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Biography
Rachel Cichowski (Ph.D., University of California, Irvine) is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science with a joint appointment in the Law, Societies and Justice Department at the University of Washington. She is adjunct faculty at UW in the School of Law, Department of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and a member of the European Studies Faculty in the Jackson School of International Studies. Her visiting research positions include Visiting Scholar at the University of Barcelona (2018); Visiting Scholar at UCSD Laboratory on International Law & Regulation; Visiting Research Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (1998-99), Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany (2000) and Program Director and Visiting Faculty at the UW Rome Center, Rome, Italy (2003, 2005).
Her primary research interests include international law and courts, comparative judicial politics and constitutionalism, international human rights, international organization, legal mobilization and global policy and development. Current research includes a collaborative project entitled Building Dynamic Research Communities in Global Legal Studies (with D. Brinks UT Austin and J. Staton Emory, funded by NSF SES # 1748180) and a project entitled Legal Mobilization and International Justice (funded by NSF SES #1322161) including the innovative database European Court of Human Rights Database (ECHRdb). Her books include, The European Court and Civil Society (Cambridge University Press, 2007), winner of the American Political Science Association’s 2008 Best Book Award, European Politics & Society Section) and co-edited Law, Politics and Society (Oxford University Press, 2003). She also edited a Special Issue of the journal Comparative Political Studies, entitled Courts, Democracy and Governance (2006). Her research is published in edited volumes and in various journals, including Law & Society Review, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, and Women & Politics. Cichowski teaches classes at both the undergraduate and PhD level in comparative and international law and politics; human rights; international organization; and global women’s human rights and policy.
Research
Selected Research
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "The ECHRdb: An Integrative Approach to Collecting and Sharing Data on International Courts." In D. Kapiszewski and M. Ingram eds. Data & Methods in the Comparative Study of Legal Institutions. Forthcoming. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press. (reviewed, in publication process)
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Data Infrastructure Innovation in the Field of Law & Courts: The European Court of Human Rights Database (ECHRdb)." In S. Sterett and L. Walker, eds. Research Handbook: Law and Courts. 2019. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing.
- "The European Court of Human Rights, Amicus Curiae and Violence against Women." Law & Society Review, vol. 50, no.4, 2016, pp. 890-919 Download PDF
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Judicial Politics, Gender and the Courts." in The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics, edited by G. Waylen, K. Celis, J. Kantola and L. Weldon, Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Legal Mobilization, Transnational Activism and Gender Equality in the EU." Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 28, no. 2, 2013, pp. 209-227.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "The Politics of the Globalization of Law," in Courts, Advocacy Groups and Human Rights in Europe, edited by A. Brysk. New York NY, Routledge, 2013.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Mobilization, Litigation, and Democratic Governance Representation." Journal of Representative Democracy, vol. 49, no. 3, 2013, pp. 321-332.
- Cichowski, Rachel A. Review of Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union, by R.D Kelemen. Governance, vol. 25, no. 4, 2012, pp. 713–716
- Cichowski, Rachel A. Review of Women in Power in Post-Communist Parliaments, by Marilyn Rueschemeyer, and Sharol Wolchik. Slavic Review, vol. 69, no. 4, 2011, pp. 982–983.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Civil Society and the European Court of Human Rights," in The European Court of Human Rights between Law and Politics, edited by M. Madsen and J. Christoffersen, Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Women's Rights and Supranational Constitutionalism," in International Institutions, edited by J. Goldstein and R. Steinberg, Thousand Oaks CA, Sage Publications, 2010.
- Cichowski, Rachel A. The European Court and Civil Society: Litigation, Mobilization and Governance. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Courts, Rights and Democratic Participation." Comparative Political Studies (2006b), 39, pp. 50-75.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Courts, Democracy and Governance." Comparative Political Studies (2006a), 39, pp. 3-21.
- Cichowski, Rachel A. Review of Law and Governance in Postnational Europe, by Michael Zürn, and Christian Joerges. EUSA Review, vol. 18, 2005, pp. 12–13.
- Cichowski, Rachel A. Review of The Politics of Judicial Co-operation in the EU, by Hans W. Micklitz. Yearbook of European Law, vol. 25, 2006, pp. 655–659.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Sex Equality." in The Judicial Construction of Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004 (with A. Stone Sweet).
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Women’s Rights, the European Court and Supranational Constitutionalism." Law & Society Review, 38, 2004, pp. 489-512.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Law, Politics and Society in Europe," in State of the European Union: Law, Politics and Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 1-17. (lead author, co-authored with T. Börzel).
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Participation, Representative Democracy and the Courts" in R. Dalton, B. Cain and S. Scarrow, eds. New Forms of Democracy? Reform and Transformation of Democratic Institutions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp.192-220. (principal author, co-authored with A. Stone Sweet).
- Cichowski, Rachel A. Law, Politics and Society. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2003. (Co-edited with T. Börzel)
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "‘No Discrimination Whatsoever:’ Women’s Transnational Activism and the Evolution of European Sex Equality Policy," in Women’s Community Activism and Globalization. New York: Routledge, 2002, pp.220-238.
- Cichowski, Rachel A. Review of Establishing the Supremacy of European Law: The Making of an International Rule of Law in Europe, by Karen Alter. Comparative Political Studies, vol. 35, 2002, pp. 1267–1270.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Judicial Rulemaking and the Institutionalization of EU Sex Equality Policy." The Institutionalization of Europe, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, pp.113-136.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Gender and Policy in Comparative Perspective." Women & Politics, 21(1), 2000, pp. 107-115.
- Rachel A. Cichowski. "Western Dreams, Eastern Realities: Citizen Support for the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe." Comparative Political Studies, 33, 2000, pp. 1243-1278.
- Cichowski, Rachel A. “Integrating the Environment: The European Court and the Construction of Supranational Policy.” Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 5, no. 3, 1998, pp. 387–405 Download PDF