Visiting Scholars Program

The Project sponsors visiting scholars who are in residence for periods of time ranging from a week to a semester.

During their stay, the scholars meet with students and faculty. The visits typically begin with a lecture to familiarize the Emory community with the visitor's work. Visiting scholars are provided office space, and they have access to Emory's libraries and assistance in scheduling meetings with faculty and researchers.

Applications should be mailed to:

Martha Fineman
Emory Law School G-500
1301 Clifton Rd
Atlanta, GA 30322

Or sent as an email attachment to mlfinem(at)emory.edu. Applications should include a description of the scholar's current research project and how the FLT project will benefit from the scholar's residence at Emory. In addition, applications should note how the visit at Emory will be funded; if partial funding is requested from the FLT Project, please note this in the application.

2009 Visiting Scholars

• Dr Fiona de Londras (BCL, LLM, PhD) will join the Feminism and Legal Theory Project as a Visiting Scholar from March 7 - 14.  Fiona is on faculty in the School of Law, University College Dublin and is a member of the Institute of Criminology there. Her primary research interest is in the capacity of international law to restrict repressive state action in times of crisis or emergency with a particular focus on counter-terrorism and international law’s responses to genocidal sexual violence. Her secondary research interest is in property law and she has published widely in these areas including in leading European and international laws reviews such as Modern Law Review, American Journal of International Law, and Israel Law Review. She previously spent three months at the FLTP in the Fall of 2006.

• Professor Michelle Oberman (JD, MPH) will be visiting the Feminism and Legal Theory Project from February 28 – March 6.  Prof. Oberman’s new book, “When Mother’s Kill: Interviews from Prison” (NYU Press 2008) was named the 2008 Outstanding Book of the Year by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.  In addition to her work on issues related to women and crime, Professor Oberman teaches courses in contracts, and various health law electives at the Santa Clara University School of Law in California.  While a FLT Visiting Scholar, Prof. Oberman will deliver a lecture to the Emory Law School community as a part of Emory Law Faculty Colloquium.

• Mairead Enright is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork, Ireland. She holds a BCL from Cork and an MA from King's College London. She was called to the Irish Bar in 2006. Mairead's doctoral thesis, on the position of the nikahnama in the United States, Canada and England & Wales is part of a broader project on Gender, Multiculturalism and the Law, based at Cork. This research is funded by an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences scholarship in Gender and Human Rights Law awarded in connection with that project and by the National University of Ireland EJ Phelan Fellowship in International Law. An article based on her research will appear in the Modern Law Review in spring, 2009. She will be a visiting researcher at Osgoode Hall Law School in summer, 2009 and a visitor at the Law School, Queen Mary University of London in autumn 2009. maireadenright(at)gmail.com.

• Eunjung Kim is a postdoctoral fellow in Vulnerability Studies Project in the School of Law and the Race and Difference Initiative at Emory University. She received a Ph.D in disability studies at University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a recipient of AAUW international dissertation scholarship and a postdoctoral mentoring fellowship from Future of Minority Studies at the University of Michigan in 2007-08. She is currently working on a genealogy of asexuality. Her broader interests include disabled women in South Korea, sex industry and disability, transnational feminist disability studies theories, disabled people's sexuality, conflicts among marginalized people, and disability in global representation.

• Renee Romkens is acknowledged as an outstanding scholar in the field of victimology, in particular interpersonal violence.  She was a visiting scholar in the FLT Project at Emory Law in October 2008.  Currently, she serves as Chair in the International Institute of Victimology INTERVICT at Tilburg University Law School.  She has contributed substantially to the academic expertise in the area of gendered victimization and victimology.   

• Rose Corrigan visited the FLT Project in October 2008, delivering a presentation for a faculty colloquium at Emory Law during her visit.  The topic of her presentation was What's wrong with rape? Failures of law and feminism.  Rose is an Assistant Professor of Politics and Director of Women’s Studies at Drexel University. 

• Margaret Thornton is a professor of law at the Australian National University.  She visited the FLT Project in October and November.  In addition to feminist legal theory, Professor Thornton’s scholarly interests include discrimination law and policy. 

• Pamela Bridgewater is a visiting scholar and research fellow for the FLT Project during 2008-09.  Her work in the area of reproduction, sexuality, identity, poverty, and women's health care has led her to work with leading legal scholars, policymakers, activists and advocates from North America, Europe, Latin America and South Africa.   

