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The UK Supreme Court’s Unworkable Sex Definitions in For Women Scotland

14.05.2025

Manon Beury Lena Holzer Electra Zacharias

On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court decided in the case of For Women Scotland Ltd v. The Scottish Ministers that the term “woman” in the Equality Act 2010...

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Disordering the Binaries of International Law

06.05.2025

Jessica Lynn Corsi

Together with Staggs Kelsall and others, I co-lead a transnational feminist project to create gender equality for the judiciary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). These efforts call for...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

#44 Feminist Resistance in Armed Conflicts: Beyond Victimhood, Toward Justice

07.03.2025

Polina Kulish Rishiti Choudaha Céline Chausse Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

Women play diverse and complex roles in armed conflicts – whether as combatants, peacebuilders, community organizers, or as those directly impacted by war, including through gender-based violence. Yet, international law...

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Safety, Privacy, Self-ID

06.03.2025

Selin Altay

Germany’s Self Determination Act (Selbstbestimmungsgesetz or SBGG), which came fully into force on the 1st of November 2024 is welcomed both by hope and concern globally. The new law has...

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Women in International Law Vol. 4

Towards FIEL-ine (Feminist International Economic Law) Legalities

06.03.2025

Siobhán Airey

From Femina Economica … Recently, several measures in international economic law emerged with the aim of promoting women’s economic empowerment (examples here, here and here). Though broadly welcomed by both...

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Introducing the Fourth Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium

03.03.2025

Céline Chausse Rishiti Choudaha Polina Kulish Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog hosts the 'Women in International Law' symposium. Held each year during this week, it features...

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War against Women

28.06.2024

Nora Salem

The Orders of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding the Israeli military operation in Gaza have been widely discussed from numerous perspectives (see here, here, and here). However, the...

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Krieg gegen Frauen

28.06.2024

Nora Salem

Die Beschlüsse des Internationalen Gerichtshofs (IGH) zur israelischen Militäroperation in Gaza sind inzwischen aus zahlreichen Perspektiven diskutiert worden (siehe etwa hier, hier und hier). Wenig Beachtung hat dabei jedoch ein...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Supply Chain Laws and Women’s Rights

08.03.2024

Jessical Holl

Supply Chain Laws are at the center of the debate considering business and human rights, especially after the enactment of such laws by France and Germany and the discussions developed...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Staining International Law

08.03.2024

Lea Barbara Kuhlmann

“Women are born with pain built in. It’s our physical destiny – period pains, sore boobs, childbirth. We carry it within ourselves throughout our lives.” Belinda in Fleabag, Series 2,...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

A Call for A Feminist Perspective on Enforced Disappearances

07.03.2024

Ioanna Pervou

The prohibition on enforced disappearances is a rather novel human right, set out in the 2010 International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (ICPPED). Since then,...

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Public Health as a Strategic Instrument

07.03.2024

Selin Altay

Public health as a policy pursuit and a legally prescribed goal has consistently served as a veneer for the implementation of discriminatory policies. Migration laws and policies have also played...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Forgotten Victims

06.03.2024

María Emilia Lehne Cerrón

From 1980 to 2000 Peru was experiencing one of the bloodiest periods of its recent history. An internal armed conflict and a sterilization program implemented by the government led to...

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Indian Women v. Indian Armed Forces

06.03.2024

Sai Harshini Valluri

Sexual violence and crimes against women are commonplace in India. With judicial remedy running at a painfully slow pace, high-profile politicians condemning rapes is nothing but lip service to women...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

To Participate or Not to Participate?

05.03.2024

Alessia Mandaglio

Survivors of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) are often portrayed as passive and trauma-ridden individuals whose participation in social, political and economic life and community reintegration are hindered by stigma, shame...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Reversing Disability Discrimination in Armed Conflict

05.03.2024

Erin Lyons

An estimated 1.3 billion people, approximately 16 per cent of the world population, live with some form of disability, with substantially higher rates in conflict-affected populations. In armed conflict, the...

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A Much-Needed Queer Look at International Humanitarian Law

04.03.2024

Hannah Nieratzky

People with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities (SOGI) are particularly vulnerable in times of conflict. However, due to the gender binary it is based on, international humanitarian law (IHL)...

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Women in International Law Vol. 3

Introducing the Third Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium

04.03.2024

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, Völkerrechtsblog celebrates women in international law with the annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium. The...

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Towards a Feminist Interpretation of the ECHR’s Provisions on Access to Abortion

21.09.2023

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

While applications regarding the incompatibility of deadly restrictive abortion policies with the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) are piling up before the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’, ‘Court’),...

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Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives

Making Sense of Posthuman Feminist Theory in International Law

24.05.2023

Anastasia Hammerschmied Amelie Herzog

Feminist engagements with international law oscillate between seeking legal change from within the law and the need to look beyond that system to completely reimagine it. This well-known tension of...

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Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives

Nature and the Conceit of Law

23.05.2023

Usha Natarajan

Coming to this erudite text from Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAlL), I found much to agree with and learn. TWAIL is an anti-colonial anti-imperial disciplinary movement formative to...

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Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives

‘Life as Relation not Dividuation’

22.05.2023

Sanskriti Sanghi

A deepening climate crisis. A failing legal framework. A search for alternative imaginations. In this reflection on Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives by Emily Jones, I will engage...

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Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives

An Invite to Stay With the Trouble

19.05.2023

Maria Elander

Emily Jones’ monograph Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives is an invitation to explore how posthuman feminist theory sheds new light on a range of contemporary issues and debates...

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Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives

Must We Instrumentalize?

18.05.2023

Fleur Johns

Chapter 2 of Emily Jones’s rich and generative new book, Feminist Theory of International Law Posthuman Perspectives, draws attention to all the ways in which humans and machines “are already...

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Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives

Exclusionary Humanism and Anthropocentrism: A Valid Tandem?

17.05.2023

Pedro Martínez Esponda

International law is all-too-human, argues Emily Jones in Chapter 1 of her penetrating and deeply insightful Posthuman Feminism. International law might well gravitate around nonhuman entities – the state, international...

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Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives

Introducing the Symposium on Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives by Emily Jones

17.05.2023

Lys Kulamadayil Isabel Lischewski Sebastian M. Spitra

Emily Jones is known in the international law research community as a co-host of the Essex Public International Law lecture series. She, herself a critical international law scholar, initiated this...

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Women in International Law Vol. 2

“Voluntary” Repatriation

08.03.2023

Natasha Yacoub

Voluntary repatriation has been upheld as the ideal durable solution for refugees by the Executive Committee of the UN High Commissioner’s Programme (‘Ex Com’) and has its roots in efforts...

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Women in International Law Vol. 2

How Joining a Majorette Group Can Lead You to Being Denied International Protection

07.03.2023

Lore Roels

“… [Y]ou have been working since you were 17 ...; you are financially independent ...; [a member of a] religious community..., the choir ..., [and] the majorette group ...; [and]...

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Women in International Law Vol. 2

Introducing the Second Annual ‘Women in International Law’ Symposium

07.03.2023

Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

On the occasion of the International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 8th of March, the Völkerrechtsblog celebrates women in international law with the annual ‘Women in International Law’ symposium....

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Rewriting als Methode

14.10.2022

Petra Sussner

Es war zur Jahrtausendwende, als das Rewriting in der Luft lag. Und das tut es heute wieder. Rewriting steht hier für die Methode, Gerichtsentscheidungen aus spezifischen Perspektiven und Regeln neu...