Professor Aparna Polavarapu Researches the Administration of Justice for Women in Uganda

Assistant Professor and ROLC faculty associate Aparna Polavarapu, University of South Carolina School of Law, is currently conducting research in Uganda with support from the JUSTRAC cooperative agreement. Her research examines the following question: when women in Uganda are able to overcome various financial, physical, and social barriers to access courts, is justice administered equitably across gender lines, and if not, what are the sources of such inequity and how can such inequity be remedied? The project is designed to isolate the ways in which women are denied justice in the courts in East Africa, with the goal of ascertaining laws and policies that will promote the fair and equitable administration of justice. This research relates to Professor Polavarapu’s previous research on how statutory law and judicial doctrine can increase women’s ability to assert constitutional claims in courts in Uganda and Kenya.