Staff Profile
Professor Gina Heathcote
Professor of Public International Law
- Email: gina.heathcote@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: Newcastle Law School
Newcastle University
21-24 Windsor Terrace
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE1 7RU
Professor Heathcote is an expert on public international law, feminist methodologies, collective security, the law on the use of force and the study of gender, sexuality and the law. Her current research analyses the international law of the sea and maritime security from a feminist perspective. Key publications include: The Law of War and Peace: a Gender Analysis Vol 1 (Bloomsbury 2021) - co-authored with Sara Bertotti, Emily Jones and Sheri Labenski; as well as Feminist Dialogues on International Law: successes, tensions, futures (OUP 2019) and The Law on the Use of Force: a Feminist Analysis (Routledge 2012). She has previously been involved in key initiatives including the International Feminist Judgments Projects and Queering International Law (1,2 and 3).
Professor Heathcote has taught and convened modules on Public International Law, International Law on the Use of Force, Gender, Sexuality and the Law and Gender, Armed Conflict and the Law. She has supervised many doctoral students and encourages interdisciplinary, innovative proposals that challenge disciplinary and legal orthodoxies.
Prior to joining Newcastle Law School she was Professor of Gender Studies and International Law at the School of Law, SOAS University of London. At SOAS, she held the role of College Convenor of Research and Knowledge Exchange (Law, Anthropology and Politics) and has previously been co-Head of the School of Law (interim), Chair of the SOAS Centre for Gender Studies, Doctoral Studies Director (Law) and Chair of the Research Ethics Committee.
RESEARCH AREAS
- Public International Law
- Feminist Methodologies / Feminist Legal Theories
- Collective Security and the Law on the Use of Force
- Gender and Conflict
- International Law of the Sea
- Maritime Security
EDITORIAL WORK
- with Vanja Hamzić - Series Editor for the Routledge Feminist and Queer International Law Book Series
DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
- Feminist, TWAIL and Critical Legal Approaches to International Law
- Interdisciplinary and Cross-disciplinary encounters with law, gender and sexuality
- Oceans
- Queer Feminist approaches to peace
LAW1230 Law and Ethics (UG)
LAW8152 Applied Research Methods in Law (PGR) - Semester Two
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Articles
- Heathcote G, Kula L. Abandoning the idealized white subject of legal feminism: A manifesto for silence in a Lusophone register. Global Constitutionalism 2023, 12(3), 469-494.
- Sapiano J, Heathcote G, True J, Aggestam K. “I Wouldn’t Want to Be a Gender Expert:” Gender Experts in Peace Mediation. International Negotiation 2022, 28(2), 201-228.
- Heathcote G. Filters and Fragments: Making Feminist Sense of Security. American Journal of International Law Unbound 2022, 116, 254-258.
- Heathcote G. Maritime Demarcation in the Gulf after 2003. London Review of International Law 2021, 9(2), 219-243.
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Authored Books
- Heathcote G, Bertotti S, Jones E, Labenski SA. The Law of War and Peace: A Gender Analysis. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
- Heathcote G. Feminist Dialogues on International Law: successes, tensions, futures. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Heathcote G. The Law on the Use of Force: a Feminist Analysis. London: Routledge, 2012.
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Book Chapter
- Chinkin C, Heathcote G, Jones E, Jones H. Bozkurt Case, aka the Lotus Case (France v Turkey): Ships that Go Bump in the Night. In: Loveday Hodson and Troy Lavers, ed. Feminist Judgments in International Law. London: Hart Publishing, 2019.
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Edited Book
- Heathcote, G, Otto, D, ed. Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.