Conference `Gender Competent Legal Knowledge` was held on 25th May 2020 via platform CISCO Webex, with the task of helping the LAWGEM research teams` participants to comprehend more deeply the gender sensitive discourse and approach in legal education. The presentations started from two methodological principles and aims – firstly, to give the contribution regarding gender sensitive reconsideration of particular legal disciplines, and, secondly, to give the contribution to conceptual clarifications regarding meaning of gender identity, equality, privacy, power relations, violence, self-determination, contract, etc. However, the issues of gender competent legal knowledge are relevant per se and are interesting to a much wider audience as well: more than 100 researchers from many European countries took part in the conference. They had a great opportunity to listen to very interesting talks of distinguished authors – professors Dr. Susanne Baer, Dr. Nicola Lacey, Dr. Rosemary Hunter, Dr. Silvia Suteu, Dr. Ivana Jelic, and to discuss with them relevant topics of the feminist legal theory and feminist reconsideration of family law, criminal law and judiciary. The online conference “Gender Competent Legal Knowledge” was organized with the support of OSCE Mission to Serbia.
In her lecture, Prof. Dr. Susanne Baer pointed out that “gender” is a rather demanding concept, dedicated to capture the –changing, and controversial –nature of social structure, cultural and political practice, as well as intimate relationships and personal identity, as … Continued
Gender equality is clearly one of the pillar principles of the European Convention on Human Rights. Protection of women’s rights can be treated through an individual right, dealing with its substantial and procedural limb (ex. sex discrimination cases), or as … Continued
Much teaching of law is focused around legal judgments. Whether relied on as the source of legal principles or else to illustrate the application of legal norms, judgments are central to legal education. Yet often, the gendered nature of judging … Continued
In her lecture, Prof. Dr. Hunter started from the fact that it is impossible to think about family law without thinking about gender. Family law is populated by gendered characters – wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, same-sex couples and … Continued
When you think of famous crimes, who committed them? And when you think of someone murdered, who exactly comes to mind? Today, the paradigmatic criminal is male, while the stereotypical victim is female, as well as young, which may signal … Continued