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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Legal philosophy; criminal law theory; criminal justice and criminology; legal conceptual analysis especially the concept of the person; feminist legal theory

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Private Law (Contract, Restitution, Commercial law), Constitutional and Administrative Law (in particular the position of the judiciary and human rights)

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Professor Susanne Baer FBA

Comparative constitutionalism, fundamental rights, interdisciplinary studies of law, gender studies, critical and feminist legal theory

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