Feminist Legal Studies

The logistic challenges in the emergency medical supply chains during the pandemic have led to the exploration of innovative solutions and robust models to optimize the supply chain logistics. This research is based on the original ideas of Li (2023). It investigates the effectiveness of different logistics strategies and innovations presented in the literature for emergency medical supply chains during pandemics. The study utilizes a mixed-method approach to assess the effectiveness and impact of these strategies in a holistic manner. Its recognizes the key performance and resilience factors through a review of existing literature and a mixing-methods research approach. Study results underscore the pivotal role of the recently proposed cutting-edge logistics models like the Physical Internet (PI), the proliferation of technological innovations like IoT devices and machine learning algorithms, and cross-sector cooperation methods in successfully managing supply chain operations. On the other hand, ethical consideration and equitable distribution principles are also considered crucial factors for the fair distribution of medical resources during emergencies. This study emphasizes the role of investment in targeted training and capacity-building schemes aimed at ensuring that supply chain managers and health professionals are ready and competent to respond to emergencies. It recommends that healthcare and policymakers should implement more advanced logistics models, integration of technological solutions, cross-sectoral collaboration, and an emphasis on ethical principles as the core strategies that should be used to improve the efficiency, reactivity and resilience of emergency medical supply chains during pandemics. This study enriches the background knowledge base by offering practical and informed methods and remedies to improve the healthcare supply system during extreme emergencies and eventually contribute to the preparedness and response to future pandemics.

"The Indian Feminist Judgements Project (IFJP) is a collaboration between feminist scholars, practitioners, and activists, drawn from law and other disciplines, who are using a feminist lens to write alternative opinions to existing judgements. The aim of this project is to critically examine judicial archives using feminist tools. The project aspires to be a blueprint for alternative feminist futures of juridical practices and critical lawyering."

Bu çalışmada, "devlet şiddeti" ve "erkek şiddeti" olarak tanımlanan çerçevede yaşadıkları şiddet biçimlerini, failleri ve bu şiddeti üreten kurumsal, siyasi, kültürel ve ve toplumsal mekanizmaları ağır ceza mahkemelerinde ifşa etmek için, birbirinden çok farklı alanlarda mücadele eden iki grup kadının, devlet şiddetinin ve erkek şiddetinin farklı biçimlerine maruz kalmış ve bunun sonucunda kocaları öldürülmüş kadınlar ile kocalarını öldürmüş kadınlara odaklanarak, bu kadınların hukuk alanındaki tecrübelerini birlikte ele almayı öneriyorum. Temizöz ve Diğerleri Dosyası ile Çilem Doğan dosyasına odaklan bu çalışma, birbirinden çok ayrı görünen bu iki grup kadının yargı mekanizması alanındaki tecrübeleri, kadınlarının tecrübe ettikleri çok farklı şiddet biçimlerinin ilişkiselliğini göstermeyi hedefler.

Territorios en acción. Experiencias en extensión de la Facultad de Humanidades, Ciencias Sociales y de la Salud se presenta como un compilado en el que da a conocer las prácticas extensionistas y de voluntariado universitario llevadas a cabo entre 2018 y 2021 por docentes, no docentes y estudiantes de diversas carreras de la Universidad de Santiago del Estero, con el foco puesto en territorializar la experiencia universitaria. Las actividades fueron desarrolladas con la participación de organizaciones sociales, instituciones y la comunidad. El libro se inicia con una entrevista a Humberto Tomassino, uno de los principales referentes en el campo de la extensión universitaria a nivel nacional, seguida de ocho capítulos, divididos en tres ejes temáticos: el primero de ellos aborda la prevención de la salud, el segundo está vinculado al contexto rural y el tercero sobre Derechos Humanos y Género.

This chapter will provide an introduction to some of the research methods and approaches used in the study of law and gender, in its widest sense. Although 'traditional' legal research methods including doctrinal analysis, case law report analysis are used in research concerning law and gender, in many cases a more sociolegal approach is taken which incorporates methods used traditionally in other disciplines such as sociology, criminology and history. This chapter considers how knowledge is produced and the foundations for that knowledge, including the conceptual origins and perspectives that provide a framework for feminist legal research, specifically using Katherine T. Bartlett's approaches. We structure the chapter around these four main principles of doing feminist legal research.

