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Aolain on Feminist Theory & Internatonal Human Rights

By Lawrence Solum

Fionnuala D. Ni Aolain (University of Ulster at Jordanstown - Transitional Justice Institute) has posted Learning the Lessons: What Feminist Legal Theory Teaches International Human Rights Law and Practice on SSRN.  Here is the abstract:

In the contemporary international moment, as the long-term impact of 9/11 and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan continue to shape and redefine international legal and political rules, this analysis pauses to reflect on the gendered elements which ground international legal norms. As an international legal scholar I focus on how feminist legal theory can be applied to the present, and how insights gleaned in domestic legal contexts (significantly though not exclusively within western states) are relevant to the experiences of women in multiple jurisdictional and cultural environments. My concluding observations are specifically drawn from societies emerging from war and repression, and ruminate on the experiences of women in those contexts.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).