Inequality Research Award, France.

See also: www.binaagarwal.com

Chair & Moderator:

Alok Prasanna Kumar is Co-Founder and Lead, Vidhi Karnataka. His areas of research include judicial reforms, Constitutional law, urban development, and law and technology. He graduated with a B.A. LL.B. (Hons) from the NALSAR University in 2008 and obtained the BCL from the University of Oxford in 2009. He has practiced in the Supreme Court and Delhi High Court from the chambers of Mr Mohan Parasaran.

Co-Author & Speaker:

Shruthi Naik is a Senior Resident Fellow with the JALDI (Justice, Access and Lowering Delays in India) initiative at Vidhi. She has worked extensively with the judiciary and government on access to and delivery of justice and judicial policy reform. Shruthi received a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru in 2015 and a Master of Public Policy from the Hertie School, Berlin in 2023.

This is the Inaugural lecture in a Public Lecture Series titled ‘The Law through the Lens of Hard Data’ co-organised by VIDHI Centre for Legal Policy, and the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi). The series will provide a platform for Indian scholars, professionals, and academicians working with empirical data to describe, analyse and understand the law and legal institutions.