Dr Sheri Labenski
Staff details
Sheri's research focuses on gender and feminist theory, and international law.
Sheri is a Senior Lecturer in Law. She convenes the module English Legal System in a Global Context, and also contributes teaching to Gender, Sexualities and the Law, International Law and Politics, Criminal Justice in Context, and Advanced Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (LLM).
Sheri's current research focuses on gender, peace and food security in international law. Her monograph, with Routledge, looks at women perpetrators in international criminal law, feminist dialogues and the media.
Before joining the Law Department, Sheri was a post-doc at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace, and Security, where she worked on a European Research Council funded project titled, Gendered Peace.
Sheri has taught in the areas of law and gender in the School of Law at the University of Warwick as well as in the School of Law and Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS, University of London.
Research interests
Sheri's research interests cut across the areas of gender and feminist approaches, armed conflict, peace and international law.
Interested in undertaking PhD supervision in the areas of: gender and feminist approaches to international law, as well as gender or feminist perspectives on the spectrum of peace and conflict.
Featured publications
2024: Women Defendants in International Law: Feminist Dialogues (Routledge)
2021: The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis. Volume 1 (Bloomsbury London/Zed Books)
2022:
'Teaching Feminist Peace Through Encounters With Female Violence' Gina Heathcote, Elisabeth Koduthore and Sheri Labenski
in Feminist Conversations on Peace, Sarah Smith and Keina Yoshida (eds) (Bristol University Press)
Publications and research outputs
Article
- Louise Arimatsu and Christine Chinkin, Gendered Peace Through International Law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2024, 312 pp, hb £65.00 Labenski, Sheri . 2025. Louise Arimatsu and Christine Chinkin, Gendered Peace Through International Law, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2024, 312 pp, hb £65.00. Modern Law Review, 88(5), pp. 1025-1028. ISSN 0026-7961
- ‘The world is not organized for Peace’: Feminist manifestos and utopias in the making of international law Labenski, Sheri ORCID logo
Book
- The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis. Volume II Labenski, Sheri ORCID logo
- Women Defendants and International Law: Feminist Dialogues Labenski, Sheri . 2024. Women Defendants and International Law: Feminist Dialogues. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780367245238
- The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis. Volume 1 Bertotti, Sara; Heathcote, Gina; Jones, Emily; and Labenski, Sheri ORCID logo
Book Section
- Teaching feminist peace through encounters with female violence Heathcote, Gina; Koduthore, Elisabeth; and Labenski, Sheri . 2022. Teaching feminist peace through encounters with female violence. In: Sarah Smith and Keina Yoshida, eds. Feminist Conversations on Peace. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 181-193. ISBN 9781529222050
- AFRC Trial Judgment (Prosecutor v Brima, Kamara and Kanu) Jurasz, Olga; Labenski, Sheri ; Mouthaan, Solange; and Sedman, Dawn. 2019. AFRC Trial Judgment (Prosecutor v Brima, Kamara and Kanu). In: Loveday Hodson and Troy Lavers, eds. Feminist Judgments in International Law. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 373-406. ISBN 9781509914456
- Female Perpetrators in the Former Yugoslav Republic and Rwanda: Disrupting Common Understandings Labenski, Sheri . 2019. Female Perpetrators in the Former Yugoslav Republic and Rwanda: Disrupting Common Understandings. In: Solange Mouthaan and Olga Jurasz, eds. Gender and War: International and Transitional Justice Perspectives. Cambridge: Intersentia, pp. 41-64. ISBN 9781780688466
Report
- Countering Conflict Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence through Reparations Labenski, Sheri . 2020. Countering Conflict Related Sexual and Gender-Based Violence through Reparations. Other. London School of Economics and Political Science, London.
- The right to reparations for sexual and gender-based violence Labenski, Sheri . 2020. The right to reparations for sexual and gender-based violence. Other. LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London.
Other
- Women’s violence and the law: in consideration of Shamima Begum (Blog Entry) Labenski, Sheri . 2019. Women’s violence and the law: in consideration of Shamima Begum (Blog Entry). LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, London.
Conferences and talks
2022:
Feminist Manifestos for International Law and Global Constitutionalism
Law and Society Association (Roundtable)
2021:
Female Perpetrators and Gender Analysis: Insights for a Gendered Peace
Adjudicating Gender-Based Persecution At The ICC & Beyond: A Monumental Step And The Challenges That Lie Ahead at Northumbria University, Modern Law Review
2021: Gender, Peace, Education and International Law: a Symposium (LSE WPS)
2024: Meet the Scholar, Talk with the International Criminal Law Committee, American Bar Association