Feminist Legal Studies is pleased to offer open access to our 2025 prize-winning article by Leon Laidlaw. This powerful article examines how colonial gender norms underpin prison systems, harming trans, Indigenous, and cis women.

You can read it for free here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📣🏳️‍⚧️ 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.

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“Like many others, we will continue to engage and, true to her spirit, also challenge her many ideas and insights.”

We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell.

You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We had a wonderful time in Edinburgh over the past few days for our annual Feminist Legal Studies retreat. We’ve had a lot of critical and hopeful discussions about doing intersectional feminist legal scholarship in hostile institutional environments and planning our feminist publishing futures.

One year ago, we issued a statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

Our statement remains timely.

“We have a commitment to analysing and understanding sexual violence, as well as the ways in which institutions, including universities and academic publishers, provide what Nicola Gavey (2005) describes as the ‘cultural scaffolding’ for this violence.”

Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...