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29 Harv. J.L. & Gender 335 (2006)
From the International to the Local in Feminist Legal Responses to Rape, Prostitution/Sex Work, and Sex Trafficking: Four Studies in Contemporary Governance Feminism

handle is hein.journals/hwlj29 and id is 341 raw text is: FROM THE INTERNATIONAL TO THE LOCAL IN FEMINIST LEGAL RESPONSES TO RAPE, PROSTITUTION/SEX WORK, AND SEX TRAFFICKING: FOUR STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY GOVERNANCE FEMINISM JANET HALLEY PRABHA KOTISWARAN HILA SHAMIR CHANTAL THOMAS* Table of Contents In troduction ...................................................................................... 336 Part One: Describing Governance Feminism .................................... 340 JANET H ALLEY ................................................................................ 340 CHAN TAL THOM AS .......................................................................... 347 . Governance Feminism and Sex Trafficking ........................... 349 II. Governance Feminism and Sex Trafficking in the United Nations and United States Contexts ........................ 352 A. The International Stage ................................................ 352 B. The United States Stage ................................................ 356 C. The Outcomes and the Aftermath .................................. 358 H ILA SH AM IR ................................................................................... 360 . Janet Halley is Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Prabha Kotiswaran received her S.J.D. from Harvard Law School. Hila Shamir is an S.J.D. candidate at Har- vard Law School. Chantal Thomas is professor of law at Fordham University School of Law and visiting professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School. We want to thank Duncan Kennedy for reading the manuscript, Karen Engle for com- ments on Halley's contributions, Mary Lou Fellows for comments on Thomas's contribu- tions, and Nomi Levenkron for comments on Shamir's contributions. Janet Halley acknowl- edges particular debt to Engle's articles Feminism and its (Dis)contents: Criminalizing Wartime Rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 99 AM. J. INT'L L. 778 (2005) [hereinafter Engle, Feminism and its (Dis)contents] and Liberal Internationalism, Feminism, and the Suppression of Critique: Contemporary Approaches to Global Order in the United States, 46 HARV. INT'L L. J. 427 (2005). We also thank all the participants in the Governance Femi- nism Seminar sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on Law and Social Thought in March 2006. Last-minute research assistance from Elizabeth Lambert, Naomi Ronen, and Janet C. Katz saved us. All errors of fact and judgment are ours.