This book launch will celebrate the publication of Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments, which envisions a brighter future in which law and legal institutions respond to intersecting forms of oppression, discrimination, and other human rights harms.
- Date
- Tuesday 25 Nov 2025, 18:00 - 19:30
- Type
- Book presentation
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Atrium
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
On 25 November 2025, the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague will host the publication of Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments. Organized by the Legal Mobilization Platform and the Intersectional Rewrites Project, we will discuss this path-breaking new book.
The book gathers 15 recent judgments from the Court, rewritten by activists, practitioners and academics through an interpretive lens of intersectionality. The book’s rewrites show that people with intersecting identities experience discrimination not as an additive phenomenon, but as a complex form that is only comprehensible through a careful and critical examination of lived experience.
Following a brief presentation about the Intersectional Rewrites project by its initiator, co-editor and founder of LMP-partner Systemic Justice, lawyer and scholar Nani Jansen Reventlow, our invited panellists will engage in conversation to explore both the themes of the book and the practical implications om imagining a jurisprudence that truly reflects the breadth of lived experience in our society.
Panellists
- Nozizwe Dube – PhD candidate, Maastricht University and author of the rewrite of the judgment of Benkharbouche and Janah v. the United Kingdom (2022)
- Nawal Mustafa – Assistant Professor, Universiteit van Amsterdam and author of the rewrite of the judgment of Sanchez v. France (2021)
- Guno Jones – Professor and Anton de Kom Chair in the History of Colonialism and Slavery and Their Contemporary Social, Cultural, and Legal Impact, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Lyn Tjon Soei Len – Associate Professor, Ohio State University and co-editor of the book
- Adam Weiss – Chief Programmes and Impact Officer, ClientEarth and co-editor of the book
The conversation will be moderated by Jeff Handmaker, Associate Professor of Legal Sociology at ISS.
The event will be followed by a reception in the Butterfly Bar at ISS.
- Related links
- Legal Mobilization Platform