Feminist Judgments in International Law

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The emergence of feminist rewriting of key judgments has been one of the most interesting recent developments in legal methodology. This unique enterprise has seen scholars collaborate in the real world task of reassessing jurisprudence in light of feminist perspectives. This important new volume makes a significant contribution to the endeavour, exploring how key judgments in international law might have differed if feminist judges had sat on the bench. This collection asks whether feminist perspectives can offer meaningful and viable alternatives to international law norms; and if so, whether that application results in distinguishable differences in outcomes. It answers these questions with particular reference to sources of international law, the public and private divide, State responsibility, State immunities, treaty law, State sovereignty, human rights protection, global governance, and the concept of violence in international law. This landmark publication offers a truly innovative reassessment of international law. Winner of the 2020 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship.

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This book is recommended for the collections of academic and judicial libraries and the personal collections of judges, lawyers, students, and legal scholars interested in activism, judicial interpretation, and the pursuit of gender and substantive equality in both national and international courts. -- Dominique Garingan * Canadian Law Library Review *

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Loveday Hodson and Troy Lavers are both Associate Professors at Leicester Law School.