Events

As sociological researchers of abortion experience, we welcome the invitation to reflect on the social consequences of legal regulation of abortion care with Prof Ruth Fletcher and others engaged in the legal witnessing project. The quantitative and qualitative data we have gathered show how important it is to question the legal assumptions underpinning policy positions … Read more

For many who need or provide abortion in Ireland, wonderfully, it has been part of routine healthcare for all their reproductive lifetimes or careers. Its provision is taken for granted. For the Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA), which spent years convening experts and activists to consider what kind of legal framework might be most effective … Read more

This is the first of series of posts for International Safe Abortion Day 2026. Links to all the pieces are at the end of post “It was like an epiphany. We just felt a weight lifted off us to know that there was even an option. They told me someone local to me where I … Read more

The launch of Revisiting the Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project took place at Ulster University’s Belfast campus on Friday 4th September 2026. The workshop brought together a community of researchers for a day of collaboration, critical reflection and feminist engagement, marking the beginning of the new project undertaken by Dr Katie Nolan of University College Dublin … Read more

The island of Ireland weighs heavily under the weight of patriarchal worldbuilding, and yet still has an abundance of feminist activism and practice. But the necessary story of defiance against domination often, and for very obvious reasons, overshadows another tale that situates this and other feminist practices as forming part of the island’s legal worldbuilding. … Read more

If you didn’t notice the announcement of the three Clerical Child Abuse reports by the Northern Ireland Executive yesterday, that’s okay, because you weren’t meant to. There was no press conference. There was a terse text statement from the First and Deputy First Ministers which appeared online without notice at a few minutes after 2pm … Read more

Gisèle Pelicot, in September 2024, waived her right to anonymity during the trial of her husband (Dominique Pelicot), who was found guilty of all charges related to the sustained sexual abuse of Gisèle spanning almost a decade between 2011 and 2020. She waived her right to anonymity so that the trial could be held in … Read more

The long-awaited release of the Final Report of the Truth Recovery Independent Panel (into forced adoptions within Mother and Baby Homes, Magdalene Laundries, and Workhouses in Northern Ireland) has reiterated the upsetting findings of earlier exercises (McCormick and O’Connell, 2021) and Mahon et al, 2021. Its 1276 pages will join an increasingly substantial collection of … Read more

On July 9th it was announced that planning permission was granted by Cork City Council for the building of 106 apartments at the site of Bessborough Mother and Baby institution. A site of (continuing) harm and trauma, many questions remain unanswered about the many human rights and other abuses that took place there. This includes … Read more

feminists@law invites submissions for a themed issue on Feminism, Debt and Assets. Feminist scholarship has long examined the gendered dynamics of income inequality and the ways in which debt shapes and reproduces unequal social relations. More recently, assets and asset-holding have also become central to understanding how economic security, autonomy, and power are structured. In … Read more