Times who writes about social issues and political culture. She is the author of Divided House, a study of women at Westminster, and co-author with Dr John Dawson of Doctors' Dilemmas, a primer on medical ethics. Her controversial book All Must Have Prizes (Little, Brown) charted the disastrous effects of our culture of individualism upon the education system and the moral order. Her latest book, The Sex-Change Society: Feminised Britain and the Neutered Male (Social Market Foundation) argues that feminism has distorted its own agenda of equality by replacing it with sameness. In 1989 the Sunday Times brought Charles Murray to Britain to investigate whether Britain had an 'underclass'. In his article, subsequently published in book form as The Emerging British Underclass, Murray described himself as a visitor from a plague area who had come to see whether the disease was spreading. In 1993 he returned to check on its progress, and the resulting article, also for the Sunday Times, was published as Underclass: The Crisis Deepens. Both titles were published with commentaries by critics of Murray's thesis. In the early part of 2000 the Sunday Times published a further update, allowing Murray to look back over ten years of the underclass debate in Britain. It is re-printed here with a commentary by Sunday Times columnist Melanie Phillips, whose books All Must Have Prizes and The Sex-Change Society have established her as a leading commentator on social and cultural trends. We are very grateful to John Witherow, the Editor of the Sunday Times, for generously allowing us to reproduce Charles Murray's essay. David G. Green Cover graphic supplied by the Sunday Times.

This essay examines how Mrs. Dalloway engages what early twentieth-century medical discourse termed “the world of the infinitely small,” the microbial universe brought into focus by the 1918–19 influenza pandemic. I argue that Woolf constructs a zoonarrative in which bacterial processes—decomposition, fermentation, and absorption—disrupt humanist conceptions of bodily integrity and identity. Reading the novel through the lens of critical posthumanism and microbial ecology highlights how Woolf represents subjectivity as porous, fibrous, and collective, resonating with contemporary images of bacterial colonies. Septimus’s hallucinatory dissolution, the spectral voice of the street singer, and Clarissa’s transcendental theory of selfhood all point to a decentered, distributed model of being that emerges from human–microbe entanglements. Situating Mrs. Dalloway within the epistemological aftermath of pandemic illness, I argue that Woolf reframes illness as an active nonhuman agent and imagines bacterial collectivity as a challenge to anthropocentric temporality and ontology. In doing so, Woolf extends her broader modernist project of decentering the human by experimenting with forms of perception and relationality that destabilize the coherence of the individual self.

In this paper, a critical perspective on biomedical knowledge of gender/sex is introduced, based on the work of the biologist Anne Fausto-Sterling and the epidemiologist Nancy Krieger. This critique will be applied to contemporary knowledge of gender/sex in sports science. The discussion will center on two subjects: the gender/sex performance gap in sport, and the relevance of menstruation to athletic performance and the health of female athletes. The discussion will also include how these two phenomena are represented in the medialization of popular knowledge, i.e., the moment in which scientific knowledge becomes everyday knowledge and potential ly influences people's self-understanding and everyday practices, e.g., of sporting activity. This paper offers a concise perspective on the subject, highlighting the necessity for further research to comprehensively capture the given diversity of bodies without reproducing gender stereotypes in the future of sport related research and its popular reception.

This paper examines the often- over looked issue of crimes committed against men in India. While the legal system has rightly focused on protecting women from gender- based violence, men too can be victims of harassment, false accusations and domestic abuse. Drawing upon Judicial precedents and recent case laws, the article highlights the misuse of protective provisions and the pressing need for gender- neutral reforms in criminal law. The work argues for a balanced approach that ensures justice and equality for all genders under the Indian Constitution.

Since the turn of the millennium, the appointment of women judges has increased markedly in Africa and the Middle East, along with the social and political influence of courts. The expansion of judicial power worldwide raises important questions about who the judges are and what their role should be. The appointment of women to positions of judicial authority has increased, but this increase is only beginning to be reflected in socio-legal studies. The articles collected in this special issue contribute to the burgeoning empirical comparative literature by approaching the subject matter from two analytical angles: (i) Gendered patterns in judicial selection processes that focus mainly on judicial selection processes and subsequent legal careers; and (ii) Gendered aspects of court practices that shed light on whether and how gender plays into judging practices and experiences at court. The authors in this special volume elaborate on the theme of gender and judging predominantly throu...

In this piece, Hasret Cetinkaya and Rojda Tuğrul reflect on their experiences at the Peoples’ Platform Europe, held in Vienna in February 2025. Bringing together activists and academics from across Europe and beyond, the Platform, they argue, offers a unique space for reflection, repair, and the collective imagining of futures beyond the crises that define our present. Beginning with the everyday, experiences and stories that disrupt dominant narratives, they ask: who has the power to name a ‘crisis’? And what happens when the child emerges as a political figure—one who unsettles assumptions and helps us rethink responsibility, transformation, and the shape of what is to come? These questions unfold through a conversation with critical feminist thinking, both on and beneath the law.

