Don't miss next week's seminar and workshop - 1 pm 5 December 2025: 'Queer Theory & Human Rights - methods & critiques' with Prof Loveday Hodson and Dr David N.C. Ikpo. Further information and registration: www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/press/events... @lovedayh.bsky.social @lenaholzer.bsky.social

Published today—at the start of Transgender Awareness Week—in the American Journal of International Law, my new book review, "International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?" arrives at a moment that feels both personal and profound. Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

⚖️ Queer@King’s celebrates Dr @senthorun.bsky.social's new monograph, The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms: Repairing Law, and invites responses from Professor @lovedayh.bsky.social, Dr @florarenz.bsky.social & Dr Peter Dunne. 🔗 Register ⤵️

Very excited that the articles for the Special Issue of the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law on 20 years of the Gender Recognition Act and Civil Partnership Act are starting to come out. Such a pleasure working with Alexander Maine and Peter Dunne on this! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So I did a thing on marriage rights: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience? Then this conference and CALL FOR PAPERS 👇(to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR (and the 35th anniversary of the Venice Commission) might be for you. www.linkedin.com/posts/centre...

For @oxfordcsls.bsky.social, I had the joy of reviewing @claerwen.bsky.social and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social’s Queer Engagements/Encounters with International Law collections. These books probe how we creatively navigate law in our pursuits to improve the lives of LGBTQ+ folk and nurture new worlds.

This is brilliant from Emily Grabham.

The only way states can enforce sex policing in public spaces (like toilets) is by incentivising misogynistic, transphobic social surveillance. People will scrutinise, question, intrude on cis and trans women who do not conform to certain gender aesthetics. This is happening now. And it’s chilling.

Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.

What I'm getting from the FWS judgment is the following:

Feminist legal scholars Flora Renz and Davina Cooper wrote an article for our journal recently exploring how/why we should think about gender discrimination and legal responses to address it beyond biological frameworks. You can read it here (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1...

On 1 May, we are hosting a triple book launch for the exciting new @queerjudgments.bsky.social book, and the two volumes on queer approaches to international law I co-edited with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social! Come along! It’ll be both in person in Melbs & online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/...

So excited that my book is now in press! It’ll be out next month.

An amazing and inspirational inaugural lecture from Professor @lovedayh.bsky.social : it was such a joy to listen to Loveday discussing human rights and her academic journey @leicesterlawschool.bsky.social Congratulations

The fabulous @lovedayh.bsky.social is giving a lecture on queer engagements with international law later this month (26th Feb) at the University of Leicester. You can register for a free ticket here: www.tickettailor.com/events/cssah... 🌈🎓

Tomorrow it’s finally time for our workshop on Critical Approaches to European Human Rights at @hertiecfr.bsky.social, co-organised with @esrademir.bsky.social & @cohelongo.bsky.social and with an absolute dream line-up of speakers — looking forward to an intense day of thinking together #CritECHR

Want a warm bath of good cheer for 2025? Then don’t listen to our podcast - out tomorrow. An entire collection of stressed-out justice activists worry about what might be coming!

Really looking forward to this next instalment of a fabulous series

Friends! If you are in Melbs on 15 January, come along to this symposium to launch Queer Encounters and Queer Engagements with International Law. These books too a mammoth effort to make and I'm indebted to my friend @claerwen.bsky.social. Come celebrate them www.eventbrite.com.au/e/symposium-...

For academics and those working in the area, if this is something you'd like to read, that can be arranged 👀

So many wonderful contributions…

Latest episode of Called to the Bar has dropped. The contributors reflect on what 2025 may bring - a heady cocktail of hope, despair and sweary insights podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Feminist Legal Studies is led by an editorial collective of feminist legal scholars working across a range of topics. Our team reviews, curates, organises, and manages the work of the journal. go.bsky.app/4p2orzx You can read more about our publishing ethos here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

“Academia has a problem with sexual violence” hard-hitting and incisive editorial by my FLS wenches… link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It’s been a pleasure to be one of the co-curators of the Queer Judgments Project (@queerjudgments.bsky.social) and to be able to collaborate with fabulous folks from around the world. If you’re a scholar/activist/creative type interested in queer legal issues, please consider joining our network! 🌈🎓

Feminist Legal Students has joined the butterfly kaleidoscope! Follow for updates on important feminist engagements with all things law

Here are some of my great colleagues at Leicester Law School! go.bsky.app/6MCdqig