We have established working groups that represent our areas of expertise in: care, embodiment and reproductive rights; gender and criminal justice; UK human rights reform; labour, welfare and economic rights; LGBT rights; marriage, motherhood and children; and women’s legal history.
We aim not only to advance feminist legal research but also directly influence law and policy, drawing on our published research to support third party interventions and strategic litigation in national and international courts, responding to and proposing law reform initiatives, undertaking public education and consultancy, and publishing working papers and reports on current issues.
We will host a programme of events each year that showcases the feminist research and clinical legal practice of colleagues in the Law Department and brings leading UK and international feminist scholars and practitioners to Liverpool as visiting speakers and through the international visiting fellowship programme. These events are also designed to support early-career scholars and PhD students to develop their international and local networks and solidify existing networks.
FRAN is also committed to building capacity for feminist research by supporting and encouraging ECR’s in their own research and in developing their international feminist networks, as well as inspiring future feminist researchers from the UG and PG programmes. FRAN welcomes UG and PGT student members to events and hosts a series of more informal activities including a feminist theory reading group and work-in-progress seminars, open to all feminist staff and graduate students to support the thriving feminist community of scholars at Liverpool. To this end, FRAN has a large external membership and will be working closely with feminist research groups based at other institutions as well as multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary groups such as the Feminist Studies Association. We will also be working alongside other clusters in SLSJ to host events which cut across several research strands to promote collaboration and encourage rich interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary legal issues.
Read FRAN member Alice Ievins' blog about the punishment and imprisonment of men convicted of sex offences.
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