Modern legal analysis often produces a particular mode of thinking that hides gendered, racialised and classed ideas, behind a shroud of apparent objectivity. Feminism has long challenged law’s claim to objectivity, neutrality and universality. One of the key sites of this challenge has been the classroom, where feminist legal analysis has challenged underlying presumptions of law, but also encouraged students to produce different modes of legal thinking.
This workshop explores the state of feminist legal teaching on the island, exploring the extent to which the legal curriculum has interiorised feminist analyses, and the possibilities of feminist teaching to change Northern/Irish legal culture.
Speakers include:
- Dr. Maebh Harding: Attitudes to Feminist Legal Teaching in Ireland
- Prof. Aoife O’Donoghue: Teaching Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments
- Dr. Sarah Hamil: Feminist Insights from a Director of Teaching and Learning
- Prof. Kathryn McNeilly: Diversity in Pedagogical Lenses
- Dr. Sahar Ahmed: Anti-Racist Pedagogies in a Feminist (Legal) Classroom
- Dr. Maelle Noir: Teaching Human Rights from a Feminist Decolonial Perspective
- Dr. Sinead Ring: Teaching the Law of Evidence in a Feminist Voice
