Louise Chappell
Biographic Data
| ID | 372885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Chappell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Chappell |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPPELL L |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2056-9603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 853 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Critical Judgments in Hostile Times: A Roundtable on Indigenous, Feminist, Queer Perspectives
Nicole I’m a Munanjali and Birri Gubba woman, from Queensland, but I’ve been in Sydney for a long time. I had the great privilege of editing the Indigenous Legal Judgments book (Watson and Douglas 2021 ), a collection of sixteen judgments that have been reimagined from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives. One of the goals of the project was to bring together a community of scholars who are interested in Indigenous legal issues. We’…
Catalysing change in health and medical research policy: An Australian case study of deliberative democracy to reform sex and gender policy recommendations
Revising public health policy based on new data does not happen automatically. This is acutely relevant to the now undeniable evidence that many diseases develop differently between the sexes and may also be affected by gender. Current health and medical practices across the globe generally fail to cater for sex and gender effects in common diseases. Inadequate policy frameworks to guide the comprehensive inclusion of sex and gender in research j…
The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court Redux: 2014–2023
This article considers the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) gender justice record 25 years after the creation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. It extends Louise Chappell’s original assessment of the ICC’s performance in securing gender justice, which covered the Court’s first 10 years, to analyse developments in its second decade. The article analyses new data using Chappell’s original gender justice outcomes measures …
Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court
Sex, gender and human rights: Essential components of inclusive medical research
When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry
The construction industry is known to be highly masculinised and to have work practices detrimental to employees' wellbeing. Drawing on feminist institutional theory and a rapid ethnographic approach in two construction multinationals in Australia, we examine the relationship between the gendered nature of construction and workplace wellbeing for professional women and men employed in the industry. The findings reveal that adhering to the gendere…
Male‐dominated workplaces and the power of masculine privilege: A comparison of the Australian political and construction sectors
Increasing women's representation in male‐dominated work sectors remains a persistent problem. This paper reorientates the focus from women's underrepresentation to male overrepresentation and privilege, to identify and compare the causal mechanisms between the overrepresentation of men in two traditionally male‐dominated work places in Australia: politics and construction. By applying feminist institutionalism, masculinities, and privilege, it a…
Feminist critical friends: Dilemmas of feminist engagement with governance and gender reform agendas
This article advances the concept of ‘feminist critical friends’ as a descriptor for those studying the efforts of ‘insider’ gender justice advocates working to transform governance structures and advance gender reform agendas within political, social, economic and military institutions. In refining the concept of feminist critical friendship, we reject perspectives that overstate the failures and ‘co-option’ that comes with engagement, while als…
Foreword to the New Thinking on Business and Human Rights Special Issue
In the mid-1990s, many corporations questioned the relevance of human rights to business. But since then a combination of factors, including some high-profile acts of corporate irresponsibility and
The gendered dimensions of informal institutions in the Australian construction industry
The construction industry is the most male‐dominated in Australia, despite companies implementing formal policies and initiatives to address this. While previous research has examined the role of workplace culture as a barrier to women in the industry, our research investigates the role informal institutions play in obstructing gender equity in construction. We examine the gendered dimension of informal institutions (practices, narratives and nor…
Gender and judging at the International Criminal Court: Lessons from ‘feminist judgment projects’
To date, analyses of gender justice at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have focused primarily on critiques of, and shifts within, the Office of the Prosecutor. This article takes a different approach by focusing on the ICC’s judiciary. We being by arguing that state parties can and should do more than electing a balance of male and female judges – they can also ensure gender-sensitivity on the Bench by supporting candidates with expertise …
Gender, conflict-related violence and justice: Patricia V. Sellers in conversation with Louise Chappell
Patricia V. Sellers is an international criminal lawyer. She is the Special Adviser on Gender in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court; a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg C
The gender injustice cascade: ‘Transformative’ reparations for victims of sexual and gender-based crimes in the Lubanga case at the International Criminal Court
