Rights Talk and Domestic Work
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Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School
Duncan Kennedy is Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School. For his full biography, click here. Duncan Kennedy's Publications For a full list of Professor Kennedy’s publications, click here.
read morePrabha Kotiswaran, University of London
Prabha is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She received her undergraduate law degree in India from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore and then LL.M. (Masters) and S.J.D. (doctorate) degrees from Harvard Law School. She also practiced law for four years at the New York law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton. Prabha’s main areas of research include feminist legal theory, law and social movements and of late, an economic sociology of law as it pertains to third...
read moreAlice Miller, Yale Law School
Alice M. Miller is the co-Director of the Human Rights Concentration, SIPA and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Public Health at Columbia University, focusing on gender, sexuality, human rights and humanitarian issues. She teaches at Columbia’s Schools of Law, Public Health and International and Public Affairs. She works on the progressive development of international law and policy vis a vis, health, gender, sexuality and rights, with particular attention to the intersection of human rights and humanitarian action, the impact of legal...
read moreRhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California
Rhacel Parrenas examines the feminization of labor and migration in globalization. She has done fieldwork in Italy, Japan, the Philippines, and United States. Her latest book, The Force of Domesticity (NYU Press, 2008) considers how processes of globalization simultaneously reinforce and challenge traditional gender norms. It draws from her research on migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, migrant entertainers in Tokyo, and transnational migrant families in the Philippines. She is currently writing a book on the labor and...
read moreKerry Rittich, University of Toronto
Kerry Rittich is Professor at the Faculty of Law, the Women and Gender Studies Institute, and the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. She teaches and writes in the areas of labor law, international law, international institutions and global governance, law and development, human rights, and gender and critical theory. Among her other publications are Recharacterizing Restructuring: Law, Distribution and Gender in Market Reform (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2002); (with Joanne Conaghan, University of...
read moreMindy Jane Roseman, Harvard Law School
Mindy Jane Roseman is the Academic Director of the Human Rights Program and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining HRP, Roseman was an Instructor in the Department of Population and International Health at Harvard School of Public Health, and a Senior Research Officer at the International Health and Human Rights Program, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health. Roseman researched and reported on a range of health and human rights issues, with special focus on reproductive...
read moreJennifer Rosenbaum
Jennifer Rosenbaum is the Founding Legal and Policy Director of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice (NOWCRJ) and the National Guestworker Alliance (NGA), both based in New Orleans. Her work focuses on the intersection of workers’ rights, civil rights, immigration, and constitutional law. Ms. Rosenbaum provides legal support to workers organizing across race and industry and litigates impact employment and civil rights claims on behalf of workers, many of whom are guestworkers from other countries. She has worked with...
read moreHila Shamir, Tel Aviv University
Hila Shamir is an assistant Professor at Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law. She earned her S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University. Shamir teaches and researches in the fields of Employment, Labor, Immigration, and Welfare Law with a focus on issues of gender equality, informal work, and welfare state privatization. She is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and of the EU Marie Curie Reintegration Grant. Prior to her graduate studies Shamir served as a law clerk to Justice E. Mazza of the Israeli...
read moreChantal Thomas, Cornell Law School
Chantal Thomas is Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Professor Thomas focuses her scholarship on the relationship between international law, political economy, and global social justice in a variety of contexts. She teaches in the areas of Law and Development and International Economic Law. Prior to joining Cornell, Professor Thomas chaired the Law Department of the American University in Cairo, and also served on the University of Minnesota and Fordham University law faculties. At Cornell she also directs the Clarke Initiative for Law...
read moreCarole S. Vance, Columbia University
Carole S. Vance, PhD, works on integrating sexuality with human rights frameworks and rights-based health interventions. She has written widely on sexuality, science, gender, and policy; policy controversies about sexual expression and imagery; and sexuality theory and research methods. For the past ten years, she has directed a program on sexuality, gender, health and human rights, which advances policy-relevant scholarship and facilitates exchange between researchers and advocates on sexual health and rights issues. Dr. Vance has extensive...
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