BOOK: Caroline DERRY & Carol HOWELLS (eds.), Legal History in the Curriculum. Comparative Perspectives, Critical Approaches and Future Directions (London and New York: Routledge, 2025), 242 p. ISBN 9781032754970, € 116

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About the book:

As legal education faces fresh challenges and opportunities, and a growing literature calls for subversive new approaches, this book engages with vital questions about the place of history in the law school. How and why should we teach legal history? What is its place in the curriculum? What can different jurisdictions learn from each other?

This collection offers an overview and examples of cutting-edge practice in teaching legal history across the law curriculum, challenging expectations of its place and potential. The book’s three sections explore practices and possibilities in the core curriculum, in dedicated legal history courses and in law schools across the world. They highlight how legal history offers diverse and inclusive content, global perspectives, and transnational understandings to students. By exploring contributors’ own purposes and practices, they provide insight and fresh ideas on how and why readers can incorporate legal histories into their own teaching.

Table of contents:

Introduction (Caroline Derry, Carol Howells)

Legal history in the curriculum

• Contextualising law for both scholarship and practice. The contribution of legal history (Nandini Boodia-Canoo)
• Feminist legal history at the heart of the law curriculum (Caroline Derry)
• Teaching public law through empire's archive (Tom Frost)
• Using history to contextualise, diversify and critique the contract law curriculum (Fred Motson)

Legal history courses

• An immersive, cross-disciplinary approach to teaching undergraduate legal history. ‘A Public Spectacle’: Murder and the Law in Nineteenth Century Newcastle (Jennifer Aston, Helen Rutherford)
• Opportunities in teaching global legal history (Lorren Eldridge)
• Anachronisms in legal historical education. Pitfalls, benefits and their importance for every lawyer (Mariken Lenaerts)

International perspectives

• Teaching English legal history at the continental university. A case study of the University of Lodz (Łukasz Jan Korporowicz)
• The purpose(s) of teaching legal history in contemporary Poland. Current situation and future perspectives (Tomasz Kucharski)
• Tracing threads. Brazilian legal history's evolution, research reflections and educational perspectives (Kauan Juliano Cangussu)
• The contribution of legal history to the curriculum of the modern law school. The Argentinian perspective 1 (Viviana Kluger)

Conclusion. The law schools of tomorrow: a collection of future legal histories (Russell Sandberg)

 On the editors:

Caroline Derry is Professor of Feminism, Law and History at the Open University, UK, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She teaches across all levels from access to PhD. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality and the criminal law, legal history and transformative approaches to legal education

Carol Howells is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Open University, UK. Her research interests include constitutional histories and legal traditions, histories of legal education, and marginalised legal histories

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BOOK: Loveday HODSON and Troy LAVERS, eds., Feminist Judgments in International Law (Hart Publishing, 2019). ISBN 9781509914456, £90.00

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Routledge has recently published “Feminist Judgments in International Law”.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The emergence of feminist rewriting of key judgments has been one of the most interesting recent developments in legal methodology. This unique enterprise has seen scholars collaborate in the 'real world' task of reassessing jurisprudence in light of feminist perspectives.

This important new volume makes a significant contribution to the endeavour, exploring how key judgments in international law might have differed if feminist judges had sat on the bench.

This collection asks whether feminist perspectives can offer meaningful and viable alternatives to international law norms; and if so, whether that application results in distinguishable differences in outcomes. It answers these questions with particular reference to sources of international law, the public and private divide, State responsibility, State immunities, treaty law, State sovereignty, human rights protection, global governance, and the concept of violence in international law. This landmark publication offers a truly innovative reassessment of international law.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Loveday Hodson is Associate Professor at Leicester Law School.

