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Jinee Lokaneeta

Assistant Professor of Political Science

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Phone: 973-408-3430

Email: jlokanee@drew.edu

Specialization: Public Law, Jurisprudence, Comparative Law, Civil Liberties, Political Theory (Postcolonial, Feminist and Marxist theory) and Cultural Studies

Professional Bio: Jinee Lokaneeta received her Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles in 2006. Prior to USC, she taught Political Science at Kirori Mal College, Delhi University, India. Jinee completed her Bachelors, Masters and Mphil in Political Science at Delhi University. Jinee's research is on Legal Discourses on Torture in Contemporary Liberal Democracies focusing on the United States and India . Drawing from Political & Legal Theory, Public Law and interdisciplinary literature on violence, she explores how jurisprudence in contemporary democracies deals with the infliction of pain and suffering by state officials. Her work points to the centrality of excess violence in democratic governance by demonstrating that even before recent debates on the use of torture in the ‘war on terror, the laws of interrogation were ambivalent about the infliction of pain.

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