2023: Visiting Faculty at Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts (Pune), ILS Law College (Pune), Maharashtra National Law University (Mumbai)
2019 – 2022: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Studies, IIT Bombay
2017: Doctorate from Martin Luther University, Halle (Saale)
2014 – 2017: Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle (Saale)
2010-2012: Research Associate, National Centre for Advocacy Studies, Pune
2009: Master in Laws from Queen Mary College, University of London
2007 – 2009: Litigation Associate at Negandhi, Shah and Himayatullah for Bombay High Court
2007: Bachelor in Laws from ILS Law College, University of Pune
Kalindi Kokal has been working in research at the disciplinary intersection of law and anthropology. Her research spans the terrain of dispute processing as a site to understand diversity in governance, meanings of justice and notions of the self. Kokal’s monograph titled State Law, Dispute Processing and Legal Pluralism: Unspoken Dialogues from Rural India was published in 2020. She is actively associated in a women’s livelihood programme at Avani, a not-for-profit organisation in India and teaches courses on personal law, social justice and law society at the Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts and the Maharashtra National Law School.
Chapters in Edited Volumes:
2021 ‘Turning to The State: Between Processing Disputes And Protecting Autonomy’ in Tanja Herklotz and Siddharth Peter deSouza (ed.) Mutinies for Equality: Contemporary Developments in Law and Gender in India, Cambridge University Press.
2021 [together with Werner Menski] “Performing Law: Space and the Unfolding of Gender and Violence in India”, in Robyn Bartel and Jennifer Carter (ed.) Handbook on Space, Place and Law, Edward Elgar Publishing.
2021 ‘Dierent Spaces, Dierent Laws: The Role of State Forums in Non-state Dispute Processing in India’ in Marian Roberts, Michael Palmer and Maria Moscati (eds.) Comparative Dispute Resolution: Research Hand[1]books in Comparative Law Series. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Journal Article:
2020 “Who’s Afraid of Legal Pluralim? Fear, Fallacies and Fairy-tales” , Revista General de Derecho Público Comparado (in italics), Vol 28.
2020 (together with Vidya Subramanian) “Locking Down on Rights: Surveillance and Administrative Ambiguity in the Pandemic”, EPW Engage, Vol 55, Issue 19.
2020 “Uniformity in Diversity? Reecting on the Essential Practices Doctrine and its implications for Legal Pluralism”, NALSAR Student Law Review, Vol 14, No. 2, pp 20 – 32.
Book Review:
2018 “Muslim Women’s Quest for Justice: Gender, Law and Activism in India: Book Review”, Law and Society Review, Volume 52, Issue 3.
2016 “Rural Women’s Power in South Asia: Understanding Shakti: Book Review”, South Asia Research, Vol. 36(2), pp. 286 – 288
