Dr Thaatchaayini Kananatu
 | Department Coordinator, Senior Lecturer Department of Business Law & Taxation
 
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603 5514 4450
Room 6-5-05Thaatchaayini Kananatu is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Business Law and Taxation Department, School of Business, Monash University Malaysia. She holds an LLB Law (Hons.) (Cardiff), LLM/Masters in International Law (Oxford Brookes), and a PhD (Monash) in socio-legal studies.Her research interests include law, gender and race; law and social movements; as well as ethics, human rights and social justice. She is the author of Minorities,Rights and the Law in Malaysia (2020, Routledge) and is co-editor of Vulnerable Groups in Malaysia (2020, De Gruyter) with Sharon G. M. Koh. She is also a British High Commissioner’s Chevening Scholar.
Academic Qualifications
| Doctor of Philosophy | |
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| Institution | Monash University |
| Year awarded | 2014 |
| Master of International Law (LLM) | |
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| Institution | Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, U.K. |
| Year awarded | 2001 |
| Certificate in Legal Practice (CLP) | |
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| Institution | Malaysian Legal Qualifying Board |
| Year awarded | 2000 |
| Bachelor of Laws (LLB Hons.) | |
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| Institution | Cardiff Law School, University of Wales, U.K. |
| Year awarded | 1999 |
Membership in Associations and International Bodies
| Name of Association/International Body | British High Commission Chevening Scholar |
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| Role | Member |
| Duration of membership - Month/Year | September 1997 - current |
| Name of Association/International Body | Socio-Legal Studies UK |
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| Role | Member |
| Duration of membership - Month/Year | 2012 - 2015 |
| Name of Association/International Body | Law and Society Association, United States |
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| Role | Member |
| Duration of membership - Month/Year | 2019 - 2020 |
Expert on Policy Formulation Panel and Professional Body
| Panel | Public Policy Research and Consultation on Malaysian Indians and the Eleventh Malaysia Plan (2016-2020), Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), National University of Malaysia. |
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| Role | Academic/Policy recommendations |
| Duration | June 2014 – December 2015 |
Areas of Expertise
| 1 | Socio-legal Studies |
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| 2 | International Law |
| 3 | Ethics |
Teaching
| Subject Code | Subject |
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| BTM5909 | Ethics and Global Corporate Governance |
| BTM5919 | International Trade Law |
Book Chapters
| * | Research Monograph: Kananatu, T. (2020). Minorities, Rights and the Law in Malaysia, Asian Studies Series. London: UK, Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Minorities-Rights-and-the-Law-inMalaysia/Kananatu/p/book/9780367862398 |
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| * | Bong, S. Goh, J. & Kananatu, T. (forthcoming 2020). Revisiting Gender and Sexuality Justice in Asia: Bridging academia and activism. In Bong, S., Goh, J. & Kananatu, T. (Eds.), Effecting Gender and Sexuality Justice in Asia – Finding resolutions through conflicts, London: UK, Springer. |
| * | Kananatu, T. & French, J. (forthcoming 2020). Hindu mothers and Muslim-convert fathers: Custody battles at the intersection of gender, religion and rights in Malaysia. In Bong, S., Goh, J. & Kananatu, T. (Eds.), Effecting Gender and Sexuality Justice in Asia – Finding resolutions through conflicts, London: UK, Springer. |
| * | Kananatu, T., Santra, N. & Yahya, E. (forthcoming 2021). Riding on Research: A Library-Faculty Partnership. In Torres, L. et al (Eds.), Connecting the library to the curriculum: Pedagogies that impact student learning. Singapore: Springer. |
| * | Kananatu, T. & Koh, G. M. (2020). Vulnerability and the Vulnerable in an Asian Plural State. In Kananatu, T. & Koh, G. M. (Eds.), Vulnerable groups in Malaysia. The Global Asia Series. Berlin: Germany, De Gruyters. |
| * | Kananatu, T. (2020). The Trans Community as Outliers of Malaysian Society. In Kananatu, T. & Koh, G. M. (Eds.), Vulnerable groups in Malaysia. The Global Asia Series. Berlin: Germany, De Gruyters. |
| * | Kananatu, T. & Koh, G. M. (2020). The Vulnerable in Malaysia: Moving Forward. In Kananatu, T. & Koh, G. M. (Eds.), Vulnerable groups in Malaysia. The Global Asia Series. Berlin: Germany, De Gruyters. |
| * | Kananatu, T. (2016) ‘A Sociolegal Study Of The Indian Minority In Malaysia’, in Jayasooria, D. and Nathan, K. (eds.) Contemporary Malaysian Indians: History, Issues, Challenges & Prospects. Bangi, Malaysia: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, pp. 173–188. |
