The gender of international human rights law? : Uncovering legal academics' views on teaching women's rights

Mitchell, Lynsey; Gauci, Jean-Pierre and Sander, Barrie, eds. (2024) The gender of international human rights law? : Uncovering legal academics' views on teaching women's rights. In: Teaching International Law. Emerging Legal Education . Routledge, Abingdon. ISBN 9781032551517 (In Press) (https://www.routledge.com/9781032551517)

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Abstract

Three decades ago Charlesworth, Chinkin and Wright’s famous ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’ challenged international law scholarship to acknowledge the gendered nature of international law. This led to rich conversations that sought to explore what a feminist international law might look like and to re-evaluate how women’s interests and voices could be better incorporated and made more visible within mainstream international law. In the interim there has been an explosion in scholarship offering a feminist perspective on international law, so much so that Janet Halley claimed that feminism was ‘running things’ in several international institutions

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