Feminism & Law Workshop series
presents
Ratna Kapur
Centre for Feminist Legal Research, New Delhi
Visiting Professor, Yale Law School (Fall 2010)
Hecklers to Power?
The Waning of Liberal Rights and Challenges to Feminism in India
Friday, December 3, 2010
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Ratna Kapur is Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Research, and lectures at the Indian Society for International Law. She is on the faculty of the Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations, Geneva and was the Senior Gender Advisor with the United Nations Mission in Nepal during the transition period from 2007 to 2008. Professor Kapur practiced law for a number of years in New Delhi, and now teaches and publishes extensively on issues of international law, human rights, feminist legal theory and postcolonial theory. She has been part of the Global Visiting Faculty at New York University School of Law, visiting faculty at the United Nations Peace University (San Jose), Georgetown University Law Centre, the Indian Law Soceity (Pune) and the National Law School of India University. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School, Cambridge University, Zurich University (ETH), Helsinki University, Drake Law School, and the University of Miami School of Law. She has held a distinguished Chair in Human Rights at Dalhousie School of Law, Nova Scotia, as well as the Endowed Joseph C. Hostetler-Baker and Hostetler Chair in Law at Cleveland Marshal School of Law. Professor Kapur also works as a legal consultant on issues of human rights and international law for various UN organizations, including OHCHR, ILO, and Unicef. Kapur’s forthcoming visit is to Yale Law School, (Fall Semester, 2010). Professor Kapur is an Honorary Member of the Senior Society of Fellows, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science, a member of the International Advisory Board of Social and Legal Studies (UK), as well as Feminist Theory: An International Interdisciplinary Journal, (UK) and on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, University of British Columbia and the International Advisory Board, Routledge, Social Justice Series. She is also on the International Experts Group of International Idea, advising on the drafting of the new Constitution in Nepal.
A light lunch will be served.
For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
