Strategije akterki feminističke jurisprudencije
The Strategies of Feminist Jurists

Author(s): Zorica Mršević
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Етнографски институт САНУ
Keywords: feminist jurisprudence; female law professors; female researchers; legal practice; social justice; gender based violence; gender equality
Summary/Abstract: The paper indicates that the gradual increase in the number of women professors and researchers in the academic field of legal studies has contributed to the formation of a critical mass of feminist-oriented legal theorists, who have brought jurisprudence and feminism together. Jurisprudence, the science or philosophy of law, like the whole of legal scholarship until the second half of the 20th century – given the almost complete absence of women legal theorists – has had no points of contact with feminism, which advocates the promotion of women’s rights and roles in society. It is only women law professors, legal scholars and researchers who have created a connection with the theory and practice of feminism, which, arising from the equality of women and men, seeks social change in order to end social, legal, political and economic discrimination against women. The starting point is the fact that women in society have a traditionally maintained disadvantage, which can be altered by systematic changes in the legal domain of activities that make women’s problems specific and visible, recognised and adequately evaluated, by identifying violence against women and indicating discrimination against and the unequal treatment of women. Feminist jurists are shaping their activities on the academic, theoretical and political left , open to and focused on equality and human rights. At this meeting point of jurisprudence as merely a seemingly neutral legal theory and very openly engaged feminism, practitioners from the field of legal academia articulate feminist jurisprudence as an academic critical analysis of legal theory, legislation, and their procedural and institutional applications as essentially patriarchal institutions. Accordingly, feminist jurists seek to reflect critically on the legal position of women in an effort to improve it. Feminist jurists find their true academic ally in left -wing critical jurisprudence, articulating common arguments for social justice and equality, advocating the need to sanction sexism, misogyny, genderbased violence, hate speech and crimes, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.

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