In March 2012, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was the first person to be tried and convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The charges for which Lubanga was found guilty – the conscription, enlistment and use of child soldiers – belied a range of other crimes that were documented as part of the conflict in which Lubanga and his militia were involved, including acts of sexual and gender-based violence. …
Nothing about us, without us, is for us’: Victims and the international criminal justice system
Q1: What are some of the key features of the international criminal justice system that have attracted you to work in this area?I began in the human rights field before the International Justice fi
Democracy and human rights: A tripartite conceptual framework
The end of the 20th century witnessed a worldwide spread of democracy and human rights that was unprecedented in history. Yet, it seems increasingly clear that democracy and human rights do not necessarily go together. Human rights violations are often justified in name of democracy and freedom, and even in established democracies human rights violations are common. This article develops a tripartite conceptual framework to examine the connection…
The International Criminal Court: A Site of Gender Justice
Judge Odio Benito: A View of Gender Justice From the Bench
Advocating for International Gender Justice: A Conversation With Brigid Inder
Leaving Behind the Age of Impunity: Victims of Gender Violence and the Promise of Reparations
As sexual violence in conflict – predominantly affecting women and girls – appears to increase in prevalence, gender justice advocates are calling for a reparations model that is not only restorative, but also, and more critically, preventative or transformative. This article asks whether the reparations mandate of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Trust Fund for Victims has the potential to address the pre-conflict structural inequa…
Strengthening gender justice in the Asia-Pacific through the Rome Statute
Many conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region have included sexual violence crimes targeted primarily against women. However, in comparison to other regions, Asia-Pacific states have been reluctant to embrace international law innovations to end impunity for such crimes into the future, as evidenced by their unwillingness to become signatories to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Of the 39 countries constituting the Asia-Pacific r…
Introduction: Gendering the Intergovernmental Relations Agenda
New,” “Old,” and “Nested” Institutions and Gender Justice Outcomes: A View from the International Criminal Court
What difference do new actors and new institutions make to gender justice outcomes? This article explores this question through an examination of the objectives and influence of “new” international actors on the design and implementation of the “new” victims' rights and gender justice provisions contained in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court's (ICC). Highlighting the role of gender and formal and informal institutions, thi…
Conflicting Institutions and the Search for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court
This article examines the mixed gender justice outcomes of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) first case, The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, and argues that they were influenced by competing institutions: older gender-biased norms of international law and new formal gender justice rules of the ICC’s Rome Statute. Using a feminist institutionalist framework, the article suggests that formal and informal institutions work together in mul…
The State and Governance
This article takes a look at the changes in feminist thinking. It outlines the competing feminist theories, and studies the transition from a monolithic and patriarchal conception of the state to a differentiated and gendered conception of the state. The article then explains how gender functions within the state and how the state represents gender relations within society. Finally, it also considers feminist engagement with the state, which incl…
The Gender Justice Shadow of Complementarity: Lessons from the International Criminal Court's Preliminary Examinations in Guinea and Colombia
Journal Article The Gender Justice Shadow of Complementarity: Lessons from the International Criminal Court's Preliminary Examinations in Guinea and Colombia Get access Louise Chappell, Louise Chappell * * Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, School of Social Sciences, and Affiliate, Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on:…
New Institutionalism Through a Gender Lens: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism
New institutionalism (NI) may no longer qualify as being ‘new’, but since re-emphasizing institutions as a central explanatory variable in political analysis over two decades ago, it continues to provide scholars with a useful perspective through which to analyse political dynamics and outcomes that shape everyday life. The renewed focus on institutions has rebalanced the structure/agency scales back toward the former without losing important ins…
Gender and the Hidden Life of Institutions
New Institutionalism has shown that the ‘rules of the game’ are crucial to structuring political life in terms of constraining and enabling political actors and influencing political outcomes. A limitation of this approach, however, has been its overemphasis on formal rules, with much less attention paid to how informal rules work alongside and in conjunction with formal institutions to shape actors and outcomes. This article contributes to an em…
