Diskussionsveranstaltung
Kick-off: Gender and Private International Law (Gap)
- Datum: 25.10.2019
- Uhrzeit: 14:00 - 17:00
About this project
This project is born out of a sense of scholarly and political urgency
in a rapidly shifting world, where both conversations about gender
equality and a powerful backlash against gender and LGBTQI justice are
on the rise. Unlike other legal fields, private international law
(“PIL”) has for the most part been absent from this conversation, with some rare (here, here & here) exceptions (see also the panel on women & PIL).
The field is almost never analyzed using the concept of ‘gender’, or
using methodologies and ideas developed by gender studies scholars.
Similarly, scholars working on gender and the law tend to overlook how
PIL regulates gender and distributes power and privilege at the
transnational level. Transnational studies focusing on gender, often
prioritize human rights analyses, or cultural issues, ignoring how PIL
techniques and practices interact with identity, and negotiate
differences.
Our goal is to create a space for transdisciplinary research and
cross-learning at the intersection of PIL and gender and feminist
studies. Over the course of this academic year, we will put in place a
series of discussion groups bringing together a diverse group of legal
scholars working on gender, and PIL scholars interested in gender
justice issues. Sessions, organized around short readings, will address
methodological questions as well as some of the most pressing topics in
PIL, such as the regulation of transnational surrogacy, the recognition
of Islamic family law, or international abduction. Our goal with this
project is also to give a platform to emergent scholars representing a
diversity of voices and backgrounds.
About the event
Ivana Isailovic (MPI and Northeastern University, US) and Roxana Banu
(Western University, Ontario, and Queen Mary University, UK) will guide a
discussion examining the connections between gender studies and PIL.
The event will be followed by a brainstorming session on how to move the
project further.
Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.