The Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law

About the Author

J. Jarpa Dawuni is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University and the Executive Director of the Institute for African Women in Law. She is the Founding Director of the Howard University Center for Women, Gender, and Global Leadership and Program Director for the Minor in Women, Gender, and Sexualities Studies. Professor Dawuni has held several prestigious fellowships, including two Fulbright Specialist Scholarships, the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship, and a Salzburg Global Fellowship.Nienke Grossman, a Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, co-directs its Center for International and Comparative Law and serves on the OAS Inter-American Juridical Committee. She has held leadership roles at the American Society of International Law, served on an independent panel evaluating candidates for the Inter-American Human Rights System, and advised the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the DPRK and states litigating before the ICJ. Grossman has published widely on feminist approaches to international law. Jaya Ramji-Nogales is Associate Dean for Research and the I. Herman Stern Research Professor at Temple Law School. Professor Ramji-Nogales is a Counsellor of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. She has published extensively on global migration law. Hélène Ruiz Fabri is a Professor at the Sorbonne Law School, returning after a nine-year secondment as Director of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law. She is a Member of the Institute of International Law, former General Editor of the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law (OUP), and a former President of the European Society of International Law. Professor Ruiz Fabri holds the CNRS Silver Medal for excellence in scientific research. She also has experience in legal practice.