Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of attending a workshop titled ‘Critical Approaches to European Human Rights‘ at the Hertie School in Berlin. This workshop, on 17 January 2025, was co-organised by Dr. Jens Theilen, Dr. Corina Heri, and Dr. Esra Demir-Gürsel as part of the Framing Reality and Normativity in European Human Rights Law: Climate Change, Migration, and Authoritarianism Project funded by Volkswagen Foundation.
My presentation was titled ‘Extending the Contours of Intersectionality‘. In this presentation, I argued that recent legal literature tends to advocate for informing the interpretation of substantive European human rights law – including the meaning of Convention rights and the obligations flowing from them – with intersectionality. While important, what risks being overlooked is intersectionality’s relevance in ensuring procedural justice for multiply-marginalised communities. Intersectional procedural justice is imperative, given the sifting role that procedures play in access to justice. I argue that the answer lies in resuscitating intersectionality’s decolonial, anti-imperialist, and anti-capitalist core, as originally emphasised by critical race feminists and Black feminists.
Read more on the workshop here: https://www.hertie-school.org/en/news/detail/content/critical-approaches-to-european-human-rights-law-highlighted-in-workshop-hosted-in-cooperation-with-helmut-schmidt-university
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