Feminist Law

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child’s General Comment No. 25, the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, and New Zealand’s new Online Safety (Minimum Age and Child Safety Risk Assessment) Bill each address how best to protect "children" from algorithmic and AI-related harm. However, the category performing much of this legal work, "the child", is rarely interrogated in its own right.

This article discusses how the principles of black feminist theory can encourage women to become barristers in England and Wales

Introduction The Common Law of England and Wales has evolved for centuries and has overwhelmingly been created by white, upper-class men. It has evolved from an absolute monarchy in the 16th century[1] to a society of the democratic rule of law today. British women did not have the right to vote or run for Parliament until 1918, when some women were granted this right, and therefore did not have any official right to influence law-making decisions until this point in Britain’