Blog Book Series Introduction: Hanging in the Balance: Why Justification Matters to Feminist Legal Practice

The blogs in this series by emerging and leading equality scholars examine the questions and ideas in Meghan Campbell’s new monograph Hanging in the Balance: Why Justification Matters to Feminist Legal Practice through the prism of their own research on equality. Vandita Khanna examines how justification operates in the context of race inequality in the European Court of Human Rights. Deborah Russo unpicks how justification is used and (mis)used in relation to the states approach to climate change. And Doroty Estrada-Trank investigates how the nuances of substantive equality and situates the claims in the monograph against the seemingly ever-growing backlash and resistance to women’s equality. Their blogs are fascinating insights into the interplay between equality and justification, bring new layers, intensity, understanding and by bringing their novel and rich insights that help illuminate the strengths and challenges in advancing equality through the law and map out the hard work that remains to be done.