JOHANNA E. BOND

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW

Office: 209 College of Law Building
Telephone: 307-766-5105
Email address: jbond4@uwyo.edu

Johanna Bond joined the faculty of the University of Wyoming College of Law in 2006.  Professor Bond teaches classes in international human rights law, gender and the law, and alternative dispute resolution.  She also directs the law school’s externship program. 

 Before coming to Wyoming, Professor Bond was a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center for several years.  She also served as the Executive Director of the Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program, a non-profit organization housed at Georgetown.  In 2001, Professor Bond was selected as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and traveled to Uganda and Tanzania to conduct research that later resulted in her edited book, Voices of African Women: Women’s Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania.  Before beginning her teaching career, Professor Bond was a law clerk for the Honorable Ann D. Montgomery, United States District Court, District of Minnesota from 1997 – 1998. 

Professor Bond’s human rights experience includes substantial travel and collaboration with non-governmental organizations around the world, including attending the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.  Her research, fact-finding documentation work, and publications have dealt with a number of issues, including: women’s rights in Africa; domestic violence in Nepal, Cambodia, Ghana, Poland, Bulgaria and Macedonia; sexual harassment in Poland and Bulgaria; maternal mortality as a human rights issue in Uganda and Mexico; trafficking in women; and a variety of issues concerning the United Nations treaty mechanisms. 

Education

LL.M., Georgetown University Law Center (2001)

J.D., University of Minnesota Law School, cum laude (1996)

B.A., Colorado College (1991)

Recent Publications

Voices of African Women:  Women’s Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania (Johanna Bond, ed., 2005) (Carolina Academic Press).

 Intersecting Identities and Human Rights:  The Example of Romani Women’s Reproductive Rights, 5 Geo. J. Gender & the Law 897 (2004).

 International Intersectionality:  A Theoretical and Pragmatic Exploration of Women’s International Human Rights Violations, 52 Emory L.J. 71 (2003).

 The Legal System of Nepal, in Legal Systems of the World, Abc-Clio Publications (Herbert M. Kritzer, ed., 2002).

 The Global Classroom:  International Human Rights Fact-Finding As Clinical Method, 28 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 317 (2001).

 Violence Against Women and International Human Rights Law, in Violence Against Women:  A Sourcebook, Sage Publications (with Robin Phillips) (2001).