Webinar
Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law
Speaker: Catherine O'Rourke is Professor of Global Law at Durham Law School and Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School.
Date: Thur. 27th Jan, 2022, 1 - 2pm
Zoom link: (opens in a new window)https://ucd-ie.zoom.us/
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Organised and hosted by (opens in a new window)Aisling Swaine, Prof. of Gender Studies, UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice with (opens in a new window)Marie-Luce Paris, Assoc. Prof. in Law at the UCD Sutherland School of Law & Academic Director of the UCD Centre for Human Rights
ABSTRACT: Laws and norms that focus on women’s lives in conflict have proliferated across the regimes of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and the United Nations Security Council. While separate institutions, with differing powers of monitoring and enforcement, implement these laws and norms, the activities of regimes overlap. Drawing on research from her book, Women’s Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2020), the seminar addresses challenges posed by legal fragmentation and the relatively weak legal status of many women’s rights norms in conflict. The seminar will illustrate these challenges through the book’s case studies of Colombia, DRC and Nepal.
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Online publication date:October 2020
- Print publication year:2020
- Online ISBN:9781108667715
- DOI:(opens in a new window)https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108667715
Speaker Bio: Catherine O'Rourke is Professor of Global Law at Durham Law School and Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne Law School. She researches, teaches and engages in policy work in the fields of gender, conflict and international law. Catherine is the former Director (2020-21) and Gender Research Coordinator (2010-20) of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University School of Law. Major recent outputs include her monograph, 'Women's Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law' (Cambridge, 2020), which was awarded the Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2020-21 from the Irish Association of Law Teachers.
For more information on the webinar please contact Prof. Aisling Swaine (Email: (opens in a new window)Aisling.Swaine@ucd.ie) or Marie-Luce Paris (Email: (opens in a new window)marieluce.paris@ucd.ie)