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Recent media mentions:

• February 29, 2024
• , Saturday March 2 2024.
• 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
• - NY Times, September 26, 2016
• - Montreal CBC Radio Daybreak show with Mike Finnerty, October 24, 2017 (13:31 on SoundCloud)

Biography

Professor Vrinda Narain鈥檚 research and teaching focus on constitutional law, social diversity and听feminist听legal theory.

She is the author of two books: (University of Toronto Press, 2008) and (University of Toronto Press, 2001).

Professor Vrinda Narain is the 2017 recipient of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice鈥檚 Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship.She was Associate Dean, Academic, at the Faculty of Law from 2016 to 2019.

Community involvement

• Women Living Under Muslim Laws executive board member ()
• President, Executive Committee, South Asian Women鈥檚 Community Centre, Montreal (SAWCC)

Education

• DCL (91社区)听
• LLM (91社区)听
• LLB Faculty of Law, (Delhi University)听
• BA (Hons) History (Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University)听

Employment

• Associate Dean, Academic, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2016-2019
• Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2015-present
• Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Faculty of Arts, 91社区, 2015-2016
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law & Faculty of Arts, 91社区, 2009-2015
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2008-2009
• Boulton Fellow, Faculty of Law, 91社区, 2007-2008
• Visiting Research Fellow, Asian Institute, Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 2006-2007

Areas of Interest

Constitutional law, feminist legal theory, social diversity and law, postcolonial studies and law, critical race theory.

Media

July 12, 2016, Vrinda Narain on The Current regarding the indictement of Canadian-Iranian scholar Homa Hoodfar, who has been detained in Evin prison since March 2016. Her segment runs from 2:00-9:15.

October 14, 2014, Interview [.mp3] on CJAD's The Exchange with Dave Kaufman on Malala Yousafzai receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.

January 30, 2014, on Canadian Muslim hipsters defying stereotypes.

Publications

Books

• Vrinda Narain and Mona Tajali, .听漏 2024听Revival Press Limited. All rights reserved.
• Vrinda Narain, . University of Toronto Press, 2008, 224 pp.
• Vrinda Narain, . University of Toronto Press, 2001, 202 pp. Nominated for the Canadian Women鈥檚 Studies Association Book of the Year Award, 2003.

Refereed journal articles

• Vrinda Narain 鈥溾�� published on The Conversation.
• Vrinda Narain,, published in the UCLA Journal of Gender and Law.
• Vrinda Narain, 鈥溾�� Supreme Court Law Review, 2nd Series (2021) Vol 102 pp 77-104.
• Vrinda Narain, "," The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Vol 5 (2021) pp 345-377.
• Vrinda Narain, "," Columbia Journal of Race and Law Vol. 9:1 (2018) pp 53-93.
• Vrinda Narain, "Postcolonial Constitutionalism i India: Complexities & Contradictions," Winter 2016. 25 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 107.
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• Vrinda Narain, 鈥淭aking 鈥淐ulture鈥� out of Multiculturalism鈥�, 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."听Human Rights Quarterly听35.1 (2013): 91-115.
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• Vrinda Narain, 鈥淲ater as a Fundamental Right: A Perspective from India鈥�, Vermont Law Review, 2010 Vol. 34 No. 4, pp. 917-926.
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• 鈥淢uslim Women, Family Law and Equal Citizenship in India鈥�, Journal for Semitics, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2007, pp. 498-517.
• 鈥淢uslim Women鈥檚 Rights and the Accommodation of Difference鈥�, University of Southern California Review of Law and Women鈥檚 Studies, Vol. 1, Fall 1998, pp. 43-72.

Other refereed articles and book chapters

• Vrinda Narain, "Private Inequality and Public Religion: A Comment on Shayara Bano, India鈥檚 Triple Talaq Decision" in Muhammad Khalid Masud and Hana Jalloul Muro, eds,听(London: World Scientific Europe, 2022).
• Vrinda Narain, 鈥淒ifference and Inclusion: Reframing Reasonable Accommodation鈥� in Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, ed,听听(Toronto: LexisNexis Canada, 2021) pp 77-104.
• Vrinda Narain, 鈥淒ifference and Inclusion: Reframing Reasonable Accommodation鈥� in Richard Albert, Paul Daly, and Vanessa A. MacDonnell eds., (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019).
• Vrinda Narain, 鈥淟aw, Gender, and Nation: Muslim Women and the Discontents of Legal Pluralism in India鈥� in Jocelyne Cesari and Jose Casanova, eds.,听Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
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• Vrinda Narain, 鈥淭ransformatory Jurisprudence: The Supreme Court of India and Maintenance for Muslim Women鈥�, in Leela Fernandes, ed., Handbook on Gender in South Asia Forthcoming (London: Routledge, 2014).
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• Vrinda Narain, 鈥淐ritical Multiculturalism鈥� in Beverly Baines, Daphne Barak-Erez and Tsvi Kahana, eds., in : Global Perspectives (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012). View chapter as PDF Chapter 20 鈥� 鈥淐ritical Multiculturalism鈥�, pp. 377-392.

Research reports

• Vrinda Narain, 鈥淭he Potential of Human Dignity: Women in Religious Contexts鈥�, p. 47-52, in听Dignity: A Special Focus on Vulnerable Groups, F. M茅gret & F. Hoffman eds. (Agenda for Human Rights: a Swiss Initiative, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, 2009).

Non-refereed articles

• 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.
  LINK: pp. 496-501 | DOI: 10.1353/jwl.2012.0018

Media and blogs

• August 15, 2021, 鈥溾�� in听The Conversation; translated in French (Qu茅bec), French (France) and Spanish; reprinted in several international media sources, including听The National Post,听Outlook India,听Huffington Post,听The Wire.
• May 19, 2021, ".
• Bill 21 and the recent European Court of Justice ruling on hijab in the workplace 听- UK Breakfast Show, The Voice of Islam Radio, July 30, 2021
• June 13, 2017. "" I-CONnect, the blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law and of ContitutionMaking.org.
• July 12, 2016, Vrinda Narain on The Current regarding the indictement of Canadian-Iranian scholar Homa Hoodfar, who has been detained in Evin prison since March 2016. Her segment runs from 2:00-9:15.
• October 14, 2014, Interview [.mp3] on CJAD's The Exchange with Dave Kaufman on Malala Yousafzai receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
• January 30, 2014, on Canadian Muslim hipsters defying stereotypes.
• September 13, 2013, CTV interview (video 2:41) with Toronto news anchor Marcia Macmillan, in response to the Indian Court sentence in the infamous gang rape and murder case of last December.
• Prof. Narain was quoted in The Week, July 2, 2013:
• Interview on CBC The National, February 16, 2012 on the Supreme Court of Canada鈥檚 decision on Religious Freedom in S.L.听v.听Commission scolaire des Ch锚nes, 2012 SCC 7, [2012] 1 S.C.R. 235.