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Jain, Dipika, Nedumpara, James J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-9561 and Diwan, Anmol ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5605-9357 (2026) Between body and bureaucracy: The making of healthscapes. Jindal Global Law Review, 17 (1). pp. 1-11. Springer Nature . ISSN 0975-2498 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-026-00296-4

Jain, Dipika (2026) Inequities Uncovered: Examining Exclusion in Indian Health Insurance Policies. Healthcare, 14 (13): 1885. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) . ISSN 2227-9032 Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare14131885

Jain, Dipika (2024) Legal challenges in expanding the provider base for abortion in Asia. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 168 (3). pp. 1345-1351. John Wiley and Sons Ltd . ISSN 0020-7292 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.16119

Jain, Dipika (2024) Care workers, collectivisation and protest: A case for feminist and anti-capitalist resistance against the state. Feminist Theory, 26 (2). pp. 344-363. SAGE . ISSN 1464-7001 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001241288492

Jain, Dipika and Balu, Krithika (2024) The maze of interpretation: abortion laws and legal indeterminacy in Indian courts. Indian Law Review, 8 (2). pp. 119-141. Taylor and Francis . ISSN 2473-0580 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/24730580.2024.2338029

Jain, Dipika (2024) Beyond bars, coercion and death: Rethinking abortion rights and justice in India. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 14 (1). pp. 99-118. Onati International Institute for the Sociology of Law . ISSN 2079-5971 Available at: https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.1680

Jain, Dipika and Rastogi, Anubha (2024) Adolescent abortions in the Covid-19 landscape: Exposing the legal Achilles’ heel. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 9 (1). pp. 48-57. Forum For Medical Ethics Society . ISSN 0974-8466 Available at: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2024.002

Jain, Dipika (2023) Supreme Court of India judgement on abortion as a fundamental right: Breaking new ground. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 30 (1). pp. 1-3. Taylor & Francis . ISSN 2641-0397 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2023.2225264

Jain, Dipika and Deora, Yashraj Singh (2023) Law makers debating the right to abortion in India: Deconstructing progress. Indonesian Journal of International and Comparative Law, 10 (2). pp. 161-196. Institute for Migrant Rights Press . ISSN 2338-7602

Jain, Dipika (2023) Regulation of digital healthcare in India: Ethical and legal challenges. Healthcare (Switzerland), 11 (06): 911. pp. 1-24. MDPI . ISSN 2227-9032 Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11060911

Mittal, Gita and Jain, Dipika (2023) Women’s equal representation in the higher judiciary: a case for judicial diversity in India. International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. Taylor & Francis . ISSN 2157-6475 (In Press) Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/01924036.2022.2164317

Jain, Dipika, Rastogi, Anubha, Kartik, Kavya, Anmol, Diwan and Saha, Oieshi (2022) Medical abortion through telehealth in India: A critical perspective. Sexual and reproductive health matters, 29 (2): 2107090. Taylor & Francis . ISSN 2641-0397 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/26410397.2022.2107090

Jain, Dipika (2022) Right to health and gender-affirmative procedure in the transgender persons Act 2019 in India. Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, 55 (2). pp. 205-210. Thieme . ISSN 0970-0358. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1749137

Jain, Dipika and Rhoten, Kimberly (2022) A queer-feminist analysis of BDSM jurisprudence in common law courts. Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, 27 (1). pp. 87-139. University of California, Berkeley School of Law . ISSN 1934-9629 Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.15779/Z38BC3SZ17

Jain, Dipika and Sengupta, Shampa (2021) Reproductive rights and disability rights through an intersectional analysis. Jindal Global Law Review, 12 (2). pp. 337-357. Springer Nature . ISSN 9752498 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41020-021-00153-6

Jain, Dipika and Kartik, Kavya (2021) Narrative of feminist resistance: Exploring regulations of leprosy in postcolonial India. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 47 (1). pp. 123-142. Routledge . ISSN 13200968 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2021.1935475

Jain, Dipika and Gupta, Debanuj Das (2021) Law, gender identity, and the uses of human rights: The paradox of recognition in South Asia. Journal of Human Rights, 20 (1). pp. 110-126. Routledge . ISSN 14754835 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14754835.2020.1845129

Jain, Dipika, Aher, Abhina, Shaikh, Simran, Sarkar, Amrita and Tronic, Brian (2020) Negotiating violence: Everyday queer experiences of the law. Violence and Gender, 7 (4). pp. 141-149. Mary Ann Liebert Inc. . ISSN 23267836 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1089/vio.2020.0002

Jain, Dipika (2020) Law-making by and for the people: A case for pre-legislative processes in India. Statute Law Review, 41 (2). pp. 189-206. Oxford University Press . ISSN 1443593 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/slr/hmz005

Jain, Dipika and Kartik, Kavya (2020) Unjust citizenship: The law that isn’t. NUJS Law review, 13 (2). pp. 1-44. The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences . ISSN 0975 - 0207 Available at: http://nujslawreview.org/2020/08/31/unjust-citizen...

