Upendra Baxi

Prof. Baxi began his teaching career at the Sydney University Law School, and remained the youngest law professor in India when invited to the law faculty of Delhi University in 1971. Overrun by the Vice Chancellorships of the University of South Gujarat and the University of Delhi, he has continued writing and teaching and has authored more than 20 books and over 200 articles; he has also offered instruction in comparative constitutionalism, social theory of human rights, and law, science, and technology at the Washington College of Law, Duke University Law School, and the University of New York Law School Global Law Program. He is a former Ford Foundation Professor of Human Rights at The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata. He has also served as the Honorary Director (Research) the Indian Law Institute (1985-1988) and the President of the Indian Society of International Law (1992-1995). His areas of special expertise in teaching and research include comparative constitutionalism, social theory of human rights, human rights responsibilities in corporate governance and business conduct, and materiality of globalization.