Biography
Kirsten Campbell is a Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and founding director of the Unit for Global Justice and the convenor of the Gender of Justice research group. Kirsten is currently a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow in the Department of Law at the European University Institute, Florence. She has been a visiting scholar at Sciences Po, Lund University, and UC Berkeley. Kirsten previously taught at Brunel University, and practised as a commercial litigation lawyer.
Kirsten is an interdisciplinary scholar of sociology and law. Her research investigates sexual and gender-based violence in conflict, transitional justice, and international criminal law. She has worked on policy and practice in this area with NGOs, government institutions, and the UN for over twenty years. Kirsten’s recent book, The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society, and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice draws on her European Research Council projects, The Gender of Justice, and TRANSFORM. Kirsten is also a steering committee member of the Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict international research group, which recently published the major interdisciplinary collection, In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. Kirsten is currently working on a major study of gender-based crimes in international criminal law. This study explores current law, legal problems, and concepts of gender-based international crimes. It aims to develop a new theory of sexual and gender-based offences under international criminal law, and to build better legal and policy responses to these crimes.