Women's Health and the Limits of Law

Irehobhude O. Iyioha, LL.B., LL.M., BL., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Canada and an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Dossetor Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta. She has held teaching positions at the Faculties of Law at Western University, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Alberta, Canada. She is the recipient of the 18th World Congress on Medical Law Award from the World Association for Medical Law for her seminal work on legal effectiveness and the Canadian Association of Law Teachers (CALT) Award, 2017 for scholarly work that makes a substantial contribution to legal literature for her theory of Substantive (Legal) Effectiveness.

Introduction: Within and Beyond the Hedge: Form, Substance and the Limit of Laws on Women’s Health







Law, Normative Limits and Women’s Health: Towards a Jurisprudence of Substantive Effectiveness







On Feminism, Morality and Human Rights: Assessing the Effectiveness of United Kingdom’s FGM Act







Abortion Law in China: Disempowering Women under the Liberal Regulatory Model







Forced Sterilizations: Addressing the Limitations of International Rights Adjudication through an Intersectional Approach







Tilted Interpretations: Reproductive Health Law and Practice in the Philippines







Economics and the Limits of Law: An International Analysis of Persistent Gaps in Women’s Reproductive Health







Indigenous Feminist Legal Theory: A Multi-Juridical Analysis of the Limits of Law for Indigenous Women Living with HIV in Canada







Domestication and Reception of International Reproductive Health Law and the Limits of Law: Perspectives from Nigeria and South Africa







On the Margins of Law: Examining the Limits of Legislative Initiatives on Maternal Mortality in South Africa and Nigeria