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Jayanth Krishnan

Faculty bibliography for Professor Krishnan

Articles

Jayanth Krishnan

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


Big Law's Immigration Advocates (with Megan Riley and Vitor M. Dias), UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW (forthcoming, 2024). [SSRN]

Overstepping: U.S. Immigration Judges and the Power to Develop the Record, 2022 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW 57 (2022). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

The Immigrant Struggle for Effective Counsel: An Empirical Assessment, 2022 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW 1021 (2022). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

The 'Impractical and Anomalous' Consequences of Territorial Inequity, 36 GEORGETOWN IMMIGRATION LAW JOURNAL 621 (2022). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Facts Versus Discretion: The Debate Over Immigration Adjudication, 37 GEORGETOWN IMMIGRATION LAW JOURNAL 1 (2022). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

A Pioneer of the Law & Society Movement: One Eyewitness's Reflections, 88 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 1715 (2021). [HeinOnline] [SSRN].

Lawyers for the Undocumented: Addressing a Split Circuit Dilemma for Asylum-Seekers, 82 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 163 (2021). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Judicial Power -- Immigration-Style, 73 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW REVIEW 317 (2021). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Bhopal in the Federal Courts: How Indian Victims Failed to Get Justice73 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 705 (2020). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

International Lawyers As Disrupters of Corruption: Globalizing Influences and Lessons from Africa's Most Populous Country -- Nigeria18 NORTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS 93 (2020). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Legal Activism in the Face of Political Challenges: The Nigerian Case (with Kunle Ajagbe). 42 JOURNAL OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION 197 (2018). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

An Innovative Matrix for Dispute Resolution: The Dubai World Tribunal and the Global Insolvency Crisis (with Harold Koster), 2016 JOURNAL OF DISPUTE RESOLUTION 387 (2016). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Legal Elites and the Shaping of Corporate Law Practice in Brazil: A Historical Study (with Vitor M. Dias and John E. Pence), LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY (2015). [SSRN]

The Aspiring and Globalizing Law Student: A Comment on the Lazarus-Black and Globokar LL.M Study (with Vitor M Dias), 22 INDIANA JOURNAL OF GLOBAL LEGAL STUDIES 81 (2015). [HeinOnline]

Surveying Key Aspects of Sociolegal Scholarship on India: An Overview (with Patrick W. Thomas), 11 ANNUAL REVIEW OF LAW AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 337 (2015). [SSRN]

A Common Law Court in an Uncommon Environment: The DIFC Judiciary and Global Commercial Dispute Resolution (with Priya Purohit), 25 AMERICAN REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION 497 (2014). [SSRN]

Grappling at the Grassroots: Access to Justice in India's Lower Tier (with S. N. Kavadi, et. al.), 27 HARVARD HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNAL 151 (2014). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

Peel-Off Lawyers: Legal Professionals in India's Corporate Law Firm Sector, 9 SOCIO-LEGAL REVIEW 1 (2013). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

Academic SAILERS: The Ford Foundation and the Efforts to Shape Legal Education in Africa, 1957-1977, 52 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 261 (2012). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

Delay in Process, Denial of Justice: The Jurisprudence & Empirics of Speedy Trials in Comparative Perspective (with C. Raj Kumar), 42 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 747 (2011). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

Globetrotting Law Firms, 23 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LEGAL ETHICS 57 (2010). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

The Joint Law Venture: A Pilot Study, 28 BERKELEY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 431 (2010). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]. Excerpt published in UNDERSTANDING AND USING NETWORKS FOR LAW PRACTICE DEVELOPMENT (Roy S. Ginsburg, et. al.). Philadelphia: ALA ABA, 2011.

Editors' Foreword (with C.R. Kumar), 1 JINDAL GLOBAL LAW REVIEW 1 (2009).

Toward the Next Generation of Galanter-Influenced Scholars: The Reach of a Law-and-Society Founder (with Stewart Macaulay), 71 LAW AND CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS i (2008). [HeinOnline] [SSRN]

Scholarly Discourse, Public Perceptions, and the Cementing of Norms: The Case of the Indian Supreme Court and a Plea for Research, 9 JOURNAL OF APPELLATE PRACTICE & PROCESS 255 (2007). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

Analyzing the Friedman Thesis Through a Legal Lens: Book Review Essay Assessing Thomas L. Friedman's The World is Flat, 81 TULANE LAW REVIEW 923 (2007). [HeinOnline]

Outsourcing and the Globalizing Legal Profession, 48 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 2189 (2007). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

Lawyering for a Cause and Experiences from Abroad94 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 575 (2006). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

From the ALI to the ILI: The Efforts to Export an American Legal Institution, 38 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW 1255 (2005). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

Professor Kingsfield Goes to Delhi: American Academics, the Ford Foundation, and the Development of Legal Education in India, 46 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 447 (2004). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

Bread for the Poor: Access to Justice and the Rights of the Needy in India (with Marc Galanter), 55 HASTINGS LAW JOURNAL 789 (2004). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

India’s Patriot Act: POTA and the Impact on Civil Liberties in the World’s Largest Democracy, 22 LAW AND INEQUALITY: A JOURNAL OF THEORY AND PRACTICE 265 (2004). [HeinOnline]

Mobilizing Immigrants, 11 GEORGE MASON LAW REVIEW 695 (2003). [HeinOnline]

The Rights of the New Untouchables: A Constitutional Analysis of HIV Jurisprudence in India, 25 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 791 (2003). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]

Social Policy Advocacy and the Role of the Courts in India, 21 THE AMERICAN ASIAN REVIEW 91 (2003). [SSRN]

Transgressive Cause Lawyering in the Developing World: The Case of India (in French), 55 DROIT ET SOCIETE 629 (2003). [HeinOnline]

So Help Me God: A Comparative Study of Religious Interest Group Litigation (with Kevin den Dulk)30 GEORGIA JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW 233 (2002). [HeinOnline]

Public Interest Litigation in a Comparative Context, 20 BUFFALO PUBLIC INTEREST LAW JOURNAL 19 (2001-2002). [HeinOnline]

Personal Law and Human Rights in India and Israel (with Marc Galanter), 34 ISRAEL LAW REVIEW 101 (2000). [HeinOnline]. Reprinted in RELIGION AND PERSONAL LAW IN SECULAR INDIA: A CALL TO JUDGMENT (Gerald James Larson, Ed.) Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Lawyers Seeking Clients, Clients Seeking Lawyers: Sources of Contingency Fee Cases And Their Implications for Case Handling (with Herbert M. Kritzer), 21 LAW & POLICY 347 (1999). [SSRN] [HeinOnline]