Are Women's Rights Universal? Re-Engaging the Local

radhika coomaraswamy received her B.A. at Yale, her J.D. at Columbia, and her L.L.M. at Harvard. She is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women and the Director of the International Center for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka. She has written widely on issues of constitutional law, human rights, ethnic identity, and women's rights.