Portraits Of Women In International Law

Author : Tallgren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198868453

Get Book

Portraits of Women in International Law by Tallgren Pdf

Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s. Is this the case? Or have others been erased from the collective images of this history, including the portrait gallery of notables in international law? Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? investigates the slow and late inclusion of women in the spheres of knowledge and power in international law. The forty-two textual and visual representations by a diverse team of passionate portraitists represent women and gender non-conforming people in international law from the fourteenth century onwards around the world: individuals and groups who imagined, developed, or contested international law; who earned their living in its institutions; or who, even indirectly, may have changed its course. This rich volume calls for a critical identification of the formal and informal institutional practices, norms, and rituals of (white) masculinities, both in the past and in the research of international law today. By abandoning reductive histories, their biased frames, and tacit assumptions, this work brings previously unseen glimpses of international law and its agents, ideas, causes, behaviour, norms, and social practices into the spotlight.

Author : Umut Özsu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108427692

Get Book

Completing Humanity by Umut Özsu Pdf

Examines the history of the rise and fall of the twentieth century's last major attempt to decolonize international law.

Author : Gina Heathcote
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191508202

Get Book

Feminist Dialogues on International Law by Gina Heathcote Pdf

In the past decade, a sense of feminist 'success' has developed within the United Nations and international law, recognized in the Security Council resolution 1325 on women, peace and security, the increased jurisprudence on gender based crimes in armed conflict from the ICTR/Y and the ICC, the creation of UN Women, and Security Council sanctions against perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict. Contributing to the development of feminist and gender scholarship on international law, Gina Heathcote provides a feminist analysis of the central pillars of international law, noting the advances and limitations of feminist approaches. Through incorporating into mainstream international legal studies specific critical and feminist narratives, this book considers the manner in which feminist thinking has changed international law, and the manner in which international law has remained impervious to key feminist dialogues. It argues for a return to structural bias feminism that engages the foundations of international law and uses gender as a method for challenging post-millennium narratives on fragmentation, the role of international institutions, the nature of legal authority, sovereignty, and the role of international legal experts.

Author : Judith G. Gardam,Michelle J. Jarvis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004482005

Get Book

Women, Armed Conflict and International Law by Judith G. Gardam,Michelle J. Jarvis Pdf

The role that gender plays in determining the experience of those caught up in armed conflict has long been overlooked. Moreover, the extent to which gender influences the international legal regime designed to address the humanitarian problems arising from armed conflict has similarly been ignored. In the early 1990s, prompted by extensive media coverage of the rape of women during the conflict in Bosnia Herzegovina, the international community was forced to critically examine the capacity of international law to respond to such crimes. The prevalence of sexual violence, is, however, merely one aspect of the distinctive impact of conflict on women. Although a range of factors influence the way individual women experience armed conflict, the endemic gender discrimination that exists in all societies is a common theme: from Cambodia, where women land-mine victims are less likely to receive treatment for their injuries than are men; to South Africa, where women widowed during the Apartheid years have become outcasts in their own society. To date, the extent to which international law addresses the myriad of ways in which women are affected by armed conflict has received little attention. This work takes the experience of women of armed conflict, matches it with existing provisions of international law, and investigates reasons for the silence of the latter in relation to these events for women. It is the first broad-based critique of international humanitarian law from a gender perspective. The contribution of the United Nations, through its focus on human rights, to improving the protection of women in armed conflict is also considered. The authors underscore the need for new approaches to the issue of women and armed conflict, and canvass a range of options for moving forward.

Author : Natalie Kaufman Hevener
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429716881

Get Book

International Law And The Status Of Women by Natalie Kaufman Hevener Pdf

Since 1945 more than 20 international legal instruments dealing specifically with women have been modified or consummated, reflecting a growing international consensus on issues concerning women's role in society. This book is the first complete collection and examination of this group of documents. Dr. Hevener analyzes each of the agreements and assesses its likely impact on the legal status of women. Categorizing the documents according to their goals, she demonstrates the broad range of economic, social, and political concerns they cover and evaluates contemporary patterns and future needs they reveal. The book includes a table of ratifications organized by country and region.

