Louise Chappell

About/Bio

Professor Louise Chappell is based in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Louise’s research is focussed on gender justice and institutions including legal, legislative, bureaucratic and federal institutional arenas. She has published widely in these fields, including The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court: Legacies and Legitimacy (OUP 2016) and her award-winning book Gendering Government (UBC Press, 2002). In recent years, Louise has held visiting appointments and fellowships at the European University Institute, and the universities of Manchester, Edinburgh and Leiden and Simon Fraser. Louise is a co-director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network, based at Edinburgh University.

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Author’s Response: The Politics of Gender Justice at the ICC: Legacies and Legitimacy

I am immensely grateful to the EJIL:Talk! Editors for sponsoring this discussion and to Mark Drumbl, Patricia Viseur Sellers and Valerie Oosterveld for their thoughtful and detailed responses to my book The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court: Legacies and Legitimacy. It is a true honour for me to have had these three esteemed…

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The Politics of Gender Justice at the ICC: Legacies and Legitimacy

The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court provides the most advanced articulation ever of gender justice under international law. In designing this aspect of the Rome Statute, states were influenced by the Women’s Caucus for Gender Justice, a dynamic international feminist advocacy network who used the creation of the Court as an opportunity to challenge the…

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