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Feminism
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Critical Legal Thinking
Critical Times Summer School: Carla Lonzi and Violence against Women in International Law
In international law, the category of “violence against women” has been assembled through different legal instruments, interpretive practices and institutional responses, including the CEDAW Committee General Recommendations (GR), UN declarations,…
Law and Other Things
Love Jihad: A Feminist Retelling: Summary
The LAOT Team is delighted to bring our readers a book discussion on Dr. Sameena Dalwai’s latest book, Love Jihad: A Feminist Retelling. Over the next few weeks, we have invited scholars to…
Althouse
"Gloria Steinem, lodestar of the modern women’s movement, dies at 92."
By Ann Althouse
A Washington Post obituary (gift link). In a tribute to feminism, the obit waits until the 6th paragraph to tell us how she looked: "With her willowy physique, her fashionable…
Critical Legal Thinking
The Carrier Bag and the Checkpoint: Palestinian Feminist Resistance in Occupied Jerusalem
By AK
IntroductionOccupied Jerusalem is often narrated through maps, military operations, diplomatic failures, or religious contestation (Qadir and Smith, 2025). We are told stories of borders, security, sovereignty, and conflict. Rarely are…
Legal History Blog
Bayefsky on Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Adjudication
By Dan Ernst
Rachel Bayefsky, UVA Law, has published Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication in the Virginia Law Review:In recent years, “tradition” has been influentially invoked in constitutional rights adjudication and…
Legal Research and Analysis
Feminism and The Increase in Fake
Rise of Pseudo Feminism and The Increase in Fake Charges. Author (s) Mukund Madhav Pareekh Table of Contents Introduction Feminism, a movement that advocates for gender equality, has made significant…
Jotwell
Tradition versus Equality: A feminist intervention
By Chao-Ju Chen
Rachel Bayefsky, Tradition and Feminism in Constitutional Rights Adjudication, __ Va. L. Rev. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (May 27, 2025). Chao-Ju Chen In the post-Dobbs world, concerns over the…
Legal Theory Blog
Monopoli on Women’s Rights and Popular Constitutionalism
Paula A. Monopoli (University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) has posted A "New" New Departure (102 Washington University Law Review 1961 (2025)) on SSRN. Here is the…
The Faculty Lounge
Dvoskin & Kadri Win Haub Law Emerging Scholar Award in Women, Gender & Law 2025-2026
From the Pace University press release: Professors Brenda Dvoskin of Washington University School of Law and Thomas E. Kadri of the University of Georgia School of Law have been selected…
The Faculty Lounge
Revisiting My Body, My Choice
Yesterday's post on the latest episode of The Taboo Trades Podcast, Exploitation Creep: Feminism, Sex, and Reproduction in International Law, reminded me of a prior episode with George Mason's Ilya…