Intersectionality and Human Rights: Book Launch

Event details
📖 Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments
📍 SOAS, University of London, Senate House, PWW, Wolfson Lecture Theatre
📅 24 November 2025, 18:00 - 19:30

Description
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.

This new book revisits and reimagines 15 landmark judgments of the European Court of Human Rights through the lens of intersectionality. By examining how multiple and overlapping forms of discrimination shape lived experiences, the volume offers innovative insights into the potential of human rights law to respond more effectively to inequality and injustice.

Following a brief presentation about the Intersectional Rewrites project by its initiator Nani Jansen Reventlow, our invited panelists will engage in conversation to explore both the themes of the book and the pratical implications om imagining a jurisprudence that truly reflects the breadth of lived experience in our society. The panel will be moderated by Dr Michelle Staggs-Kelsall, co-director of the Centre for Human Rights Law at SOAS.

Panellists:

• Nani Jansen Reventlow (Systemic Justice) - Initiator and Co-Editor
• Professor Iyiola Solanke (Oxford) - Discussant
• Professor Eddie Bruce-Jones (SOAS) - Co-Editor
• Adam Weiss (Client Earth) - Co-Editor
• Professor Lyn Tjon Soei Len (The Ohio State University) - Co-Editor
• Dr Nicolette Busuttil (SOAS) - Contributing Author
• Dr Jonathan Ward (KCL) - Contributing Author
• Dr Joey Koks (Language Professional) - Contributing Editor

The panel will be followed by a Q&A and reception.

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