Christina Jones-Pauly
Senior Program Officer, Rule of Law Program
Africa
Phone: (202) 429-4728
E-mail: cjonespauly@usip.org
Christina Jones-Pauly is a senior program officer in the Rule of Law program and directs the Sudan law program. She has headed evaluation teams for the UN Development Program in Asia and Africa on law reform, gender rights, human rights and indigenous legal systems, and for the European Commission Human Rights Foundation. She has taught at the Harvard Law School, Oxford, the University of Nairobi, and the Universities of Bonn and Goettingen and been the recipient of numerous grants for field research on legal pluralism, indigenous community law, legal policy, and court administration in Eastern, Northern, Western, and Southern Africa.
Jones-Pauly holds advanced decrees in comparative law and public international law from the University of London (Dr. Phil. SOAS), Harvard University (Dr. Juris), and the University of Goettingen (diplom).
Publications:
- "Balancing Relations Between Society and State: Legal Steps Toward National Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Afghanistan" (with N. Nojumi), American Journal of Comparative and International Law (2005–2006).
- "Women, Law, Human Rights, and NGOs in Sub-Saharan African Cultures" Encyclopedia of Women and Culture, (Brill, Leiden, 2004).
- Access to Justice: Role of Court Administrators and Lay Adjudicators (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2002)
- Trafficking in Women in Europe, Criminal Prosecution and Victim Protection: A European Comparison, (Bielefeld, Kleine Verlag, 1999).
