Professor Yvette Russell
BA(Auck.), LLB(Auck.), LLM(NYU), PhD(Kent)
Expertise
Continental philosophy, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, race and decolonisation, criminal justice and criminal law, rape law and the rape trial.
Current positions
Professor of Law and Feminist Theory
University of Bristol Law School
Contact
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Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Postcolonial Feminist Theory and the Shortcomings of International Law in Providing Sufficient Protection for Girl Soldiers in Armed Conflict. Case studies from the Sri Lankan and Ugandan wars
Supervisors
(How) does the myth of the Black rapist feature in English and Welsh rape law?
Supervisors
The Legal Response to Domestic Violence in China
Supervisors
Property rights in cryptoassets
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
13/07/2024Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials
British Journal of Criminology
Sexual History Evidence in Review
New Directions in Sexual Violence Scholarship
Toward a Sexuate Jurisprudence and on the ‘Second Rape’ of Law
What is Sexual Difference?
Troubling Law’s Traditional Canon by Teaching Law and Race
Decolonisation, Anti-Racism and Legal Pedagogy
Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial
Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial
