Feminist Legal Studies

How does consent operate and find form in dance practices, and to what effects? A one day free online symposium.

This is event forms part of the Legal Materialities and Dance Network convened by Marie-Andrée Jacob and Anna Macdonald. More info: ials.sas.ac.uk/research/lhu...

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One of our editors, @daanika.bsky.social, presented her excellent new book at Manchester Law School. Dr Kamal’s book explores how women in Pakistan articulate their experiences of domestic violence and the ways women are stigmatised/pathologised in courts. Read here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Law and Justice in the 1950s - University of London Press The 1950s was a decade of considerable legal development in England and Wales, despite often being regarded as very conservative in contrast to the more radical 1960s and 1970s. This collection illust...

Now published and free to download! 'Law and Justice in the 1950s' is a fantastic collection, edited by Fiona Cownie and Rosemary Auchmuty.

My chapter is on the Wolfenden Report, homosexuality and women - others cover everything from legal education to Beeching to London smog.

Queering Private Law - Bentham House Conference 2026 Call for Papers

Are you a private law nerd who flirts with queer scholarship? Are you a queer scholar with a curiosity about private law? Do you like hanging out with cool people? Then check out the Queering Private Law conference taking place in London in September this year and submit a paper if you’re keen!

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Copies of Celebrating Women in Legal History, edited by Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland and Caroline Derry. The blue and purple cover shows a door opening onto bookshelves.

Table of contents, showing chapters by Jennifer Aston, Christine Anne George, Anne Logan, Lisa Cowan, Nina Krsljanin, and Valentina Cvetkovic-Dordevic.

Table of contents, showing chapters by Maria Fletcher, Charlie Peevers, Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, and Deborah Siddoway.

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social

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Against Conferencing-as-usual in times of Genocide: Criminology, Complicity, and Sexual Violence in Palestine - Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Legal Studies -

Sharing word of this critical reflection and intervention, offered by our own @shalininair.bsky.social together with colleagues Molly Ackhurst and @tanyaserisier.bsky.social, and out now in @flsjournal.bsky.social

The effective conclusion of the ET is that trans people have to use third spaces. I think based on very poor legal analysis and uncritical adoption of "gender critical" talking points. But as I say, not binding, and all the relevant issues hopefully to be decided shortly by the High Court.

Against Conferencing-as-usual in times of Genocide: Criminology, Complicity, and Sexual Violence in Palestine - Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Legal Studies -

"Scholarly exchange and academic freedom are aspirations, not business as usual, when we consider the knowledge and expertise economies of colonialism.” Colleagues and I reflect on criminology, conferencing and complicity at this year's Eurocrim
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Fanniversary Conference — Vagina Museum

If you're interested in presenting or performing at the Fanniversary conference, please submit a title, biography and 150 word abstract of your work here www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...

We are particularly interested in work that bridges the gap between disciplines; works that agitate, distort and/or subvert heteronormative or cisnormative ideologies; and works that centre marginalised voices.

Call for papers, performances, facilitators. Fannyversary conference 2026. Feminism, gender and justice in an increasingly reactionary world. Deadline: February 6 2026. Details on our website.

This spring, we've teamed up with Open University to examine feminism, gender and justice within law, theatre and the humanities at our inaugural Fanniversary conference. We want to hear your proposals for papers, lectures, performances, workshops and more. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...

A 35 year old letter to the editor, written by a very ballsy 15 year old, about the Rodney King verdict.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

For those of you looking to follow some more queer scholar-activists in 2026, check out this starter pack with many fabulous folks.

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My suspicion is that the Trans community and allies left Twitter and arrived here early but it’s still worth re-upping this for those who left it a little longer:

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Feminist Theory | Verso Reading Guide Featuring books by Shulamith Firestone, Nancy Fraser, Vivian Gornick, Andreas Long Chu, and more!

The Dialectic of Sex was the first book of the women’s liberation movement to propound a feminist theory of sex. Here we have compiled works of feminism that live in conversation with the ideas Firestone expounded.

New piece in Feminist Legal Studies - open access 🧚

I have the joy of working with a fantastic collective of feminist legal scholars as part of the Feminist Legal Studies Editorial Board. As a journal, we seek to publish engaging critical feminist research in both traditional scholarly and more creative formats.

Check it out and share with others.

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Happy New Year! 🎊

In 2026, as ever, critical feminist legal scholarship has an important role to play in shaping dialogues about freedom, justice, and community.

As an interdisciplinary journal, we welcome critical feminist work. Consider submitting your work to us: link.springer.com/journal/10691

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This poetic/critical piece reflects on nine criminal prosecutions for suspected ‘illegal’ abortion in England that occurred between 2012 & 2025. This essay-meditation evokes the haunting, suffocation & cruelty imposed by the criminalisation of abortion.

Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sara Ahmed is so important here:

”I would describe citation as a rather successful reproductive technology, a way of reproducing the world around certain bodies…way[s] of making certain bodies and thematics core to the discipline, and others not even part”.
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“As feminist scholars committed to anti-colonial and abolitionist praxis, we understand knowledge production cannot be separated from the material conditions and structures of violence in which it is embedded.”

Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Critical Times Law & Humanities Summer School University of Lucerne July 6-10, 2026. Open to PhD, PostDoc, Grads to re/think the significance of bodies in various contexts, situations and relations. Or to ask: do bodies still matter? Deadline: March 20, 2026
More Info: www.unilu.ch/en/faculties...

📣Today we're launching the #CfP for the 1-day conference 'Broken Bonds: New Perspectives on Marital Breakdown in the English Common Law World 1801-1969' online & in-person 20 April 2026 #history #familylaw #divorce

CfP deadline is 2 Feb 2026

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Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social.

Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online

To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...

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📔: “The spirit and gist of a gathering of people who worked closely with Drucilla…”

Thrilled to announce the publication of our new special issue, “Limit, Transformation, Imagination — Honouring the Legacy of Drucilla Cornell” edited by Karin van Marle.

Read here: link.springer.com/journal/1069...

No! An assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of “no” by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara ...

No! The Art and Activism of Complaining is being published by Feminist Press on April 7, 2026! We fill those speech bubbles: pop, snap, sizzle, shriek, scream, clatter, splatter! feministpress.org/collections/...

Funnily enough I just got called Sir by the train conductor because I have short hair and was wearing a hat… so what I’m saying is that I’m sure this will all work out great.

I wrote something reflecting on today.

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Trans folk endure political violence that negates their identities, strips away their healthcare and excludes them from public life. They’re trashed as an “ideology.” But they’re people. They deserve to live in a world that unconditionally nurtures their existence.

We are seeking short reflections on:
Surveillance culture and technology
Artificial intelligence
Climate change
Fake news and misinformation
Reproductive justice
Racial and gender inequalities
Indigenous rights
More here: www.feministstudies.org/home.html