Workshop: Queer & Feminist Legal Methodology

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Feminist and queer approaches have significantly shaped international legal scholarship, but in continental European contexts accessible methodological tools are still lacking. This workshop aims to offer a toolbox that enables researchers to critically interrogate the dominant norms of legal scholarship and to explore new ways of producing knowledge, taking into account feminist and queer perspectives. In doing so, the workshop aspires to open up space for imagination, transformation, and resistance, inviting us to see law not merely as an instrument of power but as a field that can be collectively and critically rewritten.

LEVEL: Basic

METHOD: Qualitative and quantitative

ABOUT THE LECTURERS: 

• Pieter Cannoot (he/him) is an assistant professor with the Centre for Law and Diversity at Ghent University. His research focuses primarily on the relationship between law and gender, anti-discrimination law, and the rights of LGBTQI+ persons. Previously, Pieter was a legal clerk at the Belgian Constitutional Court and a visiting professor at the University of Antwerp. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Rights (Tijdschrift voor Mensenrechten, TvMR) and a member of the European Commission’s expert network on non-discrimination.
• Marie Spinoy (she/her) is a researcher at the Leuven Centre for Public Law (KU Leuven), where she is preparing a PhD in discrimination law. She is also a part-time teaching assistant with the Centre for Law and Diversity at Ghent University. Her research focuses primarily on various aspects of discrimination law and on the rights of persons with disabilities. She is a member of the leadership team of the Disability Rights Working Group at the Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law, and serves as an assessor of the Litigation Chamber of the Flemish Human Rights Institute.

PREREQUISITES: You need to register and have a ticket for the full PhD Days- no partial tickets are possible. You can register here.