IntLawGrrls Senior Editor Ashita Alag is currently a Forrester Fellow at Tulane Law School and is completing a D.Phil in Law at the University of Oxford. Previously, she earned an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. Her interests lie at the intersection of feminist legal theory, criminal law, legal history, and international law. Her scholarship has focused on sexual violence laws, with particular attention to feminist responses to gender neutrality in rape laws. In addition, Ashita has served as a legal advisor to the Global Justice Center, where she worked on issues relating to gender-based violence under international law. She received her first law degree in India, afterwards serving for two years as a Law Clerk at the Supreme Court of India, where she worked on a wide range of constitutional and public law matters.
IntLawGrrls Senior Editor Kathryn Hampton is a human rights advocate who has worked for Physicians for Human Rights, the U.S. Department of State, and the International Commission on Missing Persons, among others, with experience in Bosnia, Iraq, Turkey, and Ukraine. Kathryn holds a MSt in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford, an MA in Refugee Studies from the University of London, and an AB in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. She received the 2021 Lieber Prize from the American Society of International Law. She is a Practitioner-in-Residence at the Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute.
Mission Statement
IntLawGrrls speaks to the relationships between intersectional feminism and international law, policy and practice. The blog gives scholars, lawyers, policymakers, leaders and activists a place to share feminist perspectives on international legal issues ranging from arbitration and trade to human rights and governance. IntLawGrrls provides insights into current events in international law and policy as well as detailed commentary on specific issues.
IntLawGrrls is particularly mindful of foregrounding voices of junior lawyers and scholars and others who are less often heard in international legal dialogue, including authors from the Global South and authors who are members of the LGBTIQ community. The blog bridges the theory-and-practice divide by generating dialogue among scholars, policymakers, judges, prosecutors, students, and journalists. Although IntLawGrrls contributors are primarily law professors and lawyers, they bring together viewpoints from other fields, including political science and anthropology.
History
IntLawGrrls was founded in March 2007 by Diane Marie Amann as a blog authored by women who teach and work in international law, policy and practice. Within years, IntLawGrrls ranked among the top 25 law professors’ blogs. IntLawGrrls took a brief hiatus in December 2012. Enthusiasm and support from readers prompted editors to revive the blog on March 8, 2013—International Women’s Day. After another hiatus following the covid-19 pandemic, IntLawGrrls relaunched in fall 2025. The blog continues to thrive, having welcomed hundreds of contributors since its founding nearly two decades ago.
