Akhileshwar Pathak

Educational Qualifications

• 1996-99 Ph D (Law), Centre for Law and Society, Department of Law University of Edinburgh, U.K.
• 1981-84 LLB, Campus Law Centre, Delhi University
• 1979-81 M Sc (Physics), St. Stephen's College, Delhi University
• 1976-79 B Sc (Physics), St. Stephen's College, Delhi University

Area of Research:

Law, Globalisation and Liberalisation in India

Current Research:

His current interests are in the field of law, liberalisation and globalisation

Publications/Articles/Cases:

a. Books:

• Pathak, Akhileshwar, Legal Aspects of Business: Text and Cases, Tata McGraw-Hill, New Delhi (Forthcoming)
• Pathak, Akhileshwar, Law, Strategies, Ideologies: Legislating Forests in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2002.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar, Contested Domains: State, Peasants and Forests in Contemporary India, SAGE, New Delhi, 1994.

b. Papers and Articles:

• Pathak, Akhileshwar, Making Way for Foreign Trade Marks: The New Trade Mark Law in India, Chartered Secretary (Forthcoming).
• Pathak, Akhileshwar (2004), Legal Responses to Economic Liberalisation: The Case of Unfair Trade Practices, Vikalpa, No. 3, Volume 29, No. 3.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar, "State, Law and Leather Co-operatives in Uttar Pradesh", Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXII, No. 39, September 27-October 3, 1997.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar (with Vikash Pandey), "Peasants, Subsistence and the Dairy Co-operative in Dry Land: A Fragile Existence", Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXII, No. 39, September 27-October 3, 1997.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar (With Vikash Pandey), "Beyond Conventional Sociology of Organisation", Economic and Political Weekly, Volume XXXI, No. 8, February 24, 1996.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar (with Vikash Pandey), "Sociology of Law in India: Postscripts and Prospects", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXX, No. 31 and 32, August 5-12, 1995.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar, "Law, Private Forestry and Markets", editors Saxena, NC and Ballabh, Vishwa, Farm Forestry in South Asia, Sage, New Delhi, 1995
• Pathak, Akhileshwar, "State, Environment and Law", Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XXIX, No. 50, December 10, 1994.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar, (with others), "The Text and Context of Rural Organisations: A Case Study", Trends in Social Science Research, Vol 1(1), 1994.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar, "Law and the Politics of Forest Conservation", Lokayan Bulletin, 10(3), 1993.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar, "Co-operative Law- an Introspection", Management Accountant, 28(8), August 1993.
• Pathak, Akhileshwar, "Bickering to Conserve", Down to Earth, Nov. 30, 1993.