This study empirically examines whether and how the introduction of disability rights impacted the portrayal of disability in personal injury court decisions in Israel and offers a method for doing such research in other legal realms and contexts. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of Israeli district court judicial rulings over twenty years to measure whether a discursive shift occurred from a medical-individual view of disability to a social constructionist and a rights-based understanding of disability. Our coding system included descriptive and conceptual indicators, forming two indexes: a conventional index and a progressive index. Our findings reveal a steady dominance of the conventional discourse and a gradual yet limited rise in progressive discourse. Moreover, individual court decisions often manifest both types of discourse but are still dominated by a conventional view of disability and rarely apply direct disability rights terminology. These findings provide p...

Recent laboratory results confirm that it is possible to protect concrete from freezing solely using chemical admixtures and indicate that the amount of admixture required may be significantly less than previously recommended. Researchers have also verified that admixture-based freeze protection can produce concrete that is durable to winter exposure for a minimum of 20 years, through petrographic examination of core specimens obtained from past field demonstrations. Freeze protection for concrete using chemical admixtures alone has been an area of active research for 3 decades; however, the most recent methodology recommends very high addition rates of accelerating and corrosion inhibiting admixtures, which result in significant challenges, including slump loss, rapid setting, and potentially excessive temperature rise. As part of a laboratory study, researchers systematically varied the dosage of freeze protection admixtures used in concrete cured in a 23 °F environment. Prelimina...

This special issue focuses on the contemporary discourses and practices that have emerged, both nationally and internationally, around women's vulnerability to sexual harm. More specifically, it provides an interdisciplinary feminist critique of the racialised and gendered ways in which women's vulnerability to 'sexual exploitation' has often been constructed and responded to. The majority of the papers included here expand upon initial discussions undertaken by their authors at an invited panel, convened by the editors and hosted at the 'Good Sex, Bad Sex' conference in Prague in 2010. By bringing these papers together in this collection, our aim is to move towards a stronger feminist intellectual framework for accommodating, engaging with and resisting, the strategic ways in which discourses of women's vulnerability are deployed by those who govern. Across the special issue, we offer a series of articles that-without denying the concept's emotive and progressive potential-examine how the cultural and moral discourses of women's sexual vulnerability have been used, and misused, in order to advance specific political agendas, thereby generating negative as well as positive impacts upon women's lives. None of the contributors in this collection seek to deny the reality of women's vulnerability to sexual exploitation, nor do they suggest that governments across the globe do not have a vital role to play in protecting women from sexual harm and upholding their human rights. But this does not preclude us from counselling caution regarding the ways in which the label of vulnerability is constructed, applied and deployed in contemporary debates around sexual exploitation, where a range of other social, economic and political agendas are implicated.

The following research proposal has as its main objective the realization of a deep analysis of the alternatives of conflict resolution and restorative justice, in relation to the problem of intimate partner violence in Ecuador. In order to achieve this goal, a qualitative, theoretical-normative methodology has been used, which has been complemented with statistical data, based on the legal method of comparative law and supported by relevant interdisciplinary literature, including perspectives from sociology, criminology, and gender studies. This approach allows a broader understanding of the structural factors that influence the perpetuation of violence. As a result, the findings show that although the predominant punitive response constituted an advance in terms of the purpose of denaturalizing this social phenomenon, this response is still not sufficient in relation to obtaining a more humane response to domestic violence against women. Restorative justice, which is currently established in the Comprehensive Organic Criminal Code of Ecuador (COIP) (2014), is only provided for comprehensive reparation, once the criminal process and its respective sanction have been fully developed, being that it is imperative to concretely direct the direction towards other forms of treatment of violence in the family, as has been the case in the Mexican State.

This study critically examines the integration of ILO Convention C111 into Vietnamese labour law, specifically examining its impact on sex-based discrimination. Employing feminist legal methodology, it assesses the reflection of the Convention's antidiscrimination principles in national legislation and their effectiveness in promoting workplace gender equality in Vietnam. Preliminary findings suggest that, despite the Convention's influence, there are significant obstacles to the full achievement of its objectives, largely due to socio-cultural and economic factors. The paper underscores the practical challenges of aligning the international labour standards with local laws preventing the implementation of C111's provisions in combating gender-based discrimination in an employment setting. It argues that achieving true gender equality in employment transcends the simple adoption of international norms; it necessitates a holistic and profound approach. These insights are crucial for enhancing labour laws so as to foster genuine gender equality and emphasising the importance of practical implementation alongside the harmonisation of international standards.

