Research Network

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The international research network "Gender Differences in the History of European Legal Cultures" aims at bringing together scholars who analyse in historical perspective the significance and function of gender differences in European legal cultures.

Our intention is a gendered history of law which not only increases our knowledge of legal norms explicitly concerning women or men, but also questions the construction of law itself. In addition, the network directs its special attention to legal practice inside as well as outside the court and to relations of legal and social norms. Legal pluralism, the subsidiary of legal norms and competitive jurisdiction of different institutions concerned with the administration of justice are analysed as to the agency they grant women and men and to their influence on shaping gender difference.

The research network was founded in 2000 at the conference "Geschlechterdifferenz im europäischen Recht" (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), organized by Prof. Dr. Heide Wunder. It gathers scholars from history, legal history, European anthropology, sociology, political science and others. On a two-year cycle (roughly) the network meets at international conferences organized by one or more of its members.

News

27.09.2023
 

Date: 26–28 October 2023

Venue: Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

 

03.07.2023
 

The preliminary programme is available!

Date: 26–28 October 2023

Venue: Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

 

02.02.2023
 

Date: 26–28 October 2023

Venue: Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2023

01.02.2023
 

Call for contributions for the book "Towards a history of women's self-defence against gender-based violence", edited by Simona Feci & Laura Schettini...

10.11.2022
 

Date: 18-19 November 2022

Venue: Vancouver, Canada

with the collaboration of Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and the...