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Prof. Catharine A. MacKinnon Ph.D., Esq.


Self Description

June 2011: "Catharine A. MacKinnon, the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law and long-term James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, specializes in sex equality issues under international and constitutional law. She pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities, Professor MacKinnon won with co-counsel a damage award of $745 million in August 2000 in Kadic v. Karadzic, which first recognized rape as an act of genocide. The Supreme Court of Canada largely accepted her approaches to equality, pornography, and hate speech. In addition to scholarly works that include Sex Equality (2001), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), and Are Women Human? (2006), she has published widely in journals and the popular press. Her work has been documented to be among the most widely-cited writings on law in the English language. Professor MacKinnon holds a B.A. from Smith College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale. She has taught at Yale, Chicago, Harvard, Osgoode Hall, Stanford, Basel, and Columbia, among others, and spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Stanford. Professor MacKinnon practices and consults nationally and internationally, and works with Equality Now, an non-governmental organization promoting international sex equality rights for women, and the Coalition for Trafficking in Women (CATW). She has served as Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court since November 2008."

http://web.law.umich.edu/_facultybiopage/facultybiopagenew.asp?id=219

Third-Party Descriptions

July 2011: "Women, of course, bear the main brunt of wartime sexual violence—as they always have. Last December, my CFR colleague Mark Lagon hosted a sobering meeting with the eminent legal scholar and activist Catharine MacKinnon. Now the special gender adviser to the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, Mackinnon in 2000 argued the path-breaking legal case Kadic vs. Karadzic — about mass Serbian rape of Bosnian women — which for the first time established mass rape as an act of genocide."

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/20/stopping-wartime-sexual-abuse-of-men

June 2011: 'The feminist scholar Catharine MacKinnon famously declared, “Pornography silences women.” In the 1990s, the philosophers of language Jennifer Hornsby and Rae Langton developed an account of the mechanisms of silencing that could substantiate MacKinnon’s claim. But their basic ideas extend beyond the examples they chose, and can inform us about silencing in our political discourse today.'

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/the-ways-of-silencing/

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) Organization Jun 27, 2011
Supporter of (past or present) Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) Organization Jun 27, 2011
Supporter of (past or present) Equality Now Organization Jun 27, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Harvard University Organization Jun 27, 2011
Advisor/Consultant to (past or present) International Criminal Court (Rome Statute of the) Organization Jun 27, 2011
Student/Trainee (past or present) Smith College Organization Jun 27, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Student/Trainee (past or present) Yale University Organization Jun 27, 2011
Cooperation (past or present) Ms. Andrea Dworkin Person Jun 27, 2011

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Jul 20, 2011 Stopping wartime sexual abuse - of men

QUOTE: the United Nations (UN) and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) “barely acknowledge” the pervasive sexual violence against men that occurs in modern war....of roughly 4,000 NGOs addressing wartime sexual violence, only 3% mentioned male victims (and usually only in passing).

 CNN (Cable News Network)
Jun 25, 2011 The Ways of Silencing

QUOTE: We might wish politicians and pundits from opposing parties to engage in reasoned debate about the truth, but as we know, this is not the reality of our political discourse. Instead we often encounter bizarre and improbable claims about public figures. Words are misappropriated and meanings twisted. I believe that these tactics are not really about making substantive claims, but rather play the role of silencing.

 New York Times