Thursday, October 15, 2020 - 4:10pm to Friday, October 16, 2020 - 5:55pm
Location: 
Online Event

Critical Analysis of Law Workshop

presents:

Professor Karen Engle
University of Texas, School of Law

"The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law"

Thursday, October 15, 2020
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Zoom Meeting

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Karen Engle  is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies and of Women's and Gender Studies. She teaches courses and specialized seminars in public international law, international human rights law, and legal theory. Professor Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, and Latin American law. She is author of numerous scholarly articles and of The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law (Stanford University Press, 2020) as well as The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (Duke University Press, 2010), which received the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Human Rights. She is co-editor of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (Routledge, 1995). 

Contact:

Kerry Rittich
Email: kerry.rittich@utoronto.ca

Brenda Cossman:
Email: b.cossman@utoronto.ca

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