Frances Raday

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Frances Raday (born 29 January 1944 in Manchester, England) is a professor emerita of Elias Lieberman Chair in Labor Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Raday is currently{{when|date=June 2020}} a professor of law at the Haim Striks Law School at Colman College of Management Academic Studies, where she also acts as president of the Concord Center for Integration of International Law in Israel and as head of the school's graduate programs.

Raday is also an honorary professor at University College London and is doctor honoris at the University of Copenhagen. She has been and continues to be an activist for human rights, as a litigator in Israel's Supreme Court, an expert member of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Committee and a member of various governmental and non-governmental organisations. In 2011 she began a six-year stint as a voluntary member of the UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on Discrimination against Women.

Biography

Raday grew up in the UK. She studied law at the London School of Economics.

After completing her LL.B. she worked as a researcher at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Between 1966 and 1968 she was a lecturer at the University of East Africa in Tanzania, where she established the first East African labor law course. In 1968 she immigrated to Israel and completed her Ph.D. studies at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she became Elias Lieberman Chair in Labor Law. Raday has been visiting professor at the Universities of Southern California, Tulane University, University of Copenhagen and Oxford University.

Published works

  1. Modesty Disrobed – Gendered Modesty Rules under the Monotheistic Religions, in Feminism, Law and Religion, Eds. Susan J. Stabile, Marie A. Failinger and Elizabeth R. Schiltz, Ashgate Publishing Ltd. (Forthcoming){{when?|date=June 2020}}
  2. CEDAW Article 4 and CEDAW Article 11, in Commentary on Convention for Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, OUP (C. Chinkin, B. Rudolph and M. Freeman eds., 2012).
  3. Family –An International Affair, (A. Diduck and F. Raday, eds.), International Journal of Law In Context, Special Issue (2012).
  4. Gender and Democratic Citizenship: the Impact of CEDAW, 10 International Journal of Constitutional Law 512 (2012).
  5. Sacralising the Patriarchal Family in the Monotheistic Religions – ‘Tono form of religion is woman indebted for one impulse of freedom’, in Family – An International Affair, (A. Diduck and F. Raday eds.), International Journal of Law In Context, Special Issue 211 (2012).
  6. Israeli Labor Law, in International Labor and Employment Laws, ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, Volume 2, International Labor Law Committee Section of Labor and Employment Law American Bar Association, The Bureau of National Affairs, 1-38 (William L. Keller ed., 2001, New Ed 2008, Annual Cumulative Supplements, 2009, 2010,2011).
  7. Secular Constitutionalism Vindicated, 30 Cardozo Law Review 2769 (2009).
  8. Traditionalist Religious and Cultural Challengers – International and Constitutional Human Rights Responses, 41 ISRAEL LAW REVIEW 596 (2008), available on SSRN at: http://ssrn.com/author=628086.
  9. Human Rights and the Confrontation between Religious and Constitutional Authority: A Case Study of Israel's Supreme Court, in Secularism, women and the State: The Mediterranean World the 21st Century 213 (Barry A. Cosman and Ariela Keysar Eds., 2009).
  10. CEDAW and CERD, in the New Oxford Companion to Law (2007).
  11. Culture, Religion and CEDAW's Article 5(a), in The Circle of Empowerment: Twenty-Five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Hanna Beate Schöpp-Schilling & Cees Flintermaneds, The Feminist Press at CUNY, 2007).
  12. Claiming Equal Religious Personhood: Women of the Wall's Constitutional Saga, in Religion in the Public Sphere, A Comparative Analysis of German, Israeli, American and International Law 255 (Winfried Brugger & Michael Karayanni Eds., Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg, 2007).
  13. Boundaries and Frontiers of Labour Law (Guy Davidov & Brian Langille eds.) – Book .Review, Public Law 612(2007).
  14. Self-Determination and Minority Rights, 26 Fordham International Law Journal 453(2003).
  15. Culture, Religion and Gender, 1 I. Con, International Journal of Constitutional Law 663 (2003).

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