Hilary Charlesworth is considered as the pioneer in feminist international law scholarship. Her groundbreaking book (co-authored with Professor Christine Chinkin) titled The Boundaries of International Law: A Feminist Analysis has been awarded the Certificate of Merit by the American Society of International Law in 2001. For her outstanding contribution to the body of international law scholarship has earned her the American Society of International Law’s 2006 Goler T. Butcher Medal. Currently, she is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Professor in RegNet and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice, ANU. She has serve as editorial member of many leading publications, including the American Journal of International Law and Cambridge Studies on International and Comparative Law. She is Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the Australian National University. In addition, she is also serve in many NGOs, including as a Patron of the ACT Women's Legal Service and advisory board member of the Institute for Migrant Rights. In 2011 she was appointed as judge ad hoc to the Internation Court of Jusice in the Whaling in the Antartic Case (Australia v. Japan).

Books

Byrnes, A., Charlesworth, H. & McKinnon, G. 2009, Australian Bills of Rights: History, Politics, Law, UNSW Press, Sydney

Weston, B., Falk, R.A., Charlesworth, H. & Strauss, A.L. 2006, International Law and World Order: A Problem Oriented Coursebook, 4th edn, West Publishing Co., Minneapolis

Charlesworth, H., Chiam, M., Hovell, D. & Williams G. 2006, No Country is an Island : Australia and International Law, UNSW Press, Sydney (Highly Commended in Arts Non-Fiction category, 2006 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Human Rights Awards)

Charlesworth, H. 2002, Writing in Rights: Australia and the Protection of Human Rights, UNSW Press, Sydney

Charlesworth H. & Chinkin C. 2000, The Boundaries of International Law, Manchester University Press, Manchester (Winner, American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit 2001 for ‘preeminent contribution to creative scholarship’)

Weston, B., Falk, R.A. & Charlesworth, H. 1997, International Law and World Order, 3rd edn, West Publishing Co., Minneapolis

Links

Centre for International Governance & Justice (CIGJ), http://cigj.anu.edu.au/cigj/people/staff/charlesworth.php/]

The Institute for Migrant Rights, http://imr.or.id

The American Society of International Law, http://asil.org