Sital Kalantry

Seattle University Law School

901 12th Avenue, Sullivan Hall

P.O. Box 222000

Seattle, WA n/a 98122-1090

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1.

The Supreme Court of India: An Empirical Overview of the Institution

Aparna Chandra, William H.J. Hubbard, and Sital Kalantry, 'The Supreme Court of India: An Empirical Overview of the Institution' in A Qualified Hope: The Indian Supreme Court and Progressive Social Change, Gerald N. Rosenberg and Sudhir Krishnaswamy, eds. Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 660
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 12 May 2019
Aparna Chandra, William H. J. Hubbard and Sital Kalantry
National Law University Delhi, University of Chicago Law School and Seattle University Law School
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Indian Supreme Court, Supreme Court of India, Empirical Legal Studies

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From Executive Appointment to the Collegium System: The Impact on Diversity in the Indian Supreme Court

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-26 (2019), University of Baltimore School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 10 Jul 2019
Aparna Chandra, William Hubbard and Sital Kalantry
National Law University Delhi, University of Baltimore - School of Law and Seattle University Law School
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diversity, Indian Supreme Court, judicial appointments, collegium system

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Combating Acid Violence in Bangladesh, India and Cambodia

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-24
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 10 Jun 2011
Sital Kalantry and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Seattle University Law School and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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acid, acid violence, human rights, Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, inequality, discrimination, women

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Promoting Clinical Legal Education in India: A Case Study of the Citizen Participation Clinic

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-56, NYLS Clinical Research Institute Paper No. 21/2012
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 05 May 2015
Sital Kalantry, Elizabeth Brundige and Priya S. Gupta
Seattle University Law School, Cornell University - Law School and McGill University Faculty of Law
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The Unintended Consequences of Term Limits for Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Lessons from a Comparative Study of the Indian Supreme Court

TULANE J. OF INT’L & COMP. LAW 2022
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 May 2022
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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India; Judiciary; term Limits

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Litigation as a Measure of Well-Being

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-28
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2016
Theodore Eisenberg (Deceased), Nick Robinson and Sital Kalantry
Cornell University - Law School, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law and Seattle University Law School
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empirical studies, India, litigation

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Enhancing Enforcement of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Using Indicators: A Focus on the Right to Education in the ICESCR

Human Rights Quarterly, 32 (2010) 253-310, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-031
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2016
Sital Kalantry, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum and Stephen Arrigg Koh
Seattle University Law School, Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Law Clerk to the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. J.D., Cornell Law School; M.Phil. University of Cambridge, England; A.B., Harvard University
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right to education, human rights, indicators and economic, social and cultural rights

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Death by Paperwork: Determination of Citizenship and Detention of Alleged Foreigners in Assam

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Jun 2021
Sital Kalantry and Agnidipto Tarafder
Seattle University Law School and West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences
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India, Citizenship, fair trial rights, equality provisions, arbitrary detention, Nation Register of Citizens, Assam, discrimination, Muslim, international law, India Law

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Surrogacy in the United States: From Prohibition to Permission

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 21 Dec 2022
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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Surrogacy

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Should Compensated Surrogacy Be Permitted or Prohibited?

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-41
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2017
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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surrogacy, infertility, CPSA, Child-Parent Security Act, international human rights, reproduction, baby selling, New York, surrogacy laws, compensation, CEDAW, ICESCR, ICCPR

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Acid Attacks in India: The Case for State and Corporate Accountability for Gender-Based Crimes

Human Rights in India (Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-27
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Jul 2019
Sital Kalantry and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
Seattle University Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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acid attacks, India, human rights, violence

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‘India’s Founding Moment, The Constitution of A Most Surprising Democracy’ by Madhav Khosla: A Book Review

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper 21-05, The Law and Politics Book Review Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 29 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2021
Sital Kalantry and Meher Dev
Seattle University Law School and Independent
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Book Review, India, Political Theorist, Madhav Khosla, Modern India, History, Democracy, Imperial Ideology, Colonized, political absolutism, British, self-government, democratization

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Medical and Mental Health Implications of Gestational Surrogacy and Trends in State Regulations on Compensated Gestational Surrogacy

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-16
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 25 Mar 2020
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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gestational surrogacy, state regulations, compensated gestational surrogacy, pregnancy, mental health, IVF, fertility, psychological health, children, embryo transfers, implications

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Sex Selection in the United States and India: A Contextualist Feminist Approach

UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Fall 2013
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 07 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2016
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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India, sex selection, United States

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Harmful Anti-Sex-Selective Abortion Laws are Sweeping U.S. State Legislatures: Why Do Some Pro-Choice People Support Them?

Abortion, Law and Medicine (Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-16
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 13 Mar 2018
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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Roe v. Wade, pro-choice, abortion, sex-selective abortion, stereotype, laws, democrat, liberal, Asian American, India, constitution, undue burden

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Promoting Clinical Legal Education and Democracy in India

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Promoting Clinical Legal Education and Democracy in India

8 National University of Juridical Science 1 (2015)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 May 2017
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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clinical, legal education, skill-based, legal services, Indian law schools, law clinics, democracy

Promoting Clinical Legal Education and Democracy in India

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-42
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 28 Oct 2016
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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Clinical legal education, democracy, India

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Book Review: Socio-Economic Rights: Adjudication Under a Transformative Constitution

Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 34, Number 2, May 2012, pp. 579-601, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Sep 2015
Elizabeth Brundige and Sital Kalantry
Cornell University - Law School and Seattle University Law School
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Book Review, Adjudication, Socio-Economic Rights, Transformative Constitution

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Women in Prison in Argentina: Causes, Conditions, and Consequences

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper 439
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 10 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2013
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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Argentina, women, prison

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Replacing Myths with Facts: Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in the United States

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-34
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2016
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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sex-selective abortion, immigration, Asian Americans, anti-abortion

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The Supreme Court of India: A People’s Court?

