Balakrishnan Rajagopal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning

Cambridge, MA 02139-4307

United States

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Counter-Hegemonic International Law: Rethinking Human Rights and Development as a Third World Strategy

Third World Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 767-783, 2006
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Oct 2006
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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International Law, hegemony, Third World, Human Rights, Development

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Pro-Human Rights but Anti-Poor?: A Critical Evaluation of the Indian Supreme Court from a Social Movement Perspective

Human Rights Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 157-187, 2007
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Sep 2007
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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Human rights, India, social movements, comparative law

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International Law and Social Movements: Challenges of Theorizing Resistance

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Apr 2005
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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International Law, Third World, Development, Social Movements, Globalization

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Corruption, Legitimacy and Human Rights: The Dialectic of the Relationship

Connecticut Journal of International Law, Vol. 14, No. 2, 1999
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 25 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2008
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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Corruption, human rights, legitimacy, international law, development

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From Resistance to Renewal: The Third World, Social Movements and the Expansion of International Institutions

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 41, No. 2, p. 529, Spring 2000
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 13 Apr 2005
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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International Law, International Institutions, Social Movements, Development, Third World

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The Role of Law in Counter-Hegemonic Globalization and Global Legal Pluralism: Lessons from the Narmada Valley Struggle in India

Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 18, pp. 345-387, 2005
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Dec 2005
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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International Law, globalization, global legal pluralism, India, Narmada, social movements

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Invoking the Rule of Law in Post-Conflict Rebuilding: A Critical Examination

William & Mary Law Review, Vol. 49, No. 4, 2008
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 17 Apr 2008
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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Rule of Law, Post-Conflict, Nation-Building

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From Modernization to Democratization: The Political Economy of the New International Law in Reframing International Law for the 21st Century

REFRAMING INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR THE 21ST CENTURY, Richard Falk, Lester Edwin, J. Ruiz, & R.B.J. Walker, eds., Routledge
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 11 Apr 2005
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
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International Law, Democracy, Democratization, Third World

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Locating the Third World in Cultural Geography

Third World Legal Studies - 1998-99, pp. 1-20
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 31 Dec 2005
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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International law, Third World, Postcolonial

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Academic Freedom as a Human Right: An Internationalist Perspective

Academe, Journal of the American Association of University Professors, pp. 25-28, May-June 2003
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 01 Jan 2006
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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Academic freedom, human rights

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Lipstick on a Caterpillar? Assessing the New U.N. Human Rights Council Through Historical Reflection

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 13, No. 7, 2007
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 27 Nov 2007
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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UN reform, Human Rights, Bolton

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International Law and the Development Encounter: Violence and Resistance at the Margins

93RD American Society of International Law Proceedings, p. 16, 1999
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 16 May 2007
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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International Law, Development, Resistance, Third World

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International Law and Its Discontents: Rethinking the Global South

106th American Society of International Law Proceedings, p. 176, March 2012
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 01 Aug 2013
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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International law, Global South, TWAIL

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The Pragmatics of Prosecuting the Khmer Rouge

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, Vol. 1, pp. 189-204, 1998
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 25 Oct 2006
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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International Criminal Law, Cambodia, United Nations, human rights

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The International Human Rights Movement Today

Maryland Journal of International Law, Vol. 24, p. 56, 2009
Posted: 08 Mar 2012
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning

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International Law from Below: Development, Social Movements and Third World Resistance

Balakrishna Rajagopal, INTERNATIONAL LAW FROM BELOW: DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THIRD WORLD RESISTANCE, Cambridge University Press, 2003
Posted: 11 Apr 2005
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning

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International Law, Social Movements, Development, Third World, Human Rights, Globalization, International Institutions

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Review of 'the Limits of International Law' by Jack Goldsmith and Eric Posner

Ethics and International Affairs, Vol.19, No.3, pp. 106-109, Fall 2005
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 15 Oct 2006
Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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International Law, ethics, hegemony, US, Goldsmith, Posner