- Building National and Regional Accountability for Conflict Related Sexual Violence: From Prosecutions in the Former Yugoslavia to the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights Campbell, Kirsten. 2018. Building National and Regional Accountability for Conflict Related Sexual Violence: From Prosecutions in the Former Yugoslavia to the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights. International Human Rights Law Review, 7(2), pp. 201-224. ISSN 2213-1027
- Testemunhar o trauma: das formas legais às formas transformadoras no testemunho sobre a violência sexual em tempo de guerra na ex-Jugoslávia/ Testifying to Trauma: Witnessing Conflict before the Law Campbell, Kirsten. 2017. Testemunhar o trauma: das formas legais às formas transformadoras no testemunho sobre a violência sexual em tempo de guerra na ex-Jugoslávia/ Testifying to Trauma: Witnessing Conflict before the Law. e-cadernos ces(25), ISSN 1647-0737
- Gender Justice Beyond the Tribunals Campbell, Kirsten. 2016. Gender Justice Beyond the Tribunals. American Journal of International Law Unbound, 110, pp. 227-233. ISSN 0002-9300
- Reassembling International Justice: The Making of ‘the Social’ in International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice Campbell, Kirsten. 2014. Reassembling International Justice: The Making of ‘the Social’ in International Criminal Law and Transitional Justice. International Journal of Transitional Justice, 8(1), pp. 53-74. ISSN 1752-7716
- The City of Law Campbell, Kirsten. 2013. The City of Law. International Journal of Law in Context, 9(2), pp. 192-212. ISSN 1744-5523
- The Laws of Memory: The ICTY, the Archive, and Transitional Justice Campbell, Kirsten. 2013. The Laws of Memory: The ICTY, the Archive, and Transitional Justice. Social and Legal Studies, 22(2), pp. 247-269. ISSN 0964-6639
- The Making of Global Legal Culture and International Criminal Law Campbell, Kirsten. 2013. The Making of Global Legal Culture and International Criminal Law. Leiden Journal of International Law, 26(1), pp. 155-172. ISSN 0922-1565
- Victims and Perpetrators of International Crimes: The Problem of the 'Legal Person' Campbell, Kirsten. 2012. Victims and Perpetrators of International Crimes: The Problem of the 'Legal Person'. Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies, 2(2), pp. 325-351. ISSN 1878-1373
- Women, Gender, and Conflict: Reflecting upon the Gendered Harms of War Campbell, Kirsten. 2009. Women, Gender, and Conflict: Reflecting upon the Gendered Harms of War. ASPASIA: International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History, 3, pp. 213-217.
- After '68: The Left and Twenty-First Century Political Projects Campbell, Kirsten and St Louis, Brett. 2008. After '68: The Left and Twenty-First Century Political Projects. New Formations, 65, pp. 7-18.
- The Gender of Transitional Justice: Law, Sexual Violence and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Campbell, Kirsten. 2007. The Gender of Transitional Justice: Law, Sexual Violence and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. The International Journal of Transitional Justice, 1(3), pp. 411-432. ISSN 1752-7716
- The Balance of Terror: Torture, Terrorism, and Security Campbell, Kirsten. 2007. The Balance of Terror: Torture, Terrorism, and Security. Law, Culture and the Humanities, 3(1), pp. 155-169. ISSN 17439752
- The Spoils of War Campbell, Kirsten. 2005. The Spoils of War. Economy and Society, pp. 495-507. ISSN 0308-5147
- The Promise of Feminist Reflexivities: Developing Donna Haraway's Project for Feminist Science Studies Campbell, Kirsten. 2004. The Promise of Feminist Reflexivities: Developing Donna Haraway's Project for Feminist Science Studies. Hypatia A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 19(1), pp. 162-182. ISSN 15272001
- The Trauma of Justice: Sexual Violence, Crimes against Humanity and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Campbell, Kirsten. 2004. The Trauma of Justice: Sexual Violence, Crimes against Humanity and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Social & Legal Studies, 13(3), pp. 329-350. ISSN 09646639
- Out of Conflict: Peace, Change and Justice Campbell, Kirsten and Bell, Vikki. 2004. Out of Conflict: Peace, Change and Justice. Social and Legal Studies, 13(3), pp. 299-304. ISSN 0964-6639
- Rape as a Crime against Humanity: Trauma and Justice in the ICTY Campbell, Kirsten. 2003. Rape as a Crime against Humanity: Trauma and Justice in the ICTY. Journal of Human Rights, 2(4), pp. 507-515. ISSN 1475-4835
- The Politics of Kinship: Antigone’s Claim Campbell, Kirsten. 2002. The Politics of Kinship: Antigone’s Claim. Economy and Society, 31(4), pp. 642-650. ISSN 0308-5147
- Legal Memories: Sexual Assault, Memory, and International Humanitarian Law Campbell, Kirsten. 2002. Legal Memories: Sexual Assault, Memory, and International Humanitarian Law. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 28(1), pp. 149-176. ISSN 00979740
- The Plague of the Subject: Psychoanalysis and Judith Butler’s Psychic Life of Power Campbell, Kirsten. 2001. The Plague of the Subject: Psychoanalysis and Judith Butler’s Psychic Life of Power. International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies, 6(1-2), pp. 35-48. ISSN 1566-1768
- The slide in the sign; Lacan's glissement and the registers of meaning Campbell, Kirsten. 1999. The slide in the sign; Lacan's glissement and the registers of meaning. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 4(3), pp. 135-143. ISSN 0969-725X
Kirsten Campbell
Social theory, socio-legal studies, gender, conflict-related sexual violence, international criminal justice
Staff details
Goldsmiths Research Centres/Groups
Kirsten’s research investigates sexual and gender-based violence in conflict, transitional justice and international criminal law. She has worked on policy and practice in this area with NGOs, governments, and the UN. Her recent book, The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society, and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice draws on her European Research Council projects, The Gender of Justice, and TRANSFORM. Kirsten is a member of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict international research group. An interdisciplinary scholar of sociology and law, Kirsten's interests include social theory, sociology of law, sociology of gender, and methodology.
