Dr Yvette Russell

Summary

Key research areas: Continental philosophy, feminist and queer theory, psychoanalysis, race and decolonisation, criminal justice and criminal law, sexual offences.

My research is interdisciplinary and combines study in the law and humanities.  I am a specialist in continental feminist philosophy and write mainly about sexual violence and the criminal law in England and Wales.  My current research looks at how we can productively theorise the end of sexual violence, with reference to feminist philosophy and indigenous feminisms, and argues that we must situate resistance to sexual violence within a context of revolutionary decolonial politics.  I am interested in working with PhD candidates who have particular interests in interdisciplinary theoretical work.

Biography

Prior to joining Bristol Law School in September 2014, Yvette Russell 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 the Academic Editor of the international law journal Feminist Legal Studies.  Dr Russell was the recipient in 2017 of the Penny Pether Law and Language Scholarship Award for her article "Woman’s voice/law’s logos: The rape trial and the limits of liberal reform." Australian Feminist Law Journal 42.2 (2016): 273-296.

Following Yvette on twitter: @yvetterusse11

Teaching

Undergraduate:

Criminal Law

Sex, Gender and Law (unit coordinator)

Law and Race (unit coordinator)

Postgraduate:

Social and Legal Theory

Gender, Sexuality and Law (unit director)

Criminal Law

Keywords

• feminist theory
• queer theory
• poststructuralist philosophy
• critical legal studies
• race and criminal justice
• criminal law
• sexual offences.

Memberships

Organisations

University of Bristol Law School

Staff role

• Academic Staff

Research group

• Criminology, Criminal Justice and Criminal Law
• Legal Theory, Jurisprudence, Philosophy and Sociology
• Gender and the Law

Recent publications

• Russell, Y, 2019, ‘Theorizing Feminist Anti-Rape Praxis and the Problem of Resistance’. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
• Naqvi, ZB, Fletcher, R, Ashiagbor, D, Cruz, K & Russell, Y, 2019, ‘Back at the kitchen table: Reflections on decolonising and internationalising with the Global South socio-legal writing workshops’. Feminist Legal Studies, vol 27., pp. 123-137
• Russell, Y, 2019, ‘The Cost of ‘Justice’: Sexual Offence Complainants and Access to Personal Data’. Critical Legal Thinking
• Russell, Y, 2019, ‘Editorial: With thanks to Ruth Fletcher’. Feminist Legal Studies, vol 27., pp. 1-6
• Russell, Y, 2019, ‘Book Review: Rape and Resistance’. Social and Legal Studies, vol 28., pp. 563-566
• 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
• 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
• Russell, Y, 2016, ‘Criminal Law to the Rescue? ‘Wolf-Whistling’ as Hate Crime’. Critical Legal Thinking

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system