Julieta Lemaitre left PRIO in 2018. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons.
Julieta Lemaitre is an External Associate at PRIO.
Research Interests
- Law and social movements
- Law and violence
- Violence against women
- Sexual and reproductive rights
Background
Julieta Lemaitre is Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. She is a lawyer from Universidad de los Andes (1995), has an M.A. in gender and religious studies from NYU 1998 and a doctoral degree in law (SJD) from Harvard University (2007) with a concentration in law and society. Her research areas are law and social movements, law and violence, violence against women, and sexual and reproductive rights. She has collaborated with Kristin Sandvik at PRIO since 2009, and was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow in 2014. In the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015 she will also be Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow at the Yale Law School.
Events
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Publications
The following publications are specific to the PRIO GPS Centre. A more complete list is available at www.prio.org.
All Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Article
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Julieta Lemaitre (2017) Finding the Roads to Justice? Examining Trajectories of Transition for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia, Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 6(1): 1–18.
Lemaitre, Julieta (2016) After the War: Displaced Women, Ordinary Ethics, and Grassroots Reconstruction in Colombia, Social & Legal Studies 25(5): 545–565.
Lemaitre, Julieta & Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2015) Shifting Frames, Vanishing Resources, and Dangerous Political Opportunities: Legal Mobilization among Displaced Women in Colombia, Law & Society Review 49(1): 5–38.
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Julieta Lemaitre (2013) Internally Displaced Women as Knowledge Producers and Users in Humanitarian Action: The View from Colombia, Disasters 37(1): 36–50.
Book Chapter
Lemaitre, Julieta & Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2016) Structural Remedies and the One Million Pesos: On the Limits of Court-Ordered Social Change for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia, in Rubenstein, Kim; & Katharine G. Young, eds, The Public Law of Gender from the Local to the Global. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (99–122).
Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Julieta Lemaitre (2015) From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: A Bottom-Up Reading of Law in Post-Conflict Transitions, in Saul, Matthew; & James A. Sweeney, eds, International Law and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Policy. London and New York: Routledge (251–271).