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Julie Stone Peters

Fellow, Human Rights, Columbia University

Julie Stone Peters teaches and writes primarily on law and humanities and the history and theory of audiovisual media (cinema, theatre, and other performance and media cultures). Her books include Law as Performance: Theatricality, Spectatorship, and the Making of Law in Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Europe (2022), Theatre of the Book: Print, Text, and Performance in Europe 1480-1880 (2000), and Women's Rights, Human Rights: International Feminist Perspectives (co-edited, 1995). She has taught at Harvard, Stanford, and the Metropolitan Detention Center (Brooklyn), and was Founding Director of the Columbia College Human Rights Program.