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.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe criminal law as sledgehammer: the paternalist politics of India’s 2018 Trafficking BillIndia's new trafficking bill relies exclusively on the stick to achieve its goals. It will fail.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery: FeatureWeek 6: Commercial sex and the global economyThree stories of commercial sex – which can protect the people engaged in it most?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNeoabolitionism’s last laugh: India must rethink traffickingIndia’s new trafficking bill seeks a wide array of new powers to punish, but does nothing to address the causes of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe path to the UK's Modern Slavery Act 2015: an oral history projectThe UK’s Modern Slavery Act, 2015 was hotly debated by policy-shapers during the drafting process. We take a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryEmpty gestures: a critique of India’s new trafficking billThe 2016 Global Slavery Index finds that 40% of ‘modern slaves’ live in India. A new trafficking bill seeks to lower...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTrafficking and slavery interventions under the microscopeBTS editors introduce the ‘case studies and critique’ strand of our new project ‘possible futures’, which will open...