Kirsten is Director of Unit for Global Justice and convenes Gender of Justice research group. She is the Ferdinand Braudel Fellow (Law), European University Institute, having been a visiting fellow at Sciences Po, Lund, and UC Berkeley. Kirsten previously taught at Brunel University, and practised as a commercial litigation lawyer.
Academic qualifications
- Ph.D. (LSE, Law) 2012
- D. Phil. (Oxon, Modern Languages) 1999
- B. Litt. (Melb.) 1995
- B.A. (Hons) (Macq.) 1994
- LL.B. (Hons)/B.A. (Melb.) 1992
- Barrister and Solicitor, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia 1994
Teaching and supervision
Kirsten’s teaching specialisations are social theory (classical and contemporary); sociology of gender, sociology of law, political sociology (violence, conflict, and war); methodology and methods; international law, international criminal law and transitional justice.
Kirsten welcomes doctoral students working on these topics.
Kirsten was awarded the Peake Teaching award for teaching excellence, and was previously the Director of Undergraduate Programmes.
- Convenor, Crime, Control and the State, SO51007C (UG)
- Convenor, Philosophy and Methodology of Social Science, SO52003A (UG)
- Convenor, Law, Identity and Ethics, SO53044A (UG)
- Convenor, Politics, Identity and the Law, SO71068A (MA)
Research interests
Kirsten’s research investigates sexual and gender-based violence in conflict, transitional justice and international criminal justice, with a focus on sexual violence and international criminal law. Kirsten has worked on policy and practice in this area for over two decades. An interdisciplinary scholar of sociology and law, Kirsten's research interests include social theory, political sociology, sociology of gender, sociology of law, socio-legal studies, and methodology and methods.
Kirsten recently completed a major socio-legal study of forms of international justice, which is the subject of The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society, and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice. Kirsten has published widely in this area, including on gender and international criminal law, conflict-related sexual violence research methodology, and feminist approaches to transitional justice. Kirsten is a steering committee member of the Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict international research group, which recently published the major interdisciplinary collection, In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict.
Kirsten’s research draws on her projects, ‘The Gender of Justice’ and ‘TRANSFORM’, which were funded by the European Research Council. These projects studied the prosecution of sexual violence in armed conflict through case studies of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the Bosnian courts. This work built on her previous ESRC-funded study of shifts in the legal regulation of armed conflict, ‘Regulating Armed Conflict’.
Kirsten’s current research builds on her earlier work on feminist social theory, focusing on feminist knowledge production and social shifts in gendered subjects and social relations. She explored this question in Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology, as well as numerous publications on the formation of gendered persons, social theories of gender and sexuality, and feminist theories of knowledge.
Featured publications
Publications and research outputs
Book
- The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice Campbell, Kirsten. 2022. The Justice of Humans: Subject, Society and Sexual Violence in International Criminal Justice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108497084
- Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology Campbell, Kirsten. 2004. Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-30087-2
Edited Book
- In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict Zipfel, Gaby; Campbell, Kirsten and Mühlhäuser, Regina, eds. 2019. In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. New Delhi: Zubaan. ISBN 9789385932816
Edited Journal
- After ‘68: The Left and Twenty-First Century Politics Campbell, Kirsten and St Louis, Brett, eds. 2008. After ‘68: The Left and Twenty-First Century Politics, New Formations, 65.
