This International Research Collaborative will be co-ordinating five sessions in Berlin, details below. Scholars working at the intersection of gender and judging, and other interested parties, will be most welcome to attend.

The IRC comprises more than 40 scholars from over a dozen countries worldwide exploring the relationship between gender and judging, with a view to facilitating intellectual dialogue, further collaboration, and publications etc. Co-chaired by Dermot Feenan, Sally J. Kenney, and Ulrike Schultz, the IRC co-ordinated 8 papers at the LSA meeting in Baltimore, 2006.

If there are any queries or questions, or if people want to join the IRC in the meantime, please contact Co-Chair:

Dermot Feenan, University of Ulster School of Law, d.feenan@ulster.ac.uk

SESSIONS:

I. Gender, Representation, and Judicial Selection: Criteria, Processes and Practices

(Wednesday July 25^th 10:15-12 #1207, HU/ 07)

Chair: Reg Graycar

Sally J. Kenney: Femocrats and Judicial Selection: Insiders working within for more women judges

Kate Malleson: Rethinking the Merit Principle in Judicial Selection

Margaret Williams: Women's Representation on High Courts in OECD Countries

Jennifer Koshan: The Women’s Court of Canada—An Experiment in Feminist Judging

Discussant: Beverly Baines

II. Women Judges/Feminist Judges: Different Voices?

(Wednesday July 25^th 2:30-4:15 #1407, HU/ 07)

Chair: Gisela Shaw

Ulrike Schultz: Do Women Judge Differently?

Rosemary Hunter: What (or Who) is a Feminist Judge?

Revital Ludewig-Kedmi: Gender Bias in the Judicial Decision-Making Process

Rebecca Johnson: ‘As a Matter of Fact...’:  Recounting ‘The Facts’ in Judicial Dissent

Discussant: Kristen Scheiwe

III. Gender, Otherness, and Bias in Judging

(Thursday July 26^th 8:15-10 #2107, HU/ 07)

Chair: Dermot Feenan

Reg Graycar: Gender, Race, Bias and Perspective OR How Otherness Colours Your Judgment

Lucinda Vandervort: Judicial Bias, Sex, Gender, Race, Class on the Canadian Prairies

Anita Bocker: Newcomers in the Judiciary: Ethnic Diversity Among Judges in Old and New Countries of Immigration

Discussant:  Marianne Githens

IV. The First Women Judges: Their Experiences and Impact

(Thursday July 26^th 2:30-4:15 #2408, HU/ 08)

Chair: Sally J. Kenney

Jaimie Cameron: The First Four: A Biographical Study of Women Judges at the Supreme Court of Canada in the Era of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms

Haesock Kim: Opening of the Judiciary in Korea: Hwang Yun-suk and the Pioneer Women Judges from 1952-1990

Elaine Martin: US Women Federal Court Judges: Past and Present

Andrew Martin, Lee Epstein, and Christina Boyd: Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging

Discussant: Jilda Aliota

V. Gender, Feminism, and Family Law Judging

(Saturday July 28^th 12:30-2:15 #4307, HU/ 07)

Chair: Sabine Berghahn

Beatriz Kohen: The Family law Judges of the City of Buenos Aires and Their Gendered Representations

Monique Cardinal: Women Judges and Family Court in Syria

Marianne Breithaupt: Gender Bias in Poor Child Maintenance Arrangements

Winnie Kamau: Women, Families and Dispute Resolution in Kenya: The Impact of Pluralism

Discussant: Beatriz Kohen

Business Meeting: Friday, July 27th, 1:30-2:30 #3305, HU/ 05