SCHOOL OF LAW

Karen L Engle

Cecil D. Redford Professor in Law
Director, Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice

JD Harvard
BA Baylor

KAREN ENGLE has taught at The University of Texas School of Law since 2002. Since 2004, she has been founding 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 Gender and Women's Studies, and is a Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. She teaches courses in public international law, international human rights and employment discrimination, as well as specialized seminars such as "Publishing Legal Scholarship" and "Human Rights and Justice Workshop."

Professor Engle received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and her undergraduate degree 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 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.

Professor Engle writes and lectures extensively on international law and human rights. Her recent works include ''Indigenous Rights Claims in International Law: Self-Determination, Culture and Development'' Routledge Handbook of International Law (2008), ''Judging Sex in War,'' Michigan Law Review (2008), ''Calling in the Troops: The Uneasy Relationship Among Human Rights, Women's Rights and Humanitarian Intervention,'' Harvard Human Rights Law Journal (2007 ), and ''Feminism and Its (Dis)contents: Criminalizing War-Time Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina,'' American Journal of International Law (2005). Her monograph, Indigenous Roads to Development: Social Movements and International Law, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in 2010. Professor Engle has received a Bellagio Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation (2009) and is a Fulbright Senior Specialist.