Janet Benshoof is the President of the Global Justice Center and an expert in constitutional and human rights law. She spearheaded the first use of international law to prosecute rape by the Iraqi High Tribunal, established US Supreme Court precedents on religious liberty and reproductive rights, and obtained the first US approval of emergency contraception. Ms. Benshoof advises governments, women leaders, judges, and the UN on international law such as CEDAW, the Rome Statute for the ICC, the Geneva Conventions and on Security Council Resolutions. She is currently advising Burmese groups on the legality of Burma’s constitution, and working to ensure the rights of victims of rape in armed conflicts under the Geneva Conventions.
Ms. Benshoof, who previously founded the Center for Reproductive Rights, has been singled out as one of top 100 lawyers in the U.S., has received a MacArthur fellowship, and publishes extensively in law journals and popular media.
Ms. Benshoof is the author of U.S. Ratification of CEDAW: An Opportunity to Radically Reframe the Right to Equality Accorded Women Under the U.S. Constitution.
N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change 