• Debra Jackson visited the FLT Project for in November 2008.  She previously visited Emory in December 2005 to August 2006.  Her area of research focuses on how constructions of social knowledge shape the recognition and/or failure to recognize sexual assault as such and the harm done to victims.  She is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Bakersfield. 

• Harriet Musoke visited the FLT Project from Uganda in November 2008.  Her particular interest is in women’s reproductive and sexual health in the African human rights system. 

• Mairead Enright is from University College Cork.  She will be visiting the FLT Project at Emory from January to March 2009.  She will be doing research in Islamic marriage contracts and legal recognition in the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States. 

• Michelle Oberman will be visiting the FLT Project in March 2008 and will be a presenter at an Emory Law Faculty Colloquium during her stay.  Professor Oberman teaches courses in contracts, and various health law electives at the Santa Clara University School of Law in California. 

• Fiona de Londras will visit the FLT Project in March 2008 from the University College Cork, Ireland.  Her areas of interest are in law and terrorism, human rights law, international legal theory, social inclusion and the law, and property law.

2008 Visiting Scholars

• Dermot Feenan – is a Lecturer at the University of Ulster School of Law, Northern Ireland. He was at Emory for the month of April 2008. Dermot’s scholarship focuses on gender and judicial appointments.
• Clare Huntington - is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School.  She visited the Project for a week in April.  Her areas of research include law and emotion, and social norm theory, both as applied to family law. 
• Sara Benson - is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Law. She will be at Emory for one week in March and return from May 12^th -23^rd.  Sara's areas of research include domestic violence and the law, and sexual orientation and the law.  While in residence with the FLT Project, Sara will work on producing an article based on a research study that provides a voice for the struggles facing rural domestic violence survivors in Illinois.
• Ann Bartow – is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. She was at Emory for one week in March 2008.  Ann’s scholarship looks at the intersection of intellectual property law, cyberspace law, and public policy concerns.  She is currently working on an article that critiques "color alone" trademarks, arguing that colors are social signifiers that are not amenable to monopolization through trademark law, as evidenced by the commoditization of femaleness achieved by widespread use of the color pink.
• In Seop Chung –is a professor of international law at the College of Law, Seoul National University.  He will be in residence until July 2008.  During his visit, he will work on an international law textbook incorporating gender issues and perspectives.
• Hyunah Yang - is the first female Associate Professor at College of Law, Seoul National University where she teaches 'Feminist Jurisprudence' and 'Sociology of Law.' She has a Ph.D. in Sociology.  She was with the FLT Project until mid-February 2008. Her main area of research is family law in Korea from a feminist and an historical perspective.