Scholarly Journals
| * | Goh, J. N., & Kananatu, T. (2019). Mak nyahs and the dismantling of dehumanisation: Framing empowerment strategies of Malaysian male-tofemale transsexuals in the 2000s. Sexualities, 22(1–2), 114-130. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460717740256 |
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| * | Kananatu, T. (2018). The Politico-Legal Mobilisation of Ethnic Indians before Malaysia’s 2018 Election. The Round Table, 107(6), 703-716. https://doi.org/10.1080/00358533.2018.1545938 |
| * | French, J., Koh, S. M., & Kananatu, T. (2018). The 14th General Elections and the Changing Business Environment in a “New” Malaysia. Journal of International Business Education, 13, . http://www.neilsonjournals.com/JIBE/abstractjibe13newmalaysia.html |
Others
| * | Antolak-Saper, N., Kowal, S., Lindsey, S., Ngeow, C.Y. and Kananatu, T. (2020). Drug Offences and the Death Penalty in Malaysia: Fair Trial Rights and Ramifications. Monash University. https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/2213867/MU_ADPAN_report_v6. pdf |
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| * | Kananatu, T. (2017). Law, Gender and Mobilisation: The Case of the Mak Nyahs in Malaysia. Praxis (Thomson Reuters). |
| * | Kananatu, T. (2016). Young Indian Women in Malaysia & the Eleventh Malaysia Plan: Beneficiary or Blindspot? In Reviewing the 11th Malaysia Plan (2016-2020): Tapping the Opportunities & Plugging Into the Provisions (pp.71-73). Kuala Lumpur: Institute of Ethnic Studies, National University of Malaysia. |
| * | Kananatu, T. (2012, October 23). Gay Activism in Singapore: A Review of “How Does Law Matter to Social Movements? A Case Study of Gay Activism in Singapore” by Lynette Janice Chua. Dissertation Reviews. Retrieved from http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/1538. |
Local Presentations
| * | 18 February 2019 - Monash University, Malaysia Co-presented a paper with Vanitha Sundra-Karean, on ‘The Changing Nature of Values Underpinning Malaysian Constitutionalism – Tracing the Ebb and Flow of Law Consciousness – Where from; Where to beyond GE14?’ at the Conference on Malaysian Constitutionalism Post-GE14: A New Dawn? |
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| * | 12 – 14 November 2018 - Monash University, Malaysia Presented a paper on ‘Legal Identities, Cross-Dressing, and Gender Dysphoria: Contesting Gender Identity in the Malaysian Courts’ at the International Conference on Gender and Sexuality in Asia (CoGen). |
| * | 24–25 June 2014 Public Policy Research Consultation on Contemporary Malaysian Indians, Institute of Ethnic Studies (KITA), National University of Malaysia Invited to present social policy recommendations in a paper on ‘Law and Minorities: A Case-Study of Indians in Malaysia’ for the Eleventh Malaysia Plan (2016-2020). |
International Presentations
| * | 28 – 31 May 2020 – Hyatt Regency Convention Centre, Denver, United States [Virtual Conference] Presented a paper on gender, religion and law at the Law and Society Association Conference, organised by the Law and Society Association, United States. |
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| * | 8 – 9 July 2019 – International Center for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo, Sri Lanka Invited to present a paper on ‘Race, Rights and the "Quiet Minority": Mobilising the Law from the Colonial to the Postcolonial’ at the Migratory Justice: Legal Histories of South Asian Migration Workshop organised by the South Asian Studies Council, Yale Macmillan Centre, Yale University. |
| * | 11 – 13 December 2017 - University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Presented a refereed paper on ‘Using the Researcher Skill Development Framework to Construct Marking Rubrics for Law Assessments’ at the International Models of Engaged Teaching and Learning (I-MELT) Conference. |
| * | 1 – 3 December 2016 - Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia Presented a paper on ‘Law, Race and Group-Differentiated Rights in Malaysia: From the Colonial Past to the Post-Colonial Present’’ at the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference. Attended the University of Southern Queensland’s International and Comparative Law Colloquium on Legal Transplants, 23rd – 24th November 2016. |
| * | 21 – 23 March 2013 - KoGuan Law School, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Presented a paper on ‘Law, Minority Group Identity and Rights: The Legal Mobilization of Indians in Colonial Malaya (1890-1957)’ at the 3rd East Asian Law and Society Conference. |
| * | 10 March 2012-St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom Presented a paper on ‘Legal Mobilization in Post-Colonial Malaysia: The Law as a Political Tool for Marginalized Groups’ at the Southeast Asian Studies Symposium: Contemporary Issues in Southeast Asia. |
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