Bio
Benedetta Faedi is an international human rights scholar whose work focuses on gender-based violence, women’s and children’s rights, and the gap between legal reform and lived experience. She joins UC Law SF in Spring 2027 to teach International Human Rights.
She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In 2026 she received a Hoover Institution Library & Archives Scholar Research Support Grant. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the Graduate School of Law of Kyoto University in 2024–2025 and a Non-resident Fellow at Stanford Law School in 2023–2024. Before joining UC Law SF, she was Professor of Law at Golden Gate University School of Law. There she served as Associate Dean for Faculty Scholarship and as Faculty Director of the LL.M. programs.
Her books include Gender and Violence in Haiti: Women’s Path from Victims to Agents (Rutgers University Press, 2014) and the co-edited volume International Perspectives and Empirical Findings on Child Participation (Oxford University Press, 2015). Her current research examines gender, family, and the legacy of the postwar period in Japan, including the country’s #MeToo movement and the persistence of gender inequality.
Alongside her academic scholarship, she writes literary nonfiction and fiction in Italian. Her books include In California con Joan Didion (Giulio Perrone Editore, 2025).