Author : Shane Chalmers,Sundhya Pahuja
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 653 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000385762

Get Book

Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities by Shane Chalmers,Sundhya Pahuja Pdf

This Handbook brings together 40 of the world’s leading scholars and rising stars who study international law from disciplines in the humanities – from history to literature, philosophy to the visual arts – to showcase the distinctive contributions that this field has made to the study of international law over the past two decades. Including authors from Australia, Canada, Europe, India, South Africa, the UK and the USA, all the contributors engage the question of what is distinctive, and critical, about the work that has been done and that continues to be done in the field of ‘international law and the humanities’. For many of these authors, answering this question involves reflecting on the work they themselves have been contributing to this path-breaking field since its inception at the end of the twentieth century. For others, it involves offering models of the new work they are carrying out, or else reflecting on the future directions of a field that has now taken its place as one of the most important sites for the study of international legal practice and theory. Each of the book’s six parts foregrounds a different element, or cluster of elements, of international law and the humanities, from an attention to the office, conduct and training of the jurist and jurisprudent (Part 1); to scholarly craft and technique (Part 2); to questions of authority and responsibility (Part 3); history and historiography (Part 4); plurality and community (Part 5); as well as the challenge of thinking, and rethinking, international legal concepts for our times (Part 6). Outlining new ways of imagining, and doing, international law at a moment in time when original, critical thought and practice is more necessary than ever, this Handbook will be essential for scholars, students and practitioners in international law, international relations, as well as in law and the humanities more generally.

Author : Immi Tallgren
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780192638946

Get Book

Portraits of Women in International Law by Immi Tallgren Pdf

Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s. Is this the case? Or have others been erased from the collective images of this history, including the portrait gallery of notables in international law? Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces? investigates the slow and late inclusion of women in the spheres of knowledge and power in international law. The forty-two textual and visual representations by a diverse team of passionate portraitists represent women and gender non-conforming people in international law from the fourteenth century onwards around the world: individuals and groups who imagined, developed, or contested international law; who earned their living in its institutions; or who, even indirectly, may have changed its course. This rich volume calls for a critical identification of the formal and informal institutional practices, norms, and rituals of (white) masculinities, both in the past and in the research of international law today. By abandoning reductive histories, their biased frames, and tacit assumptions, this work brings previously unseen glimpses of international law and its agents, ideas, causes, behaviour, norms, and social practices into the spotlight.

Author : Christine Chinkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108483476

Get Book

Women, Peace and Security and International Law by Christine Chinkin Pdf

An international legal analysis of the UN Security Council's agenda on Women, Peace and Security (WPS).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:822644123

Get Book

Women and International Human Rights Law by Anonim Pdf

Author : Marsha A. Freeman,Christine Chinkin,Beate Rudolf
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 5372 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191630095

Get Book

The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women by Marsha A. Freeman,Christine Chinkin,Beate Rudolf Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and its Optional Protocol. The Convention is a key international human rights instrument and the only one exclusively addressed to women. It has been described as the United Nations' 'landmark treaty in the struggle for women's rights'. The Commentary describes the application of the Convention through the work of its monitoring body, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. It comprises detailed analyses of the Preamble and each article of the Convention and of the Optional Protocol. It also includes a separate chapter on the cross-cutting substantive issue of violence against women. The sources relied on are the treaty language and the general recommendations, concluding observations and case law under the Optional Protocol, through which the Committee has interpreted and applied the Convention. Each chapter is self-contained but the Commentary is conceived of as an integral whole. The book also includes an Introduction which provides an overview of the Convention and its embedding in the international law of human rights.

