Professor Catharine A MacKinnon FBA

Equality, specialising in sex and gender, in law, theory and politics, encompassing constitutional law, international law, criminal law, civil and human rights, including comparative, jurisprudence, political and legal theory. Critical engagement with national and international laws of sexual assault proposing creative initiatives toward gender equality transforming legal and social responses to sexual violation and gender hierarchy
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Subjects
Law
Sections
Law

Current post

University of Michigan Law School Elizabeth A Long Professor of Law

Harvard Law School The James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law

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Professor Davina Cooper FBA

Sociolegal studies and contemporary political theory; specialising in state activism (particularly in British local government); gender and sexuality equality governance; everyday utopias and prefigurative institutions; and new conceptual methodologies

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Professor Dame Julia Black FBA

Professor Dame Julia Black is Strategic Director of Innovation and Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She was President of the British Academy from 2021-2025.

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