Tracy Higgins
Professor of Law
Co-Director, Leitner Center for International Law and Justice

CONTACT DETAILS
Email: thiggins@law.fordham.edu

CAREER
Education

PRINCETON, A.B., 1986, magna cum laude
HARVARD, J.D., 1990, magna cum laude



Activities
  • Law Clerk to Judge Levin Campbell, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1990-91)
  • Women's Law and Public Policy Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center (1991-92)
  • Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Spring 1992)
  • Editor, Harvard Law Review


PUBLICATIONS
  • THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAW, Cambridge University Press (Co-Editor with Jeanmarie Fenrich and Paolo Galizzi) (forthcoming 2011)
  • We Will Still Live: Confronting Stigma and Discrimination Against Women Living with HIV/AIDS in Malawi, Fordham International Law Journal (with Jeanmarie Fenrich and Chi Mgbako) (2008)
  • Gender Equality and Customary Marriage: Bargaining in the Shadow of Post-Apartheid Legal Pluralism, Fordham International Law Journal (with Jeanmarie Fenrich and Ziona Tanzer) (2008)
  • Book Review: Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues by Catharine A.MacKinnon, YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND FEMINISM (2006).
  • Constitutional Chicken Soup, FORDHAM LAW REVIEW (Fall 2006) (symposium contribution).
  • The Children Left Behind: Roma Access to Education in Contemporary Romania, FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (2006) (with Martin Flaherty and Aram Schvey).
  • Exporting Despair: United States Foreign Aid Policy and the Right to Health Care in Kenya, FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (2006) (with Martin Flaherty and Mehlika Hoodbhoy).
  • A Reflection on the Uses and Limits of Western Feminism in a Global Context, THOMAS JEFFERSON LAW REVIEW (2006).
  • No Recourse: Multinational Corporations and the Protection of Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights in Bolivia, FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (Spring 2004) (with Maria McFarland).
  • Gender, Sexuality, and Power: Is Feminist Theory Enough? COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF GENDER AND LAW (2003) (with Brenda Cossman, Dan Danielson, and Janet Halley).
  • Job Segregation, Gender Blindness, and Employee Agency, MAINE LAW REVIEW (Spring 2003).
  • Promise Unfulfilled: Law, Culture, and Women's Inheritance Rights in Ghana (with Jeanmarie Fenrich) [Spring 2002, FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL].
  • Agency, Equality, and Antidiscrimination Law, CORNELL LAW REVIEW (Spring 2000) (with Laura Rosenbury).
  • Reviving the Public/Private Distinction in Feminist Theorizing, in Symposium: Unfinished Feminist Business, CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW (Spring 2000).
  • "One Country, Two Systems?": Rule of Law, Democracy, and Rights in Hong Kong Two Years After Reversion to Chinese Sovereignty, FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (Winter 1999).
  • Justice on Trial: State Security Courts, Police Impunity, and the Intimidation of Defense Lawyers in Turkey, FORDHAM INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (Summer 1999).
  • Democracy and Feminism, reprinted in INTERNA TIONAL LIBRARY OF ESSAYS IN LAW AND LEGAL THEORY: FAMILY, STATE, AND LAW (Michael D. Freeman ed., 1999).
  • Regarding Rights: An Essay in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 1999).
  • Democracy and Feminism, 110 HARVARD LAW REVIEW 1657 (1997).
  • Straying from The Path, 110 HARVARD LAW REVIEW (1997) (solicited essay commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Path of the Law).

Leitner Center for International Law and Justice
Fordham University School of Law
33 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

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Telephone: 212.636.6862
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