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Barbara Krupa Woodward, USA

PhD

Barbara is a licensed Pennsylvania attorney. She earned her J.D. (cum laude) from Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, PA while working full time as a Legal Assistant, then Law Clerk at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. During law school, she was on the editorial staff of the Temple Law Review, in which she published a Comment, and on graduation, received several academic awards. She then practiced as an attorney for Pelino & Lentz, P.C., Philadelphia, PA, where she represented clients in commercial and industrial property transactions. When she moved to London, she spent several years raising her two sons, while holding various volunteer positions. In 2003, Barbara earned her LLM. (magna cum laude) from the University of Notre Dame Law School, London, where she was honoured for the Best Paper in Comparative Law. In 2003-2004, she was a Research Assistant in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, London, where she researched legal issues on state immunity, international drug conventions, United States counter terrorism legislation and global governance.

Barbara chose Queen Mary because her research for a supervisor concluded that Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice possessed sought-after interconnected interests in public international law and eminence. Barbara started her PhD research at Queen Mary in October 2004. The title of her thesis was Global Civil Society and International Law-Making in Global Governance: Contemporary Issues. Her research first investigated the concepts ‘global governance,’ ‘global civil society,’ and ‘international law-making’ in international legal discourse and theory. Then, she explored global civil society contributions to selected international law-making processes and for legal effects on the outcome, authority and enforcement of the resulting legal instrument or decision. The processes examined include activities of various United Nations and regional bodies and their organs when they engage in treaty-making, diplomatic conferences, rule-making by international governmental organizations and autonomous multilateral environmental treaty regimes, and various adjudicative processes.

Publications

  • “Global Civil Society and International Law in Global Governance: Contemporary Issues,” 8 (Nos. 2-3) International Community Law Review 247-355 (September, 2006).
  • Book Review of Anna-Karin Lindblom, Non-Governmental Organisations in International Law (Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), in 55 (No. 4) International & Comparative Law Journal 999-1000 (October, 2006).
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