The Morrigan Blog

Named for the mythic Irish triple goddess, The Morrigan is a feminist blog, dedicated to exploring the ways in which gender and sexuality articulate with questions of law and justice.

Clerical Child Abuse: The Scandal that Stormont chooses not to confront

The law won’t save us now: pushing back against extreme misogyny in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland’s Truth Recovery Report: Some Reflections

Bessborough Planning Permission: State’s Continued Failure

Call for Papers: Feminism, Debt and Assets: feminists@law

Blog Book Series: Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women’s Equality: Justification as the Hidden Battleground of Women’s Equality

Blog Book Series: Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women’s Equality: Racial Inequalities and the Equality-Justification Relationship

Blog Book Series: Hanging in the Balance: The Function of Justification in Achieving Women’s Equality: Re-centering Equality: Human Dignity, Gender Justice, and the Judicial Role in Women’s Rights

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

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

Breaking the Code

Spinster Power: A reconceptualization of constituent power?

Women in Northern Ireland and the UK Supreme Court’s decision in Re Dillon [2026] UKSC 15

Concealed Femicide and Institutional Misogyny: The Katie Simpson Review and Making the Case for Feminist Legislative Reform in Northern Ireland

Engaging Utopias: Why do we need utopia in research and how do we get there?

Workshops

DFLW workshops develop best practice approaches to doing and teaching feminist legal work

WORKSHOP

Rapid Policy Responses and How To Do Them

takes place on 19th of May

WORKSHOP

Engaging with a Rapidly Changing Legal Landscape: Developing New Feminist Pedagogies

date and location tbc