Science has changed all the ways of life at most. But in some aspects, we still have the same antique view. Rape is one of aspects where we have hardly changed. Modernity is in awkward situation. Rape is increasing with the pace of its beastly aptitude. We are merely curious as to how an incident of rape can be proven in a court of law. After a little research, We have learnt that background check, history, medical investigations and psychological evaluations are some of the methods used to prove/disprove the claim of rape. But unfortunately, the existing laws have failed to give actual justice to the rape victims in most cases. The procedures of proving an occurrence of rape is against the victims. It is high time we tried to have some practical solution to this curse. So, here we have tried to show the existing rape laws with their flaws and some of the recommendations by which a rape victim can get the justice without further hurdles.

In recent years, the Muslim minority in India has pushed citizenship to the forefront of the country's most heated political and legal debates. In this article, we take a look at the Indian judiciary's significant role in interpreting citizenship rules, particularly in light of recent laws like the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 (CAA) and the court's reactions to the NRC and NPR. In light of the many claims of Muslim discrimination, this paper examines the judicial response to questions of secularism, equal protection under the law, and constitutional morality. The study examines seminal decisions and ongoing lawsuits to bring attention to the judiciary's dual responsibilities as a protector of basic rights and an institution subject to majority political pressure. Concerns about judicial independence and impartiality have been raised by anomalies and delays in adjudicating crucial citizenship-related matters, despite the courts' sometimes admirable prudence and dedication to constitutional principles. The article argues that the court should keep the democratic balance and make sure that citizenship rules don't become tools of religious exclusion or marginalization by analyzing the legislation, studying doctrine, and critically examining current case law. I.

PACIFIC ISLANDS NATIONS GENERALLY HAVE VERY LOW RATES OF WOMEN’S participation in national parliaments and Solomon Islands has one of the worst records of all. In this paper we identify constraints to women’s participation in electoral politics in Solomon Islands and develop ideas about how to overcome some of them. We focus on opportunities to increase women’s representation through governance reform at the village level. We are primarily concerned with governance issues in rural rather than urban electorates, as about 85 per cent of Solomon Islanders live rurally and, apart from three Honiara seats, all seats are predominantly rural.1

The legislation, adjudication, and compliance with law are areas where, within legal research (not legal practice as such, but rather the research of law-making, application of law, and implementation of law), various sociological or statistical (empirical) methods can be utilized. However, their contribution is mostly visible only in the evaluation of the effectiveness of previous legal regulation, and in proposing its improvements or changes. Similarly, other interdisciplinary approaches (such as legal philosophy, legal history, legal psychology, etc., which often also include some empirical or inductive elements, as is the case in legal historiography) are also 'marginal' in this context. In contrast, dogmatic legal scholarship is much more significant for providing guidelines for the creation, implementation, and application of law, thereby primarily working with humanities methodologies. In the paper, we point precisely to the humanities elements of legal dogmatics that clearly distinguish legal scholarship from social sciences, or at least argue for the necessity to acknowledge that in legal scholarship, the qualitative paradigm of social sciences dominates over the quantitative one.

The importance of Canadian research on violence against women became a national focus after the 1989 murder of 14 women at École Polytechnique in Montreal. This tragedy led to several federal government studies that identified a need to develop centers for applied research and community–university alliances on violence against women. One such center is the Centre for Research & Education on Violence against Women and Children. The Centre was founded in London, Canada in 1992 out of a partnership of a university, a community college, and community services. The centre’s history and current activities are summarized as a model for the development and sustainability of similar centers.

An examination of case law on forced marriage reveals that in addition to physical force, the role of emotional pressure is now taken into consideration. However, in both legal and policy discourse, the difference between arranged and forced marriage continues to be framed in binary terms and hinges on the concept of consent: the context in which consent is constructed largely remains unexplored. By examining the socio-cultural construction of personhood, especially womanhood, and the intersecting structural inequalities that constrain particular groups of South Asian women in the UK, we argue that consent and coercion in relation to marriage can be better understood as two ends of a continuum, between which lie degrees of socio-cultural expectation, control, persuasion, pressure, threat and force. Women who face these constraints exercise their agency in complex and contradictory ways that are not always recognised by the existing exit-centred state initiatives designed to tackle this problem.