Comparing Political Institutions: Revealing the Gendered “Logic of Appropriateness
Why develop a comparative politics of gender? As the critical perspectives in this section demonstrate, there are many answers to this question. I would like to focus here on two reasons: first, for gaining a deeper understanding of the operations of political institutions, and second, for explaining the relationship between these institutions and social actors, including those pursuing a gender equality agenda. To be specific, this essay argues …
The 'Femocrat' Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists
Journal Article The 'Femocrat' Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists Get access Louise Chappell Louise Chappell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 85–98, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.1.85 Published: 01 January 2002
Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation
Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation. Edited by Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2005. 310 pp. $24.94.The transnational dimensions of women's rights are an important emerging area of analysis. Just Advocacy? provides timely and critical insights into this area of study. This edited book is unique in that it applies a cultural lens to the stud…
Contesting Women's Rights: Charting the Emergence of a Transnational Conservative Counter-network
In recent years it has been claimed by human rights advocates that an "unholy alliance" has emerged internationally to counter the equality claims of the transnational women's rights movement. Using the literature on transnational social movements and counter-movements, this article assesses the interaction between what are conceived of as state and non-state-based conservative patriarchal actors with the transnational women's movement at a serie…
Comparative Gender and Institutions: Directions for Research
A comparative politics of gender offers an opportunity to consider in detail the operation of gender within political institutions. As such, it contributes to a deeper understanding of the roles and experiences of men and women within political institutions, of the policies, laws and norms that are the outcomes of these institutions, and of the relationship between these institutions and social actors. This essay proposes a multi-directional stra…
New,” “Old,” and “Nested” Institutions and Gender Justice Outcomes: A View from the International Criminal Court
What difference do new actors and new institutions make to gender justice outcomes? This article explores this question through an examination of the objectives and influence of “new” international actors on the design and implementation of the “new” victims' rights and gender justice provisions contained in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court's (ICC). Highlighting the role of gender and formal and informal institutions, thi…
The Rise and Decline of Women's Policy Machinery in British Columbia and New South Wales: A Cautionary Tale
This article presents a comparative analysis of the institutional trajectories traced by women's policy agencies within government in the province of British Columbia in Canada and in the state of New South Wales in Australia. In both cases, a period during which the principal women's policy agency took the form of a freestanding government ministry was followed by a period during which that ministry (along with an array of women's policy agencie…
The gendered dimensions of informal institutions in the Australian construction industry
The construction industry is the most male‐dominated in Australia, despite companies implementing formal policies and initiatives to address this. While previous research has examined the role of workplace culture as a barrier to women in the industry, our research investigates the role informal institutions play in obstructing gender equity in construction. We examine the gendered dimension of informal institutions (practices, narratives and nor…
Does Federalism Matter? Evaluating State Architecture and Family and Domestic Violence Policy in Australia and New Zealand
Does federalism make a difference to policy making in the area of family and domestic violence (FDV)? This article explores this question through a comparison of Australia and New Zealand whose state architecture aside from federalism is very similar. It argues that Australian federalism has provided laboratories for innovative policy making and the continual articulation of a progressive policy response to FDV. By contrast, in New Zealand subnat…
Interacting with the State: Feminist Strategies and Political Opportunities
In recent years feminists have been engaged in new debates about gender and the state. Instead of adopting either a purely structural or agential approach, the emphasis in these debates is on the interactive relationship between the two. Feminists in political science have not been immune to this trend. Work is emerging in this field which dissaggregates the state to consider the way different political institutions shape and are shaped by engage…
Conflicting Institutions and the Search for Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court
This article examines the mixed gender justice outcomes of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) first case, The Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, and argues that they were influenced by competing institutions: older gender-biased norms of international law and new formal gender justice rules of the ICC’s Rome Statute. Using a feminist institutionalist framework, the article suggests that formal and informal institutions work together in mul…
