Author: Sonal Makhija

Sonal Makhija is a doctoral candidate at the University of Helsinki. She is a legal anthropologist and has conducted extensive fieldwork in India. Her doctoral thesis is an ethnographic study of a courtroom in India that takes a closer look at the role senses play in access to justice. Her research interests include law and the senses, law and anthropology, women rights, and human rights.

Sonal Makhija

Experiencing other minds in the courtroom

December, 2017 / By Sonal Makhija

In the landmark hearing of the Oscar Pistorius’s trial who was sentenced for murdering his girlfriend, Pistorius on the request […]