Prabha Kotiswaran Explained

Prabha Kotiswaran is a professor of law and social justice working at King's College London (KCL) in the United Kingdom.

Career

Professor Prabha obtained her undergraduate degree from the National Law School of India University, and a doctorate degree from Harvard University, USA. She later practised law at Debevoise and Plimpton, two eminent law firms in New York, USA. She was a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She joined KCL in 2012.

Research & teaching

Prabha teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the KCL.^[1] These include, but not limited to, Criminal Law, Jurisprudence, and Law & Social Theory. Professor Kotiswaran has published over 35 research papers and many books. She published her first research paper in 2001 titled "Preparing for Civil Disobedience: Indian Sex Workers and the Law."^[2]

Selected books

• Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India^[3]
• Governance Feminism: An Introduction^[4]
• Sex Work^[5]
• Towards an Economic Sociology of Law^[6]
• Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery^[7]
• Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field^[8]

Awards

• 2011: SLSA-Hart Book Prize for Early Career Academics.^{[9] [10]}
• 2014: Leverhulme Prize.^[11]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prabha Kotiswaran - Biography - Research Portal, King's College, London. 2020-06-27. kclpure.kcl.ac.uk.
2. Web site: PREPARING FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: INDIAN SEX WORKERS AND THE LAW. 2020-06-27. www.bc.edu.
3. Book: Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor. 2011-07-25. 978-0-691-14251-7. en. Kotiswaran. Prabha.
4. Web site: Governance Feminism: An Introduction. 2020-06-27. University of Minnesota Press. en.
5. Web site:

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   . 2020-06-27. www.womenunlimited.net.
6. Web site: Towards an Economic Sociology of Law Wiley. 2020-06-27. Wiley.com. en-gb.
7. Web site: Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery - Cambridge University Press. 2020-06-27. www.cambridge.org.
8. Book: Halley. Janet. Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. Kotiswaran. Prabha. Rebouché. Rachel. Shamir. Hila. 2019. University of Minnesota Press. 978-1-4529-5868-2. English.
9. Web site: 2019-04-09. Prabha Kotiswaran: 'The Sexual Politics of Anti-trafficking Discourse'. 2020-06-27. Oxford Law Faculty. en.
10. Web site: Prizewinners. 2020-06-27. www.slsa.ac.uk.
11. Web site: Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2014 The Leverhulme Trust. 2020-06-27. www.leverhulme.ac.uk.