Don't miss next week's seminar and workshop - 1 pm 5 December 2025: 'Queer Theory & Human Rights - methods & critiques' with Prof Loveday Hodson and Dr David N.C. Ikpo. Further information and registration: www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events... @lovedayh.bsky.social @lenaholzer.bsky.social

Published today—at the start of Transgender Awareness Week—in the American Journal of International Law, my new book review, "International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?" arrives at a moment that feels both personal and profound. Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

⚖️ Queer@King’s celebrates Dr @senthorun.bsky.social's new monograph, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law, and invites responses from Professor @lovedayh.bsky.social, Dr @florarenz.bsky.social & Dr Peter Dunne. 🔗 Register ⤵️

The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law | King's College London

This Queer@King’s event celebrates Dr Senthorun Raj’s new monograph, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), and invites responses from esteemed…

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Very excited that the articles for the Special Issue of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law on 20 years of the Gender Recognition Act and Civil Partnership Act are starting to come out. Such a pleasure working with Alexander Maine and Peter Dunne on this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So I did a thing on marriage rights: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The European Court of Human Rights and same-sex marriage: incompatible bedfellows?

This paper critically explores the European Court of Human Rights’ case-law in the area of same-sex relationship recognition and marriage rights, paying attention to jurisprudence under Article 8 (...

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Interested in The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience? Then this conference and CALL FOR PAPERS 👇(to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR (and the 35th anniversary of the Venice Commission) might be for you. www.linkedin.com/posts/centre...

Call for Papers | Centre for European Law and Internationalisation - CELI

Interested in The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience? Then this conference and CALL FOR  PAPERS 👇(to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR (and the 35th ...

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For @oxfordcsls.bsky.social, I had the joy of reviewing @claerwen.bsky.social and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social’s Queer Engagements/Encounters with International Law collections. These books probe how we creatively navigate law in our pursuits to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ folk and nurture new worlds.

Que(e)rying International Law - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies

In this post for A Good Read, Dr. Senthorun Raj reviews Claerwen O’Hara and Tamsin Phillipa Paige's collection, Queer Encounters with International Law and Queer Engagements with International Law (Ro...

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This is brilliant from Emily Grabham.

Sarah Keenan@sarahkeenan.bsky.social · last yr.

Parody Alternative Judgment: For Women Scotland [2025], by Emily Grabham criticallegalthinking.com/2025/05/01/p...

The only way states can enforce sex policing in public spaces (like toilets) is by incentivising misogynistic, transphobic social surveillance. People will scrutinise, question, intrude on cis and trans women who do not conform to certain gender aesthetics. This is happening now. And it’s chilling.

What I'm getting from the FWS judgment is the following:

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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Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · last yr.

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.

On 1 May, we are hosting a triple book launch for the exciting new @queerjudgments.bsky.social book, and the two volumes on queer approaches to international law I co-edited with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social! Come along! It’ll be both in person in Melbs & online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/...

Queer Connections: A Triple Book Launch

This event will celebrate and draw out the connections between three recent edited volumes focused on queer approaches to law: Nuno Ferreira, M...

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So excited that my book is now in press! It’ll be out next month.

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“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since October 2023

GENEVA - Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination ...

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An amazing and inspirational inaugural lecture from Professor @lovedayh.bsky.social : it was such a joy to listen to Loveday discussing human rights and her academic journey @leicesterlawschool.bsky.social Congratulations

The fabulous @lovedayh.bsky.social is giving a lecture on queer engagements with international law later this month (26th Feb) at the University of Leicester. You can register for a free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/cssah... 🌈🎓

Tomorrow it’s finally time for our workshop on Critical Approaches to European Human Rights at @hertiecfr.bsky.social, co-organised with @esrademir.bsky.social & @cohelongo.bsky.social and with an absolute dream line-up of speakers — looking forward to an intense day of thinking together #CritECHR

Want a warm bath of good cheer for 2025? Then don’t listen to our podcast - out tomorrow. An entire collection of stressed-out justice activists worry about what might be coming!

Really looking forward to this next instalment of a fabulous series

Ruth Houghton@ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 2y ago

Not convinced my musings are going to be as good as this epic poster! 🔥 But on 13th Jan, I'm looking forward to discussing with and learning from Olauluwa Oni about law, literature and (de)colonial utopias.

Friends! If you are in Melbs on 15 January, come along to this symposium to launch Queer Encounters and Queer Engagements with International Law. These books too a mammoth effort to make and I'm indebted to my friend @claerwen.bsky.social. Come celebrate them www.eventbrite.com.au/e/symposium-...

Symposium : Queer Encounters and Queer Engagements with International Law

Come join us for a deep dive into queer perspectives on international law at our Symposium on Queer Encounters and Engagements!

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For academics and those working in the area, if this is something you'd like to read, that can be arranged 👀

Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden@sandraduffy.bsky.social · 2y ago

2024 - 'Ideological colonising': The influence of anti-gender movements on domestic and international human rights law This one isn't OA but I'm posting it anyway because the twin books that it's in are an incredible project steered fabulously by @claerwen.bsky.social and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social

So many wonderful contributions…

Senthorun S. Raj@senthorun.bsky.social · 2y ago

For you queer law nerds, I highly recommend this duo of gems (edited by @claerwen.bsky.social and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social). These books explore how “queer” transforms arenas of international law alongside how international law recognises and/or rejects disruptive lives, bodies, and intimacies. 🌈🎓

Latest episode of Called to the Bar has dropped. The contributors reflect on what 2025 may bring - a heady cocktail of hope, despair and sweary insights podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks

Education Podcast · 27 Episodes · Updated weekly

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Feminist Legal Studies is led by an editorial collective of feminist legal scholars working across a range of topics. Our team reviews, curates, organises, and manages the work of the journal. go.bsky.app/4p2orzx You can read more about our publishing ethos here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Academia has a problem with sexual violence” hard-hitting and incisive editorial by my FLS wenches… link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Publishing, Precarious Labour Relations and Sexual Violence in Academia - Feminist Legal Studies

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It’s been a pleasure to be one of the co-curators of the Queer Judgments Project (@queerjudgments.bsky.social) and to be able to collaborate with fabulous folks from around the world. If you’re a scholar/activist/creative type interested in queer legal issues, please consider joining our network! 🌈🎓

Queer Judgments Project@queerjudgments.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Queer Judgments Project has just joined Bluesky. We are a group of scholars, lawyers, activists, and creatives interested in re-imagining and re-creating judgments from queer and other critical perspectives. Consider joining us! And please share with your networks! www.queerjudgments.org

Feminist Legal Students has joined the butterfly kaleidoscope! Follow for updates on important feminist engagements with all things law

Feminist Legal Studies@flsjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Feminist Legal Studies (FLS) is now on Bluesky. FLS is committed to an international and interdisciplinary perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal practice. We publish material in a range of formats. Follow us! link.springer.com/journal/10691

Here are some of my great colleagues at Leicester Law School! go.bsky.app/6MCdqig

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ICC issues arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohamed Deif over alleged war crimes – Middle East live

Israel reacts with fury over arrest warrants for prime minister and former defence minister

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