Federalism and Social Policy: The Case of Domestic Violence
This paper challenges long standing critiques of federalism that suggest it stymies the development of progressive social policies. Through a case study of national domestic violence policies in Australia, this paper argues that not only can the curses of federalism – especially conservatism, duplication and overlap – be surmounted, but even more positively, under the right condition, federalism can enhance opportunities for the development of pr…
Feminist critical friends: Dilemmas of feminist engagement with governance and gender reform agendas
This article advances the concept of ‘feminist critical friends’ as a descriptor for those studying the efforts of ‘insider’ gender justice advocates working to transform governance structures and advance gender reform agendas within political, social, economic and military institutions. In refining the concept of feminist critical friendship, we reject perspectives that overstate the failures and ‘co-option’ that comes with engagement, while als…
Australian Federalism and Domestic Violence Policy-Making
The influence of state architecture on gender policy and politics is an emergent strand of feminist research. This paper contributes to this research by undertaking a detailed case study of one specific gender policy area – domestic violence policy – in old federation Australia. Drawing on the experiences of the past decade, it confirms earlier research findings that demonstrate that under certain conditions, federal structures can influence the …
Male‐dominated workplaces and the power of masculine privilege: A comparison of the Australian political and construction sectors
Increasing women's representation in male‐dominated work sectors remains a persistent problem. This paper reorientates the focus from women's underrepresentation to male overrepresentation and privilege, to identify and compare the causal mechanisms between the overrepresentation of men in two traditionally male‐dominated work places in Australia: politics and construction. By applying feminist institutionalism, masculinities, and privilege, it a…
Gender and Judging at the International Criminal Court
Imagine this: a court presided over by a majority of women judges—many of whom are from racially marginalized backgrounds—and which has a “constitution” that has gender justice at its core. Incredibly, given what we know about gender and judging cross-nationally, this is not some utopian vision but the current reality at the International Criminal Court (ICC). As of May 2010, the 18 member ICC bench consisted of 11 women judges, most of whom were…
Winding Back Australian Women's Rights: Conventions, Contradictions and Conflicts
Since 1996, Australia's Coalition government has been involved in winding back women's rights. It has diluted the role of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, attempted to weaken the Sex Discrimination Act to allow for discrimination on the basis of marital status, and has refused to provide Australian women protection through the international realm via the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Aga…
Leaving Behind the Age of Impunity: Victims of Gender Violence and the Promise of Reparations
As sexual violence in conflict – predominantly affecting women and girls – appears to increase in prevalence, gender justice advocates are calling for a reparations model that is not only restorative, but also, and more critically, preventative or transformative. This article asks whether the reparations mandate of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Trust Fund for Victims has the potential to address the pre-conflict structural inequa…
When Following the Rules Is Bad for Wellbeing: The Effects of Gendered Rules in the Australian Construction Industry
The construction industry is known to be highly masculinised and to have work practices detrimental to employees' wellbeing. Drawing on feminist institutional theory and a rapid ethnographic approach in two construction multinationals in Australia, we examine the relationship between the gendered nature of construction and workplace wellbeing for professional women and men employed in the industry. The findings reveal that adhering to the gendere…
Gender and judging at the International Criminal Court: Lessons from ‘feminist judgment projects’
To date, analyses of gender justice at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have focused primarily on critiques of, and shifts within, the Office of the Prosecutor. This article takes a different approach by focusing on the ICC’s judiciary. We being by arguing that state parties can and should do more than electing a balance of male and female judges – they can also ensure gender-sensitivity on the Bench by supporting candidates with expertise …
Democracy and human rights: A tripartite conceptual framework
The end of the 20th century witnessed a worldwide spread of democracy and human rights that was unprecedented in history. Yet, it seems increasingly clear that democracy and human rights do not necessarily go together. Human rights violations are often justified in name of democracy and freedom, and even in established democracies human rights violations are common. This article develops a tripartite conceptual framework to examine the connection…
The Gender Justice Shadow of Complementarity: Lessons from the International Criminal Court's Preliminary Examinations in Guinea and Colombia
