Gender, Law and Society In a Global Perspective: Decolonizing Knowledge, Challenging Hierarchies, Imagining Futures (WG Gender, Law and Society)

Over the past decades, feminist, decolonial, postcolonial, and intersectional scholarship has profoundly transformed the study of law and society. These perspectives have challenged Eurocentric and androcentric assumptions shaping social and legal knowledge, drawing attention to how law is embedded in histories of colonialism, patriarchy, racialization, capitalism, and geopolitical inequality. We seek to explore how legal institutions, norms, and practices contribute to reproducing social hierarchies while also serving as sites of contestation, resistance, and transformation. Particular attention will be devoted to how legal orders are shaped by unequal power relations across regions and contexts, and to actors and movements challenging these inequalities.This panel invites contributions examining the relationship between gender, law, and society from a global and critical perspective. The panel welcomes theoretical and empirical contributions and encourages comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to create a space for critical reflection on how law can sustain and challenge existing hierarchies, and how more inclusive, plural, and socially just futures can be imagined and pursued.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

 Feminist, decolonial, and intersectional approaches to law and society;
 Gender, race, class, and other intersecting structures of power;
 The global circulation, translation, and contestation of rights discourses;
 Gender-based legal responses to migration, borders, and displacement;
 Authoritarianism, democratic backsliding, and anti-gender mobilizations;
 Gendered dimensions of conflict, militarization, and security regimes;
 Environmental justice, climate change, and ecofeminist perspectives;
 Social movements, legal mobilization, and grassroots struggles for justice;
 Epistemic justice, knowledge production, and the decolonization of socio-legal research