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UPENDRA BAXI
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Professor Upendra Baxi is one of India's best-known scholars. Educated at the University of Bombay and University of California at Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall), where he received an LL.M. and J.S.D., Baxi began his teaching career at the Sydney University Law School, Australia. When he joined the law faculty of Delhi University in 1971, Baxi was the youngest law professor in India. Currently, he teaches at the University of Warwick, England. From 1975 to 1978, Baxi was Dean of the Delhi University Law School and from 1989 to 1994, he was the Vice Chancellor of Delhi University (equivalent to a university president in the United States). Since the early 1980s, Baxi held the position of Research Director of the Indian Law Institute, in which capacity he had editorial responsibility for the Journal of the Indian Law Institute. Known as a thoroughly devoted teacher with broad intellectual interests, Baxi has published about fifteen books and more than one hundred articles.

Professor Baxi has contributed substantially to social action (public interest) litigation in the Indian Supreme Court and thereby enhanced democratization of access to judicial process and power by the disadvantaged groups in Indian society. He has also been among the forerunners of legal action and law reform in the area of violence against women, especially custodial violence