Dianne Otto holds the Francine V. McNiff Chair in Human Rights Law at Melbourne Law School and is Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH). Dianne’s research interests include addressing gender, sexuality and race inequalities in the context of international human rights law, the UN Security Council’s peacekeeping work, the technologies of global ‘crisis governance’ and other threats to economic, social and cultural rights, as well as the transformative potential of people’s tribunals and other NGO initiatives.
Her recent publications include three edited volumes, Gender Issues and Human Rights (Edward Elgar 2013), Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security (co-edited with Gina Heathcote, Palgrave 2014), a chapter in A Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory (eds Margaret Davies and Vanessa Munro, Ashgate 2013) and a bibliographic chapter, ‘Feminist Approaches’, in Oxford Bibliographies Online: International Law, (ed. Tony Carty, Oxford University Press 2012).