Professor Carrie Bettinger-López co-chaired a new American Society of International Law webinar on “Advancing Gender Justice in International Law.” The webinar was held on December 10th in commemoration of Human Rights Day. The webinar marks the inaugural virtual event of ASIL’s new Advancing Gender Justice Signature Topic, which aims to spark and advance conversations, dialogue, and engagement with what it means to achieve gender justice in international law and institutions. Panelists, including Bettinger-López, discussed the areas of synergy with, or divergence from, past domestic and foreign law and policy priorities of the U.S., as well as what the Biden-Harris administration accomplished.
Bettinger-López is the founder/director of the Human Rights Clinic and faculty chair of the Human Rights Program at Miami Law. Her scholarship, practice, and teaching concern international human rights law and policy advocacy, violence against women, gender and race discrimination, immigrants’ rights, clinical legal education, and the implementation of human rights norms at the domestic level, principally in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Bettinger-López regularly litigates and engages in other forms of advocacy before the Inter-American Human Rights system, the United Nations, federal and state courts, and legislative and executive bodies.
Bettinger-López has served in the federal government during two presidential administrations. From 2021-2024, she served in the Biden-Harris Administration, as a senior advisor to the White House Gender Policy Council (fall 2021), and as a senior advisor on gender and equality at the U.S. Department of Justice, Office for Victims of Crime (2022-2024), where she helped to lead the development of the first-ever U.S. National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence.
