law: Faculty

Benedetta Faedi Duramy
Title:
Associate Professor of Law
Department:
Law
Campus:
San Francisco

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COURSES TAUGHT

International Human Rights

Gender and Children's Issues in International Law

Property Law

Law and Leadership

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Gender and the Law

International Human Rights

International Law

EDUCATION

  • LLB, University of Rome La Sapienza, Summa cum Laude

  • LLM, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

  • JSD, Stanford Law School

  • MA, Political Science, University of Florence

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • BOOKS:

  • Promoting the Participation of Children across the Globe, (Faedi Duramy and Tali Gal, eds.), (under review).

  • Victims to Agents: Gender-Based Violence and Women’s Violence in Haiti, (under contract with Rutgers University Press).

  • BOOK CHAPTERS:

  • Making Peace with the Past: Federal Republic of Germany’s Accountability for World War II Massacres before the Italian Supreme Court, in Untold Stories: Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials, (Kevin Heller & Gerry Simpson eds.) (Oxford University Press: forthcoming 2013).

  • Property Distribution, in Cultural Sociology of Divorce: an Encyclopedia, (Robert E. Emery eds), (SAGE: 2013).

  • Gender-based Violence, Help Seeking and Criminal Justice Recourse in Haiti, in Conflict-related sexual violence: International law, local responses, (Tonia St. Germain & Susan Dewey, eds.), (Kumarian Press/Stylus Publishing: 2012).

  • What Have Women Got to do with Peace? A Gender Analysis of the Laws of War and Peacemaking, reprinted in Law and Outsiders: Norms,Processes and 'Othering' in the 21st Century, (Cian C. Murphy & Penny Green eds), (Oxford: Hart Publishing: 2011).

  • Lucrezia Borgia, in Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues (Vickie Jensen, ed.) (Greenwood Publishing Group:2012).

  • Marie de Brinvilliers, in Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues (Vickie Jensen, ed.) (Greenwood Publishing Group: 2012).

  • Françoise Athénaïs de Montespan, in Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues (Vickie Jensen, ed.) (Greenwood Publishing Group: 2012).

  • Catherine Deshayes La Voisin, in Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues (Vickie Jensen, ed.) (Greenwood Publishing Group: 2012).

  • Domestic Violence as Human Rights Violation: The Challenges of a Regional Human Rights Approach in Africa, in Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, (Richard Roberts, ed.), (Ohio University Press: 2010).

  • ARTICLES:

  • Judicial Developments in the Application of International Law to Domestic Violence, 21 Am. Univ. J. of Gender Soc. Pol'y, & L. 413 (2012).

  • Women and Poisons in 17th Century France, 87 Chicago-Kent L. Rev. 347 (2012).

  • Women in the Aftermath of the 2010 Haitian Earthquake, 25 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 1193 (2011).

  • From Violence Against Women to Women’s Violence in Haiti, 19 Columbia J. of Gender & L. 1029 (2010). This paper was awarded the 2009 Stanford Richard S. Goldsmith Writing Award in Dispute Resolution, and 2008 Marjorie Lozoff Graduate Essay Prize at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University.

  • What Have Women Got to do with Peace? A Gender Analysis of the Laws of War and Peacemaking, 10 Georgetown J. of Gender & L. 37 (2009).

  • Rape, Blue Jeans and Judicial Developments in Italy, 16 Columbia J. of European L.13 (2009).

  • The Double Weakness of Girls: Discrimination and Sexual Violence in Haiti, 44 Stanford J. Int'l. L. 147 (2008). This paper was awarded the 2007 Carl Mason Franklin Prize in International Law at Stanford Law School for the most outstanding paper in International Law.

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Recipient of the 2012 Jesse W. Carter Award for Faculty Scholarship at Golden Gate University School of Law.

  • Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, Stanford University (awarded twice)

  • O'Bie Shultz Completion Dissertation Fellowship, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

  • VPGE Diversity Dissertation Research grant

  • Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University

  • O'Bie Shultz Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

  • Richard Goldsmith Research Fellowship, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation, Stanford University

  • JSD Dissertation Research Grant, Stanford Law School

  • International Studies Association Travel Grant

  • Arthur C. Helton Fellowship, American Society of International Law

  • Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation Fellowship, Stanford University

  • Stanford Law School Scholarship, Stanford University

  • The Class of 2002 Fellowship in Conflict Resolution, Stanford University