Publication List

Books and Edited Collections

  • Re-Imagining Trans in Contemporary South Asia: Moving With, Against, and Beyond the State (Claire Pamment and Jeffrey A. Redding eds.) (Transgender Studies Quarterly, Duke University Press, forthcoming 2025)

    Call for Papers (15 September 2024 deadline): https://femresin.unm.edu/transgender-studies-quarterly/current-cfps.html

  • New directions, new voices in family law in India (Jeffrey A. Redding, Rachel Taylor, Sarasu Esther Thomas eds.) (Indian Law Review Special Issue on Family Law) (2022)

  • Queer and Religious Alliances in Family Law Politics and Beyond (Nausica Palazzo and Jeffrey A. Redding eds.) (New York: Anthem Press) (2022)

           Reviews and Forums

  • A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India (monograph) (Seattle: University of Washington Press, Global South Asia series) (2020)

            Reviews and Forums

Articles

  • South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies (peer reviewed), 44 S. Asia: J. S. Asian Stud. 1056-74 (2021)

    Title: “Surveillance, Censure and Support: Gender Counting in South Asia”

  • Asian Journal of Law and Society (peer reviewed), 8 Asian J. L. & Soc. 56-71 (2021)

    Title: “A Secular Failure: Sectarianism and Communalism in Shayara Bano v. Union of India”

  • Droit et Cultures (invited submission), 80 Droit et Cultures (2020)

    Title: “A Decade of Transgender Rights Developments in Pakistan (2009-2019)”

    Title en français: “Les droits des personnes transgenres au Pakistan (2009-2019)”

  • Australian Journal of Asian Law (peer reviewed), 20 Austl. J. Asian L. 103-13 (2019)

    Title: “The Pakistan Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act of 2018 and Its Impact on the Law of Gender in Pakistan”

    (Cited in Ghulam Mustafa v. Judge Family Court, 2020 Lahore High Court 2842)

  • Saint Louis University Law Journal (invited submission), 60 St. Louis U. L.J. 671-94 (2016)

    Title: “Formal Marriage”

  • Modern Asian Studies (peer reviewed), 48 Mod. Asian Stud. 940-85 (2014)

    Title: “The Case of Ayesha, Muslim ‘Courts,’ and the Rule of Law: Some Ethnographic Lessons for Legal Theory”

    (Selected for presentation at the 2012 Stanford/Yale/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum in the Law& Humanities category)

  • Saint Louis University Law Journal (invited submission), 57 St. Louis U. L.J. 339-76 (2013)

    Title: “Secularism, The Rule of Law, and ‘Shari‘a Courts’: An Ethnographic Examination of a Constitutional Controversy”

  • University of Colorado Law Review (invited submission), 83 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1027-63 (2012)

    Title: “What American Legal Theory Might Learn from Islamic Law: Some Lessons from ‘Shari‘a Court’ Practice in India”

  • Washington University Journal of Law & Policy (invited submission), 33 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y 211-72 (2010)

    Title: “Queer/Religious Friendship in the Obama Era”

  • Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law (peer reviewed), 6 J. Islamic St. Prac. Int’l L. 1-25 (2010)

    Title: “Institutional v. Liberal Contexts for Contemporary Non-State, Muslim Civil Dispute Resolution Systems”

  • Brooklyn Law Review (U.S. law review), 75 Brook. L. Rev. 791-863 (2010)

    Title: “Dignity, Legal Pluralism, and Same-Sex Marriage”

  • New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (U.S. law review), 40 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 941-1018 (2008)

    Title: “Slicing the American Pie: Federalism and Personal Law”

  • Northwestern Journal of International Human Rights (U.S. law review), 4 Nw. U. J. Int’l Hum. Rts. 436-91 (2006)

    Title: “Human Rights and Homo-sectuals: The International Politics of Sexuality, Religion, and Law”

  • Virginia Journal of International Law (U.S. law review), 44 Va. J. Int'l L. 759-827 (2004)

    Title: “Constitutionalizing Islam: Theory and Pakistan”

  • American Philosophical Association’s “Newsletters” Journal (invited submission), 2 APA Newsletters, Newsletter on Philosophy and Law 161-66 (2002)

