St Hilda's College
The Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion Group (FJDG) held their annual Interdisciplinary workshop on 13th June 2025 at the Lady Brodie Room, St. Hilda’s College. The FJDG is a student group based at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, co-convened for the 2024/25 academic year by Mihika Poddar, Rosario Grima Algora, Maisy Bentley, and Binendri Perera. The Annual Workshop of the FJDG brings together scholars in different stages of their academic careers, both to share their work and to reflect on their experiences as researchers developing feminist jurisprudence.
Prof. Nicola Lacy, School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science delivered the keynote address titled ‘Making the Case for Feminist Jurisprudence in 2025.’ In this address, Prof. Lacy spoke about the role of feminist legal theory in problematising the invisible starting assumptions in established theory.
The workshop consisted of three sessions, with nine scholars presenting their research on different aspects of feminist jurisprudence. The first panel explored adjudication of feminist jurisprudence in domestic (Family Courts of Lucknow, India), regional (Inter American Court of Human Rights), and international courts (International Criminal Court). The second session investigated issues at the intersection of law and medicine. The issues presented in this ranged from an analysis of how European Court of Human Rights approaches conversion practices to an analysis of legalisation of Non-marital Births in China. The final session navigated challenges involved in accessing feminist jurisprudence in contested places, focusing both on legal education and women’s rights in post-Soviet unrecognised entities.
The Annual workshop closed with a panel on Feminist methods where Prof. Jonathan Herring and Prof. Barbara Havelkova reflected on their experiences of engaging in feminist research, their practices as feminist researchers, and the challenges they navigate in their research work. This special event reflecting on and discussing the life, challenges, and joys of feminist research marked the fifth-year anniversary of the FJDG.