Description: In the past decade, feminist scholars and women's rights activists have used the feminist judgment method to reimagine the relationship between law and gender justice, resulting in rewritten 'feminist' judgments from courts around the world. This groundbreaking book extends this approach and applies it to a wide range of decisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hague-based court with power to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and aggression in over 120 countries. With over 60 contributors from the Global North and Global South, including countries where the ICC has been active, this book reflects an international and intersectional feminism. Diverse contributions reveal the gendered implications of crimes (both sexual and non-sexual), command responsibility, defences, complementarity, head of state immunity, sentencing, reparations and more. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Brief description: Kcasey McLoughlin is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Newcastle Law School at the University of Newcastle. Her research examines the gendered assumptions that pervade legal and political institutions. Her first book Law, Women Judges and the Gender Order: Lessons from the High Court of Australia (2022) was awarded the 2023 Carole Pateman Gender and Politics Book Prize Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand 2022 Book Prize.