This chapter argues that there are critical moments in the legal discourse on sexual minority freedom in post-apartheid South Africa that are punctuated by a certain logic or mentality, no matter how subtle, of warfare – a logic which is not very far removed at all from the overt logic of warfare that permeated apartheid era law and politics. We contend that despite the inclusion in South Africa’s post-apartheid Constitutions, of ‘sexual orientation’ as a ground of presumed unfair discrimination, the struggle for sexual minority freedom in the postcolony has generated a protracted and equivocal judicial and legislative discourse of power from which the homosexual legal subject emerges as at once liberated and thoroughly disciplined, that is, put in her (heteronormative) legal place. We conclude that the legal history of sexual minority freedom in the postcolony period reveals a picture of South Africa as what Foucault called a ‘binary’ society; the society at war with itself, the society, even, at war with its own law. We nevertheless suggest that the ‘sexual orientation’ jurisprudence of the South African Constitutional Court - specifically its focus on the ‘right to be different’ - holds the potential of a return to the more queer, less heteronormative, less binary logic of the decriminalisation discourse.

This research examines the persistence of honor killings in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Türkiye, and India, analyzing their historical roots, cultural drivers, and legal responses. It begins with a thematic examination of gender control, patriarchal norms, and the misuse of religious and customary laws. Drawing on both contemporary data and historical records, the study reveals how these killings, primarily targeting women, are often perpetrated with impunity and societal acceptance. Through country-specific case studies, the paper identifies recurring patterns, weak legal enforcement, community complicity, and a lack of survivor protection. The research underscores that honor killings are not isolated incidents, but systemic acts of violence embedded in broader social structures. The article concludes with policy recommendations for legal reform, victim support, and cultural change.

El documento aborda el concepto de la Ley desde una perspectiva crítica feminista, destacando cómo la Ley y el Derecho están intrínsecamente relacionados con las relaciones de poder, la ética y la naturaleza de lo prohibido y lo permitido. Se exploran las críticas feministas a la Ley, señalando que esta no es neutral ni abstracta, sino que ha sido formulada desde una perspectiva masculina y patriarcal.
El texto se divide en varias secciones que incluyen aclaraciones teóricas conceptuales, la relación entre la Ley y el Derecho, y las críticas feministas a la Ley. Se destaca que la Ley ha sido utilizada para legitimar el poder masculino y la subordinación de las mujeres, y se presentan diferentes enfoques feministas que critican esta situación, incluyendo el feminismo liberal, marxista y radical.
Además, se discuten las limitaciones de las críticas feministas tradicionales y se propone una visión más avanzada que considera la Ley como un productor de identidades de género, raza y clase. Finalmente, se concluye que las críticas feministas a la Ley y al Derecho siguen siendo relevantes y funcionales, y se plantea la necesidad de desarrollar una teoría feminista del estado.

In 1995 Kimberly Nixon, a transsexual woman, attempted to become a peer counsellor at Vancouver Rape Relief Society. Based on that organization's restrictive definition of the term 'woman,' she was denied this opportunity based on her previous male identity. This thesis looks at the use of language in identity and category construction, using the Nixon case to ground theoretical work. It also uses the concept of vagueness to investigate the nature of categorical boundaries, and queer theory to propose possible solutions to problems of identity labelling. v To my Grandpa, Dr. Charles P. Fisher. His enthusiastic and steadfast support of my academic pursuits is one of my most cherished memories of our time together. vi

Abused mothers involved in the child protection system are faced with many expectations which are placed upon them by the various professionals who are assigned to their "case". Quite often these expectations are conflicting, making it unrealistic for the mother to fulfil all of them. For example, while private family law expects mothers to facilitate an ongoing relationship between their children and the children's father, social workers may expect a mother to move away and break decisively with an abusive father in order to protect her children. The mother is expected to exercise autonomy in order to navigate these relationships and make life decisions which will affect her and her child. However, the mother's abusive relationship has systematically chipped away at her autonomy; undermining her capacity to make decisions independently. The mother's ability to think and act autonomously is vital in order for her to free herself from the control of the abuser, whilst also giving an account of herself throughout the child protection process. The relationships she has within the child protection process should therefore encourage her autonomy. By better understanding how to promote an abused mother's autonomy, professionals can craft their practices in a way which supports the mother to think and act for herself. These practices would empower the mother to make changes which are sustainable, and not forced upon her. I have applied the framework of relational autonomy, to examine the relationships between the mother and her abuser, her domestic abuse advocate, her social worker, the police, the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) and the family law system, to gain an understanding of what makes a supportive relationship which fosters rather than undermines the mother's autonomy.