    Title: “Recent Issues in International Feminist Legal Activism”

Chapters in Edited Book Volumes

  • Duke University Press (2023)

    Jeffrey A. Redding, Queer in a Time of Kashmir, in Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere 236-50 (Omar Kasmani ed., 2023)

  • Anthem Press (2022)

    Jeffrey A. Redding, Queer and Religious Political Alliances in the Pandemic Trump Era, in Queer and Religious Alliances in Family Law Politics and Beyond 197-217 (Nausica Palazzo and Jeffrey A. Redding eds., 2022)

  • Anthem Press (2022)

    Nausica Palazzo and Jeffrey A. Redding, Introduction, in Queer and Religious Alliances in Family Law Politics and Beyond 1-11 (Nausica Palazzo and Jeffrey A. Redding eds., 2022)

  • Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books (2018)

    Jeffrey A. Redding, Transgender Rights in Pakistan?: Global, Colonial, and Islamic Perspectives, in Human Rights in Translation: Intercultural Pathways 49-75 (Michal Jan Rozbicki ed., 2018)

  • Oxford University Press (2018)

    Jeffrey A. Redding, The Rule of Disgust?: Contemporary Transgender Rights Discourse in India, in The Empire of Disgust: Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US 195-219 (Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum, Vidhu Verma eds., 2018)

  • Oxford University Press (2015)

    Jeffrey A. Redding, From ‘She-males’ to ‘Unix’: Transgender Rights and the Productive Paradoxes of Pakistani Policing, in Regimes of Legality: Ethnography of Criminal Cases in South Asia 258-89 (Daniela Berti and Devika Bordia eds., 2015)

  • Routledge (2010)

    Jeffrey A. Redding, Queer/Religious Potentials in U.S. Same-Sex Marriage Debates, in Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire 122-36 (Robert Leckey and Kim Brooks eds., 2010)

  • Women Unlimited (2005)

    Jeff Redding, Plural Legal Systems and Equality:  The Pakistani Experience, in Men’s Laws, Women’s Lives: A Constitutional Perspective on Religion, Common Law and Culture in South Asia 138-72 (Indira Jaising ed., 2005)

Essays and Significant Shorter Works

Scholarly Reference and Encyclopedia Contributions

  • Edward Elgar Publishing (2024 forthcoming)

    Jeffrey A. Redding, Law and Gender in Pakistan, in Encyclopedia of Asian Law (2024)

  • Cambridge University Press (2024 forthcoming)

    Jeffrey A. Redding, Religion, in The Cambridge Companion to the Constitution of India (Aparna Chandra, Gautam Bhatia, Niraja Gopal Jayal eds., 2023)

  • Oxford University Press (2018)

    Jeff Redding, Islamic Law in South Asia: A Testament to Diversity, in The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law 673-96 (Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed eds., 2018)

Book Reviews

  • Law and Social Inquiry (invited submission), 49 Law & Soc. Inquiry 611–17 (2024)

    Title: “The Making of Colonial and Postcolonial Law by South Asian Muslims” (review essay of Katherine Lemons, Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019) and Elizabeth Lhost, Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022))

  • Modern Law Review (peer reviewed), 83 Mod. L. Rev 702-07 (2020)

    Title: “Sexuality and Transsexuality Under the European Convention on Human Rights:  A Queer Reading of Human Rights Law” (by Damian A. Gonzalez-Salzberg)

  • Law and Other Things - A Blog About India's Laws and Legal System, its Courts, and its Constitution (invited submission) (2019)

    Jeffrey A. Redding, Governing Islam by Julia Stephens: A Response from Professor Jeffrey Redding, (review of Julia Stephens, Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in South Asia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018))

  • American Anthropologist (peer reviewed), 113 Am. Anthropologist 162-63 (2011)

    Title: “Islamism and Democracy in India: The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami” (by Irfan Ahmad)

  • Minnesota Law Review (Headnotes) (U.S. law review), 95 Minn. L. Rev. Headnotes 29-59 (2010)

    Title: “Beyond Exclusion: A Review of Peter J. Spiro’s ‘Beyond Citizenship’”