Journal Article The Gender Justice Shadow of Complementarity: Lessons from the International Criminal Court's Preliminary Examinations in Guinea and Colombia Get access Louise Chappell, Louise Chappell * * Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, School of Social Sciences, and Affiliate, Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on:…
The gender injustice cascade: ‘Transformative’ reparations for victims of sexual and gender-based crimes in the Lubanga case at the International Criminal Court
In March 2012, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo from the Democratic Republic of the Congo was the first person to be tried and convicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The charges for which Lubanga was found guilty – the conscription, enlistment and use of child soldiers – belied a range of other crimes that were documented as part of the conflict in which Lubanga and his militia were involved, including acts of sexual and gender-based violence. …
Interacting with the State: Feminist Strategies and Political Opportunities
In recent years feminists have been engaged in new debates about gender and the state. Instead of adopting either a purely structural or agential approach, the emphasis in these debates is on the interactive relationship between the two. Feminists in political science have not been immune to this trend. Work is emerging in this field which dissaggregates the state to consider the way different political institutions shape and are shaped by engage…
Federalism and Social Policy: The Case of Domestic Violence
This paper challenges long standing critiques of federalism that suggest it stymies the development of progressive social policies. Through a case study of national domestic violence policies in Australia, this paper argues that not only can the curses of federalism – especially conservatism, duplication and overlap – be surmounted, but even more positively, under the right condition, federalism can enhance opportunities for the development of pr…
The 'Femocrat' Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists
Journal Article The 'Femocrat' Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists Get access Louise Chappell Louise Chappell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 55, Issue 1, 1 January 2002, Pages 85–98, https://doi.org/10.1093/parlij/55.1.85 Published: 01 January 2002
Winding Back Australian Women's Rights: Conventions, Contradictions and Conflicts
Since 1996, Australia's Coalition government has been involved in winding back women's rights. It has diluted the role of the Sex Discrimination Commissioner, attempted to weaken the Sex Discrimination Act to allow for discrimination on the basis of marital status, and has refused to provide Australian women protection through the international realm via the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Aga…
Women, Gender and International Institutions: Exploring New Opportunities at the International Criminal Court
Traditionally women have been constructed in very limited terms under international law. They have been defined through their relationships with either men or with children. Moreover, the types of crimes experienced by women in times of armed conflict, including rape and other forms of sexual violence, have been categorised as less egregious than those experienced by men. In recent years feminists have sought to challenge the existing definition …
Politics of Women's Interests: New Comparative Perspectives
Contesting Women's Rights: Charting the Emergence of a Transnational Conservative Counter-network
In recent years it has been claimed by human rights advocates that an "unholy alliance" has emerged internationally to counter the equality claims of the transnational women's rights movement. Using the literature on transnational social movements and counter-movements, this article assesses the interaction between what are conceived of as state and non-state-based conservative patriarchal actors with the transnational women's movement at a serie…
Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation
Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation. Edited by Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. 2005. 310 pp. $24.94.The transnational dimensions of women's rights are an important emerging area of analysis. Just Advocacy? provides timely and critical insights into this area of study. This edited book is unique in that it applies a cultural lens to the stud…
Comparing Political Institutions: Revealing the Gendered “Logic of Appropriateness
Why develop a comparative politics of gender? As the critical perspectives in this section demonstrate, there are many answers to this question. I would like to focus here on two reasons: first, for gaining a deeper understanding of the operations of political institutions, and second, for explaining the relationship between these institutions and social actors, including those pursuing a gender equality agenda. To be specific, this essay argues …
No fit place for women: Women in New South Wales Politics, 1856-2006
The Rise and Decline of Women's Policy Machinery in British Columbia and New South Wales: A Cautionary Tale
This article presents a comparative analysis of the institutional trajectories traced by women's policy agencies within government in the province of British Columbia in Canada and in the state of New South Wales in Australia. In both cases, a period during which the principal women's policy agency took the form of a freestanding government ministry was followed by a period during which that ministry (along with an array of women's policy agencie…
The Politics of Human Rights in Australia
