
Dr Yvette Russell
BA(Auck.), LLB(Auck.), LLM(NYU), PhD(Kent)
Expertise
Continental philosophy, feminist and queer theory, psychoanalysis, race and decolonisation, criminal justice and criminal law, sexual offences.
Current positions
Associate Professor in Law and Feminist Theory
University of Bristol Law School
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Biography
Yvette Russell joined the University of Bristol in 2014. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the international law journal Feminist Legal Studies, and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 2006. Dr Russell was the recipient in 2017 of the Penny Pether Award for Law and Language Scholarship 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. She is a 2021/22 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow.
Research interests
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.
Projects and supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
16/10/2021Criminal Injustice
The Critical Legal Pocketbook
Law, Ontology and Sexual Violence: Towards a Sexuate Jurisprudence
What is Sexual Difference?
Rethinking Feminist Resistance to Rape: Irigaray and Erotic Transformation
Horizons of Difference: Rethinking Space, Place and Identity with Irigaray
Dalian Atkinson: manslaughter conviction for PC but ‘justice’ for police violence remains elusive
Theorizing Feminist Antirape Praxis and the Problem of Resistance
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Teaching
I am on research leave 2021-2022.