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Mireia Garcés de Marcilla
@mggarces.bsky.social
lecturer in law, university of liverpool / embodiment, medicine & feminist theory / allò que val és la consciència de no ser res si no s’és poble
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We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.”

Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.

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📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.

Details below. Please share.
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Following from our MLR workshop last year, @zainamahmoud.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on embodiment & colonialism in November! We are grateful to the @slsauk.bsky.social for supporting this event and look forward to what we hope will be a great discussion.
September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Following from our MLR workshop last year, @zainamahmoud.bsky.social and I are organising a workshop on embodiment & colonialism in November! We are grateful to the @slsauk.bsky.social for supporting this event and look forward to what we hope will be a great discussion.
September 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Very happy to share that today I'm starting a new role as Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool, @livunislsj.bsky.social. I'll really miss my wonderful colleagues at @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social, but really excited about this new chapter!
September 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
For those of us who struggle with academic writing, Niki Lacey's words are, as always, insightful and re-energising: doi.org/10.53386/nil...
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
This is the eleventh contribution to NILQ's Reflections on Writing series.
doi.org
July 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I find myself coming back to this fantastic piece over and over again: 'In the very best cases, the cases that perhaps ground our best hope, desire can cut against what politics has chosen for us, and choose for itself.'

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Amia Srinivasan · Does anyone have the right to sex?
When we see consent as the sole constraint on OK sex, we are pushed towards a naturalisation of sexual preference in...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter supporting trans rights & sharing concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers ruling.

If you work in the legal profession in the UK (eg, academics, practitioners, anyone else 'doing law') please consider signing:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers
A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...
docs.google.com
May 8, 2025 at 8:58 AM
'Will we at least create the conditions that allow women to leave abusive men with dignity and in safety ... Or will we simply continue to ask underfunded justice systems to prosecute bad men out of existence?'

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 19, 2024 at 9:06 AM