Roundtable Participant - Louise Chappell

Louise Chappell is a Scientia Professor based in the Law Faculty, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Louise previously worked at the University of Sydney and has held visiting appointments at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, The European University Institute, Leiden University and at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Louise’s gender and politics research has spanned sub-national, national and international political and legal realms including the NSW bureaucracy, national political institutions, and the UN and International Criminal Court. Louise has been engaged with feminist institutionalism since the 1990s, commencing with her PhD comparing feminist engagement with the Australian and Canadian states. The book from that study, Gendering Government, was awarded the 2002 APSA Victoria Shuck Prize. Her book which applied FI to the International Criminal Court, The Politics of Gender Justice at the ICC, won the 2017 Carole Pateman Prize for Gender and Politics awarded by the Australian Political Science Association. She has held numerous grants and fellowships awarded by the Australian Research Council, including a current project on Reimaging Judging at the International Criminal Court. Louise stepped aside as a co-director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network (FIIN) in 2022. She is an inaugural co-editor with Fiona Mackay, Elin Bjarnegard and Meryl Kenny of the Oxford University Press Series on Feminist Institutionalism. In 2016 Louise was elected a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.