Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court

In the past decade, feminist scholars and women’s rights activists have used the feminist judgment method to reimagine the relationship between law and gender justice, resulting in rewritten ‘feminist’ judgments from courts around the world. This groundbreaking book extends that approach and applies it to a wide range of decisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hague-based court with power to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and aggression in over 120 countries. With more than sixty contributors from the across the globe including countries where the ICC has been active, this book reflects an international and intersectional feminism. Diverse contributions reveal the gendered implications of crimes (both sexual and non-sexual), command responsibility, defences, complementarity, head-of-state immunity, sentencing, reparations, and more. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Kcasey McLoughlin is Senior Lecturer in Law at Newcastle Law School. Her research examines the gendered assumptions that pervade legal and political institutions. Her first book, Law, Women Judges and the Gender Order: Lessons from the High Court of Australia (2022), was awarded the 2023 Carole Pateman Gender and Politics Book Prize Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand 2022 Book Prize.

Rosemary Grey is Senior Lecturer at Sydney Law School. Her research focuses on sexual, gender, and reproductive crimes in international law. Her scholarship and amicus curiae briefs have been cited by the International Criminal Court and Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Her past works include Prosecuting Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes at the International Criminal Court (2019).

Louise Chappell is Scientia Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney undertaking pioneering work on gender justice and institutions. Chappell publishes widely on gender in courts, parliaments, and bureaucracies. Her prize-winning books include The Politics of Gender Justice at the International Criminal Court (2015) and Gendering Government (2002).

Suzanne Varrall is Laureate Research Fellow at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. She researches and teaches in international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. Varrall is a qualified lawyer with a background in foreign policy and national security.