Publications
For full text of specific articles, see also prof Bhuta's SSRN Author Page.
Reports
(Principal author) Human Rights Watch, Back to the Future: India's 2008 Counterterrorism Laws, July 2010
(Principal author) Human Rights Watch, The Poisoned Chalice: A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper on the Decision of the Iraqi High Tribunal in the Dujail Case, June 2007.
(Principal co-author) International Center for Transitional Justice, Iraqi Voices: Iraqi Attitudes towards Transitional Justice and Social Reconstruction, May 2004.
(Co-author) Human Rights Watch, The Former Iraqi Government on Trial, October 2005.
(Co-author) Human Rights Watch, Universal Jurisdiction in Europe: The State of the Art, June 2006.
(Principal author) Human Rights Watch, Judging Dujail: The First Trial Before the Iraqi High Tribunal, November 2006.
Book Chapters
Nehal Bhuta, “Democratization, State-building and Politics as Technology,” in Hilary Charlesworth, Brett Bowden and Jeremy Farrall, eds., Great Expectations: The Role of International Law in Restructuring Societies After Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Nehal Bhuta, "States of Exception: Regulating Targeted Killing in a 'Global Civil War'" in Philip Alston, ed., Human Rights, Sovereignty and the Use of Force (2008, Oxford University Press) (download).
Nehal Bhuta, "A New Bonapartism?" in Amy Bartholomew, ed, Empire's Law (London: Pluto Press, 2006).
Nehal Bhuta and Philip Alston, "Human Rights and Social Goods: The Right to Education in India" in Philip Alston and Mary Robinson, eds, Human Rights and Development - Towards Mutual Reinforcement(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). (download article)
Refereed Journals
Nehal Bhuta, “New Modes and Orders: Is a Jus Post Bellum of Constitutional Transformation Possible?”
(2010) University of Toronto Law Journal (forthcoming) (download article)
Nehal Bhuta, “Conflicting International Obligations and the Risk of Torture and Unfair Trial,”
(2009) 7 Journal of International Criminal Justice 1133 (download).
Nehal Bhuta, "Against State-Building," (2008) 15 Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory (download).
Nehal Bhuta, "Fatal Errors: The Trial and Appeals Judgments of the Iraqi High Tribunal in the Dujail Case," (2008) 6 Journal of International Criminal Justice 39 (download).
Nehal Bhuta, "Between Liberal Legal Didactics and Political Manichaeism: The Politics and Law of the Iraqi Special Tribunal" (2005) 6 (2) Melbourne Journal of International Law 245. (download article)
Nehal Bhuta, "The Antinomies of Transformative Occupation" (2005) 16 (4) European Journal of International Law 721. (download article)
Nehal Bhuta, "East Timor - Justice Delayed" (2003) 28 Alternative Law Journal 141.
Nehal Bhuta, "A Global State of Exception? The United States and World Order" (2003) 10(3) Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory.
Nehal Bhuta, "How Shall We Punish the Perpetrators? Human Rights, Alien Wrongs and the March of International Criminal Law" (2003) 27 Melbourne University Law Review 255. (download article)
Nehal Bhuta, "East Timor and the Vicissitudes of Externalised Justice" (2001) XII Finnish Yearbook of International Law 165. (download article- pre-print final proof version)
Nehal Bhuta, "Paved With Good Intentions - Humanitarian War, Collective Unilateralism and Legal Regulation of the Use of Force" (2001) 25 Melbourne University Law Review 843. (download article)
Nehal Bhuta and Justice A M North, "The Future of International Protection: The Role of the Judge" (2001) 15 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 479. (download article)
Nehal Bhuta, "Justice Without Borders: Prosecuting General Pinochet" (1999) 22 Melbourne University Law Review 499. (download article)
Nehal Bhuta and Melinda Walker, "Upholding the Law v Maintaining Legality: Nulyarimma v Thompson" (1999) 4 Indigenous Law Bulletin 15.
Nehal Bhuta and Margaret Popkin, "Latin American Amnesties in Comparative Perspective" (1999) 13 Ethics and International Affairs 99. (download article).
Nehal Bhuta, "Mabo, Wik and the Art of Paradigm Management" (1998) 22 Melbourne University Law Review 24. (download article)
Nehal Bhuta, "Police Liability After Ancell - A Law Unto Themselves?" (1994) 19 Melbourne University Law Review 1094. (download article)
Non-Refereed Journals and Magazines
Nehal Bhuta, "Gunship Humanitarianism" (2001) 55 Arena Magazine 49. (download article)
Nehal Bhuta and Georgina Costello, "Global Apartheid? Controlling Immigration in the Global Village" (2001) 54 Arena Magazine 31. (download article)
Nehal Bhuta, "Third World Debt - A Modern Dependency" (1996) 6 Reconstruction.