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The volume is a result of a much-needed effort to rethink traditional legal concepts in a gender-sensitive and gender competent manner. The book deals with topics as jurisprudence and gender, feminist approaches to jurisprudence: liberalism, difference, dominance, anti-essentialism, postmodernism, positivism, natural law, feminist jurisprudence, developments in feminist legal theory as well as feminist critiques of traditional legal concepts.
List of contents
Introduction - Reassessing Feminst Legal Theories.- Feminist Legal Theory Beyond Neutrality.- Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing and the Erotization of Domination.- Gender Justice: Reassessing Theories of Justice from Feminist Perspectives.- Human Dignity in Feminist Vocabulary.- What Did Gender Do for Women? Considering the Potential of Gender as a Legal Concept.- Gender-Based Violence: A Conceptual Analysis.- Trans* Citizenship: A Feminist Socio-Legal Analysis of Theories and Practices.- Reassessing the Notion of Vulnerability: The Feminist Debate.- Should the Reasonableness Standard be 'Genderized'? Some Reflections from the Perspective of Personalism.- Individual and Collective Harm in Sex Discrimination.
About the author
Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, served as a member of the British Academy’s Policy Group on Prisons, which reported in 2014, and was from 2014-2019 the Academy’s nominee on the Board of the British Museum. In 2011 she was awarded the Hans Sigrist Prize by the University of Bern, for scholarship on the rule of law in modern societies; and in 2022 she won the Law and Society Association’s International Prize. Her publications include A Life of HLA Hart (OUP 2004); Women, Crime and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D’Urbervilles (2008); The Prisoners’ Dilemma (2008), and In Search of Criminal Responsibility (2016).
Miodrag A. Jovanović is a Full Professor in Jurisprudence, at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade. He also teaches at the Legal Methods module of the European Master in Legal Theory, at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the 2016 Brandon Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (Cambridge). His internationally published books include: Constitutionalizing Secession in Federalized States: A Procedural Approach (Eleven International Publishing, 2007); Collective Rights – A Legal Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2012); Unpacking Normativity – Conceptual, Normative and Descriptive Issues (co-edited with Kenneth Einar Himma and Bojan Spaić) (Hart Publishing, 2018) and The Nature of International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Bojan Spaić is an Associate Professor in Introduction to Law and State, Law and Justice, and Philosophy of Law at the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade and a Visiting Professor at the University Bocconi Milan (Italy). He was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Heidelberg, Erasmus+ Teaching Exchange Fellow at the University of Bologna, Italian Government Research Fellow at the University La Sapienza in Rome (Italy). Spaić is the head of the Center for Legal Fundamentals of the Institute for Legal and Social Sciences of the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade; president of the Serbian section of the International Association for Legal and Social Philosophy, the head of Belgrade Legal Theory Group, and coordinates the Horizon Twinning project Advancing Cooperation on the Foundations of Law (ALF). He published (edited and authored) 11 books and more than 30 articles in Serbian and English.
Ana Zdravković is a PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, Researcher at the Centre for Legal Fundamentals of the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, and Research Assistant at the Institute of Comparative Law. The topic of her PhD thesis is "Absolute Human Rights". In the academic year 2018/19 and 2019/20, she was a Teaching Assistant in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law University of Belgrade. She successfully passed the Bar Exam in June 2021. She has attended various international and national courses and published in the field of gender studies.