Troy Lavers is Associate Professor at Leicester Law School.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I
INTRODUCTION
1. Feminist Judgments in International Law: An Introduction
Loveday Hodson and Troy Lavers

PART II
GENERAL INTERNATIONAL LAW
Permanent Court of International Justice
2. Bozkurt Case, aka the Lotus Case (France v Turkey): Ships that Go Bump in the Night
Christine Chinkin, Gina Heathcote, Emily Jones and Henry Jones

International Court of Justice
3. Reservations to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Kasey McCall-Smith, Rhona Smith and Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko
4. The Lockerbie Case (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya v United States of America)
Kathryn Greenman and Troy Lavers
5. Germany v Italy
Zoi Aliozi, Bérénice K. Schramm and Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko

Court of Justice of the European Union
6. Gómez-Limón Sánchez-Camacho v Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS) and others
Marta Carneiro, Kirsten Ketscher and Freya Semanda

PART III
HUMAN RIGHTS
European Court of Human Rights
7. Christine Goodwin v the United Kingdom
Sara Bengtson, Damian Gonzalez-Salzberg, Loveday Hodson and Paul Johnson
8. Leyla Sahin v Turkey
Amel Alghrani, Amal Ali and Jill Marshall
9. Burden v the United Kingdom
Nicola Barker
10. Opuz v Turkey
Shazia Choudhry and Jonathan Herring
11. A, B and C v Ireland
Helen Fenwick, Wendy Guns and Ben Warwick
12. Ruusunen v Finland
Merris Amos, Maribel Canto-Lopez and Nani Jansen Reventlow

Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
13. Cecilia Kell v Canada
Lolita Buckner Inniss, Jessie Hohmann and Enzamaria Tramontana

PART IV
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW
Special Court for Sierra Leone
14. AFRC Trial Judgment (Prosecutor v Brima, Kamara and Kanu)
Olga Jurasz, Sheri Labenski, Solange Mouthaan and Dawn Sedman

International Criminal Court
15. The Prosecutor v Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
Yassin M Brunger, Emma Irving and Diana Sankey

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
16. Prosecutor v Radovan Karadžic
Celestine Greenwood

PART V
CONCLUSION
17. Prefiguring Feminist Judgment in International Law
Hilary Charlesworth

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CONFERENCE: "From Mothers to Citizens: Italian Women from Unification to the Republic" (Cambridge, September 29-30 2016)

WHAT From Mothers to Citizens: Italian Women from Unification to the Republic, Conference

WHEN September 29-30 2016

WHERE University of Cambridge, Department of Italian, Raised Faculty Building, Sedgwick Avenue, Cambridge

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This conference seeks to mark the 70th anniversary of women's right to vote by investigating the development of women’s status and their changing role and image between Unification and the founding of the Republic.

BOOK: "La bataille de la parité. Mobilisations pour la féminisation du pouvoir", by Laure Bereni (Paris, March 2015)

La bataille de la parité. Mobilisations pour la féminisation du pouvoir, by 

Laure Bereni

Paris, Economica (Etudes politiques), mars 2015, 304 p., réf.:9782717867824, 29€

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Comment les quotas sont-ils devenus une évidence républicaine? Pourquoi l’équivalence numérique des sexes s’est-elle imposée comme le miroir de l’égalité dans les lieux de pouvoir?

Ce livre retrace l’histoire de l’idée de parité, en éclairant ses continuités et ruptures avec le féminisme des années 1970, les mobilisations qu’elle a suscitées, et les résistances tenaces auxquelles elle s’est heurtée avant de faire norme et loi.

Au fil de cette histoire, ce sont les prémisses des perceptions contemporaines de l’égalité et de la différence des sexes qui se donnent à voir. Au-delà, ce livre offre un nouveau regard sur la dynamique des contestations collectives et du changement social. En dégageant les contours d’un « espace de la cause des femmes », il met à l’épreuve les oppositions routinières entre mobilisations élitistes et populaires, mouvements sociaux et institutions, progressisme et conservatisme.

Author

Laure Bereni est sociologue, chercheuse au Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), et membre du Centre Maurice Halbwachs à Paris. Elle enseigne à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales et à Sciences po.

SEMINAR: "Rationalité et consentement dans la perspective du féminisme juridique" (Paris, 15 April 2015)

WHAT Rationalité et consentement dans la perspective du féminisme juridique, seminar

WHEN 15 April 2015, 15:00-17:00

WHERE Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, EHESS, salle 2 (105, bd Raspail) 

Speaker

Maria Rosaria Marella (University of Perugia)