Feminist and Queer International Law

The Routledge Feminist and Queer International Law Series creates a publishing and intellectual home for emerging and established writing across feminist and queer approaches to international law while actively fostering new spaces for collaboration and engagement.

Critical legal approaches to international law have entered the mainstream such that ideas around fragmentation, global governance, constitutionalism, transnational law, expertise and indeterminacy are often part of the extended international law curriculum and its associated scholarship. Within this larger oeuvre, feminist and queer scholarship remains both present and yet understudied, underdiscussed and under-acknowledged. This Series, Feminist and Queer International Law, acknowledges and advances scholarship across feminist and queer approaches to international and transnational law. It will draw together feminist and queer scholarship that moves well-beyond the articulation of older studies of women and law or sexuality and the law to develop and deploy feminist and queer knowledge that interrogates the space of inquiry, legal meanings and tracks changing cultural, social and legal understanding of queer and feminist thinking. Feminist and queer methodologies thus sit at the heart of the series, offering not just insight into international law, but also mechanisms for transforming debates through innovative methods, collaborations and approaches.

The Series commits to feminist working practices in both the content and style of contributions and the larger space of knowledge generation, including through the attention to publishing voices from outside of the Global North and to scholars from beyond dominant communities in the Global North. At the same time, the editors are committed to the celebration and recognition of scholars whose work forms the backbone of contemporary feminist and queer approaches within international law and provides opportunities for the continued publication of their work. While squarely focused on international law and transnational legal regimes the series encourages the development of interdisciplinary methodologies through the cross pollination of thinking from adjunct disciplines - politics and IR, philosophy and criminology, gender studies, critical race studies, disability studies and beyond - and from less obvious but often equally influential including history, art, technology studies, literature and the arts more generally.

For more information and to discuss a possible proposal, contact the series editors.