Thursday, March 9, 2023

The CEDAW Committee Gives Name to Obstetric Violence

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by Rangita de Silva de Alwis The post is dedicated to Judge Nancy Gertner of Harvard Law School (former member of the Presidential Commissio...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Why Gender-based Law Reform During a Time of Covid Must be Sustained

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Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis Member-Elect to the expert committee on the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Wome...
Monday, June 7, 2021

From “Becoming Gentlemen” to Becoming Norm Entrepreneurs: Some Perspectives on Inclusion and Allyship from Penn Law School

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Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis University of Pennsylvania Law School and Hillary Clinton Fellow at Georgetown University In the early y...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Why CEDAW Helps Strengthen the US's Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

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Ambassador Melanne Verveer Executive Director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security Professor Rangita de Silva de Alwis ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Ngozi Okonjo Iweala is the first woman to lead the World Trade Organization (WTO), making inclusion central to multilateral institutions

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Rangita de Silva de Alwis University of Pennsylvania Law School Nonresident Leadership Fellow at WAPPP and Hillary Rodham Clinton Research...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

HOW THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT IS RESHAPING OUR THINKING ON BIAS IN AI

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Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Christian Zabilowicz and Gitanjali Swamy 1 Introduction As our public reckoning on systemic racism and structural...
Monday, September 21, 2020

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Global and the Personal

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg knew the dangers of a parochial approach to the law. When necessary, she was not afraid to rely on international...