Karen Engle
- Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair
- Professor
- Professor, Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice
Karen Engle is the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and founder and co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She teaches courses in public international law, international human rights law, and legal theory. Professor Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in international human rights, international criminal law, and Latin American law. Professor Engle has received prestigious fellowships and has taught at various universities worldwide, most recently as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.
KAREN ENGLE is Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and Founder and Co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is also an affiliated faculty member of Latin American Studies and of Women's and Gender Studies. She teaches courses and specialized seminars in public international law, international human rights law, and legal theory.
Professor Engle writes on the interaction between social movements and law, particularly in the fields of international human rights law, international criminal law, and Latin American law. She is author of numerous scholarly articles and of The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict: Feminist Interventions in International Law (Stanford University Press, 2020) as well as The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (Duke University Press, 2010), which received the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Human Rights. She is co-editor of Power, Participation and Private Regulatory Initiatives: Human Rights under Supply Chain Capitalism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (Routledge, 1995).
Professor Engle received a Bellagio Residency Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation in 2009 and an assignment as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Bogotá in 2010. In 2016-17, she was the Deborah Lunder and Alan Ezekowitz Founders’ Circle Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has taught at a number of universities around the world and, most recently, was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School in 2018.
Professor Engle received her J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and a B.A. with honors from Baylor University. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Jerre S. Williams on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and then served as a post-doctoral Ford Fellow in Public International Law at Harvard Law School. She was Professor of Law at the University of Utah prior to joining the University of Texas in 2002.
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year-2005
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Article
Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing and Outsourcing of Capital and Labor [conference proceedings]
Karen Engle et al., Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing and Outsourcing of Capital and Labor [conference proceedings], 40 Texas International Law Journal 691 (2005).
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Article
Feminism and Its (Dis)Contents: Criminalizing Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Karen Engle, Feminism and Its (Dis)Contents: Criminalizing Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 99 American Journal of International Law 778 (2005). View online.
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Book Chapter
International Human Rights and Feminisms: When Discourses Keep Meeting
Karen Engle, International Human Rights and Feminisms: When Discourses Keep Meeting, in International Law: Modern Feminist Approaches 47 (Doris Buss & Ambreena Manji eds.; Oxford, U.K.: Hart Publishing, 2005). View online.
year-2004
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Article
Constructing Good Aliens and Good Citizens: Legitimating the War on Terror(ism)
Karen Engle, Constructing Good Aliens and Good Citizens: Legitimating the War on Terror(ism), 75 University of Colorado Law Review 59 (2004). View online.
year-2003
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Article
The Rise of the Personal Animosity Presumption in Title VII and the Return to “No Cause” Employment
Karen Engle, The Rise of the Personal Animosity Presumption in Title VII and the Return to “No Cause” Employment, 81 Texas Law Review 1117 (2003) (with Chad Derum). View online.
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Round Table Discussion: Subversive Legal Moments? [Symposium: Subversive Legacies]
Karen Engle, Round Table Discussion: Subversive Legal Moments? [Symposium: Subversive Legacies], 12 Texas Journal of Women & the Law 197 (2003) (with others). Download.
year-2002
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Book Chapter
From Skepticism to Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 to 1999
Karen Engle, From Skepticism to Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 to 1999, in Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies 344 (R.A. Shweder, M. Minow & H.R. Markus eds.; New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002). View online.
year-2001
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Article
From Skepticism to Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947-1999
Karen Engle, From Skepticism to Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947-1999, 23 Human Rights Quarterly 536 (2001). View online.
year-2000
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Article
Legislating Special Rights [Symposium on Re-Orienting Law and Sexuality]
Karen Engle, Legislating Special Rights [Symposium on Re-Orienting Law and Sexuality], 48 Cleveland State Law Review 43 (2000). View online.
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Article
Culture and Human Rights: The Asian Values Debate in Context
Karen Engle, Culture and Human Rights: The Asian Values Debate in Context, 32 NYU Journal of International Law & Politics 291 (2000). View online.
year-1999
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Book Review
Human Rights, Culture & Context
Karen Engle, Human Rights, Culture & Context, ed. by Richard Wilson, 93 American Journal of International Law 278 (1999). View online.
year-1998
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Article
What’s So Special About Special Rights?
Karen Engle, What’s So Special About Special Rights?, 75 Denver University Law Review 1265 (1998). View online.
year-1997
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Article
Attempting to Redeem Title VII Through the Religious Accommodation Provision: The Recalcitrance of Integrationism and Separationism
Karen Engle, Attempting to Redeem Title VII Through the Religious Accommodation Provision: The Recalcitrance of Integrationism and Separationism, 76 Texas Law Review 319 (1997). -
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Comparative Law as Exposing the Foreign System’s Internal Critique: An Introduction
Karen Engle, Comparative Law as Exposing the Foreign System’s Internal Critique: An Introduction, 1997 Utah Law Review 359. View online.
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Book Chapter
Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy and Assimilated Culture
Karen Engle, Forgotten History: Myth, Empathy and Assimilated Culture (with Ranjana Khanna), in Feminism and the New Democracy: Resiting the Political 67 (Jodi Dean ed.; London: Sage, 1997). View online.
year-1995
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Book
After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture
Karen Engle, After Identity: A Reader in Law and Culture (New York: Routledge, 1995) (editor, with Dan Danielsen). View online.
year-1994
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Article
Views from the Margins: A Response to David Kennedy
Karen Engle, Views from the Margins: A Response to David Kennedy, 1994 Utah Law Review 105. View online.
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Article
Immigration Politics and Sovereignty: National Responses to “Bad Aliens” [Introduction]
Karen Engle, Immigration Politics and Sovereignty: National Responses to “Bad Aliens” [Introduction], 88 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 439 (1994). View online.
year-1993
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Book Chapter
After the Collapse of the Public/Private Distinction: Strategizing Women's Rights
Karen Engle, After the Collapse of the Public/Private Distinction: Strategizing Women's Rights, in Reconceiving Reality: Women and International Law 143 (Dorinda Dallmeyer ed.; Washington, D.C.: American Society of International Law 1993). View online.
year-1992
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Article
National Sovereignty Revisited: Perspectives on the Emerging Norm of Democracy in International Law [Remarks]
Karen Engle, National Sovereignty Revisited: Perspectives on the Emerging Norm of Democracy in International Law [Remarks], 86 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law 253 (1992). View online.