Abused mothers involved in the child protection system are faced with many expectations which are placed upon them by the various professionals who are assigned to their "case". Quite often these expectations are conflicting, making it unrealistic for the mother to fulfil all of them. For example, while private family law expects mothers to facilitate an ongoing relationship between their children and the children's father, social workers may expect a mother to move away and break decisively with an abusive father in order to protect her children. The mother is expected to exercise autonomy in order to navigate these relationships and make life decisions which will affect her and her child. However, the mother's abusive relationship has systematically chipped away at her autonomy; undermining her capacity to make decisions independently. The mother's ability to think and act autonomously is vital in order for her to free herself from the control of the abuser, whilst also giving an account of herself throughout the child protection process. The relationships she has within the child protection process should therefore encourage her autonomy. By better understanding how to promote an abused mother's autonomy, professionals can craft their practices in a way which supports the mother to think and act for herself. These practices would empower the mother to make changes which are sustainable, and not forced upon her. I have applied the framework of relational autonomy, to examine the relationships between the mother and her abuser, her domestic abuse advocate, her social worker, the police, the Multi Agency Risk Assessment Conference (MARAC) and the family law system, to gain an understanding of what makes a supportive relationship which fosters rather than undermines the mother's autonomy.

which amends the Civil Code to permit same-sex marriage. This formal equality measure put Spain in the spotlight of the international media. It is the culmination of a series of developments spanning from the last years of the Franco regime (which ended in 1975), through the enactment of anti-discrimination measures in 1995, to the recent fight for kinship recognition. It also follows a recent shift, from 1998 to 2005, towards the enactment of same-sex partnership laws at regional level, the approval of same-sex marriage and finally, the approval of a 'gender identity law ' (2007). This legislative note assesses the context in which the new law on same-sex marriage has been enacted. I argue that although same-sex marriage has been represented by many activists and politicians in Spain as a gender neutral contract, it has the potential for differential impacts on lesbians and gay men, and further research and debates are needed in this area.

Los estudios de genero dan nombre a una vasta y heterogenea articulacion de investigaciones y producciones academicas. Entre las mas ineludibles cimientes de ese articulado se encuentra el pensamiento feminista, a partir del cual se acuna la categoria de genero. La trama epistemologica y conceptual que da cuerpo al movimiento feminista se destaca por una incesante produccion de ideas, propuestas y distintas intervenciones en todas las areas del conocimiento. En este texto se propone un recorrido por los estudios de genero en el area especifica del pensamiento juridico feminista. Se presentan y analizan las transformaciones de los feminismos juridicos a traves de las discusiones en torno al derecho y la igualdad, desde los inicios del area en la decada de 1970 hasta su dispersion hacia el comienzo del nuevo milenio.

En este articulo se analizan las caracteristicas generales de las investigaciones academicas juridicas feministas en America Latina. Considero aqui los trabajos sobre genero y derecho producidos, desde mediados de la decada de 1990 y hasta el ano 2010, que refieren de manera explicita al pensamiento feminista. La explicitacion feminista, tanto en la calificacion de la investigacion como en el posicionamiento politico de su autora, se establece como el criterio de demarcacion sobre un conjunto de textos referentes a la relacion del genero y el derecho. El articulo se divide en tres partes. Primero, establezco las condiciones sociopoliticas de produccion de los feminismos en la region durante la decada de 1990. Segundo, presento las publicaciones pioneras de las investigaciones feministas juridicas en America Latina. Por ultimo, analizo algunos debates emergentes de aquellas producciones para senalar los dilemas y paradojas que se presentan a los feminismos de la region en las discusi...

Ne Il mercante di Venezia, William Shakespeare invita il lettore/spettatore a percepire l'ipocrisia di una societa ´veneziana nella quale la moralita ´e la legge servono a tutelare i privilegi ed a legittimare le azioni del gruppo dominante. Questa pie `ceche si accentra con insistenza sulla dimensione etica dell'atto interpretativo-funge qui da lente attraverso la quale meglio intendere le clamorose e turbanti vicende che si sono concluse di recente con la conferma del giudice Brett Kavanaugh alla Corte Suprema degli Stati Uniti.

Emotions are central to the pursuit, organisation, and contestation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in law. This book analyses emotions that shape conflicts of rights that emerge between different groups across law reforms aimed at better supporting LGBT people. It examines contemporary law reform debates about religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws, legal gender recognition, bans on “conversion therapy,” and sex and LGBT education in schools from jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, Australia, and the United States.

