Why and How? Theoretical and Methodological Directions in Law, Feminism, Gender and Sexuality

A Workshop sponsored by the UBC Centre for Feminist Legal Studies & the AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality

August 24-26 2006, University of British Columbia

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies at the University of British Columbia and the AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality in the United Kingdom.

The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies (CFLS) was established at the Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia in 1997, to enhance the visibility of feminist legal studies and strengthen co-operation in research, teaching and graduate student supervision, as well as links and collaborations between scholars working in different university and community settings.

The AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender & Sexuality (CentreLGS) is an interdisciplinary Research Centre funded to support and develop critical scholarship in the gender, sexuality and law area that is theoretically informed and policy relevant. Centre scholarship and its programme of events focus on intersectionality and equality, popular culture, governance and regulation, and healthcare and bio-ethics.

The August 2006 workshop will draw together a small group of scholars primarily from Canada and the United Kingdom who are thinking about theories and/or methodologies related to investigating law, feminism, gender and/or sexuality. We especially seek contributions discussing what new theoretical frameworks or conceptual approaches are enlivening and enriching the field, or giving examples of methodological innovations such as blending humanities and social science approaches in new ways or using feminist legal methods in new or different fields.