Queer Encounters with International Law

Tamsin Phillipa Paige is Senior Lecturer at Deakin Law School, Deakin University, Australia. Claerwen O’Hara is Lecturer at La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Australia.

1. (Re)Queering International Law Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Claerwen O’Hara PART 1: Queer Critiques of International and Regional Human Rights Law 2. The Precarity of Trans Survival: Suicidality and the Right to Life Matteo Bassetti 3. Vague Comparisons and Unstable Grounds: The European Court of Human Rights and the Prohibition of Discrimination against Trans Persons Manon Beury 4. Abolitionist Human Rights: Queering LGBT Human Rights Advocacy and Law Karen Engle PART 2: (Re)Queering Human Rights Law: New and Alternative Directions 5. ‘Nothing was changing’: Queering the Role of International Law in the Global Campaign against Conversion Practices Daryl WJ Yang 6. Childhood as a Site of Struggle: A Queer Perspective on International Human Rights Law Concerning the Child-Protective Rationale and School Education Warisa Ongsupankul 7. Sadomasochism at the European Court of Human Rights: Rights to Sex and Drawing the Line Between Privacy and Public Interest Alexandra G. Grolimund PART 3: Queer battlegrounds: ‘Gender’ in International Law 8. Human Rights’ Harmful and Harmless Gendered Outlaws Giovanna Gilleri 9. ‘Ideological Colonising’: The Influence of Anti-Gender Movements on Domestic and International Human Rights Law Sandra Duffy 10. Fear of a Queer Law: Sex/Gender and the Exclusion of Queer Thinking in International Law Juliana Santos de Carvalho PART 4: The Shifting Nature of Queer Encounters with International Law: Journeys Towards Hope 11. The ‘Art of Living’: LGBTQIA+ Activism and International Law Odette Mazel 12. Queer Edens: Visions of Living with Human Rights Loveday Hodson 13. Epistemologies Out of the Closet: Thinking Through Queer Theory’s Intellectual Shifts in International Law Edoardo Stoppioni