2007 Visiting Scholars

• Michele Alexandre – is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphries School of Law. She was with the project for the first two weeks of December 2007 enabling her to work on two projects (i) consent issues inherent in multi-partner rape cases and (ii) exploring the ways in which the First Amendment can be instrumental in dismantling the application of gender biases in attire policies in the workplace.
• Laura Kessler – is an Associate Professor of Law at S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah.  She visited the project for one week in November, 2007.  Prof. Kessler’s work focuses on the intersection of discrimination and family law. 
•  Richard Collier – holds a PhD in Family, Law and Gender from the University of Leicester and is a Professor of Law and Social Theory at Newcastle University School of Law.  He was with the project for a week in October 2007.  His scholarship primarily lies in the field of law and gender, with a particular focus on issues concerning the construction of men and masculinities.
• Anna Kirkland – holds a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program from the University of California, Berkeley and is an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Political Science at the University of Michigan.  She visited the project for a week in September 2007 and explored the relationship between feminist legal theory and claims of the nascent fat rights movement.
• William Turner – visited the FLT for the 2007-08 academic year in order to conduct research on the racial integration of Emory University, and the Pre-Start affirmative action program at Emory Law School from 1966 to 1972.  This project is Emory Law School’s contribution to the University’s Transforming Communities Project, a five-year program of investigating the history of race at Emory.  It is also a continuation of Bill’s research on the meaning of equality in American law, especially the history of civil rights movements and their impact on legal outcomes.  Bill first visited the program in 2004.
• Liu Zongsheng -- is first visiting scholar from China.  Liu is an assistant professor of law at the National University of Defense Technology, Hunan Province - PRC.  Liu will be with us until August 15, 2007.  Liu’s research analyzes developing trends in international law regarding conflicts.  He is particularly interested in the law of war in light of the technological advances of the past century. 
• Justice Hyo-Sook Jeon – was the first woman Justice of South Korea’s Constitutional Court.  Recently retired, Hon. Jeon will be with the Project until July 2007 and will be researching issues of principles and policies in Constitutional law, particularly as they relate to equal protection, affirmative justice and gender equality.
• Katharina Hermann - a Ph.D candidate in Law from the Free University of Berlin School of Law in Germany, was in residence with the project through the spring 2007 semester. Katharina’s scholarship investigates the role of human rights in the new Iraqi constitution. She primarily uses international human rights standards (focusing on freedom of religion, women’s rights and the right to life and physical integrity) as a case study to examine compatibility with the Basic Rights mentioned in the Iraqi constitution.  Additionally, Katharina will critically assess theory versus reality regarding the question of the universality of human rights.
• Elif Elan Aksit - teaches Ottoman History, Women's History and Turkish History at the School of Government, Ankara - University in Turkey, and was in residence with the project through April 2007. Elif’s scholarship investigates how Ottoman intellectuals re-evaluated Islamic law in the face of new understandings of equality and justice and the reassessment of misogynist practices culturally embedded in daily life.  Elif  demonstrates that women contribute to the public dialog in a period of constant change and also argues that their contribution is key to understanding the dynamics of civil society in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries.
• Martha Bailey – is a Professor of Law at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada.  She was in residence for the month of March 2007.  Martha’s research focuses on the challenge of protecting women’s rights while at the same time accommodating religious diversity and pursuing a policy of multiculturalism. 
• Kate Nace Day - is a Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. She visited from February to March 2007. Kate teaches Constitutional Law and Feminist and Legal Theory.  While at Emory, she will be conducting research for a book on the experiences of women law students tentatively titled, Becoming Women Lawyers. This work takes a critical look at the atmosphere women confront as students in law school and the absence of feminist perspectives in law classes.
• Elizabeth Glazer - an Associate Professor at Hofstra Law School, was at Emory for two weeks in January 2007. Liz’s research uses principles from analytic philosophy to address problems in constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and property law. She is currently working on a project exploring whether certain rights emanating from the First Amendment are grounded in the same, or different, theoretical bases as rights in property law contexts.

2006 Visiting Scholars

• Harriet Musoke -- Senior Principal Lecturer/Head of the Department of Research, Law Reform and Publications at the Law Development Center in Kampala, Uganda. Harriet has been in residence at Emory since January 2004, studying for the J.S.D. degree under Martha Fineman's direction. Her thesis is on reproductive and sexual rights under the human rights paradigm.
• Rabia Bhuiyan – from Dhaka, Bangladesh has been in residence with Emory since August 2006.  Rabia is a former Member of Parliament and women’s rights activist and is working on a doctoral thesis on family law and Islam.
• Fiona de Londras – a Ph.D. candidate at the National University of Ireland (Cork) scholarship investigates how international law might play a controlling role in political and legal decision-making in the War on Terror. She was with Emory for ten weeks in the Fall 2006.
• Erika Rackley - a lecturer at Durham University, UK, visited at Emory Law School for a week in October 2006.  Her work focused on the role of the imagination in shaping and informing understandings of law, justice and adjudication.
• Heli Askola – is a lecturer in EU and Criminal Law at Cardiff Law School.  While at Emory in the Fall of 2006, Heli performed research on the exploitation of trafficked women
• Debra Jackson – Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, California State University spent the month of December 2005 and two weeks in the summer 2006, conducting research on feminism and philosophy.
• Emil Bertocchi – Teaching Assistant in Law at University of Brescia, Italy. Emil is a doctoral student in labor law and industrial relations at the University of Pavia in Italy.  He was at Emory for a year ending August 2006.
• Olivia Smith –a senior lecturer from Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, UK and a doctoral candidate from the University of Edinburgh - School of Law was in residence for one month in March 2006. Olivia’s dissertation is a comparative critique of employment discrimination laws in Ireland focusing in part on the disparity in retirement benefits.
• Roja Fazaeli – from the Irish Center for Human Rights was a J.S.D candidate in International Human Rights Law from the National University of Ireland. While at Emory University, from October 2005 to March 2006, she worked on her thesis, entitled: "A Comparative and Critical Study of International Human Rights Law and Islamic Law Concerning Women in the Shi'a Communities".
• Eilish Rooney – an Associate with the Transitional Justice Institute of Ulster University, UK, was at Emory for three weeks in April 2006. Her work focused on equality legislation and transition in Northern Ireland.
• Shazia Choudhry – Professor of Law, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK was a visiting scholar from March – April 2006. Her research focused on fathers’ rights under the Human Rights Act of the United Kingdom.
• Mande Limbu – a JSD candidate at Cornell University School of Law and a native of the United Republic of Tanzania visited with the FLT Project from February to March 2006.  Mande, who currently works for Global Rights, successfully defended her thesis “Making Justice More Acceptable to Poor People with Special Focus on Women: Introducing Clinical Legal Education in Tanzania” in 2006.
• JaeWon Kim – Dean and Professor of Law at Donga-A University, South Korea, spent a month in residence at Emory over December 2005/January 2006. During his stay, his research looked at the role of Confucian thought in family law.

