Fine Gael Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll-MacNeill spoke in the Dáil on December 3rd on the subject of transphobia, which she definitively and outspokenly condemned. Responding to a motion put forward by Labour TD Marie Sherlock on trans healthcare, the Minister stated: The sheer nonsense of it, we all know that. That a man was … Read more
Doing the Feminist Legal Work: Early careers, activism and research funding We invite you to attend a forthcoming online seminar on 16 February 2026 from 1pm – 3pm hosted by Dr Sarah Craig (Ulster University) and Dr Katie Nolan (TU Dublin) on behalf of the Doing Feminist Legal Work Network. Entitled ‘Doing the Feminist Legal Work: Early careers, activism and research … Read more
This blog is adapted from my shorter response to Gerry Whyte’s keynote at the recent excellent conference on Public Interest Litigation and Access to Justice at the University of Galway. Preparing to participate in that conference, I was surprised to find that legal academics have written very little about neoliberalism and legal culture in the … Read more
One of the first hurdles in discussing “1325” is explaining which 1325 you mean. In its narrowest sense, 1325 refers to the text of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, adopted on October 31, 2000. But anyone working in this field knows that “1325” has come to encompass far more in … Read more
The most pronounced critique directed at the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) Women, Peace and Security agenda (WPS) over its 25-year trajectory has been directed at its singling out of sexual violence for specific attention. Through five distinctive resolutions that focus specifically on sexual violence, gender has been placed at a distance from how the … Read more
In her recent piece for The Morrigan, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin argues that prioritisation of sexual violence as a target of the the mainstream WPS Agenda means that reproductive violence is often overlooked. Under this Agenda, reproductive violence is essentially understood as a sub-category of sexual violence. Of course, sexual and reproductive violence are often connected, … Read more
In recent years, attacks on maternity hospitals, fertility clinics, and women’s medical centers in sites of armed conflict are visible and undulating. In parallel, the structural violence of deliberate starvation, water deprivation, desalination destruction, and sewage pollution from military targeting harms mothers. This can be most particularly observed in Gaza, but it is also present … Read more
This month marks the 25th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 .This resolution, and the ones that followed, have set the agenda for the past twenty-five years on how women are viewed in conflict but also their role in peacemaking, deliberation and enduring ends to violence. The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs states that: … Read more
While writing my monograph On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order, the frequent appearance of gender struck me. But, more startling, how little remarked upon it was. From the earliest iterations in Greece, women were often blamed for the descent into tyranny. Because women could be in the public sphere, because they were not fulfilling … Read more
In my early twenties I once got on a train to Durham that didn’t stop at Durham because I was so engrossed in a book. That, you might think, is to be expected of any academic. But as I sailed over the viaduct, a story for the conductor in the back of my mind, I … Read more