Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project

‘The Mothering Subject’ Drafting WorkshopUniversity College Cork

5-6 February 2015

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Northern/Irish Feminist Judgments Project• Over 100 participants.

• 31 cases:• ‘The Foreign Subject’• ‘The Choosing Subject’• ‘The Mothering Subject’• The Embodied Subject’

• 2014-15 Drafting Workshops:• Political and National Identity• Political History of the Judiciary• Legal struggles and resistance• Subjects of the state• Reimagining the Judge/Litigant

• 2016 Book publication:• Hart Publishing• FINAL DRAFTS BY END OF MAY!! The photograph is from Rose Commiskey’s exhibition,

Against the Tide, which chronicles protests around women’s reproductive rights in Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s.

Purpose of project:

• Legal intervention.

• Political intervention.

• Educational intervention.

• Scholarly community building.

‘I have a dream of Ireland in which all the troublemakers have come home to roost, But for that to happen some of us have to refuse to leave...while at the institutional level the country is profoundly conservative, it is gradually becoming a pluralist culture. Ideas and debate are far in advance of the public position on just about every issue of national concern.’

Mary Dorcey, poet

Drafting challenges:

• McGimpsey v Ireland

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Case biographies:

Recordings:

Perspectives:

• Book published in 2014.• http://www.law.uq.edu.au/the-australian-feminist-

judgments-project.