- Out of Conflict: Peace, Change and Justice Campbell, Kirsten and Bell, Vikki, eds. 2004. Out of Conflict: Peace, Change and Justice, Social and legal studies, 13(3). 0964-6639
Book Section
- On Violence as a Feminist Problem Campbell, Kirsten. 2022. On Violence as a Feminist Problem. In: Zilka Spahić Šiljak; Jasna Kovačević and Jasmina Husanović, eds. Uprkos strahu i tišini: univerziteti protiv rodno zasnovanog nasilja. Sarajevo: University of Sarajevo/TPO Foundation, pp. 31-40. ISBN 9789958600845
- A Feminist Critique of Approaches to International Criminal Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: A Case Study of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Prosecutions Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Campbell, Kirsten and Mlinarević, Gorana. 2022. A Feminist Critique of Approaches to International Criminal Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: A Case Study of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Prosecutions Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In: Indira Rosenthal; Valerie Oosterveld and Susana SáCouto, eds. Gender and International Criminal Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 75-98. ISBN 9780198871583
- The Gender of Justice? Current Problems and New Directions in the Field of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict Campbell, Kirsten. 2019. The Gender of Justice? Current Problems and New Directions in the Field of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. In: Gaby Zipfel; Regina Mühlhäuser and Kirsten Campbell, eds. In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. New Delhi: Zubaan, pp. 230-256. ISBN 9789385932816
Article
- Globalni pravni oblik međunarodnog kaznenog prava i pitanje seksualnog nasilja povezanog sa sukobima Campbell, Kirsten. 2022. Globalni pravni oblik međunarodnog kaznenog prava i pitanje seksualnog nasilja povezanog sa sukobima. Treća, 15(1), pp. 11-28. ISSN 1331-7237
- Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the ‘Everyday’ Experience of Conflict Through Witness Testimonies Campbell, Kirsten; Demir, Elma and O’Reilly, Maria. 2019. Understanding Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and the ‘Everyday’ Experience of Conflict Through Witness Testimonies. Cooperation and Conflict, 54(2), pp. 254-277. ISSN 0010-8367
- Producing Knowledge in the Field of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict Research: Objects, Methods, Politics, and Gender Justice Methodology Campbell, Kirsten. 2018. Producing Knowledge in the Field of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict Research: Objects, Methods, Politics, and Gender Justice Methodology. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, 25(4), pp. 469-495. ISSN 1072-4745
Professional Activity
- Amicus Curiae on Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes, The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen, International Criminal Court UNSPECIFIED. 2021. Amicus Curiae on Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes, The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen, International Criminal Court.
- Preliminary Decision, Judicial Council of the Women’s Court for the Former Yugoslavia Bunch, C; Campbell, Kirsten; Mlinarevic, G; Otto, D; Perovic, L; Rakic Vodinelic, V and Terselic, V. 2015. Preliminary Decision, Judicial Council of the Women’s Court for the Former Yugoslavia.
Report
- Response to the Draft of the ‘Global Code of Conduct for Investigating and Documenting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence’ Bode, Malin; Boesten, Jelke; Buss, Doris; Campbell, Kirsten; Hauser, Monika; Manjoo, Rashida; Mischkowski, Gabriela; Mlinarević, Gorana; Mühlhäuser, Regina; Studzinsky, Silke and Žarkov, Dubravka. 2021. Response to the Draft of the ‘Global Code of Conduct for Investigating and Documenting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence’. Discussion Paper.
- Joint Evidence Submission, with Womens’ International League for Peace and Freedom, House of Lords Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict Campbell, Kirsten and Women's Interational League for Peace and Freedom, -. 2015. Joint Evidence Submission, with Womens’ International League for Peace and Freedom, House of Lords Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict. Other. -, -.
- Written and Oral Expert Evidence (invited), House of Lords Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict Campbell, Kirsten. 2015. Written and Oral Expert Evidence (invited), House of Lords Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict. Other. -, -.
Professional projects
The Prosecutor v. Dominic Ongwen, International Criminal Court, Amicus Curiae on Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes, 2022
Global Code of Conduct for Gathering and Using Information about Systematic and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (The Murad Code): Academic Consultant, 2019-2020; Discussion Paper, Response to the Draft of the ‘Global Code of Conduct for Investigating and Documenting Conflict-Related Sexual Violence’, with Bode, Malin; Boesten, Jelke; Buss, Doris; Hauser, Monika; Manjoo, Rashida; Mischkowski, Gabriela; Mlinarević, Gorana; Mühlhäuser, Regina; Studzinsky, Silke and Žarkov, Dubravka. 2021.
Women's Court: A Feminist Approach to Justice: Member, Judicial Council, Women’s Court, 2015; Preliminary Decision, Judicial Council, Women’s Court for the Former Yugoslavia, with Bunch, Charlotte; Mlinarevic, Gorana; Otto, Dianne; Perovic, Latinka; Rakic Vodinelic, Vesna and Terselic, Vesna, 2015.
House of Lords Select Committee on Sexual Violence in Conflict: Written and Oral Expert Evidence (invited), 2015; Joint Evidence Submission, with Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, 2015
Research projects
2013-2016:
The Gender of Justice: The Prosecution of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict
Principal investigator, European Research Council
2017-2019:
TRANSFORM: Transforming Gender Justice for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence
Principal investigator, European Research Council
2009-2013:
Bosnian Bones, Spanish Ghosts: Transitional Justice and the Legal Shaping of Memory after Two Modern Conflicts
Senior researcher, European Research Council, principal investigator, Dr Sari Wastell
2006-2007:
Regulating Armed Conflict: From the Laws of War to Humanitarian Law
Principal investigator, Economic and Social Research Council
2005-2008:
The Codification of Trauma in Humanitarian Law
International Collaborative Research Grant, project co-director and researcher, Goldsmiths College and Institute of Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana, Wenner Gren Foundation
2006-2006:
Law After Eichmann
Project co-director, Hanadiv Foundation, Slovenia
