This session tackles the promises and pitfalls of the international criminal and transitional justice system in cases of war crimes and/or crimes against humanity from a gender and critical perspective. Starting from the consolidation of gender-based crimes in international law and following on problematising the notion of the ‘woman victim’, the aim of this session is to reveal problematic assumptions about how gender operates in conflict, which are embedded in the very foundations of legal imagination. The session will be of interest for those working on gender in international criminal legal history, but also to those interested in contemporary feminist approaches to law.

Speakers: Sir Howard Andrew Clive Morrison, Solange Mouthaan, Loveday Hodson, Charlotte Higgs
Chair: Christine Schwobel Patel

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