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Dr Olga Jurasz

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  • Central Academic Staff
  • Senior Lecturer in Law
  • The Faculty of Business and Law
  • The Open University Law School
  • The Law School
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Professional biography

Dr Olga Jurasz is a senior lecturer in law at the Open University Law School, specialising in international law, human rights, and legal responses to violence against women (including online violence). 

Research interests

International Law, women, and post-conflict situations

Olga’s research interests lie in the area of international law, human rights & post-conflict situations. She is particularly interested in how various mechanisms of public international law address the long-term impact of armed conflict on women and how women’s rights are protected in the aftermath of war, during the process of transition from war to peace. 

In 2018-19, Olga is working on the British Academy funded project 'Making international law work for women post-conflict: new voices'.

Online violence against women, social media and law

Another area of Dr Jurasz's research is online violence against women, online trolling and gender-based abuse on social media. Olga is working on several projects which related to this area and contributed to a number of consultations concerning hate crime reform and legal responses to violence against women (both online and offline), including submissions to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, the Bracadale Review of Hate Crime Legislation in Scotland, and Women & Equalities Committee. 

Dr Jurasz's research (with Dr Kim Barker, University of Stirling) explores a number of aspects of online, text-based abuse, including consideration of online misogyny as a hate crime as well as legal regulation of online abuse. Olga's book Online misogyny as a hate crime: a challenge for (legal) regulation? (authored with Dr Kim Barker) which addresses these themes will be published by Routledge in late 2018. 

 

Olga has published in the above research areas and presented her research at many conferences, both in the UK and internationally. Her research has been funded by the British Academy, Economic & Social Research Council, and British and Irish Law, Education and Technology Association (BILETA). She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Gender Studies.

 

Teaching interests

  • Public International Law
  • International Criminal Law
  • International Humanitarian Law
  • Human Rights
  • Law, Gender & Social Media

 

Impact and engagement

Dr Jurasz contributed to a number of consultations in her areas of research,  including submissions to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, the Bracadale Review of Hate Crime Legislation in Scotland, and Women & Equalities Committee. 

Since 2011, Olga has been a convenor and organiser of the Women in War and at War biennial conference. In September 2013, Olga co-organized (with Dr Kim Barker) a "Virtual Gender (Un)Conference" (Open University Law School, 12th September 2013).

  • American Society of International Law
  • European Society of International Law 
  • Society of Legal Scholars

Publications

About justice that is yet to come: a few remarks about the international pursuit of post-conflict gender justice (2015)
Jurasz, Olga
Journal of Gender Studies, 24(1) (pp. 56-69)
The Istanbul Convention: a new chapter in preventing and combating violence against women (2015)
Jurasz, Olga
Australian Law Journal, 89(9) (pp. 619-627)
AFRC Case (Prosecutor v. Brima, Kamara, Kanu) (2017)
Jurasz, Olga; Mouthaan, Solange; Labenski, Sheri and Sedman, Dawn
In: Hodson, Loveday and Lavers, Troy eds. Feminist International Judgments
Publisher : Hart (In Press)
Gender, human rights and cybercrime: are virtual worlds really that different? (2014-06-01)
Jurasz, Olga and Barker, Kim
In: Asimow, Michael; Brown, Kathryn and Papke, David Ray eds. Law and Popular Culture: International Perspectives (pp. 79-100)
ISBN : 978-1-4438-5810-6 | Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing | Published : Newcastle upon Tyne
Women of the Revolution- the future of women's rights in post-Gaddafi Libya (2013-02)
Jurasz, Olga
In: Panara, Carlo and Wilson, Gary eds. The Arab Spring: New Patterns for Democracy and International Law. Nijhoff Law Specials (ISSN: 0924-4549) (82) (pp. 123-144)
ISBN : 9789004230415 | Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff | Published : Leiden
Gender-based crimes at the ICC- where is the future? (2014)
Jurasz, Olga
In : 108th Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (7-12 Apr 2014, Washington DC) (pp. 429-432)
Written Submission of Evidence to the Women and Equalities Committee inquiry into sexual harassment of women and girls in public spaces (2018-03-05)
Barker, Kim and Jurasz, Olga
Stirling Law School & Open University Law School
Online Violence Against Women: The Limits & Possibilities of Law (2018-01)
Jurasz, Olga and Barker, Kim
Stirling Law School & Open University Law School
Submission of Evidence on Online Violence Against Women to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its Causes and Consequences, Dr Dubravka Šimonović (2017-11)
Jurasz, Olga and Barker, Kim
United Nations
Submission of Evidence to Scottish Government Independent Review of Hate Crime Legislation (Bracadale Review) (2017-11)
Jurasz, Olga and Barker, Kim
Independent Review of Hate Crime Legislation in Scotland