Vrinda Narain

Focus online: Research profile: Vrinda Narain (avril 2011)
Télécharger: Liste de publications [.docx] (April 2013)

Récemment dans les médias:

• Quebec’s Appeal Court upholds Bill 21, which bans public officials from wearing religious symbols. February 29, 2024
• Montreal Gazette, Saturday March 2 2024. 
• CBC News Montreal, March 01 2024. Min 19
• Bill 21 and the recent European Court of Justice ruling on hijab in the workplace  - UK Breakfast Show, The Voice of Islam Radio, July 30, 2021
• Iran Releases Homa Hoodfar, a Canadian-Iranian Professor Held Since June - NY Times, September 26, 2016
• Interview about Quebec's Bill 62 - Montreal CBC Radio Daybreak show with Mike Finnerty, October 24, 2017 (13:31 on SoundCloud)

Biographie

Dr Vrinda Narain est professeure agrégée à la Faculté de droit. Ses recherches et son enseignement portent sur ​​le droit constitutionnel, la diversité sociale et la théorie juridique féministe.

Elle est l'auteure de Reclaiming the Nation: Muslim Women and the Law in India (University of Toronto Press, 2008) et de Gender and Community: Muslim Women's Rights in India (University of Toronto Press, 2001).

La professeure Vrinda Narain est la lauréate 2017 de la Bourse de recherche Charles-D.-Gonthier de l’Institut canadien d’administration de la justice (ICAJ). Elle a été vice-doyenne à l'enseignement à la Faculté de droit entre 2016 et 2019.

Participation communautaire

• Women Living Under Muslim Laws executive board member (www.wluml.org)
• President, Executive Committee, South Asian Women’s Community Centre, Montreal (SAWCC)

Éducation

• DCL (Université McGill) 
• LLM (Université McGill) 
• LLB (Faculté de droit, Université de Delhi) 
• BA (Hons) en histoire (Collège Lady Shri Ram, Université de Delhi) 

Parcours professionnel

• Vice-doyenne à l'enseignement, Faculté de droit, Université McGill, 2016-2019
• Professeure agrégée, Faculté de droit, Université McGill, 2016-
• Professeure agrégée, Faculté de droit et Faculté des arts, Université McGill, 2015-2016
• Professeure adjointe, Faculté de droit et Faculté des arts, Université McGill, 2008-2015
• Boulton Fellow, Faculté de droit, Université McGill, 2007-2008
• Visiting Research Fellow, Asian Institute, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 2006-2007

Champs d'intérêt

Ses intérêts de recherche et d’enseignement comprennent le droit constitutionnel, la théorie juridique féministe, la diversité et le droit, les études postcoloniales et la critique raciale du droit.

Publications

Livres

• Vrinda Narain and Mona Tajali, Women and Constitutions in Muslim Contexts. © 2024 Revival Press Limited. All rights reserved.
• Vrinda Narain, Reclaiming the Nation: Muslim Women and the Law in India. University of Toronto Press, 2008, 224 pp.
• Vrinda Narain, Gender and Community: Muslim Women’s Rights in India. University of Toronto Press, 2001, 202 pp. Nominated for the Canadian Women’s Studies Association Book of the Year Award, 2003.

Articles dans revues avec comité de lecture

• Vrinda Narain “The Taliban’s war on women in Afghanistan must be formally recognized as gender apartheid” published on The Conversation.
• Vrinda Narain, “What's Love Got to Do with It? Anti-Love Jihad Laws and the Othering of Muslims in India”, published in the UCLA Journal of Gender and Law. 

• Vrinda Narain, “Difference and Inclusion: Reframing Reasonable Accommodation,” Supreme Court Law Review, 2nd Series (2021) Vol 102 pp 77-104.
• Vrinda Narain, "Reconciling Constitutional Law, Gender Equality and Religious Difference Lessons from Shayara Bano, India’s Triple Talaq Decision," The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Vol 5 (2021) pp 345-377.
• Vrinda Narain, "Quebec’s Bill 62: Legislating Difference," Columbia Journal of Race and Law Vol. 9:1 (2018) pp 53-93.
• Vrinda Narain, "Postcolonial Constitutionalism in India: Complexities & Contradictions," Winter, 2016. 25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 107.
• Link to Lexis Nexis excerpt.
• Vrinda Narain, “Taking “Culture” out of Multiculturalism”, December 2013, Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.
• LINK: Taking 'Culture' out of Multiculturalism [.pdf]
• Vrinda Narain. "Muslim Women's Equality in India: Applying a Human Rights Framework." Human Rights Quarterly 35.1 (2013): 91-115.
• LINK: Muslim Women's Equality in India: Applying a Human Rights Framework
• Vrinda Narain, “Water as a Fundamental Right: A Perspective from India”, Vermont Law Review, 2010 Vol.34 No.4, pp. 917-926.
• LINK: Water as a Fundamental Right: A Perspective from India
• “Muslim Women, Family Law and Equal Citizenship in India”, Journal for Semitics, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007, pp. 498-517.
• “Muslim Women’s Rights and the Accommodation of Difference”, University of Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies, Vol. 1, Fall 1998, pp. 43-72.

