Kalpana Kannabiran is a sociologist and legal scholar whose work has focused on the intersections of sociology, law, literature, gender studies, and social movements. Among her books are Tools of Justice: Non-Discrimination and the Indian Constitution (2012), Law, Justice and Human Rights in India: Short Reflections (2021) and Gender Regimes and the Politics of Privacy (2021, co-authored with Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen). She has edited two volumes of Routledge Readings on Law (2022), edited and translated The Speaking Constitution: A Sisyphean Life in Law by K.G. Kannabiran (2022) and edited Law, Justice, Society: The Selected Works of Upendra Baxi, Vol 3: Law and Society (2025). Her latest work is a book titled Suffering and Resistance: Essays on Anti-Caste Feminist Praxis, which will be out in December 2025.