Julieta Lemaitre

PRIO Global Fellow

Julieta Lemaitre left PRIO in 2018. The information on this page is kept for historical reasons. Julieta Lemaitre is an External Associate at PRIO.

Research Interests

Law and social movements
Law and violence
Violence against women
Sexual and reproductive rights

Background

Julieta Lemaitre is Associate Professor of Law at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá. She is a lawyer from Universidad de los Andes (1995), has an M.A. in gender and religious studies from NYU 1998 and a doctoral degree in law (SJD) from Harvard University (2007) with a concentration in law and society. Her research areas are law and social movements, law and violence, violence against women, and sexual and reproductive rights. She has collaborated with Kristin Sandvik at PRIO since 2009, and was appointed a PRIO Global Fellow in 2014. In the fall of 2014 and spring of 2015 she will also be Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow at the Yale Law School.

Research Groups

Full member:

Gender

PRIO Departments

Historical

Dimensions of Security (2012-2022)

PRIO Projects

Finished:

Events

Thu, 02 May 2013 14:30-18:00 – After the War: What Future for Women?

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All Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Article

Lemaitre, Julieta (2018) Humanitarian aid and host state capacity: the challenges of the Norwegian Refugee Council in Colombia, Third World Quarterly 39(3): 544–559.

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Julieta Lemaitre (2017) Finding the Roads to Justice? Examining Trajectories of Transition for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia, Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 6(1): 1–18.

Lemaitre, Julieta (2016) After the War: Displaced Women, Ordinary Ethics, and Grassroots Reconstruction in Colombia, Social & Legal Studies 25(5): 545–565.

Lemaitre, Julieta & Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2015) Shifting Frames, Vanishing Resources, and Dangerous Political Opportunities: Legal Mobilization among Displaced Women in Colombia, Law & Society Review 49(1): 5–38.

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Julieta Lemaitre (2014) Beyond Sexual Violence in Transitional Justice: Political Insecurity as a Gendered Harm, Feminist Legal Studies 22(3): 243–261.

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Julieta Lemaitre (2013) Internally Displaced Women as Knowledge Producers and Users in Humanitarian Action: The View from Colombia, Disasters 37(1): 36–50.

Book Chapter

Lemaitre, Julieta & Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2019) From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: Reflections on Durable Solutions in the Postconflict Setting, in Bradley, Megan; James Milner; & Blair Peruniak, eds, Refugees' Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press (187–210).

Lemaitre, Julieta & Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (2016) Structural Remedies and the One Million Pesos: On the Limits of Court-Ordered Social Change for Internally Displaced Women in Colombia, in Rubenstein, Kim; & Katharine G. Young, eds, The Public Law of Gender from the Local to the Global. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (99–122).

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Julieta Lemaitre (2015) From IDPs to Victims in Colombia: A Bottom-Up Reading of Law in Post-Conflict Transitions, in Saul, Matthew; & James A. Sweeney, eds, International Law and Post-Conflict Reconstruction Policy. London and New York: Routledge (251–271).

Conference Paper

Sandvik, Kristin Bergtora & Julieta Lemaitre (2012) The Courts and the Women: Female IDP Organisations and Human Rights Litigation in Colombia, presented at Engendering Governance Workshop (CIPL Workshop), Canberra, 6–8 August.