CDDRL
Stanford University
Encina Hall C143
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

hstacy@stanford.edu
(650) 724-7496 (voice)
(650) 724-2996 (fax)

Research Interests
human rights, jurisprudence, comparative law, environmental law

Helen Stacy is a senior lecturer at the Stanford Law School and a senior research scholar at CDDRL.

She has published extensively on international and comparative law; the adversarial system of law; legal and social theory; and human rights. She is the author of Postmodernism and Law: Jurisprudence in a Fragmenting World, (Ashgate Press, 2001), which explores the impact of postmodernism on legal thinking and discusses how law can benefit from postmodern thought.

Her recent publications include "International Human Rights in a Fragmenting World," a chapter in Human Rights with Modesty: The Problem of Universalism (2004); "Relational Sovereignty" in the Stanford Law Review (vol. 55, 2003); and "Western triumphalism: the crisis of human rights in the global era" in the Macquarie University Law Review (vol. 2, 2002). She is currently writing a book for Stanford University Press titled Human Rights in a Globalized World, which examines the capacity of international, regional and domestic legal institutions to adjudicate and punish human rights violations that erupt between different social, cultural and ethnic groups.

Before coming to Stanford, Stacy was a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Before becoming a law professor, she practiced law as an industrial lawyer with Shell Oil Company in Australia, and then as a senior crown prosecutor in the United Kingdom as a member of the Inner Temple of the Inns of Court, where she prosecuted cases of murder, manslaughter, rape and terrorist acts.

She has won competitive research prizes as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology, and as a doctoral fellow with the Deutsche Akademischer Austausch Dienst at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and Public International Law, in Heidelberg, Germany. She received an LLB degree from the University of Adelaide (South Australia), and a PhD in law from Griffith University in Queensland, Australia.