Research Interests

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.