Australia has traditionally lacked a strong 'rights' culture. While fairness and equality have been proudly exalted as trademarks of the national mindset, the authors of The Politics of Human Rights in Australia argue that these same characteristics may equate to a form of cultural complacency. The book offers the first comprehensive account of Australia's protection of human rights from a political science perspective. Addressing the key debates…
Gender and Judging at the International Criminal Court
Imagine this: a court presided over by a majority of women judges—many of whom are from racially marginalized backgrounds—and which has a “constitution” that has gender justice at its core. Incredibly, given what we know about gender and judging cross-nationally, this is not some utopian vision but the current reality at the International Criminal Court (ICC). As of May 2010, the 18 member ICC bench consisted of 11 women judges, most of whom were…
Comparative Gender and Institutions: Directions for Research
A comparative politics of gender offers an opportunity to consider in detail the operation of gender within political institutions. As such, it contributes to a deeper understanding of the roles and experiences of men and women within political institutions, of the policies, laws and norms that are the outcomes of these institutions, and of the relationship between these institutions and social actors. This essay proposes a multi-directional stra…
New Institutionalism Through a Gender Lens: Towards a Feminist Institutionalism
New institutionalism (NI) may no longer qualify as being ‘new’, but since re-emphasizing institutions as a central explanatory variable in political analysis over two decades ago, it continues to provide scholars with a useful perspective through which to analyse political dynamics and outcomes that shape everyday life. The renewed focus on institutions has rebalanced the structure/agency scales back toward the former without losing important ins…
Australian Federalism and Domestic Violence Policy-Making
The influence of state architecture on gender policy and politics is an emergent strand of feminist research. This paper contributes to this research by undertaking a detailed case study of one specific gender policy area – domestic violence policy – in old federation Australia. Drawing on the experiences of the past decade, it confirms earlier research findings that demonstrate that under certain conditions, federal structures can influence the …
The State and Governance
This article takes a look at the changes in feminist thinking. It outlines the competing feminist theories, and studies the transition from a monolithic and patriarchal conception of the state to a differentiated and gendered conception of the state. The article then explains how gender functions within the state and how the state represents gender relations within society. Finally, it also considers feminist engagement with the state, which incl…
The Gender Justice Shadow of Complementarity: Lessons from the International Criminal Court's Preliminary Examinations in Guinea and Colombia
Journal Article The Gender Justice Shadow of Complementarity: Lessons from the International Criminal Court's Preliminary Examinations in Guinea and Colombia Get access Louise Chappell, Louise Chappell * * Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow, School of Social Sciences, and Affiliate, Australian Human Rights Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on:…
Gender and the Hidden Life of Institutions
New Institutionalism has shown that the ‘rules of the game’ are crucial to structuring political life in terms of constraining and enabling political actors and influencing political outcomes. A limitation of this approach, however, has been its overemphasis on formal rules, with much less attention paid to how informal rules work alongside and in conjunction with formal institutions to shape actors and outcomes. This article contributes to an em…
Does Federalism Matter? Evaluating State Architecture and Family and Domestic Violence Policy in Australia and New Zealand
Does federalism make a difference to policy making in the area of family and domestic violence (FDV)? This article explores this question through a comparison of Australia and New Zealand whose state architecture aside from federalism is very similar. It argues that Australian federalism has provided laboratories for innovative policy making and the continual articulation of a progressive policy response to FDV. By contrast, in New Zealand subnat…
The International Criminal Court: A Site of Gender Justice
Judge Odio Benito: A View of Gender Justice From the Bench
Advocating for International Gender Justice: A Conversation With Brigid Inder
Leaving Behind the Age of Impunity: Victims of Gender Violence and the Promise of Reparations
As sexual violence in conflict – predominantly affecting women and girls – appears to increase in prevalence, gender justice advocates are calling for a reparations model that is not only restorative, but also, and more critically, preventative or transformative. This article asks whether the reparations mandate of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the Trust Fund for Victims has the potential to address the pre-conflict structural inequa…
Strengthening gender justice in the Asia-Pacific through the Rome Statute
Many conflicts in the Asia-Pacific region have included sexual violence crimes targeted primarily against women. However, in comparison to other regions, Asia-Pacific states have been reluctant to embrace international law innovations to end impunity for such crimes into the future, as evidenced by their unwillingness to become signatories to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Of the 39 countries constituting the Asia-Pacific r…
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