Drawing from critical legal theories, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms cultivates the concept of “emotional grammar” to show how emotions structure law reform pursuits by threading together Hansard, legislation, case law, law reform consultations, and statutory guidance. By doing so, it explains why addressing this emotional grammar is important for scholars, lawyers, judges, legislators, and activists seeking to navigate conflicts over LGBT rights and reforms that aim to repair the inequalities faced by LGBT people.

included in the menu of possible provisions to be used by governments in negotiating or renegotiating PTAs. In Part 4 we explore the leveraging of technological solutions like the Global COVID-19 Policy Response (GCPR) Research initiative as mechanisms for addressing the procurement data-gap and improving government transparency and cooperation in times of crisis. We acknowledge that our proposed Model Crisis Procurement Provisions contradicts the dominant emerging narrative that in times of crisis, procurement processes present a stumbling block rather than an enabler of the free flow of essential goods. Nonetheless, we believe that the plethora of country procurement systems which engage best practice emergency procurement systems, provides a basis for our recommendations. It is conceded that the data to support recommendations herein is inadequate and this substantial procurement data-gap has been referenced in the paper. Whilst real time trade policy and commercial data are readily accessible, procurement policy and commercial data are not due to the lack of harmonized standards and common protocols for the categorization of procurement data. Thus, the demand for courageous experimentation and exploration of new models without a rigorous evidence-basis is paramount. Our recommendations are not stand alone proposals. Systems of monitoring and mechanisms for enforcement must be developed, while technological solutions to identify, track and coordinate the distribution of essential goods and the development of trans-national collaborative procurement mechanisms such as the novel types of cross-border administrative collaboration developed by the EU and CARICOM will continue to be essential. That said, we argue that the inclusion of Model 'Crisis' Procurement Provisions along with the leveraging of technological solutions like the GCPR to address the procurement data-gap are small incremental steps that can advance our collective ability to enhance transparency and cooperation in the cross-border trade in essential goods in times of crisis.

For decades, U.S. immigration courts have been described as a system in crisis and disrepair. As the case backlog exponentially grows, recent border policies attempt to slow the number of people applying for legal entry to the country, funneling their claims through a patchwork of bureaucratic channels while offering little in the way of legal advice or administrative orientation. Rather than address the emotional and bodily violence these litigants face as a result, the state has focused on building an “efficient” system with fewer frictions in deportation flows, leveraging public emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic to rework the court’s physical, digital, and legal corridors. This dissertation investigates the impacts of such infrastructural “repairs,” centering the experiences of the litigants who must navigate the court’s evolving technopolitical terrain. Drawing on ethnographic research in immigration courts as well as interviews with lawyers, advocates, organizers, and pro se litigants, I examine the ways new technologies and court policies further bordering agendas by disorienting and distancing litigants from resources and one another. This research builds upon insights from feminist geolegal and geopolitical scholars by taking a grounded view of immigration proceedings, analyzing the embodied reverberations of such infrastructural shifts. Additionally, it engages feminist postcolonial geographic research to “follow the infrastructure” across space and time, unearthing the institutional histories, undergirding logics, and technopolitical connections that structure litigants’ experiences navigating a broken immigration system. Finally, taking up Sara Ahmed’s theorization of bodily inhabitation and (dis)orientation (2006), this research highlights the potential of public presence in courtspace to help litigants “feel [their] way” through proceedings, and concludes with a reflection on everyday opportunities for minor disruption of deportation mechanics via courtwatch programs. Taken together, this dissertation complicates claims that broken immigration infrastructure might be “fixed,” recasting infrastructural shifts as the paving over of problems sedimented in the foundation of the nation’s bordering system. In doing so, it calls for ongoing examination of immigration court’s infrastructural “promise” (Larkin 2013) as well as our collective orientations towards alternative horizons.

The stigma of ‘purity and pollution’ that is associated with the menstruation of women is deeply embedded in the
Indian culture and curtails women’s freedom of movement, the right to education and the right to worship.
Feminists and legal activists have questioned the widespread practices of menstrual taboos and the need to
place limits on menstruating women’s entry to places of worship and the public sphere. The activism around
menstruation that has recently erupted has resulted in protests and legal challenges which seek to reaffirm
women’s right to control their own bodies and for their monthly menstruation to be free from social and
religious practices which in effect involve segregation, exclusion and often humiliation.

