Book discussion with Professor Jose Alvarez, NYU School of Law - Women’s Property Rights Under CEDAW (co-authored with Judith Bauder)
Location:
Moot Court Room,
Old College
Date/time
Thu 18 April 2024
14:00-16:00
About this event
Professor Jose Alvarez is Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law
The international community endorsed the empowerment of women and girls as a key objective in 1995 at the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing. Over the past thirty years, this goal has been consistently endorsed, for example in the General Assembly’s Sustainable Development Goals, in the Security Council’s agenda for Women, Peace and Security and through the creation of machinery for its achievement in the form of UN Women. Despite such regular reiteration, there is no clarity about what empowerment entails nor how it might be achieved, other than general agreement on the importance of women’s economic and social independence. Women’s access to, ownership and use of property are central to such independence and yet there has been little scholarly investigation of what women’s property rights entail. José E. Alvarez and Judith Bauder’s book takes on this weighty challenge.