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This review essay discusses some of the effects of the feminist methodologies utilised in Feminist Judgments in International Law (Hodson and Lavers (eds), Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2019), in which ‘feminist judges’ rewrote fifteen well-known international law cases. A glimpse is provided into aspects of the feminist judgments that were transformative, before turning to the contributors’ ‘Reflections’, which highlight some of the obstructions encountered and compromises made in the processes of judging. The collection makes a useful and compelling contribution to concretising feminist methods, in all their diversity, in international law, while teaching us a great deal about the limitations of the justice delivered by the legal form of judging.
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See also, the Feminist Judgments Project India https://fjpindia.wixsite.com/fjpi and the African Feminist Judgments Project https://www.lawandglobaljustice.com/the-african-feminist-judgments-project.
SS ‘Lotus’ Case (France v Turkey) PCIJ 1927 Series A No 10 Sept 7th, 18.
A, B and C v Ireland, No. 25579/05 Eur. Ct. H.R. (2010).
Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, (Advisory Opinion) [1951] ICJ Reports 15.
Lockerbie Case, Questions of Interpretation and Application of the 1971 Montreal Convention arising from the Aerial Incident at Lockerbie (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v United States of America) (Provisional Measures) [1992] ICJ Rep 114.
Christine Goodwin v the United Kingdom [GC], no 28957/95, ECrtHR 2002-VI, (2002) 35 EHRR 18.
The Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition is an international law advocacy competition for law students from around the world, organised annually by the International Law Students Association.
Burden and Burden v the United Kingdom, no 13378/05 12 December 2006, (2007) 44 EHRR 51; Burden v the United Kingdom [GC], No 13378/05, (2008) 47 EHRR 38.
Prosecutor v Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Trial Judgment), ICC-01/04-01/06, 14 March 2012; Prosecutor v Thomas Lubanga Dyilo (Judgment on Appeal) ICC-01/04-01/06-3121-Anx2, 1 December 2014.
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, article 8(2)(b)(xxvi).
Prosecutor v Brima, Kamara, Kanu, SCSL-04-16-T, 20 June 2007, as revised 19 July 2007.
Statute of the Special Court of Sierra Leone (2002), UN Doc. S/2002/246, appendix II, Article 4(c).
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This review essay began life as remarks designed to launch Feminist Judgments in International Law at the 2019 Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law, held in Athens. Thanks to Emily Jones for inviting me to launch the book, to Loveday Hodson and Troy Lavers for their magnificent work on the collection, and to Joan Nestle my ever-supportive partner.
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Otto, D. Feminist Judging in Action: Reflecting on the Feminist Judgments in International Law Project. Fem Leg Stud 28, 205–216 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-020-09421-7
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