Jain, Dipika and Shah, Payal K. (2020) Reimagining reproductive rights jurisprudence in India: reflections on the recent decisions on privacy and gender equality from the Supreme Court of India. Columbia Journal of Gender and Law, 39 (2). pp. 1-53. Columbia University School of Law . ISSN 2333-4339 Available at: https://doi.org/10.7916/cjgl.v39i2.5673

Jain, Dipika and Rhoten, Kimberly M (2020) Epistemic injustice and judicial discourse on transgender rights in India: Uncovering temporal pluralism. Journal of Human Values, 26 (1). pp. 30-49. Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd . ISSN 9716858 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0971685819890186

Barua, Alka, Rastogi, Anubha, Deepa, V, Jain, Dipika, Gupta, Manisha, Malik, Rupsa and Dalvie, Suchitra (2020) The MTP 2020 amendment bill: Anti-rights subjectivity. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, 28 (1): 1795447. Taylor and Francis Ltd. . ISSN 26410397 Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26410...

Jain, Dipika and Tronic, Brian (2019) Conflicting abortion laws in India: unintended barriers to safe abortion for adolescent girls. Indian journal of medical ethics, 4 (4). pp. 310-317. Forum For Medical Ethics Society . ISSN 09755691 Available at: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2019.059

Jain, Dipika (2019) Time to rethink criminalisation of abortion? Towards a gender justice approach. NUJS Law Review, 12 (1). pp. 21-42. The West Bengal National University of Juridical Science, West Bengal . ISSN 0975 - 0207 Available at: http://nujslawreview.org/2019/10/26/time-to-rethin...

Jain, Dipika, Pillai, Gauri, Shukla, Surabhi and Jos, Justin (2018) Bureaucratization of transgender rights: perspective from the ground. Socio-Legal Review, 14 (1). pp. 99-142. National Law School of India University . ISSN 09735216 Available at: https://77c86aee-837e-44bb-89c9-565f7c248f89.files...

Jain, Dipika and Rhoten, Kimberly (2017) Sex work and the law in India: perspective, voices and narratives from the margins. Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, 40 (2). pp. 411-440. Harvard Law School . ISSN 1558-4356 Available at: https://harvardjlg.com/past-volumes/

Jain, Dipika (2017) Shifting subjects of state legibility: gender minorities and the law in India. Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, 32. pp. 39-252. University of California School of Law, Berkeley . ISSN 1933-1045 Available at: https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1127888

Jain, Dipika and Tronic, Brian (2016) Implementation of the public distribution system: An empirical analysis of the right to food in an urban slum. Journal of Food Law and Policy, 12 (1). pp. 53-82. University of Arkansas School of Law. .

Jain, Dipika, Jadav, Amit, Rhoten, Kimberly and Bassi, Abhinav (2014) The enforcement of India's tobacco control legislation in the state of Haryana: A case study. World Medical and Health Policy, 6 (4). pp. 331-346. Wiley-Blackwell . ISSN 21532028 Available at: https://doi.org/ 10.1002/wmh3.116

Jain, Dipika (2014) Gene-patenting and access to healthcare in India: achieving precision. Houston Journal of International Law, 36 (1). pp. 102-146. University of Houston Law Center . ISSN 0194-1879

Jain, Dipika and Rozario, Natassia M. (2014) Between Cairo to Haryana: how far have reproductive rights come after twenty years of ICPD. Whittier Law Review, 35 (3). pp. 373-419. Whittier Law School . ISSN 0195-7643

Abeyratne, Rehan and Jain, Dipika (2014) Socioeconomic rights in the Indian constitution: toward a broader conception of legitimacy. Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 39 (1): 1. pp. 1-71. Brooklyn Law School . ISSN 0740-4824 Available at: https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/bjil/vol39/iss1...

Jain, Dipika and Rhoten, Kimberly M (2013) A Comparison of the legal rights of gender non-conforming persons in south Asia. Economic & Political Weekly,, 48 (52). pp. 10-12. Economic & Political Weekly, . Available at: http://www.epw.in/journal/2013/52/commentary/compa...

Jain, Dipika and Darrow, Jonathan J (2013) An exploration of compulsory licensing as an effective policy tool for antiretroviral drugs in India. Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine, 23 (2). pp. 425-457. Case Western reserve University . ISSN 0748383X Available at: http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/healthmatrix/...

Jain, Dipika (2013) Impact of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Delhi: an empirical study. Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service. University of Arkansas . Available at: https://ualr.edu/socialchange/2013/01/13/impact-of...

Jain, Dipika and Rhoten, Kimberly (2013) Heteronormative state and the right to health in India. NUJS Law Review, 6 (4). pp. 628-638. West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences . ISSN 0975-0029 Available at: http://nujslawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/1...

