Research
Research Interests & Areas of Specialization
- Children's Rights
- Family Law
- Gender and the Law
- International Human Rights
- International Law
Education
- LLB, University of Rome La Sapienza, Summa cum Laude
- LLM, London School of Economics and Political Sciences
- JSD, Stanford Law School
- MA, Political Science, University of Florence
Selected Publications
Books
- Editor, with Tali Gal. Child and Youth Participation in Decision-Making: Experiences from Developing Countries, special issue of 119 Children and Youth Services Review (2020).
- International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation (with Tali Gal), (Oxford University Press, 2015).
- Gender and Violence in Haiti: Women's Path from Victims to Agents, (Rutgers University Press, 2014).
Selected Book Chapters
- Commentary on O'Neal v. Wilkes. ch. 5 in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions, ed. Deborah S. Gordon (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020).
- Child Domestic Slavery in Haiti, ch. 5 in Caribbean Crime and Criminal Justice: Impacts of Post-Colonialism and Gender, ed. Katharina Joosen (Routledge, 2017).
- Catherine La Voisin: Poisons and Magic at the Royal Court of Louis XIV, ch.11 in Toxicology in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Elsevier, 2017).
Selected Articles
- Gender-based violence in and beyond Love, Anger and Madness, Nazione Indiana (2021).
- Understanding and Implementing Child Participation: Lessons from the Global South, 119 Children & Youth Svcs. Rev. (2020).
- #MeToo and the Pursuit of Women's International Human Rights, 54 U.S.F.L. Rev. 215 (2020).
Honors & Awards
- Recipient of the 2012 Jesse W. Carter Award for Faculty Scholarship at Golden Gate University School of Law
- Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, Stanford University (awarded twice)
- O'Bie Shultz Completion Dissertation Fellowship, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
- Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, Michelle Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
- Richard Goldsmith Research Fellowship, Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation, Stanford University
Links
- Faculty Profile at Golden Gate University School of Law
- 2008 Felton Fellowship at Stanford Law School
- Children's Voices in Family Law Conflicts (with Tali Gal), Oxford University Press blog, July 15, 2015.
- GGU Law Dean Rachel Van Cleave interviews Professor Benedetta Faedi Duramy about her journey through academia: Your Career: A Path to Scholarship, The Recorder, Oct. 25, 2013.