BELINDA COOPER
Senior Fellow

Expertise: War crimes; Germany; international law; international human rights; women's rights; women in Eastern Europe 

Experience:
Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, fall semester 2002; Ohio Northern University School of Law, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, (2000-2002); contract attorney, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, (2000); Adjunct Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School, Newark, NJ; Instructor, New School for Social Research (Adult Division), New York; Editorial assistant and writer, newspaper of UNITE labor union (1995-98); Instructor in American law, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (1992-95); Translator/adaptor and assistant producer of English news program of Deutsche Welle TV, Berlin,Germany, (1992-94); Freelance print, radio and television journalism in German and English, Berlin, Germany (1989-95)

Selected Publications:
"Respecting Women: Domestic Violence in Armenia", Armenian Forum (April 2001); Domestic Violence in Uzbekistan and Domestic Violence in Armenia (lead author) (Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, 2000); War Crimes: The Legacy of Nuremberg (editor; New York: TV Books, 1999); "The Changing Face of Berlin", World Policy Journal (Fall 1998); "Patriarchy With in a Patriarchy: Women and the Stasi", German Politics and Society (Summer1998); "Women and the Law in Germany Since Unification" (guest editor), Cardozo Women's Law Journal (1997), "The Fall of the Wall and the East German Police", in Milan Pagon, ed., Policing in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparing Firsthand Knowledge with Experience from theWest (1996); "The Discovery", in Marlene Adler Marks, ed., Nice Jewish Girls (New York: Penguin Books, 1996); Die "Arche Berlin-BrandenburgWest": Hilfe vom Klassenfeind, in Hans Michael Kloth & Carlo Jordan,eds., Arche Nova: Opposition in der DDR (Berlin: BasisDruck, 1995). Cooper has also published articles in Michigan Feminist Studies and Women' s Rights Law Reporter.

Major Translations (German-English): 
Ute Gerhard, Toward a Feminist Theory of Law: Lessons from Germany in Contextualizing Equality (with Allison Brown) (2001)Arthur Jacobson& Bernhard Schlink, Weimar: A Jurisprudence of Crisis (2000);Gātz Aly, Final Solution (with Allison Brown) (1999); Christian Pross, Paying for the Past: The Struggle Over Reparations for the Surviving Victims of the Nazi Terror (1998); Werner Bergmann & Rainer Erb, Anti-Semitism in the Federal Republic of Germany (with Allison Brown)(1997); Gātz Aly etal., eds., Cleansing the Fatherland: Nazi Medicine and Racial Hygiene (1994);

Honors & Affiliations: 
Berlin Prize Fellow, American Academy in Berlin; Fulbright/DAAD grant; German Academic Exchange Service grant; Phi Beta Kappa; Member, Massachusetts Bar 

Education: 
J.D., Yale Law School, New Haven, CT 
B.A., summa cum laude, in History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 

Languages: German (fluent); French (basic working knowledge)

Contact Information: 
E-mail: belinda_cooper@bigfoot.com 
Phone: (212)229-5808 x 110