Jill Marshall

Professor Marshall is a law professor at Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. In 2019, she lead the Global Challenges Research Fund Human Rights and Global Governance work, through which, she partnered with the School of Law Makerere University in a project that was embedded on the analysis that women who bear children from rape during war face social and cultural stigmatization and marginalization. Inopportunely, international law responses to Conflict Related Sexual Violence (CRSV) tend to frame these complex socio-cultural gender issues through universal formal and technical legalese that fail to take seriously the rooted experiences and voices of survivors. The goal of the project was to ensure that voices of survivors of CRSV, inform the work of civil society organizations, national and international law practitioners, legal educators and academics. Her work focuses on the relationship between law and living well, human flourishing, as well as, what it means to be free, related especially to women’s legal human rights in their social and cultural context. She has published 3 books on these topics, including Human Rights Law and Personal Identity (2014).