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UK maternity crisis and obstetric violence
Have we achieved equality in the judiciary?
Who does the labour of terrorism prevention?
How can research help close the gap between women's rights in theory and protection in practice?

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Rachel Murray, Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights
Fernanda Pirie, Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
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Feminist Jurisprudence: looking at law through a societal lens

Oxford’s undergraduate Law course (known as the BA in Jurisprudence) gives students a rigorous grounding in the core subjects of legal study. But the course also makes space for students to step back from rules and cases to ask broader questions about law’s place in society – including the relationship between women and the law.

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Take a look at blog posts on the Law Faculty Blogs website related to women and law.

Motherhood under surveillance: The gendered violence of ICE’s alternatives to detention
Companies’ Diversity Commitments Conflict with Political Donations
Healing an Epidemic of Domestic Abuse: How Feminist Theory Can Help Recentre the Silenced Voices of Australian First Nations Women
Deportation as gendered violence: Afghan women’s experiences at the Iran-Afghanistan border
Theorising Domestic Abuse In India
Why take a gender-based approach to the death penalty for drug trafficking?
A permanent maid moratorium: The death penalty in the Middle East and female migrant workers from Indonesia
Rescued and Contained: Migrant mothers, smuggling, and the 'hidden hell' of the Tunisia-Libya borderlands
Rethinking the Romanticisation of Community-Based Approaches in Anti-Carceral Feminist Theorisation
Creating counternarratives on immigration detention: from individual academic research to community-engaged participatory processes
Do Gender Stereotypes in Advertising Impact AI?
Changing the Rhetoric around the Socio-Economic Marginalisation of Single-Parent Families: A Human Rights Approach