2005 Visiting Scholars

• Mary Clark – Assistant Professor, American University Washington College of Law, joined us for a week in October 2005. Her work focused on a critical assessment of the State’s disposition of the dead.
• Michael Thompson – Professor of Law, Keele University, UK, came to Emory for a month in October 2005. Michael was researching a book on masculinity, sexuality, and reproduction.
• Daniel Blocq – a Research Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Naval College spent three months at Emory from August to November 2005. Daniel was researching issues regarding legal and military ethical requirements for soldiers in the face of new, more robust, peacekeeping operations, as well as women in the military.
• Adam Romero – a JD candidate at Yale Law School was a Visiting Scholar for 10 days in August 2005. Adam’s work focuses on queer legal theory.
• Risa Lieberwitz -- Associate Professor, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University , was in residence at Emory Law School for a week in the spring of 2005. Her scholarship focuses on the ‘corporatization’ of the university and the implications of these developments on the role of higher education in a democratic society.

2004 Visiting Scholars

• William Turner -- a second-year law student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison also holds a Ph.D. in U.S. history from Vanderbilt University. During his week at Emory in April 2004, he presented a paper titled "Not Quite Queer: The Role of Historical Argumentation in Lawrence v. Texas."
• Zachary Kramer -- a Fellow for the Charles R. Williams Project for Sexual Orientation Law at UCLA School of Law. His publications have appeared in the University of Illinois Law Review, the Seattle Journal for Social Justice, and the Chicago Tribune. He spent two weeks in residence at Emory, where he pursued research on law and sexuality, employment discrimination, and family law.
• Lisa Glennon -- Lecturer in Law at the Queen's University - Belfast, was in residence at Emory Law School for two weeks in January 2004. Her scholarship explores the evolution of the legal definition of ‘family’ from a comparative perspective, focusing on changing legal regulations in Canada and Northern Ireland.
• Eileen Fagan -- Lecturer in Law at Queen's University - Belfast, specializes in gender and Human Rights. During her semester long visit with us she worked on a book project tentatively titled “Feminism, Law and the Power of Culture,” which draws together experiences from Canada, Africa, the Palestinian Territories and Northern Ireland, in addition to the United States.
• Laura Lundy -- Senior Lecture in Law at the Queen's University - Belfast spent two weeks at Emory in March. Her research focuses on family values and responses in Northern Ireland to demands for diversity in state education.
• Javaid Rehman -- Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, was in residence from March through May of 2004. His research examines the difficulties and tensions emerging from the conflict between proponents of the right to freedom of religion and those who advocate women's rights to gender equality and non-discrimination.
• Laura Spitz -- Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Colorado and a J.S.D. candidate at Cornell Law School was in residence in September. Her research focuses on the relationships between equality law and business law (constitutional law and contract law) in the context of international trade commitments and the globalization of capitalism.
• Marie-Andrée Jacob -- J.S.D. candidate at Cornell University, spent the month of September in 2004 and the spring of 2005 conducting research on her dissertation topic at major transplant center. Marie is studying altruism and organ donation by living donors in an attempt to understand how such decisions are made and monitored within a regulatory context.
• Ruth Fletcher -- Professor of Law at Keele University was a featured panelist for our workshop on postcolonialism and extended her stay so as to be able to do research while here. She has written extensively and critically on reproductive issues in Ireland and has a book coming out later this year with Ashgate Press titled “Legal Forms and Reproductive Norms.”
• Leanne Smith -- Ph.D. candidate at Queen's University - Belfast was in residence for three weeks in October, during which time she conducted research on lesbian motherhood and presented a talk on her research to faculty and students. Leanne teaches undergraduate jurisprudence at Queen's University and has also completed work on policy reform and sexual orientation for the Equality Commission of Northern Ireland.
• Maria Tomé -- Lecturer at Catholic University, Porto, Portugal, was in residence at Emory for a week in December, during which time she pursued research on laws governing marriage and divorce from a comparative perspective.

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