Author : Elisabeth Veronika Henn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783662586778

Get Book

International Human Rights Law and Structural Discrimination by Elisabeth Veronika Henn Pdf

International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups. To date, however, academic legal research has paid little attention to this gentle turn in international human rights law and practice to address structural discrimination. In order to address this gap, this study analyses whether and to what extent international and regional human rights frameworks foresee positive obligations for State parties to address structural discrimination, and, more precisely, gender hierarchies and stereotypes as root causes of gender-based violence. In order to answer this question, the book analyses whether or not international human rights law requires pursuing a root-cause-sensitive and transformative approach to structural discrimination against women in general and to the prevention, protection and reparation of violence against women in particular; to what extent international courts and (quasi)judicial bodies address State responsibility for the systemic occurrence of violence against women and its underlying root causes; whether or not international courts and monitoring bodies have suitable tools for addressing structural discrimination within the society of a contracting party; and the limits to a transformative approach.

Author : Irini Papanicolopulu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004375178

Get Book

Gender and the Law of the Sea by Irini Papanicolopulu Pdf

Gender and the Law of the Sea successfully establishes the relevance of gender at sea and posits that feminist perspectives can help develop a more inclusive law for the oceans.

Author : Bonita Meyersfeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847315724

Get Book

Domestic Violence and International Law by Bonita Meyersfeld Pdf

Domestic Violence and International Law argues that certain forms of domestic violence are a violation of international human rights law. The argument is based on the international law principle that, where a state fails to protect a vulnerable group of people from harm, whether perpetrated by the state or private actors, it has breached its obligations to protect against human rights violation. This book provides a comprehensive legal analysis for why a state should be accountable in international law for allowing women to suffer extreme forms of domestic violence and how this can help individual victims. It is irrelevant that the violence is perpetrated by individuals and not state actors such as soldiers or the police. The state's breach of its responsibility is in its failure to act effectively in domestic violence cases; and in its silent endorsement of the violence, it becomes complicit. The book seeks to reformulate academic and political debate on domestic violence and the responsibility of states under international law. It is based on empirical data combined with an honest assessment of whether or not domestic violence is recognised by the international community as a human rights violation. 'Domestic Violence in International Law [...] provides an original, provocative, and much needed legal framework for the coherent development of a norm against domestic violence in international human rights law...Dr. Meyersfeld has developed a thoroughgoing analysis that asks and answers the most difficult questions often neglected by academics, lawyers and activists who dismiss the possibility that systemic violence against women could violate international law...Most fundamentally, this book is memorable for the hope and optimism it expresses about the transformative possibilities of international law. For without compromising such intensely human values as privacy, autonomy and cultural identity, Dr. Meyersfeld moves her reader with an abiding conviction: that international law, fueled with the power of transnational actors, can propel public actors to protect abused and vulnerable people in their most private worlds.' From the Foreword by Harold Koh, The Legal Adviser, United States Department of State (2009-).

Author : Indira Rosenthal,Valerie Oosterveld,Susana SáCouto
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Criminal law
ISBN : 9780198871583

Get Book

Gender and International Criminal Law by Indira Rosenthal,Valerie Oosterveld,Susana SáCouto Pdf

The last few decades have seen remarkable developments in international criminal justice, especially in relation to the pursuit of individuals responsible for sexual violence and other gender-based crimes. Historically ignored, justified, or minimised, this category of crimes now has a heightened profile in the international political and judicial arena. Despite this, gender is poorly understood, and blind spots, biases, and stereotypes prevail. This book brings together leading feminist international criminal and humanitarian law academics and practitioners to examine the place of gender in international criminal law (ICL). It identifies and analyses past and current narrow understandings of gender, before considering how a limited conceptualization affects accountability efforts. The authors consider how best to implement a more nuanced understanding of gender in the practice of international criminal law by identifying possible responses, including embedding a sophisticated gender strategy into the practice of ICL, the gender-sensitive application of international human rights and humanitarian law, and encouraging a gender-competent approach to judging in ICL. The authors' aim is to strengthen efforts for accountability for all atrocity crimes-war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression.

Author : Catherine O'Rourke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108474306

Get Book

Women's Rights in Armed Conflict under International Law by Catherine O'Rourke Pdf

Comprehensive analysis of international law's protection of women's rights in armed conflict, with an emphasis on how these protections operate in practice.