Seminar and Project Director

Rangita de Silva de Alwis

Associate Dean of International Affairs
Nonresident Leader in Practice at the Women and Public Policy Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2019-2021)

Testimonials

Distinguished Advisors to the Director and the Project

Deborah Rhode

Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law; Director, Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford University  

David Wilkins

Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Director, Center on the Legal Profession, Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School  

Women, Law and Leadership is a University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School initiative profiling women’s leadership in law and business, and developing indicators and policy imperatives to accelerate the goals of gender equality and diversity.

The Women, Law and Leadership Ideas Lab was an incubator for innovative ideas. It was a platform for students to test ideas, to create, and to experiment. Most of all, it was a space for students to ask questions on the under representation of women in leadership and how that hurts the global economy, hampers the diversity of thought, and undermines the public good. The concept for our Lab led by Rangita de Silva de Alwis was to research and develop a wide range of policy initiatives on women’s leadership. The goal will not just be to study and recommend adoption of best practices but to explore and innovate new practices. The students ideated and discussed solutions to address the under representation of women in leadership and the future of work.

News

Sexual Violence as a Tactic of War

Testimony on behalf of Act No 978 of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

CEDAW General Recommendation 40 - Women’s Leadership

Women, Law and Leadership Forum- Informing CEDAW GR 40

Policy Brief- Afghanistan Policy Lab at Princeton University

To mark the first anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the Hon. Naheed Farid, former Member of Parliament and Rangita de Silva de Alwi developed this Policy Brief for the Afghanistan Policy Lab at Princeton University. This is part of a first phase of a study they are conducting on the impact of girls’ secondary school closures on women teachers in Afghanistan. The Policy Brief will be circulated to Security Council members.

Second-year law students publish ‘Black Women Future Leaders’ report developed as part of Rangita de Silva de Alwis’s ‘Women, Law, and Leadership’ course

Institutional allyship—a solution to help improve diversity and combat workplace sexual harassment

Contributing to the research update article: Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Associate Dean of International Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Gen Z allyship research insights: Institutional allyship as a partial fix for sexual harassment

Written by Rangita de Silva de Alwis, Associate Dean of International Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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