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Shritha K Vasudevan

Shritha K Vasudevan

PhD Candidate
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Social Sciences

Email: shritha.vasudevan@unsw.edu.au

Supervisors: Penny Griffin, Monika Barthwal-Datta

I am currently investigating the multiple dimensions of India's compliance with Article 5(a) of the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). This involves interrogating the connections between the Hindu Personal Laws and the institutions of gender-based violence (GBV) in Indian society. The research also straddles investigating the relationship between public international law (IL), International Relations (IR) and feminist IR.

CEDAW compliance and the example of India
  • Vasudevan, Shritha, Demonstrating the Independent Normative Pull of International Gender Norms through the Public Interest Litigation Petition in India, Connecticut Journal of International Law, Volume 40, Issue 1, 95.
  • Vasudevan, S.K., Demonstrating that Gender is Material to State Interest: A Waltzian Rejoinder to Post-Positivist Feminist IR, VOL. 58, NO. 1-2, JAN.– JUNE, 2024.
  • Vasudevan, S.K. The Case for Promulgating a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Due Diligence Mechanism by The Republic of India Indian Journal of International Law.
  • Vasudevan, S.K. Resolving the Constitutional Dilemma of the Uniform Civil Code in India through the Women’s Convention. Liverpool Law Rev (2023).
  • Shritha K. Vasudevan, Examining A Conceptual Fallacy on Culture Under the Women’s Convention, Indian Journal of International Law, Vol 61 No. 1 & 2 (2022): 14–50.
  • SHRITHA, V. (2022). Would the “Optional Protocol” Effectuate India's Due Diligence Obligation Under the Women's Convention? Asian Journal of International Law, 1-21. doi:10.1017/S204425132200025X.
  • Vasudevan, S.K. Interrogating the substantive implications of India’s declaration to CEDAW’s Article 5(a): Part I. Indian Journal of International Law (2020).
  • Vasudevan, Shritha. “A Gendered Refutation of Epiphenomenal Norms through the Median Voter: A Case-Study of India’s CEDAW Compliance” Emory International Law Review, Vol. 33, April 2019.
  • Vasudevan, Shritha. 2015. "Examining the Case for India to Repeal Its Personal Status Laws under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women." The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Global Studies 10 (3): 27-38. doi:10.18848/2324-755X/CGP/v10i03/53384.
  • Vasudevan, Shritha, 2008. “The Creation of Social Space for the Articulation of Gender Justice- A Case Study” in Three Studies on Law and the Shifting Spaces on Social Justice, The Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India 19: 27-33.

Book chapters

  • Vasudevan, Shritha. (2015). New Jersey. In Chuck Stewart (Ed.), Proud Heritage: People, Issues, and Documents of the LGBT Experience Volume I (pp. 1083-1090). Santa Barbara, CA ABC-Clio LLC.

Books

  • S. K. VASUDEVAN, Predicting Gender Violence in India: A Counterintuitive Theoretical Approach (Academica Press, 2020).
  • A Perspective on the Substantive Legal Implications of India’s Accession to the Women’s Convention. (Under contract with University of Wales Press (UWP), UK, for their series on International Law).
  • Demonstrating that the International Gender Norm is Material to the Indian State Interest. (Under contract with Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK).