Prabha Kotiswaran

Prabha Kotiswaran lectures in Criminal Law at King’s College London. She is the author of Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor: Sex Work and the Law in India, published by Princeton University Press (2011) and co-published by Oxford University Press, India (2011). She also blogs for the Interdisciplinary Project on Human Trafficking.

The gendered victims of (anti)trafficking

Beyond Slavery editors discuss the deep links between anti-trafficking campaigns and ideas of female victimisation to introduce their next issue on gender.

By Sam Okyere and Prabha Kotiswaran

/ 10 Aug 2015

The role of the state and law in trafficking and modern slavery

Beyond Slavery introduces its new issue on the state and the law, elements which not only define slavery but shape the channels through which it is addressed.

By Sam Okyere and Prabha Kotiswaran

/ 24 Mar 2015

The role of the state and law in trafficking and modern slavery

Beyond Slavery introduces its new issue on the state and the law, elements which not only define slavery but shape the channels through which it is addressed.

By Sam Okyere and Prabha Kotiswaran

/ 24 Mar 2015

Law’s mediations: the shifting definitions of trafficking

As trafficking becomes increasingly conflated with slavery and forced labor, there is less and less agreement amongst international organisations on the precise definitional boundaries of these terms.

By Prabha Kotiswaran

/ 8 Oct 2014

Law’s mediations: the shifting definitions of trafficking

By Prabha Kotiswaran

/ 8 Oct 2014