Louise Chappell researches and teaches in the area of human rights, gender and political institutions, and comparative Australian politics and policy. Her current research projects include an ARC funded project on the implementation of the gender provisions of the International Criminal Court as well as international collaborative research on Rethinking political institutions: integrating gender and neo-institutionalist perspectives.

Louise has published widely in international and national journals including the International Political Science Review; Gender and Politics, Global Society, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Parliamentary Affairs, Australian Journal of Political Science, and the Australian Journal of Public Administration. Her book Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State (UBC Press 2002) won the prestigious Victoria Schuck Award granted by the American Political Science Association in 2003 for the best book in the field of women and politics as well as the 2004 American Library Association Choice Award. Other books include The Politics of Women’s Interests, co-edited with Lisa Hill, (Routledge 2006) and No Fit Place for Women’? Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, co-edited with Deborah Brennan (UNSW Press 2006). Her latest book, The politics of human rights in Australia, co-authored with John Chesterman and Lisa Hill, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2009.

Louise is co-director of the Feminism and Institutionalism International Network which is based at Edinburgh University. In 2008 Louise held a visiting fellowship in the Department of Political Science at Leiden University, the Netherlands, and in 2005 was appointment as the Ruth Wynn Woodward Chair of Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. She regularly attends international conferences including the American Political Science Association and the European Consortium for Political Research. In the past three years she has been invited to present her research at leading universities in the United States, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands and Belgium.

Louise has supervised students at Masters and PhD level in a range of areas including: women’s rights, children’s rights, humanitarian intervention, comparative Muslim women’s political organising and gender and the United Nations.

• Australian politics
• Federalism
• Gender and politics from a comparative and international perspective
• Human rights
• Public policy

Book/s

Chappell L., Chesterman J., Hill L. 2009 The Politics of Human Rights in Australia, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Chappell L and Hill L ed. 2006 The Politics of Women´s Interests: New Comparative Perspectives , Routledge Press., UK.

Brennan D and Chappell L ed. 2006 'No Fit Place for Women’? Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney

Chappell L 2002 Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada, British Columbia Press, Vancouver.

Book Chapter/s

Chappell L 2008. ‘Governing International Law through the International Criminal Court: A New Site for Gender Justice?’ in Shirin Rai and Georgina Waylen eds. Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives. Palgrave MacMillan

Chappell L 2008.‘Women’s Rights and Religious Opposition: The Politics of Gender at the International Criminal Court’ in Yasmeen Abu-Laban ed. Gendering the Nation State: Canadian Comparative Perspectives. University of British Columbia Press.

Brennan D and Chappell L 2006 'Introduction: Gender and NSW Politics' in No Fit Place for Women´?: Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, ed. D.Brennan and L.Chappell, UNSW Press, Sydney pp. 1-14.

Chappell L 2006 ‘Women’s Interests’ as ‘Women’s Rights’: developments at the UN criminal tribunals and the International Criminal Court' in ed. The Politics of Women´s Interests: New Comparative Perspectives, Routledge Press. , UK.

Chappell L 2006 'Working from within: women in the NSW bureaucracy' in No Fit Place for Women’? Women and Politics in New South Wales 1856-2006, ed. L.Chappell and D.Brennan, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.

Chappell L 2004 'Feminist Engagement with Federal Institutions: Opportunities and Constraints for Multi-level Citizenship' in Representation and Democratic Theory, ed. David Laycock, UBC Press.

Chappell L 2002 'The Femocrat Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists' in Women Politics and Change, ed. Karen Ross, Oxford University Press, Oxford pp. 85-98.

Chappell L 1995 'Women's Policy' in Reform and Reversal:Lessons from the Coalition Government in new South Wales 1988-1995, ed. M. Laffin and M. Painter, MacMillan, Melbourne.

Journal Article/s

Chappell L (co-authored), Teghtsoonian, K 2008 'The Rise and Decline of Women’s Policy Machinery in British Columbia and New South Wales: A Cautionary Tale', International Political Science Review (2008), Vol. 29, No. 1, 29–51

Chappell L 2006 'Contesting Women's Rights: Charting the Emergence of a Transnational Conservative Patriarchal Network', Global Society, vol.20:4, pp. 491-519.

