Feminist Judgments in Central and Eastern Europe

Carving on the wall of The Central Criminal Court, known as the Old Bailey.

About the project听

Feminist Judgments projects creatively and critically rewrite judgments from a feminist perspective and provide a model for more gender-sensitive judging. They reveal the need to incorporate women鈥檚 experience into decision-making and the formulation of legal rules, as well as to rethink more broadly what gender justice demands. However, they have so far been limited to Western legal systems and/or to those in the common law world.

As part of a new research project coordinated by Dr Silvia Suteu (麻豆传媒视频网站 Laws), we are interested in exploring the question of what feminist judging might look like beyond these contexts. Our focus is on Central and Eastern European countries and the specific challenges and opportunities for feminist judging in the region. Not only are these countries part of the civil law tradition, and thereby their courts less likely to issue the type of discursive judgments familiar to the common lawyer, but they also operate under different constraints, including a propensity for formalism inherited from the communist legal method. The role of the judge in the legal process is different, as are the traditions, legacies, and unspoken norms. Legal education and the overall legal culture in these countries will present obstacles and openings unlike those of their common law counterparts. Last but not least, there has been strong resistance to and backlash against gender equality in the region, as exemplified by judicial and legislative steps to ban so-called 鈥済ender ideology鈥� and the ratification of the Istanbul Convention. The current climate therefore makes it that much more important to study, model, and push for feminist judging.

Project collaborators

Bulgaria: (Sofia University, Centre for Liberal Strategies Sofia, and IWM Vienna) and (Academy for European Human Rights Protection, Cologne University)
Croatia: (Ivo Pillar Institute Zagreb and UN Working Group on discrimination against women and girls),听 (University of Kent) and听 (University of Zagreb)听
Czechia: (Oxford University) and (Masaryk University)
Hungary: (WZB Berlin Social Science Center and ELTE University Budapest) and (European Institute for Gender Equality EIGE and Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
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Romania: Silvia Suteu (鲍颁尝),听 (University of Kent) and听 (University of Bucharest)
Serbia: (Belgrade University) and (University of Novi Sad)

The project benefited听from the excellent research assistance of Ms Theodora Oancea, 3rd year LLB student, 麻豆传媒视频网站 Laws.听

Advisory Board

(University of Warsaw)
(UNSW)
(Federal University of Paran谩)
(Kent University)
(Warwick University)
(Cardiff University)

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16-17 June 2022 Project Workshop, Bentham House, 麻豆传媒视频网站 Laws

Five people are sitting around a table and talking. One of them is taking notes.

8 people part of the Feminist Judgments in Central and Eastern Europe project are sitting around a table and smiling at the camera. There are notepads, pens and laptops on the table.

5 July 2022 鈥溾€� Panel 47 at ICON-S Annual Conference, Wroclaw, Poland

13 July 2022 鈥淐hallenges of Feminist Judgments Projects in Civil Law Jurisdictions鈥� roundtable at , Lisbon, Portugal

17 May 2023 Exchange with Brazilian Feminist Judgments Project (online)

Screenshot of a Zoom call for the Exchange with Brazilian Feminist Judgments Project

2 June 2023 Project workshop (online)

Screenshot of a Zoom call for the FJP Project workshop

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External collaborations

The FJ-CEE Project is part of the .

Funding

The FJ-CEE Project is generously funded through the 麻豆传媒视频网站 Global Engagement Funds. The Funds are intended to support 麻豆传媒视频网站 academics in collaborating with colleagues based in other countries.听The funds are led by 麻豆传媒视频网站's network of听Vice-Deans (International)听and听Regional Pro-Vice-Provosts,听supported by the听Global Engagement听team.

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