Jain, Dipika (2013) Is the National Pharmaceutical Policy, 2012 really cheering the pharma? Indian Journal of Law and Technology, 9. pp. 1-9. National Law School of India University . ISSN 0973-0362 Available at: https://www.ijlt.in/archive/volume9/Dipika-Jain.pd...

Sircar, Oishik and Jain, Dipika (2013) Neoliberal Modernity and the ambiguity of its discontents: Post/anti-colonial disruptions of queer imperialism. Jindal Global Law Review, 4 (2). pp. 1-22. Jindal Global Law School . ISSN 09752498 Available at: https://jgu.edu.in/jgls/jglr/volume-4-issue-2-2013...

Abeyratne, Rehan and Jain, Dipika (2012) Domestic violence legislation in India: the pitfalls of a human rights approach to gender equality. Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, 21 (2): 4. pp. 1-46. American University . Available at: https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/do/search/...

Article in Newspapers and Magazine

Jain, Dipika and Barua, Alka (2026) Should the abortion law be amended for minor rape victims? The Hindu. THG Publishing Private Limited , India. Available at: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/should-the-...

Jain, Dipika (2023) Her body, her choice: Why a woman’s right to terminate her pregnancy must be upheld. The Indian Express. Available at: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/her-body...

Jain, Dipika (2022) Why Indian laws need more reforms to provide safe abortions. Outlook. Available at: https://www.outlookindia.com/national/why-indian-l...

Jain, Dipika (2021) MTP law’s patriarchal bias. The Indian Express. Available at: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/...

Jain, Dipika (2021) MTP Bill’s proposal for a bureaucracy to vet abortions is ill-judged and impractical. The Indian Express. Available at: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/...

Jain, Dipika, Rhoten, Kimberly and Shukla, Surabhi (2014) Legally invisible. Seiminar. Available at: https://india-seminar.com/2014/653.htm

Book Section

Jain, Dipika and Balu, Krithika (2024) Access to abortion during COVID-19 in India. In: The Routledge companion to gender and COVID-19. Routledge, London. pp. 357-369. ISBN 9781003267904 (In Press) Available at: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003267904-35

Jain, Dipika (2021) Queering the transnational: Notes on an emerging politics of law and sexuality. In: Queering the transnational: Notes on an emerging politics of law and sexuality. Oxford University Press, New York. pp. 727-746. ISBN 9780197547410 Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197547410.013...

Sircar, Oishik and Jain, Dipika (2017) New intimacies, old desires: Law, culture and queer politics in neoliberal times. In: New Intimacies, Old Desires. University of Chicago Press, India. pp. 1-480. ISBN 978-9384757748

Medhni, Laya, Jain, Dipika and Gonzalves, Colin (2009) Verdict on an HIV case, Supreme Court of India reproduced in Medhina. In: State of justice in India: issues of social justice. SAGE, New Delhi. pp. 324-333. ISBN 9788132100645

Medhni, Laya, Jain, Dipika and Gonzalves, Colin (2009) Gender: Women and HIV. In: State of justice in India: issues of social justice. SAGE, New Delhi. pp. 377-424. ISBN 9788132100645

Book Review

Jain, Dipika (2019) Book review: Naisargi N. Dave, Queer activism in India: A story in the anthropology of ethics. [Book Review] Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0049085719886682

Monograph

Jain, Dipika, Diwan, Anmol, Kartik, Kavya and Saraf, Joshika (2021) Legal barriers to abortion access during the COVID 19 pandemic in India: One year at a glance. Project Report. O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India, Sonipat. Available at: https://jgu.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/cjls/SRHR+...

Jain, Dipika, Garnaik, Upasana, McBroom, Kerry, Malik, Swati and Tronic, Brian (2016) Abortion laws in India: a review of court cases. Project Report. O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat.

Jain, Dipika and Rozario, Natassia M. (2013) Voices from the field: women’s access to contraceptive services and information in Haryana. Project Report. Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology (CHLET), Jindal Global Law School. Available at: http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34709.14567

Jain, Dipika, Kommareddy, Kavya, Oza, Esha, Parkkot, Parvati, Choudhary, Esha and Balu, Krithika (2012) Impact of the Naz Foundation judgment on the gay, bisexual and transgender people in Delhi: An empirical investigation. Project Report. Centre for Health Law, Ethics and Technology (CHLET), Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University, 2012, Sonipat.

Rehn, Nathan, Naik, Abhayraj, Jain, Dipika, Singh, Aditya, Robinson, Nick, Wing So, Winky, Aniruddha, J., Rai, Sulbha, Patil, Chakravarti, Bindal, Amit, Goel, Ruchira and Kanwar, Vik (2011) Justice without delay: Recommendations for legal and institutional reforms in the Indian courts. Discussion Paper. O.P. Jindal Global University, Haryana, India, Haryana. Available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1679350