You would be forgiven for thinking that #metoo has improved societal attitudes to the issue of male violence against women, and we have consequently evolved into a society where women are liberated from male sexual violence. Certainly, figures show that more women feel emboldened to report sexual violence to the police, and perhaps stigma associated with being a victim has dissipated. But whether victims of sexual abuse are taken more seriously, and whether their claims for justice are more likely to be met is questionable. Journalists, feminists and women's rights groups in the UK have been working to raise the alarm about the deeply troubling legal situation that has arisen in that country whereby rape has effectively been decriminalised. According to Rape Crisis England and Wales, a feminist charity organisation that works to eliminate sexual violence and abuse, of the 55,259 rapes reported to police in 2019, a mere 1,659 were prosecuted, of which only 702 were convicted (Rape Crisis England and Wales). Another report in 2021/2022 had similarly depressing results (Baird 2022). In 2021, 67,125 rape offences were recorded. This was a record high, which suggests victims feel more comfortable than ever reporting the crime to police. In 2020-2021 there were 2,409 prosecutions. Compared to 5,190 prosecutions in 2016-2017 when there were fewer reports, we can see a large drop off in rape prosecutions relative to 1

InRe JB,a local authority, concerned with the risk the respondent posed to vulnerable women, successfully appealed against an order made in the Court of Protection that declared JB, an autistic man with impaired cognition, possessed capacity to consent to sexual relations. In this recent decision, the Court of Appeal has arguably reset the last 15 years of jurisprudence concerning P’s capacity to make decisions in regard to sexual relations. Previous case law focused on P’s ability to consent to such relations, and whether P understood the information relevant to that decision. Notwithstanding the abundance of legal authority, including the recent appellate judgments of Hayden J inLondon Borough of Tower Hamlets v NB and AU (consent to sex)[2019] EWCOP 27. andB v A Local Authority[2019] EWCA Civ 913. there was a lacuna in the existing law in relation to what information was relevant for the purposes of assessing the issue of capacity to consent to sexual relations. Judges have tradi...

In this paper a framework of key competencies for sustainability defined by UNESCO is used to evaluate the relevance of the CDIO Syllabus for promoting engineering education for sustainable development. The evaluation is performed in two steps. First, topics, terms and concepts in the CDIO Syllabus that corresponds to the different UNESCO key competencies are identified. The second step is a qualitative discussion where areas of strong mapping are highlighted and aspects that could be better visualized or strengthened in, or added to, the Syllabus are identified. Differences in definitions of various concepts between the CDIO Syllabus and the UNESCO key competencies and the overall relation between the two frameworks are discussed. It is concluded that the CDIO Syllabus is rather well aligned with the UNESCO framework, however several opportunities (not to say needs) for strengthening the Syllabus in relation to the key competencies are identified. The UNESCO key competencies are fo...

Uzlaştırma tabi olan suçun, aynı zamanda maddi veya manevi zarara sebep olması ve uzlaştırma görüşmeleri anında söz konusu zararın sınırlarının tam olarak belirlenebilmesi durumunda uzlaştırma ile tazminat davası açma hakkında feragat edilmesi sonucuna varılması üzerinde fazla tartışılacak bir durum değildir.
Bununla birlikte uzlaştırmaya tabi suçun birlikte başka bir zarara sebep olduğu ve özellikle suçun fail veya mağduru ile tazminat davasının taraflarının farklı olduğu durumlarda, CMK m. 253/19 başka sorunları da birlikte getirmektedir.

This article critiques the arguments advanced by Elizabeth Sheehy, Isabel Grant, and Lise Gotell in their 2023 *Alberta Law Review* article, “Resurrecting ‘She Asked for It’: The 'Rough Sex Defence' in Canadian Courts.” Sheehy et al. trace a rise in both “rough sex” and “sex games gone wrong” defences in cases involving bodily harm and death in Canada and the United Kingdom, equating these defences to an updated version of the “she asked for it” defence. They argue that consent should not be a valid defence for bodily harm resulting from sexual activity unless such harm was unforeseeable, emphasizing that those engaging in violent sex acts should bear the risk of serious injury or death to their partners. Concurring with Sheehy et al. on the gravity of gender-based violence, this article problematizes their broad conflation of Bondage-Discipline, Dominance-Submission, and Sadism-Masochism or Sadomasochism (BDSM), rough sex, and sexual assault. Drawing primarily on queer theory, anti-carceral feminism, and the insights of BDSM subcultures, the authors argue — separately and among other points — that Sheehy et al.’s framing of “rough sex” perpetuates a carceral, paranoid, and partisan approach to sexual justice and stigmatizes BDSM practitioners, scapegoating them for failures in sexual assault prosecutions. Interrogating the limits of their position, this article advocates a more complex understanding of sexual consent, accountability, and harm.