Rebecca Cook (supplied image)
Rebecca Cook recognized by American Society of International Law
Published: March 17, 2025
Rebecca Cook, a professor emerita in the Faculty of Law, has been recognized with a scholarship prize by the American Society of International Law's Women in International Law Interest Group (WILIG).
The prize is awarded to a scholar whose work significantly contributes to the field of women in international law.
Cook was recognized for her edited volume, Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives, published by University of Pennsylvania Press in 2023. The book illustrates how gender discrimination continues to be normalized and camouflaged, and how it intersects with other axes of subordination such as Indigeneity, religion and poverty.
“An engaged and dedicated researcher, we congratulate Rebecca on this well-deserved recognition by the American Society of International Law,” said University Professor Jutta Brunnée, dean of the Faculty of Law and James Marshall Tory Dean’s Chair. “Her pioneering research has influenced the fields of international law, human rights and women’s health, and has helped shape scholarship in the field, as well as the teaching and co-curricular opportunities within our law school.”
