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As Special Rapporteur on violence against women I found that one of the main causes of violence against women was women's lack of access to property. Access to property and economic resources protect women from being trapped in abusive environments and inter-personal relationships. This book traces the pioneering work done by CEDAW and other international mechanisms in securing women's right to property. In so doing it interrogates the right to property itself and the creative and distinctive way in which CEDAW promotes and protects this right. This must be compulsory reading for anyone interested in the economic and social wellbeing of women. * Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women (1994-2003) and former Under-Secretary General and Special Rapporteur on Children and Armed Conflict * This book is an important contribution to the literature on international property law. Through meticulous scrutiny of the CEDAW property jurisprudence, it transforms constructions of women's property rights. Exhaustively researched and cogently reasoned, it confounds the critics from the left and right, feminist and otherwise. This book provocatively juxtaposes women's property rights under CEDAW with foreign investors' property regimes and human rights treaties. The analysis illuminates legal research and policy paths forward including toward comparative international property law. In reading this study, you will learn how human rights, property law, family law, social benefits law, foreign investment law, and international institutions interact and could interact more productively to ensure women's equal access to the various components of landed, material and other legal forms of property. * Rebecca J. Cook, Professor of Law Emerita, University of Toronto (Canada) *

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José E. Alvarez is the Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law at NYU School of Law and the faculty director of its US-Asia Law Institute. He has taught at George Washington, Michigan, and Columbia law schools (where he was the Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law). A former President of the American Society of International Law and co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law, Professor Alvarez is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institut de Droit International, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His six prior books and more than 140 other publications address public international law, international criminal law, human rights, international trade and investment, international adjudication, global health law, and international organizations. Judith Bauder is a researcher in international law and international human rights law at the European University Institute. From 2020-2023, she worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Section for International Law and International Relations at the University of Vienna. Over the past ten years, Judith has worked in international law and international human rights law in academia, for international organizations such as the International Law Commission, for international human rights law clinics, for human rights research institutes, and for NGOs in Austria, the United States, Switzerland, North Macedonia, and Haiti. Judith completed an LL.M. in International Legal Studies at NYU School of Law as a Fulbright scholar. She holds degrees in law and political sciences from the University of Vienna with exchanges at the Université Panthéon Assas and University of Melbourne.

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