Feminist Perspectives in Law

As the title suggests, the course is defined by a specific critical perspective on the law – a feminist one. It cuts across standard legal areas and methodologies to cover topics from private and public law; it looks at both domestic and international law; and introduces students to legal, as well as socio-legal, perspectives on the subject.

Often, rather than starting from the law and its logic, the intellectual journey is problem-driven, discussing the various ways the law responds to real life, irrespective of formal, potentially limiting, legal categories. The course brings together ten experts on various aspects of the regulation of women’s status and gender relations in law as seminar-leaders. The following topics are discussed:

• Introduction to Feminist Legal Thought
• Gender and Reproduction
• Equal Pay
• Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism
• Violence Against Women
• Migration
• Urbanism
• Intellectual Property

There is no prerequisite for this course.