Feminist Legal Studies

As we come together on the challenges we face, & the responsibilities we must reclaim, we are reminded that critical and collective forms of education begin with critique, move toward refusal of injustice, & culminate in the development of ideas, practices, techniques, & powers to re-world together…

Myself and @sandraduffy.bsky.social are looking for people to come talk at the @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference in April. We want people to come and discuss what we're describing as trans/gender legal histories. Please get in touch if you have ideas you'd like to explore. www.slsa.ac.uk/streams

La traduction française de mon article sur l’affaire Mazan/Pelicot, initialement publié dans @flsjournal.bsky.social, est désormais disponible en libre accès sur HAL. J’y analyse les logiques patriarcales qui continuent de structurer la réponse aux violences sexuelles. hal.science/hal-05748966v1

“Performers face opaque algorithmic management, restrictive content rules and limited autonomy. The Platform Work Directive’s reclassification mechanism could offer new rights, but many performers resist formal employment due to stigma, surveillance and legal risks.”

NEW PUBLICATION Very happy to share that my article on the Mazan/Pelicot case has been published in @flsjournal.bsky.social Read it open access here: doi.org/10.1007/s106... It is a very personal article, and I owe a lot to the colleagues & friends who helped me find my voice on this topic.

"What becomes possible when people committed to rethinking legal education come together?" Some members of the exciting new Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network (CLPRE) led by @folukeifejola.bsky.social share thoughts about potential and practice. ⚖️🎓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=G405...

“There is no such position as academic neutrality. The failure to critique the status quo is a political act of complicity in its inequalities, its injustices, and exclusions.” The Feminist Collective offers a manifesto about “academic freedom” for those of us who are struggling against injustice.

Black August is an annual tradition of remembrance, political education, discipline, & resistance, honoring Black freedom fighters, political prisoners, & the global resistance against racial, colonial, & state oppression. Today we want to lift up the memory of Assata Shakur, who passed last year🧵:

📢 The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’.

My cool colleagues and I have just published a conversation in Feminist Legal Studies about the political, poetic, and pedagogic possibilities of writing legal judgments using critical (Indigenous, Feminist, Queer) perspectives. You can read our reflections here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We joined some critical legal scholars to discuss how Indigenous, Feminist, and Queer perspectives might be used to write judgments that better support the lives of minoritised people. We explore the political, poetic, and pedagogic possibilities of using critical-creative judgment writing methods.

Are you (or someone you know) engaging with feminist legal scholarship from the Global South? Then please consider taking part in this Feminist Legal Studies online workshop. We are keen to support (and hopefully publish!) more feminist scholars based in the Global South. See below for more info.

A great opportunity for ECR feminist legal scholars from the Global South - please share widely!

📢 Publishing with FLS Online workshop for early-career feminist legal scholars from the Global South. Submit CV + 300-word abstract. Selected participants submit an 8,000-word draft by 31 Aug 2026. 📅 Apply by 22 June 2026 📅 Workshop: 24 Sept 2026 📩 workshop.fls2026@gmail.com #FeministLegalStudies

Join ASIL on July 6-7! Program titles and descriptions, as well as confirmed speakers to date, are now available at asil.org/asilabroad. The must-see #internationallaw event of the summer!

I had the pleasure of reviewing Alison Phipps’ book. As we grapple with various forms of state violence, Phipps shows us how acts of enclosure & exploitation link the dynamics of racial capitalism to sexual violence. A vital text for dialogue & action against domination. See here: shorturl.at/nNm60

Feminist legal scholars Flora Renz and Davina Cooper wrote an article for our journal recently exploring how/why we should think about gender discrimination and legal responses to address it beyond biological frameworks. You can read it here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History has been launched, including my chapter 'Women and Divorce Law in England and Wales, 1537–2022'. I had great fun writing it and I'm proud to be published alongside so many amazing authors writing on such importantly and timely topics.

