Feminist Judgments: Reimagining the International Criminal Court

This book is the first to apply the feminist judgment method to analyse decisions of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Kcasey McLoughlin (Edited by), Rosemary Grey (Edited by), Louise Chappell (Edited by), Suzanne Varrall (Edited by)

9781009255288, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 7 August 2025

712 pages
23.6 x 16.2 x 4.3 cm, 1.18 kg

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 this 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 over 60 contributors from the Global North and Global South, 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.

Chronology
Table of cases
Table of statutes, legislation and treaties
Part I. Introduction Maxine Beneba Clarke, Kcasey McLoughlin, Rosemary Grey, Louise Chappell and Suzanne Varrall, Kcasey McLoughlin, Rosemary Grey, Louise Chappell, Jarpa Dawuni and Priya Gopalan: Part II. ICC Judgments Re-imagined Aparajitha Narayanan, Sandrine de Herdt, Marie Wilmet, Priya Gopalan, Olga Jurasz, Isabel Maravall-Buckwalter, Melanie O'Brien, Sophie Rigney, Tonny Raymond Kirabira, Adrienne Ringin, Rosemary Grey, W. Naigaga Kyobiika, Sareta Ashraph, Akila Radhakrishnan, Grant Shubin, Saumya Uma, Ramya Jawahar Kudekallu, Anushka Sehmi, Lisa Davis, Marina Kumskova, Alice Dieci, Cassandra Mudgway, David Eichert, Loyce Mrewa, Kirsten MF Keith, Suzanne Varrall, Sarah Williams, Valerie Oosterveld, Immi Tallgren, Natalie Hodgson, Sarah Easy, Kerstin Braun, Ameera Mahomed Ismail, Melissa McKay, Laura Graham, Annika Jones, Sarah Zarmsky, Emma Irving, Catherine Renshaw, Afroza Anwary, Emma Palmer, Phyu Phyu Oo, Claerwen O'Hara, Salima Ahmadi, Sari Kouvo, Mashal Aamir, Adrienne Ringin, Jill Marshall, Kathryn Gooding, Souheir Edelbi and Susana SáCouto: Part III. Conclusion Louise Chappell, Suzanne Varrall, Kcasey McLoughlin and Rosemary Grey: Part IV. End matter: Bibliography
List of References.

Subject Areas: United Nations & UN agencies [JPSN1]