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.

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