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-22, July 2019
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 09 Jul 2019
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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Supreme Court, India, jurisprudence

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From Protection to Punishment: Post-Conviction Barriers to Justice for Domestic Violence Survivor-Defendants in New York State

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-21
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Jun 2011
Tamar Kraft-Stolar, Elizabeth Brundige, Sital Kalantry and Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Cornell University - Law School, Seattle University Law School and Yeshiva University - Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
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domestic violence, survivors, reforms, abuse, criminal justice system

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Do Reason-Based Abortion Bans Prevent Eugenics?

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 107, No. 1, 2021
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 Dec 2021
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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abortion law, constitutional law, eugenics

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Book Review of The Quiet Power of Indicators: Measuring Governance, Corruption, and the Rule of Law

Nordic Journal of Human Rights Vol. 34 No. 3, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-43
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 02 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2016
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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Book review, Indicators, Governance, Corruption Rule of law, Human Rights, Sally Engle Merry, Kevin E. Davis, Benedict Kingsbury, Critique, World Bank, IMF

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When 'Creeping Jurisdiction' Goes Awry: The Social Action Litigation to Ban Surrogacy

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-18
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Mar 2018
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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jurisdiction, litlgation, transnational surrogacy, creeping jurisdiction, social action litigation, Supreme Court, India, surrogacy market, Indian Council of Medical Research, ICMR, Baxi, Exploitation, contracts, SAL

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Women in Robes

Americas Quarterly, Summer 2012
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 16 Aug 2012
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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women in the judiciary

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Evaluating the Impact of the Indian Supreme Court Judgment on Sex-Selective Abortion

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-24, July 2019
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 09 Jul 2019
Sital Kalantry and Arindam Nandi
Seattle University Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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public interest litigation, Indian Supreme Court, sex-selective abortion

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Reverse Legal Transplants

North Carolina Law Review, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-41
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 12 Oct 2020
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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legal transplant literature, legal transplant, abortion, predicted sex, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. Supreme Court, sex-selective abortion, human rights, universal legal solution, transplant literature

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Dirty Practices for Clean Energy: Indigenous Communities Gain no Benefits and Suffer Decades of Harms from the Salvajina Dam in Cauca, Colombia

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-23, June 2019
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Jul 2019
Beatriz Albornoz, Ashley Chacon, Rachael Hancock, Sital Kalantry and David Cordero-Heredia
Cornell University - Law School, Cornell University - Law School, Cornell University - Law School, Seattle University Law School and Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador - Law School
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clean energy, Colombia, Indigenous people

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Sex-Selective Abortion Bans: Anti-Immigration or Anti-Abortion?

Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Volume 16, No. 1, Winter/Spring 2015, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-09
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 22 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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Abortion, law, immigration, gender, choices, restrictions, Asian Americans

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Enhancing Reproductive Justice Transnationally: An Equality-Based Approach to Sex-Selective Abortion Laws in India

In Research Handbook on International Abortion Law. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2023, https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839108150.00026
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Jul 2023
Sital Kalantry and Meher Dev
Seattle University Law School and Independent
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sex-selective abortion, India, feminist approaches

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Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation During COVID

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper 21-06, UCLA Law Review, Vol. 68, No. 268, 2020
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 28 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2021
Sital Kalantry and Nicholas Koeppen
Seattle University Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Pandemic, Global, COVID, Indigenous People, right to life, right to health, voluntary isolation

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Foreign Law in Dobbs: The Need for A Principled Framework

14 ConLawNOW 37 (2023)
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 Jul 2023
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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Dobbs, international law, abortion

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Right to Property, Indigenous Rights, Human Rights, Private Property

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The Intent-to-Benefit: Individually Enforceable Rights under International Treaties

Stanford Journal of International Law, Vol. 44, 2007, Cornell Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-002
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 May 2007 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2016
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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Robert Paul Churchill, Women in the Crossfire: Understanding and Ending Honor Killing (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), ISBN 978–0–190–46856–9, 334 pages.

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-25
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 09 Jul 2019
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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honor killing, women, violence

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Transnational Law as a Framework for Law Clinics

Jindal Global Law Review 11, 251–270 (2020), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 28 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2021
Sital Kalantry and Rachael Hancock
Seattle University Law School and Cornell University - Law School
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legal clinics, law school, Indian law schools, India, U.S. clinical programs, pedagogical structure

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Regulating Markets for Gestational Care: Comparative Perspectives on Surrogacy in the United States and India

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-47
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Nov 2017
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School
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surrogacy, United States, India, gestational care, regulation, exploitation, legislation, protection

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Sex-Selective Abortion Bans are Not Associated with Changes in Sex Ratios at Birth Among Asian Populations in Illinois and Pennsylvania

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-05
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 16 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
Arindam Nandi, Sital Kalantry and Brian Citro
The Population Council, Seattle University Law School and Independent
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Transnational Legal Feminist Approaches to the Honour Crimes Provision in the Istanbul Convention

Transnational Legal Theory, 13:1, 59-80, 2022 DOI: 10.1080/20414005.2022.2106659
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Jul 2023
Sital Kalantry and Shireen Moti
Seattle University Law School and O. P. Jindal Global University - Jindal Global Law School (JGLS)
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Transnational Law; Feminist Theory, Honor Crimes

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The French Veil Ban: A Transnational Legal Feminist Approach

University of Baltimore Law Review, Vol. 46, No. 201, 2017, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-23
Posted: 12 May 2017
Sital Kalantry
Seattle University Law School

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French veil ban, burkini, Muslim, oppression of women, Nice, modest swimwear, feminism, gender