Presentation on “Women and International Trade: Same Side of the Same Coin?” in the Women and International Law International Conference. Max Planck Institute for Procedural Law, Luxemburg

Mexico - 13 October 2022

Dr. Amrita Bahri, Co-Chair Professor, WTO Chairs Programme (Mexico), presented at the event, which builds upon the talk held by Prof. Hélène Ruiz Fabri on the same subject in April 2021, and a remote workshop in February 2022, brought together contributors to the upcoming Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law co-edited by Prof. Ruiz Fabri (MPI Luxembourg), Prof. Grossman (University of Baltimore), Prof. Ramji-Nogales (Temple University), and Prof. Dawuni (Howard University). This conference examined the role of women in international law and the wide-ranging impacts of international law on women and vice versa. International law affects women in myriad ways, including efforts to combat discrimination against women and to promote them as actors in the field. Building upon Hillary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, and Shelley Wright’s ground-breaking ‘Feminist Approaches to International Law’ (published in the American Journal of International Law in 1991), it examined and promoted a diversity of critical feminist approaches to the topic. Contributing authors were welcomed at the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law for two days of presentations and exchanges on the many novel facets of this project contained within their draft chapters for the upcoming Oxford Handbook. My presentation added the perspective of how international trade law can impact women.

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