The judgment in For Women Scotland (FWS) Ltd v The Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 (‘FWS’) has sent a great many sectors across the UK scrambling to find out what, exactly, they are supposed to do in its aftermath. The UK Supreme Court, issuing a decision in the immediate context of specific guidance around legislation … Read more
From 18th to 21st October 2024, Professor Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast) and Dr Ruth Houghton (Newcastle Law School) were teaching a course on “Feminist Constitutionalism: Law, Gender and Constitutions” at Masaryk University (MUNI) Law School. MUNI Law is based in Brno in Czechia. The module was divided into five seminars: (1) Gender, Feminism and … Read more
Funded by Northern Bridge and Gender and Law at Durham, in June 2024 we ran a workshop titled Feminist Utopias and Constitutionalism: Reimagining Feminist Futures. The purpose of this workshop was to provide hands-on training in critical feminist methodologies of knowledge production. Using the popular 2023 Barbie film as a starting point, the event was … Read more
At the Cork Irish Association of Law Teachers Conference in 2021, still in the grips of Covid, myself and Maebh Harding, stood by the river Lee having a great catch-up and chat. Maebh had returned to Ireland to work at UCD just a bit beforehand, and I had just gotten my job at Queen’s. We … Read more