Dianne Otto holds a Chair at the Melbourne Law School, where she is also Director of the International Human Rights Law Programme (IILAH) and Project Director for Peacekeeping (APCML). She researches in the areas of public international law, human rights law and critical legal theory, with a current focus on gender and sexuality issues in the context of the UN Security Council, peacekeeping and international human rights law. Her recent publications include chapters in Hilary Charlesworth and Jean-Marc Coicaud (eds), Fault Lines of International Legitimacy (Cambridge University Press 2010), Mashood Baderin and Manisuli Ssenyonjo (eds), International Human Rights Law: Six Decades after the UDHR (Ashgate 2010), and Sandesh Sivakumaran, Sangeeta Shah, Daniel Moeckli and David Harris (eds), International Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press 2010). Professor Otto has held visiting positions at Columbia University, the School of Oriental and African Studies, New York University and the University of British Columbia. In 2004 she was the Kate Stoneman Endowed Visiting Professor in Law and Democracy, at Albany Law School in New York. She sits on the Advisory Boards of Third World Legal Studies, Melbourne Journal of International Law, The Third World and International Law and the Australian Yearbook of International Law. Dianne’s scholarship explores how international legal discourse reinforces hierarchies of nation, race, gender and sexuality, and aims to understand whether and how the reproduction of such legal knowledge can be resisted. Her work draws upon and develops a range of critical legal theories particularly those influenced by feminism, postcolonialism, poststructuralism and queer theory. Dianne has been active in a number of human rights NGOs including Women’s Rights Action Network Australia (WRANA), Women’s Economic Equality Project (WEEP) Canada, International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific (IWRAW-AP) Malaysia, and International Women’s Tribune Centre (IWTC) New York. She helped draft a General Comment on women’s equality for the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and a General Recommendation on treaty obligations for the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
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Advisory Board, Third World Legal Studies, published by International Third World Legal Studies Association (INTWORLSA), School of Law, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
International Advisory Board, The Third World and International Law,published byKluwer Law International
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