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Dr Yvette Russell
Dr Yvette Russell
BA(Auck.), LLB(Auck.), LLM(NYU), PhD(Kent)
Lecturer in Law
Summary
feminist theory; queer theory; poststructuralist philosophy; critical legal studies; race and criminal justice; criminal law; sexual offences.
Biography
Yvette Russell holds an LLB and a BA in political theory from the University of Auckland where she was the recipient of a Senior Prize in Law. She holds an LLM from New York University where she was a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar and a PEO International Peace Scholar. She holds a PhD from Kent Law School, where she held a Kent Research Studentship for three years. Prior to joining Bristol Law School in September 2014, she worked for three years as a government adviser in New Zealand on child and youth justice issues, was a teaching fellow at the University of Reading from 2011 to 2012 and was a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast from 2012 to 2014. She was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2006 and is a Co-ordinating Editor of the international law journal Feminist Legal Studies.
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Teaching
I am on sabbatical 2017/18.
Keywords
- feminist theory
- queer theory
- poststructuralist philosophy
- critical legal studies
- race and criminal justice
- criminal law
- sexual offences.
Selected publications
- Russell, Y, 2017, ‘Woman’s Voice/Law’s Logos: The Rape Trial and the Limits of Liberal Reform’. Australian Feminist Law Journal, vol 42., pp. 273-296
- Conaghan, JAF & Russell, Y, 2014, ‘Rape Myths, Law, and Feminist Research: “Myths About Myths”?’. Feminist Legal Studies, vol 22., pp. 25-48
- Anemtoaicei, O & Russell, Y, 2013, ‘Luce Irigaray: Back to the Beginning’. International Journal of Philosophical Studies , vol 21., pp. 773-786
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Recent publications
- Fletcher, R, Ashiagbor, D, Barker, N, Cruz, K, El-Enany, N, Grabham, E, Keenan, S, Manji, A, McCandless, J, McGuinness, S, Ramshaw, S, Russell, Y, Samuels, H, Stewart, A & Thomas, D, 2017, ‘Wench Tactics? Openings in Conditions of Closure’. Feminist Legal Studies, vol 25., pp. 1-23
- Russell, Y, 2017, ‘In response: changes to US rules on campus sexual assault benefit nobody’. Times Higher Education
- Russell, Y, 2017, ‘On Harvey Weinstein the Sexual Predator, or Business as Usual’. Wildcat Dispatches
- Fletcher, R, McCandless, J, Russell, Y & Thomas, D, 2016, ‘Internationalism and Commitment at the Kitchen Table’. Feminist Legal Studies, vol 24., pp. 1-6
- Fletcher, R, McCandless, J, Russell, Y & Thomas, D, 2016, ‘On Being Uncomfortable’. Feminist Legal Studies, vol 24., pp. 121-126
- Fletcher, R, McCandless, J, Russell, Y & Thomas, D, 2016, ‘Law's Vulnerability, and Vulnerability in Law’. Feminist Legal Studies, vol 24., pp. 243-247
- Russell, Y, 2016, ‘Criminal Law to the Rescue? ‘Wolf-Whistling’ as Hate Crime’. Critical Legal Thinking
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