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Jayanth Krishnan

Faculty bibliography for Professor Krishnan

Book Chapters

Jayanth Krishnan

Milt and Judi Stewart Professor of Law; Director, Milt and Judi Stewart Center on the Global Legal Profession


Harmonizing Migration and Graduate Legal Education, in THE MUSIC OF LAW: PROTECTING PEOPLE AND DEMOCRACY (Yvonne Cripps, ed.), Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, forthcoming 2024.

The Evolution of Pro Bono Legal Services in Nigeria (with K. Ajagbe), in GLOBAL PRO BONO (Scott Cummings, et al., Eds.). Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Being Your Own Boss: The Career Trajectories and Motivations of India's Newest Corporate Lawyers, in THE INDIAN LEGAL PROFESSION IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION (D.B. Wilkins, V. Khanna, and D. Trubek, Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Legitimacy of Courts and the Dilemma of Their Proliferation: The Significance of Judicial Power in India, in ASIAN COURTS IN CONTEXT (Jiunn-rung Yeh and Wen-Chen, Eds.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ( 2014).

Exceptional or Not? An Examination of India's Special Courts in the National Security Context (with Viplav Sharma) in GUANTANAMO AND BEYOND: EXCEPTIONAL COURTS AND MILITARY COMMISSIONS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (F. Ni Aolain and O. Gross, Eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

The Joint Law Venture, in UNDERSTANDING AND USING NETWORKS FOR LAW PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT (with Roy S. Ginsburg, et.al.). Philadelphia: ALI/ABA, 2011.

Law & Society in India, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW AND SOCIETY: AMERICAN AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES (David Scott Clark, Ed.) Los Angeles: Sage Press 2006.

Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World: The Case of Indiain THE WORLDS CAUSE LAWYERS MAKE (Austin Sarat and Stuart A. Scheingold, Eds.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Debased Informalism: Lok Adalats and Legal Rights in India (with Marc Galanter), in BEYOND COMMON KNOWLEDGE: EMPIRICAL APPROACHES TO THE RULE OF LAW (Thomas C. Heller and Erik G. Jensen, Eds.) Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

India, in LEGAL SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD (Herbert M. Kritzer, Ed.) Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Press, 2002.