The University of Texas at Austin

The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

Karen Engle Publications

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Book

 

AFTER IDENTITY: A READER IN LAW AND CULTURE (edited with Dan Danielsen) (Routledge 1995).

 

Articles & Book Chapters

 

Indigenous Rights, in HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (forthcoming 2008) (Routledge).

 

Judging Sex in War (A Review Essay of EARNEST HEMINGWAY, FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS), __MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW__ (forthcoming 2008).

 

''Calling in the Troops'': The Uneasy Relationship Among Human Rights, Women's Rights and Humanitarian Intervention, 20 HARVARD HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNAL 189-226 (2007); another version to be translated into French for ACTES DE LA RECHERCHE EN SCIENCES SOCIALES (forthcoming, 2007).

 

Faultlines of the United States War on Terrorism: Distinguishing Good Aliens and Good Citizens, in FAULTLINES: LEGITIMACY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW __ (Hilary Charlesworth & Jean-Marc Coicaud, eds.) (United Nations University, forthcoming 2007).

 

Feminism and Its (Dis)Contents: Criminalizing Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 99 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 778-816 (2005). (pdf)

 

Abordagens críticas sobre o Direito norte-americano, (''Critical Approaches to North American Law''), REVISTA TRIMESTRAL DE DIREITO CIVIL - RTDC [Brazil] 121-38 (2005).

 

Liberal Internationalization, Feminism, and the Suppression of Critique: Contemporary Approaches to Global Order in the United States, 45 HARVARD INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 427 -38 (2005). (pdf)

 

International Human Rights and Feminisms: When Discourses Keep Meeting, in FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONAL LAW 47-66 (Doris Buss & Ambreena Manji, eds) (Hart Publishing, 2005).

 

Constructing Good Aliens and Good Citizens: Legitimating the War on Terror(ism), 75 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO LAW REVIEW 59-114 (2004). (pdf)

 

The Rise of the Personal Animosity Presumption in Title VII and the Return to ''No Cause'' Employment, 81 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 1117-1247 (2003) (with Chad Derum), reprinted in CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION AND ATTORNEY'S FEES ANNUAL HANDBOOK (Steve Salzman, ed.) (West Publishing, 2004). (pdf)

 

From Skepticism to Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947-1999, 23 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 536-59 (Summer 2001); reprinted in a different version in EMBRACING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES (Hazel Markus, Martha Minow, Richard Shweder eds.) (Russel Sage Foundation 2002). (pdf)

 

Culture and Human Rights: The Asian Values Debate in Context, 32 NYU JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLITICS 291-333 (2000). (pdf)

 

Book Review: Human Rights, Culture & Context (Richard Wilson ed. 1998), 93 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 278-81 (1999).

 

What’s So Special About Special Rights?, 75 DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 1265-1303 (1998). (pdf)

 

Attempting to Redeem Title VII Through the Religious Accommodation Provision: The Recalcitrance of Integrationism and Seperationism, 76 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 319-433 (1997).

 

Comparative Law as Exposing the Foreign System’s Internal Critique: An Introduction, 1997 UTAH LAW REVIEW 359-69. (pdf)

 

Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy, and Assimilated Culture (with Ranjana Khanna), in FEMINISM AND NEW DEMOCRACY: RE-SITTING THE POLITICAL 67-80 (Jodi Dean ed.) (Sage Press 1997).

 

Views from the Margins: A Response to David Kennedy, 1994 UTAH LAW REVIEW 105-18. (pdf)

 

After the Collapse of the Public/Private Distinction: Strategizing Women's Rights, in RECONCEIVING REALITY: WOEMN AND INTERNATIONAL LAW 143-55 (Dorinda Dallymeyer ed.) (American Society of International Law 1993). (pdf)

 

Female Subjects of Public International Law: Human Rights and the Exotic Other Female, 26 NEW ENGLAND LAW REVIEW 1509 -26 (1992). reprinted in AFTER IDENTITY: A READER IN LAW AND CULTURE (Dan Danielson & Karen Engle eds) (Routledge 1995); HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (Philip Alston ed.) (Dartmouth Press (U.K.) 1995); FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY VOLUME II (Frances Olsen ed.) (Dartmouth Press 1995). (pdf)

 

International Human Rights and Feminism: When Discourses Meet, 13 MICHIGAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 517-610 (1992). (pdf)

 

Nainen Kansainvälisen Oikeuden Subjektina: Esimerkkinä Klitorodektomia (''Female Subjects of Public International Law: The Case of Clitoridectomy''), 3 OIKEUS 214-20 (1991).

 

Proceedings & Short Pieces

 

Considering Some Consequences of Calling in the Troops, 100 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 52-55 (2006).

 

What are Human Rights?: A Brief History of International Human Rights Law and Practice, in Living Newspaper Guide, University of Texas Humanities Institute (2006) ( with Kassi Tallent).

 

Foreword, Translating Human Rights, Representing Culture, 41 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 385-87 (2006).

 

Introduction to Asylum Panel, Translating Human Rights, Representing Culture,41 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 469 (2006).

 

Bibliography for Translating Human Rights, Representing Culture, 41 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 529 (2006) (with Kumar Percy).

 

Roundtable Comments on Analysis and Evaluation of Law School Human Rights Programs, (Harvard Human Rights Program, 2006).

 

Foreword and comments, Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing and Outsourcing of Capital and Labor, 40 TEXAS INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 692 (2005). (pdf)

 

Subversive Legal Moments?, 12 TEXAS JOURNAL OF WOMEN & THE LAW 197 (2003) (from Symposium on Subversive Legacies)

 

Legislating Special Rights, 48 CLEVELAND STATE LAW REVIEW 43-48 (2000) (from Symposium on Re-Orienting Law and Sexuality) (pdf)

 

Transnational Public Interest Litigation: Rights versus Solutions? (Part of a conference in honor of Prof. Abram Chayes), www.law.harvard.edu/Admissions/Graduate_Programs/chayes/right.html (1999).

 

Immigration Politics and Sovereignty: National Responses to “Bad Aliens” (Introduction), 88 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 439-40 (1994).

National Sovereignty Revisited: Perspectives on the Emerging Norm of Democracy in International Law (Remarks), 86 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 253-57 (1992).

 

Website

 

''The Papers of George Lister: Mr. Human Rights'' (with Gregory Krauss).

 

Work in Progress

 

''Indigenous Roads to Development: Self-Determination, Human Rights and Culture'' (in manuscript).