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This year’s theme, “Break The Bias” calls for action to dismantle the biases that limit women globally from making further advances in...

By: Stephen Muthoka Mutie, Ph.D. (Kenyatta University) Growing up, my mother was, and still is, a powerful, caring woman and a provider....

Through Matri-legal feminism, I am advocating and theorizing for the beginning of a new field of study of the lives and experiences of women

On December 8, 2021, 72 legal professionals were sworn in as Senior Advocates of Nigeria. Out of this number, only two were women—from...

By: J. Jarpa Dawuni, Esq., Ph.D. In 1994, I had an encounter with a woman who would influence my life and thinking in the journey I...

The Institute for African Women in Law is launching a book project-- African Women Judges: A Collection of Essays. The book project uses leg

The Institute for African Women in Law (IAWL) invites you to join us for exciting and impactful opportunities and programming for 2022.

In this interview with Dr. Pedi Obani, Professor Bamgbose, SAN shares highlights of the origins, vision and mission achievements, and future

We and our partners at the Institute for African Women in Law (IAWL) join UN Women and all gender advocacy organizations and individuals, in

The Law Society of England and Wales in collaboration with the Institute for African Women in Law is organizing a panel discussion,...

The Institute for African Women in Law congratulates Professor Phoebe Okowa for her recent historic election to the International Law Commi

Congratulations to Prof. Oluyemisi Bamgbose SAN on her appointment as Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research, Innovation, and Strategic Partnershi

When it comes to Human Rights Bodies, women are still underrepresented, except for the two bodies-CEDAW and CRC. When compared to other regi

IAWL announces the publication of a new scholarly peer-reviewed article by our Executive Director, J. Jarpa Dawuni, Ph.D., on the legal prof

It is time for Member states of the AU and the UN to walk the talk of gender parity being ‘an urgent need, moral duty and operational necess

Guided by our core principles of producing empirically grounded, and theoretically informed research, IAWL is happy to share two of our

The Institute for African Women in Law has launched a new Speaker Series featuring leaders in the industry on various topics essential to th

This webinar brings together high-level panelists who will discuss the factors behind the paucity of African women in international law org

In this series, we present Justice Mary Mamyassin Sey, a Supreme Court Justice and the first woman judge in The Gambia.

The African Women in Law Legacy project is a digital archive of the oral legal narratives of iconic African women in law. In this series, we