Helen M. Stacy | email
Senior Lecturer in Law and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Helen Stacy is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies where she co-ordinates the new Human Rights Program; and a Senior Lecturer as Stanford Law School. Before joining Stanford, Stacy taught at Queensland University of Technology School of Law; and prior to that practiced law as a Barrister and Senior Prosecutor for the Director of Public Prosecutions in London.
As a scholar of international and comparative law, legal philosophy, and human rights, Dr. Stacy has produced works analyzing the efficacy of regional courts in promoting human rights, differences in the legal systems of neighboring countries, and the impact of postmodernism on legal thinking. Her latest book, Human Rights for the 21st Century: Sovereignty, Civil Society, Culture (Stanford University Press, 2009) focuses on how international and regional human rights courts can improve human rights standards while also honoring social, cultural and religious values.
During her fellowship, Dr. Stacy will examine the role of courts in ruling on matters of gendered cultural practices. She will examine recent, current and pending cases in regional human rights courts systems in Europe, Inter-America, and Africa, as well as national court systems. Dr. Stacy will examine the role of anthropologists, ethnographers, and historians as expert witnesses in of gender and culture, and how impact litigation brought by non-governmental organizations influences women's human rights.
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