Benedetta Faedi Duramy, Professor of Law

Benedetta Faedi Duramy

Director of LLM Students

Co-Director of LLM in International Business and Finance Law

Research Interests & Areas of Specialization

  • Children’s Rights
  • Family Law
  • Gender and the Law
  • International Human Rights
  • International Law

Education

  • LLB, University of Rome La Sapienza, Summa cum Laude
  • LLM, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
  • JSD, Stanford Law School
  • MA, Political Science, University of Florence

Selected Publications

Books:
Book Chapters:
  • Commentary on O’Neal v. Wilkes. ch. 5 in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions, ed. Deborah S. Gordon (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020).
  • Child Domestic Slavery in Haiti, ch. 5 in Caribbean Crime and Criminal Justice: Impacts of Post-Colonialism and Gender, ed. Katharina Joosen (Routledge, 2017).
  • Catherine La Voisin: Poisons and Magic at the Royal Court of Louis XIVch.11 in Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Elsevier, 2017)
  • Enhancing Capacities for Child Participation: Introduction (with Tali Gal) in International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation: From Social Exclusion to Child-Inclusive Polices (Faedi Duramy & Tali Gal, eds.) (Oxford University Press: 2015).
  • Children’s Participation in Haiti in International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation: From Social Exclusion to Child-Inclusive Polices (Faedi Duramy & Tali Gal, eds.) (Oxford University Press: 2015).
  • Community Property, in Social History of American Families: An Encyclopedia, (Lawrence Ganong & Marilyn Coleman eds.), (SAGE: 2013)
  • Making Peace with the Past: Federal Republic of Germany’s Accountability for World War II Massacres before the Italian Supreme Court, in Untold Stories: Hidden Histories of War Crimes Trials, (Kevin Heller & Gerry Simpson eds.) (Oxford University Press: 2013).
  • Property Distribution, in Cultural Sociology of Divorce: an Encyclopedia, (Robert E. Emery eds), (SAGE: 2013).
  • Gender-based Violence, Help Seeking and Criminal Justice Recourse in Haiti, in Conflict-related sexual violence: International law, local responses, (Tonia St. Germain & Susan Dewey, eds.), (Kumarian Press/Stylus Publishing: 2012).
  • What Have Women Got to do with Peace? A Gender Analysis of the Laws of War and Peacemaking, reprinted in Law and Outsiders: Norms,Processes and ‘Othering’ in the 21st Century, (Cian C. Murphy & Penny Green eds), (Oxford: Hart Publishing: 2011).
  • Lucrezia Borgia, in Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues (Vickie Jensen, ed.) (Greenwood Publishing Group: 2012).
  • Marie de Brinvilliers, in Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues (Vickie Jensen, ed.) (Greenwood Publishing Group: 2012).
  • Franoise Athnas de Montespan, in Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues (Vickie Jensen, ed.) (Greenwood Publishing Group: 2012).
  • Catherine Deshayes La Voisin, in Women Criminals: An Encyclopedia of People and Issues (Vickie Jensen, ed.) (Greenwood Publishing Group: 2012).
  • Domestic Violence as Human Rights Violation: The Challenges of a Regional Human Rights Approach in Africa, in Domestic Violence and the Law in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa, (Richard Roberts, ed.), (Ohio University Press: 2010).
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Honors & Awards

  • Recipient of the 2012 Jesse W. Carter Award for Faculty Scholarship at Golden Gate University School of Law.
  • Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, Stanford University (awarded twice)
  • O’Bie Shultz Completion Dissertation Fellowship, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
  • VPGE Diversity Dissertation Research grant
  • Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
  • O’Bie Shultz Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
  • Richard Goldsmith Research Fellowship, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation, Stanford University
  • JSD Dissertation Research Grant, Stanford Law School
  • International Studies Association Travel Grant
  • Arthur C. Helton Fellowship, American Society of International Law
  • Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation Fellowship, Stanford University
  • Stanford Law School Scholarship, Stanford University
  • The Class of 2002 Fellowship in Conflict Resolution, Stanford University

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