10 years. A love letter to diversity workers. And gratitude for my complaint collective. substack.com/@feministkil...

On International Women’s Day, I am reminded of the importance of feminist organising for building a more just world. And shout out to my brilliant Feminist Legal Studies colleagues who continue to undertake this critical emotional and intellectual labour. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I’ve enjoyed thinking with (and at times being challenged by) @quillkukla.bsky.social’s work on consent for while, so it was a pleasure to review their new book for @flsjournal.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are also thrilled to announce the other winner of the Feminist Legal Studies Editors' Prize 2025 is Agnieszka Doll for her article, ‘Fieldwork, Ethics, and the Importance of “Wide Reflexivity”: Feminist Socio-legal Research in Difficult Sites.’ Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are very pleased to announce one of the winners of the Feminist Legal Studies Editors' Prize 2025 is Ariël Decoster for her article, 'Men in/and Law: Developing "Critical Legal Studies of Men and Masculinities."' You can read the article online for free here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

So I recently sat down with Sainted Judge Hilary Charlesworth (blessed be her name), Prof Di Otto, and Prof Christine Chinkin to record the Season 3 opener of #CalledToTheBar Go have a listen: on.soundcloud.com/Vaq9CC1yiokQ...

📢 HDR/ECR Event Announcement! Join us for “What do we do now?” — a 1-hour online fireside chat for early-career feminist scholars, independent activists, and anyone navigating pathways in and beyond the academy on 25 Feb 12pm (AEDT) Register here! events.humanitix.com/what-do-we-d...

One of our editors, @daanika.bsky.social, presented her excellent new book at Manchester Law School. Dr Kamal’s book explores how women in Pakistan articulate their experiences of domestic violence and the ways women are stigmatised/pathologised in courts. Read here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Now published and free to download! 'Law and Justice in the 1950s' is a fantastic collection, edited by Fiona Cownie and Rosemary Auchmuty. My chapter is on the Wolfenden Report, homosexuality and women - others cover everything from legal education to Beeching to London smog.

Are you a private law nerd who flirts with queer scholarship? Are you a queer scholar with a curiosity about private law? Do you like hanging out with cool people? Then check out the Queering Private Law conference taking place in London in September this year and submit a paper if you’re keen! ⚖️🌈

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

Sharing word of this critical reflection and intervention, offered by our own @shalininair.bsky.social together with colleagues Molly Ackhurst and @tanyaserisier.bsky.social, and out now in @flsjournal.bsky.social

The effective conclusion of the ET is that trans people have to use third spaces. I think based on very poor legal analysis and uncritical adoption of "gender critical" talking points. But as I say, not binding, and all the relevant issues hopefully to be decided shortly by the High Court.

"Scholarly exchange and academic freedom are aspirations, not business as usual, when we consider the knowledge and expertise economies of colonialism.” Colleagues and I reflect on criminology, conferencing and complicity at this year's Eurocrim link.springer.com/article/10.1...

If you're interested in presenting or performing at the Fanniversary conference, please submit a title, biography and 150 word abstract of your work here www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...

We are particularly interested in work that bridges the gap between disciplines; works that agitate, distort and/or subvert heteronormative or cisnormative ideologies; and works that centre marginalised voices.

This spring, we've teamed up with Open University to examine feminism, gender and justice within law, theatre and the humanities at our inaugural Fanniversary conference. We want to hear your proposals for papers, lectures, performances, workshops and more. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

For those of you looking to follow some more queer scholar-activists in 2026, check out this starter pack with many fabulous folks. ✊🏾🌈

My suspicion is that the Trans community and allies left Twitter and arrived here early but it’s still worth re-upping this for those who left it a little longer: go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F

The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women’s liberation movement to propound a feminist theory of sex. Here we have compiled works of feminism that live in conversation with the ideas Firestone expounded.

New piece in Feminist Legal Studies - open access 🧚