Autres articles et chapitres de livres avec comité de lecture

• Vrinda Narain, "Private Inequality and Public Religion: A Comment on Shayara Bano, India’s Triple Talaq Decision" in Muhammad Khalid Masud and Hana Jalloul Muro, eds, Sharia Law in the Twenty-First Century (London: World Scientific Europe, 2022).
• Vrinda Narain, “Difference and Inclusion: Reframing Reasonable Accommodation” in Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, ed, The Charles D. Gonthier Fellowship 20th Anniversary Collection (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2021) pp 77-104.
• Vrinda Narain, “Difference and Inclusion: Reframing Reasonable Accommodation” in Richard Albert, Paul Daly, and Vanessa A. MacDonnell eds., The Canadian Constitution in Transition (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019).
• Vrinda Narain, “Law, Gender, and Nation: Muslim Women and the Discontents of Legal Pluralism in India” in Jocelyne Cesari and Jose Casanova, eds., Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
• LINK: Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective
• Vrinda Narain, “Transformatory Jurisprudence: The Supreme Court of India and Maintenance for Muslim Women”, in Leela Fernandes, ed., Handbook on Gender in South Asia Forthcoming (London: Routledge, 2014).
• LINK: Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia (Hardback)
• Vrinda Narain, “Critical Multiculturalism” in Beverly Baines, Daphne Barak-Erez and Tsvi Kahana, eds., in Feminist Constitutionalism: Global Perspectives (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012). View chapter as PDF Chapter 20 – “Critical Multiculturalism”, pp. 377-392.

Rapports de recherche

• Vrinda Narain, “The Potential of Human Dignity: Women in Religious Contexts”, p. 47-52, in Dignity: A Special Focus on Vulnerable Groups, F. Mégret & F. Hoffman eds. (Agenda for Human Rights: a Swiss Initiative, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, 2009).

Rapports de lecture

• Book Review, Hilal Elver, The Headscarf Controversy, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, forthcoming, 2013.
• Book Review, Bipasha Baruah, Women and Property in India (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010), Canadian Journal of Women and the Law: 2012. Vol. 24 Issue 2, p. 496.
• LIEN: Women and Property in Urban India (review) pp. 496-501 | DOI: 10.1353/jwl.2012.0018 Download PDF (46 KB)

Media et blogues

• August 15, 2021, “The world must not look away as the Taliban sexually enslaves women and girls” in The Conversation; translated in French (Québec), French (France) and Spanish; reprinted in several international media sources, including The National Post, Outlook India, Huffington Post, The Wire.
• May 19, 2021, "Women negotiators in Afghan/Taliban peace talks could spur global change" in The Conversation.
• Bill 21 and the recent European Court of Justice ruling on hijab in the workplace  - UK Breakfast Show, The Voice of Islam Radio, July 30, 2021
• 13 juin 2017. "Indian Court Recognizes Rivers as Legal Entities" I-CONnect, the blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law and of ContitutionMaking.org.
• Le 12 juillet 2016, Vrinda Narain s'est entretenue avec Mike Finnerty sur l'émission The Current de la CBC sur la professeure émérite Homa Hoodfar qui est emprisonée depuis mars dans la prison d'Evin en Iran [segment de 2:00 à 9:15. En anglais].
• Octobre 2014, Entrevue [.mp3] émission The Exchange de la station radio CJAD's sur Malala Yousafzai et son Prix Nobel. En anglais.
• Janvier 2014, Entrevue avec Global News sur les 'hipsters' Canadiens musulmans défiants les conventions.
• Septembre 2013: Entrevue (video 2:41) avec Marcia Macmillan (CTV Toronto), en réaction à la sentence prononcée par la Cour indienne dans le cas du viol collectif et meurtre de décembre dernier (en anglais).
• La prof. Narain citée dans The Week, July 2, 2013: Will India finally stop men from throwing acid on women?
• Interview on CBC The National, February 16, 2012 on the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision on Religious Freedom in S.L. v. Commission scolaire des Chênes, 2012 SCC 7, [2012] 1 S.C.R. 235. cbc.ca/news/canada/quebec-students-must-take-ethics-religion-course-1.1239053