Portraits of Women in International Law

Immi Tallgren is Adjunct Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Senior KONE Research Fellow at the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. She has previously worked at the Finnish MFA, the Legal Affairs Unit of EUROPOL, the European Space Agency, and the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg. Her research interests are primarily in international criminal law, history of international law, law and cinema, and feminist approaches to international law. Her recent publications include The Dawn of a Discipline: International Criminal Justice and its Early Exponents (with Frédéric Mégret, CUP, 2020) and Retrials: The New Histories of International Criminal Law (with Thomas Skouteris, OUP, 2019).

Karen Knop: Foreword: Looking at Portraits
I. OPENING THE EXHIBITION
1: Immi Tallgren: Re-curating the Portrait Gallery of International Law: The Objectives, Process, and Floorplan of the Exhibition
II. THE VESTIBULE OF THE LEGENDARY ANCIENTS
2: Franck Latty: Christine de Pizan: The Law of Warfare as Seen by a Medieval Woman
3: Anne Lagerwall and Agatha Verdebout: Olympe de Gouges: Beyond the Symbol
4: Deborah Whitehall: The Reign of Order and the Rights of Siege According to Rosa Luxemburg
5: Henk Nellen: Maria van Reigersberch: Wife of Hugo Grotius
III. FIGUREHEADS OF FIGHTING FOR PEACE
6: Janne E. Nijman: Bertha von Suttner: Locating International Law in Novel and Salon
7: Kate Grady and Gina Heathcote: Jane Addams: Positive Peace from the Everyday to the International
IV. THE WINTER GARDEN OF ABOLITION AND RESISTANCE: WOMEN AGAINST SLAVERY, RACISM AND IMPERIALISM
8: Christopher Gevers: Anna Julia Cooper: A Voice from the (Global) South
9: Sarah Riley Case: Homelands of Mary Ann Shadd
10: Vasuki Nesiah: Avabai Wadia: A Gentle Rebel of (Other) Nations?
V. THE HALL OF DIVERSITY OF FEMINIST ACTIVISM IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
11: Frédéric Mégret: Ghénia Avril de Sainte-Croix: Abolitionism and the League of Nations
12: Keina Yoshida: Yayori Matsui: Challenging the Silences of International Law through Pan Asian Feminist Solidarity
13: Michael Addaney: Canonizing the Memory of Annie Ruth Jiagge in the Global Efforts Toward Gender Equality
VI. THE HALL OF WOMEN FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BY INTERNATIONAL LAW: A NORDIC DREAM?
14: Anne Orford: Alva Myrdal: The Rise and Fall of Social Democratic Internationalism
15: Miriam Bak Mackenna: Ester Boserup: Women and Development on the Margins
16: Raimo Lintonen: Helvi Sipilä: Advocating Women's Rights at the UN
VII. THE BREAKERS OF THE GLASS CEILING: THE 'FIRST AND ONLY' IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
17: Immi Tallgren and Antoine Buchet: Suzanne Bastid: The First of the 'Firsts'
18: Boyd van Dijk: Marguerite Frick-Cramer: A Life Spent Shaping the Geneva Conventions
19: Parvathi Menon: Vijayalakshmi Pandit: Gendering and Racing against the Postcolonial Predicament
20: Jan Klabbers: The Timing of Felice Morgenstern
21: Ana Caldeira Fouto, António Pedro Barbas Homem, and Pedro Caridade de Freitas: Paula Escarameia: Envisioning the Humane Face of International Law in the Twenty-first Century
VIII. THE OTHER GROUP PICTURES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
22: Roxana Banu: Forgotten Female Actors in Private International Law: The International Social Service
23: Benjamin Auberer: Female Staff in the Legal Section of the League of Nations
24: Bérénice K. Schramm: The 'Indigenous Women' Behind the 'Other' Beijing Declaration
25: Anna van der Velde: The Women's Caucus for Gender Justice: Writing Gender into International Criminal Law
IX. THE MISSING FACES OF THE FACULTY CORRIDORS
26: Imogen Saunders: Sarah Wambaugh: Life at the Frontiers of International Law
27: Alexandra Kemmerer: Exile and Access: Lilly Melchior Roberts and the Infrastructures of International Law
28: Serena Forlati: Lea Meriggi: A Fighter For the Wrong Cause
29: Christiaan Verwer and Anna van der Velde: Isabella Diederiks-Verschoor: (A Life) Creating Spaces
30: Sarah MH Nouwen and Wouter Werner: Gezina van der Molen: A Journey from Universalism to Pluralism
31: Sara Seck: Elisabeth Mann Borgese: Ecology, Relationality, and Law of the Sea
32: Reut Paz: Marie Theres Fögen: The Universalization of a Rotten Deal
33: Marilena Papadaki: Kalliopi Koufa: First Greek Female Academic of Public International Law
X. THE ROOF-TOP GALLERY OF DIPLOMACY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
34: Shinya Murase: Thomas Baty in Japan: Seeing through the Twilight
35: Margaret Kuo: Zheng Yuxiu and the Diplomacy of Nationalism and Feminism
36: Hatsue Shinohara: Marjorie M. Whiteman: Not Flowers but a Medal
37: Sergey Vasiliev: Aleksandra Kollontai: 'New Woman'
38: Andrei Mamolea: The Role of International Law in Paulina Luisi's Activism
39: Luiza Le=ao Soares Pereira: Working from 'Rooms of Their Own': For a Realistic Portrait of Joyce Gutteridge CBE and Other Trailblazing Women
XI. PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS, JOURNALISTS AND VISIONARIES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
40: Outi Korhonen: "If Only They Listened to Simone Weil": From Rights to Roots
41: Ksenia Shestakova: Helene Halperin-Ginsburg: The Social Function of International Law
42: Mai Taha: Human Rights and Communist Internationalism: On Inji Aflatoun and the Surrealists
43: Dianne Otto: Fearless Speech: A Portrait of UN Typist Shirley Hazzard 
Hilary Charlesworth: Epilogue: Exit through the Gift Shop