Usha Ramanathan works on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. She writes and speaks on issues that include the nature of law, the Bhopal Gas Disaster, mass displacement, eminent domain, civil liberties including the death penalty, beggary, criminal law, custodial institutions, the environment, and the judicial process. She has been tracking and engaging with the UID project and has written and debated extensively on the subject. In July-September 2013, she wrote a 19-part series on the UID project that was published in The Statesman, a national daily.

Her work draws heavily upon non-governmental experience in its encounters with the state; a 6 year stint with a law journal (Supreme Court Cases) as reporter from the Supreme Court; and engagement with matters of law and public policy.

She was a member of: the Expert Group on Privacy set up by the Planning Commission of India which gave in its report in October 2012; a committee (2013-14) set up in the Department of Biotechnology to review the Draft Human DNA Profiling Bill 2012; and the Committee set up by the Prime Minister's Office (2013-14) to study the socio-economic status of tribal communities which gave its report to the government in 2014.

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

15 - Republic Under the Shadow of Surveillance: UID- The Hidden Agenda


Onwards to 26 Jan

 E x p l o r i n g  D e m o c r a c y

Republic Under the Shadow of Surveillance: 
UID - The Hidden Agenda
Speakers:
Usha Ramanathan
Independent law reascher and noted jurist
Prof. Mohan Rao
SSS JNU
Gopal Krishna
Research scholar, JNU, Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties

Date: 24.01.11
Venue: Tapti Mess, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Time: 9.30 pm
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