Karen Engle
- Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair
- Professor
- Professor, Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Karen Engle is the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and founder and co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She teaches courses in public international law, international human rights law, and legal theory. Professor Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in international human rights, international criminal law, and Latin American law. Professor Engle has received prestigious fellowships and has taught at various universities worldwide, most recently as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.
KAREN ENGLE is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies and of Women's and Gender Studies. She teaches courses and specialized seminars in public international law, international human rights law, and legal theory.
Professor Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, and Latin American law. She is author of numerous scholarly articles and of The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law (Stanford University Press, 2020) as well as The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (Duke University Press, 2010), which received the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Human Rights. She is co-editor of Power, Participation and Private Regulatory Initiatives: Human Rights under Supply Chain Capitalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (Routledge, 1995).
Professor Engle received a Bellagio Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2009 and an assignment as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Bogotá in 2010. In 2016-17, she was the Deborah Lunder and Alan Ezekowitz Founders’ Circle Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has taught at a number of universities around the world and, most recently, was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 2018.
Professor Engle received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.A. with honors from Baylor University. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Jerre S. Williams on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and then served as a post-doctoral Ford Fellow in Public International Law at Harvard Law School. She was Professor of Law at the University of Utah prior to joining the University of Texas in 2002.
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year-2016
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Article
Feminist Legacies
Karen Engle, Feminist Legacies [Symposium: The International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda: Broadening the Debate], AJIL Unbound (November 23, 2016). View online.
year-2015
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Article
Anti-Impunity and the Turn to Criminal Law in Human Rights
Karen Engle. "Anti-Impunity and the Turn to Criminal Law in Human Rights." In 100 Cornell Law Review, Page 1069 (2015). View online.
year-2014
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Book Chapter
The Grip of Sexual Violence: Reading United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Human Security
Karen Engle, The Grip of Sexual Violence: Reading United Nations Security Council Resolutions on Human Security, in Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security, 23-47 (Gina Heathcote & Dianne Otto, Palgrave, 2014). View online.
year-2012
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Book Chapter
Self-Critique, (Anti) Politics and Criminalization: Reflections on the History and Trajectory of the Human Rights Movement
Karen Engle, Self-Critique, (Anti) Politics and Criminalization: Reflections on the History and Trajectory of the Human Rights Movement, in New Approaches to International Law: The European and the American Experiences, 41 (José María Beneyto & David Kennedy, editors, Asser Press, 2012). Download.
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Celebrity Diplomacy and Global Citizenship
Karen Engle. "Celebrity Diplomacy and Global Citizenship." In 3 Celebrity Studies, Page 116 (2012). View online.
year-2011
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Article
La Esquiva Promesa de Desarrollo Para las Comunidades Afrodescendientes: El Futuro de la Ley 70
Karen Engle, La Esquiva Promesa de Desarrollo Para las Comunidades Afrodescendientes: El Futuro de la Ley 70, in Revista de Derecho Público, No. 26, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2011. Download.
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Comparative Constitutional Law and Property: Responses to Alviar and Azuela
Karen Engle, Comparative Constitutional Law and Property: Responses to Alviar and Azuela, 89 Texas Law Review 1957 (2011). Download.
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On Fragile Architecture: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Context of Human Rights
Karen Engle, On Fragile Architecture: The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Context of Human Rights, 22 European Journal of International Law 141 (2011). View online.
year-2010
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Book Chapter
The Force of Shame
Karen Engle, The Force of Shame, in Rethinking Rape Law: International and Comparative Perspectives 331 (Clare McGlynn & Vanessa E. Munro eds.; Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2010) (with Annelies Lottmann). View online.
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Book
The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy
Karen Engle, The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (Duke University Press, 2010). View online.
year-2009
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Book Chapter
Indigenous Rights Claims in International Law: Self-Determination, Culture and Development
Karen Engle, Indigenous Rights Claims in International Law: Self-Determination, Culture and Development, in Routledge Handbook of International Law 331 (David Armstrong ed., London: Routledge, 2009). View online.
year-2008
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Article
Aux Armes! Droits des Femmes et Intervention Humanitaire
Karen Engle, Aux Armes! Droits des Femmes et Intervention Humanitaire, 173 Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales 80 (2008). View online.
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Classic Revisited: Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Karen Engle, Classic Revisited: Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls, 106 Michigan Law Review 941 (2008). View online.
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The Political Economy of State and Local Immigration Regulation: Comments on Olivas and Hollifield
Karen Engle, The Political Economy of State and Local Immigration Regulation: Comments on Olivas and Hollifield, Hunt & Tichenor, 61 SMU Law Review 159 (2008). View online.
year-2007
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Article
"Calling in the Troops": The Uneasy Relationship Among Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Intervention
Karen Engle, “Calling in the Troops”: The Uneasy Relationship Among Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Humanitarian Intervention, 20 Harvard Human Rights Journal 189 (2007). View online.
year-2006
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Article
Bibliography for Representing Culture, Translating Human Rights
Karen Engle, Bibliography for Representing Culture, Translating Human Rights, 41 Texas International Law Journal 529 (2006) (with Kumar Percy). View online.
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Asylum: Introduction [Symposium: Representing Culture, Translating Human Rights]
Karen Engle, Asylum: Introduction [Symposium: Representing Culture, Translating Human Rights], 41 Texas International Law Journal 469 (2006). Download.
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Foreword [Symposium: Representing Culture, Translating Human Rights]
Karen Engle, Foreword [Symposium: Representing Culture, Translating Human Rights], 41 Texas International Law Journal 385 (2006). View online.
year-2005
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Article
Abordagens críticas sobre o Direito norte-americano
Karen Engle, Abordagens críticas sobre o Direito norte-americano, Revista Trimestral de Direito Civil, July-Sept. 2005, at 121. View online.
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Liberal Internationalism, Feminism, and the Suppression of Critique: Contemporary Approaches to Global Order in the United States
Karen Engle. "Liberal Internationalism, Feminism, and the Suppression of Critique: Contemporary Approaches to Global Order in the United States." In 46 Harvard International Law Journal, Page 427 (2005). Download.