BIOGRAPHY:

Anwita Dinkar is a second-year PhD student at Sciences Po, Paris. She has a master’s degree in Law, and a research master’s degree in Sociology. Anwita’s interdisciplinary research seeks to understand the social foundations of law in societies. Her research focusses on how ordinary people access law and build legality in their everyday lives in India. She studies this primarily through the theoretical framework of legal consciousness studies and legal pluralism, addressing how lawyers, legal intermediaries, and ordinary citizens frame their own and each other’s legal consciousness in their everyday lives.

Publications:

• Dinkar, Anwita. (2022). “Overcoming Class Boundaries During Empirical Research with Vulnerable Communities”, Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies Blog. Oxford: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
  https://frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/class-boundaries/
• Dinkar, Anwita. (2021). Book Review of ‘Working at Other’s homes: The Specifics and Challenges of Paid Domestic Work’ (2018). Revue internationale des études du développement, 246 (2021/2), 264-66. https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-des-etudes-du-developpement-2021-2-page-264.htm
• Dinkar, Anwita. (2018). “Non-Conventional Methods of Education: For Peace, Development, and Social Transformation” International Journal of Research and Analysis, 5(3), 10-17.
• Dinkar, Anwita. (2018). “Corporate Culpability for Human Rights Violations” South Asian Journal of Law and Human Rights, 5(1), 65-78.
• Dinkar, Anwita. (2018). “Inadequacy of Laws to Prohibit Animal Tests to Manufacture Drugs” International Journal of Legal Sciences & Research, 2(4), 36-45.