"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...

Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network Launch

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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…

Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal Studies

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“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.

Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal Studies

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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…

Academic Freedom and the Role of the Academic: Resistance, Solidarity, and the Politics of Knowledge - Feminist Legal Studies

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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🧵:

It is disingenuous to suggest that seeking to dismantle racial capitalism, patriarchy and Western imperial domination is POLITICAL while simultaneously claiming that fighting to maintain racial capitalism, patriarchy and Western imperial domination is APOLITICAL.

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

Does your research consider: gender, sexuality and law; 20th century politics and social reform; social and political rights; sexuality and culture; global LGBTQ+ rights and/or criminal law reform? If so, please consider submitting to this one day conference marking the anniversary of Wolfenden!

Join us for the launch of the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network on 14 Sept 2026 at the University of Bristol (hybrid event). We'll explore how legal education can engage with race, empire, colonialism, and global justice www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...

Launching the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network

Join us to kick off a fresh network diving into race, empire, and legal education with some great minds.

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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.

Critical Judgments in Hostile Times: A Roundtable on Indigenous, Feminist, Queer Perspectives - Feminist Legal Studies

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🚨 Hey folks, I have a new article out in @flsjournal.bsky.social on how defense attorneys operationalize digital evidence in sexual assault trials. I find they rely heavily on rape myths (i.e., she asked for it, she's lying) to get around rape shield laws. Hope you check it out! rdcu.be/fqmcC

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.

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📢 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

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

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📢 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

📢 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

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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...

Reimagining Gender Through Equality Law: What Legal Thoughtways Do Religion and Disability Offer? - Feminist Legal Studies

British equality law protections for sex and gender reassignment have grown fraught as activists tussle over legal and social categories of gender, gender transitioning, and sex. This article consider...

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A reminder: you do not need a biological definition of a personal characteristic to address discrimination that relates to it (see race, sexual orientation, religion, etc). Discrimination is a social and political phenomena, institutionally entrenched, and biology is not the answer to stopping it.

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.

Women and Divorce Law in England and Wales, 1537–2022

Summary. The popular history of divorce in England and Wales centers on famous couples—predominantly royalty—whose marital discord played out through inter

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My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. All welcome! folukeafrica.com/invitation-t...

Invitation to join a Critical Research Network on Pedagogies of Race and Empire

For some time, several colleagues and I have been thinking of how to consolidate and build on the work that we have been doing individually in translating our anti-colonial and anti-racist research…

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

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Ten years ago this month, I resigned from my post and my profession in protest at the failure of my institution to deal with the problem of sexual harassment. It was a lot to give up. But it was neces...

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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...

Quill R. Kukla: Sex Beyond “Yes”: Pleasure and Agency for Everyone - Feminist Legal Studies

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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...

64. Feminist Careers in International Law

In the Season 3 opener of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School) is joined by an extraordinary panel to reflect on what a feminist career in international law can look like in pr

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📢 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...

What do we do now? — Pathways in and beyond the academy for early-career feminist scholar-activist-practitioners

Join us for a critical discuss on carving out feminist futures—in, against, and beyond the university in this 1-hour

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