Karen Engle is the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law at the University of Texas at Austin, where she founded and co-directs the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice. She is the author of The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (2010), which received the APSA Human Rights Section Best Book Award.

"A wide-ranging critique of legal and transnational approaches to sexual violence in armed conflict and how rape, in particular, developed as a central focus within the women's human rights movement"--