Chappell L 2006 'Comparing Political Institutions; Revealing the Gendered "Logic of Appropriateness"', Politics and Gender, vol.2:2, pp. 223-34.

Chappell L 2003 'Women, Gender and International Institutions: Exploring New Opportunities at the International Criminal Court', Policy Organisation and Society, vol.22:1.

Chappell L 2002 'The Femocrat Strategy: Expanding the Repertoire of Feminist Activists', Parliamentary Affairs, vol.55:1, pp. 85-98.

Chappell L 2002 'Winding back Australian women's rights: conventions, contradictions and conflicts', Australian Journal of Political Studies, vol.37:2, pp. 475-488.

Chappell L 2001 'Federalism and Social Policy: The Case of Domestic Violence', Australian Journal of Public Administration, vol.60:1, pp. 59-69.

Chappell L 2000 'Interacting with the state - Feminist strategies and political opportunities', International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol.2:2, pp. 244-275.

Refereed conference paper/s

Chappell L 2009. 'When is a new institution not a new institution? The limits to expanding gender justice through the International Criminal Court' European Consortium for Political Research Gender Conference, Queens University, Belfast, January 21-23, 2009

Chappell L 2008 Comparing Gender and Institutions Across Time and Place, Paper Presented to the ECPR Joint Sessions in Rennes, France 11-16 April 2008

Chappell L 2007 'Comparative Gender and Institutions: Directions for Research', 2007 American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, USA,30 August- 2 September.

Chappell L 2007 'Comparative Gender and Institutions: Directions for Research' Paper Presented to the conference on Toward a Comparative Politics of Gender: Advancing the Discipline along Interdisciplinary Boundaries Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio October 2007.

Chappell L 2005 'Gender mainstreaming in International Institutions: developments at the UN ad hoc tribunals and the International Criminal Court', International Studies Association, Hawaii USA,3-5 March, 2006.

Chappell L 2004 'Contesting women's rights: the influence of religious forces at the United Nations', The Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide,29 September - 1 October 2004.

Chappell L 2004 'The Contentious Politics of Women´s Human Rights: Religious and Cultural Challenges to Women´s Equality in the International Arena', The American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago.

Chappell L 2003 'Finding space for women's interests: developments at the UN ad hoc tribunals and the International Criminal Court', Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart,29 September - 1 October 2003.

Chappell L 2002 'Constructing Women's Rights: Lessons from Australia', On temporary Political Studies - Proceedings of the 2002 Annual Conference, University of Aberdeen,5-7 April 2002.

Chappell L, Curtin J and Hill L 1999 'Gender Audit of the Australian Journal of Political Science 1979-1999', Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Australasian Political Studies Association, Sydney.

Book Review/s

Chappell L 2008. Globalization and Feminist Activism. By Mary Hawkesworth, in Women Politics and Policy. 29:4:581-4

Chappell L 2008. Feminists theorize the state. By Johanna Kantola in International Feminist Journal of Politics

Chappell L 2006. Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation. By Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol eds. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005. Politics and Gender 2:6 531-533.

Chappell L 2005. Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism: The Czech Republic After Communism. By Jacqui True. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 243, 2003. Political Science.

Chappell L 1999. Gender and Citizenship: Politics and Agency in France, Britain and Demark. By Birte Siimm 1998 in Australian Journal of Political Science Vol. 36,3:615-16.

Chappell L, 1999. Activism and the Policy Process by Yeatman A ed. Australian Journal of Political Science Vol. 34, 3: 442.

Other publications

Chappell L 2000 'Kathleen O´Keefe' in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Chappell L 1996 'Athel Ford' in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Chappell L 1996 'Louisa Brown' in Australian Dictionary of Biography.

Chappell L 2002 'The Australian Bill of Rights Debate: Putting the Cart Before the Horse?' The Drawing Board - Digest, vol.3:1.

Thesis

Chappell L 1998 'Political opportunity structures and political strategies : a comparison of the Australian and Canadian women's movements', -.