IBL Lecture: Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW
Featuring
José E. Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of
International Law, NYU Law School
About the Lecture
The gender gap with respect to wealth and property is a chasm. For more than 40 years, the leading international treaty on the rights of women, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), has been generating jurisprudence that has the potential to close that chasm.
In their book Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW (Oxford University Press, May 2024), José E. Alvarez and Judith Bauder survey and assess CEDAW jurisprudence on women’s property rights. They find that it is dramatically different from property protections under the international investment regime and much more convergent with that under international human rights regimes. At the same time, they find that CEDAW jurisprudence is unique in its focus on addressing the underlying patriarchal structures, stereotypes, and forms of intersectional discrimination that have underpinned the impoverishment of women all around the world. They conclude that CEDAW’s re-engendering of property, although a flawed work in progress, has the potential to be transformative.
A panel of scholars will engage with Professor Alvarez, offering perspectives based on their expertise in international human rights law, gender equality, family law, and international economic law.
Commentators:
1901 Distinguished Research Professor of Law Marsha Garrison, Brooklyn Law School
Professor Darren Rosenblum, McGill University Faculty of Law
Sponsored by the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law
About the Author
Professor José E. Alvarez is the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at NYU Law School. His seven books and more than 170 shorter works have made substantial contributions to a wide range of topics in international law. A former president of the American Society of International Law and a former co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law, Alvarez has been a special adviser to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. He is the faculty director of NYU’s US-Asia Law Institute, as well as a member of the Institut de Droit International, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was awarded the American Society of International Law's highest honor, the Manley O. Hudson Medal, in 2024.
5:30 to 6 p.m. (ET): Reception
6 to 7 p.m.: Program
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