Anvesh Baki
Assistant Professor, School of Law
Anvesh Baki has around two years of experience in law and has worked across the domain including litigation and legal research. He has done LLM (Human Rights, Conflict and Justice) from SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom His publications include co-authoring an article titled “Criminality or Criminal Tendencies Have Nothing to Do with Religion, Caste or Creed of Any Human Being – Justice Abhay S. Oka” (LiveLaw.in, 2024), co-authoring an article titled “SECTION 29A(C) – Cause Célèbre of Code” (IBCLaws.in, 2021), co-authoring an article titled “Gains of National Parties: A Step Towards Progression or Regression for the State of Telangana?” (RoundTableIndia.co.in, 2024), and co-authoring a book chapter titled “Digitising Caste: Making of Criminal Databases in India” in Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context (under peer review). He has also co-presented a paper titled “Predictive Policing: A Misnomer Built on the Myth of Algorithmic Neutrality” at the 6th Digital Citizenship Summit (2024), held in Hyderabad..
He began his career at the Office of the Additional Advocate General of Telangana as Advocate. Subsequently, he joined as a research consultant at Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project Bhopal with before joining Sai University. In his career span he has been associated with various litigation offices in Hyderabad and Delhi.
Anvesh Baki has diverse research experiences in the disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields of law and policy research. At the office of the Additional Advocate General of Telangana he woked on cases involving arbitrary state (executive/legislative) action, fundamental rights, land acquisition matters, and local self-government in scheduled-V areas. His research at the Criminal Justice and Police Accountability Project included traceing the historical process of unscrupulous datafication that was put into motion through the enactment of the Criminal Tribes Act under the Nizam government, and its enduring impact on policing of the marginalized communities in Hyderabad till date and contributing to a report that analysed the disproportionate arrests of denotified tribes in the district of Guna, Madhya Pradesh.