Gender & the Law: Web Links

The Australian Feminist Project is an initiative of feminist academics, lawyers and activists who rewrite Australian cases using the feminist lens. The cases are grouped under four themes - public law, private law, crime and evidence, interpreting equality.

The Centre for Law and Society (formerly Law, Races and Gender Research Unit) is based in the University of Cape Town, South Africa. One of its focus areas is sexuality and gender based violence.

This website provides access to free publications from different jurisdictions of the world related to gender, human rights and justice.

The European Institute for Gender Equality was created as part of the social agenda of the European Commission. This website provides access to the Institute's publications as well as the online access to more than 240,000 resources on gender and equality of the member countries of the European Union.

The Protection section of Family Law in BC provides information and explains options on the British Columbia Family Act to women who wish to obtain protection orders; but it is not any form of legal advice.

Feminist Judgments Projects rewrite leading cases from a feminist and socio-legal perspective. Includes Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland, England and the United States, International Law and the International Criminal Court.

The H-Gender-MidEast is a scholarly exchange of international scholars on issues of gender in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. It aims to build a network in tune with shifting geographical articulations and to bring together gender-focused issues from within a wide range of (inter) disciplinary positions.

This website provides access to newsletters, newspapers and magazines throughout the 1970s to 1990s representing diverse voices of feminist activism in Canada.

Women and Gender Equality Canada replaces the government of Canada's Status of Women department. It works to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity or expression through the inclusion of people of all genders, including women, in Canada’s economic, social, and political life. Their website contains reports, project information, statistics, surveys and consultations.

UN Women works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, empowerment of women and achieving equality between women and men. The website provides access to the organization's publications such as books, videos and photographs.

This database is a project of the Global Women's Leadership Project at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. It provides information on laws that govern women’s status in the family. The first phase of the database covers the 54 African countries; the 19 civil law countries in Latin America* and 32 states of Mexico; the 51 independent states of Europe; Israel; India; and Pakistan. The research on the Middle East is ongoing.

This is the supplement to the casebook written by Susan Deller Ross of the Georgetown Law School. The book examines international and regional agreements, legislation and case law, documents and reports on women's human rights. The print copy of the book is available in the Law Library - K 3243 R67 2008.

This database lists hundreds of resources -- articles, documents and links -- related to international women's rights law and Canadian women's rights law.

This is a section of the Women's Human Rights Resources which provides access to articles, documents and links focusing on race and racism issues.

Women's Legal History (WLH) is a database containing materials about the lives, movements and philosophies of women lawyers in the United States.

Women, Business and the Law is a database of the World Bank. It provides access to data and information on legal differentiations on the basis of gender in 163 economies on 6 different areas.

This is the oral histories of women leaders in the legal profession in the United States hosted by the Robert Crown Law Library, Stanford Law School.

This blog features entries and contributions from feminist professors across a variety of subject areas; they are located in Canada, United States and United Kingdom.

This blog originates from the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at the Columbia Law School.

IntLawGrrls features women scholars, lawyers, policymakers, leaders, activists, on issues related to international law, policy and practice, from arbitration to human rights to trade.

This blog features feminist legal theory and gender related issues; it is part of the Law Prof Blog Network.