The CAS Lecture Series: Wait! The Judge is Woman? Women in African Judiciaries
Jarpa Dawuni is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Howard University, Washington D.C. Her primary areas of research include judicial politics, gender and the law, international human rights, women’s civil society organizing and democratization.
She is the co-editor of the book Gender and the Judiciary in Africa: From obscurity to parity? (Routledge, 2016). Her works have appeared in journals such as Studies in Gender and Development in
Africa, Journal of African Law and Africa Today. Her areas of teaching are largely anchored between Comparative Politics and International Relations, with a focus on gender and the law, African politics and international human rights.