Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
Three courses involving gender, human rights and global laws that the author teaches to two different groups (women’s/gender studies and international affairs undergraduates; and law students) demonstrate methods of making international human rights law and principles real to women’s real lives, as both an educational and activist project. By focusing on the linkages between “thinking globally” and “acting locally” in the area of gender and human rights, these courses suggest some ways of to educate and encourage students to actualize human rights laws and principles in their own communities and lives. The topics, methods and materials used in these courses introduce several important women’s human rights legal theories and cases to illuminate ways to educate and encourage both aspiring lawyers and more interdisciplinary/diverse audiences to actualize human rights laws in their communities.
Publication Citation
CONFRONTING GLOBAL GENDER JUSTICE, D. Bergoffen, P. Gilbert, T. Harvey, and C. McNeely eds., New York: Routledge, 2010
Scholarly Commons Citation
Cantalupo, Nancy Chi, "Using Law and Education to Make Human Rights Real in Women’s Real Lives" (2010). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 432.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/432