Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW

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.

• Preface and AcknowledgmentsForeword by Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin 1. Introduction2. The CEDAW Committee's Property Jurisprudence3. Critiques of CEDAW and International Property Rights4. Re-engendering Property 5. Two Separate Worlds: Foreign Investors' Property vs. Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW6. Unity Within Diversity: Property Rights under the ICCPR and the ICESCR7. Taking Women's Property Rights Seriously Afterword by Tendayi AchiumeAppendices:Select BibliographyIndex

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.