
Ratna Kapur is a legal scholar on human rights and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). She engages with law and rights from a critical, Global South, and postcolonial feminist perspective. She has written extensively on the rights of marginalised, and precarious subjects, including sex workers and sexual minorities, migrants and religious minorities. She has also written on the politics of secularism, the right to religious freedom, and equality from a comparative constitutional law perspective.
Her current research interest is on developing a critique of freedom in human rights law and exploring other non-liberal emancipatory possibilities.