Janet Halley, formerly of the English department of Hamilton College, and now a professor at Harvard Law School, will give a lecture titled "Define and Punish: new feminist reforms in the 'law in war'" at Hamilton on Thursday, March 1, at 8 p.m. in the Red Pit. She will be looking closely at memoirs by a German woman of her multiple rapes, and examining how that discourse is related to the legal struggles around rape in the international arena. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty she was professor of law at Stanford Law School and assistant professor of English at Hamilton College. She has a Ph.D. in English from UCLA and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Her books include Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from
Feminism, forthcoming from Princeton University Press; Left Legalism/Left Critique, co-edited with Wendy Brown; Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy; and Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism.
Her current projects include a handbook, What's Not to Like about Sexual Harassment Law; a paper comparing family law systems titled "Travelling Marriage," and a critique of the rules about sexual violence in war established by the ad hoc courts convened to adjudicate war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty she was professor of law at Stanford Law School and assistant professor of English at Hamilton College. She has a Ph.D. in English from UCLA and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Her books include Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from
Feminism, forthcoming from Princeton University Press; Left Legalism/Left Critique, co-edited with Wendy Brown; Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay Policy; and Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Literature: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism.
Her current projects include a handbook, What's Not to Like about Sexual Harassment Law; a paper comparing family law systems titled "Travelling Marriage," and a critique of the rules about sexual violence in war established by the ad hoc courts convened to adjudicate war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
