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The University Research Priority Program "Human Reproduction Reloaded" | H2R cordially invites young scholars (particularly PhD researchers and postdocs) as well as students interested in gender, human reproduction and law to the seminar “Gender, Law and Human Reproduction: between Progress and Regression”. The seminar will be given by Prof. Silvia Suteu, Associate Professor at University College London and visiting professor at the University of Zurich.
The event will take place in English on 20 October 2022 from 9.15 – 11.45 a.m. in room KOL-G-222, Rämistrasse 71 and will include a coffee break.
A detailed description of the seminar and a full bio of Prof. Suteu are below. The available places in the seminar are limited and will be distributed on a “first come, first served” basis. Participants to this workshop can also book office hours with Prof. Suteu. If interested to attend or book office hours with Prof. Suteu, please register not later than 12 October 2022 (see registration below).
For any inquiries please contact Dr. Elena Brodeala: elena.brodeala@uzh.ch.
This seminar will explore how the law – both constitutions and legislation – can become more gender-sensitive in the face of pushes for change such as the regulation of assisted reproduction technology, the recognition of the rights of sexual and gender minorities, and protection of individual autonomy and access to healthcare, including abortion. The workshop will examine these developments not just in the framework of progress towards more liberalisation, but also of backlash and regression, including on previously won gender equality guarantees. It looks at both comparative and international law to clarify good and bad practice in this area and draws on the convenor’s experience engaging policy-makers and international organisations on these topics.
Prof. Silvia Suteu is Associate Professor at the University College London (UCL) Faculty of Laws in the United Kingdom. She specialises in comparative constitutional law and constitutional theory, with a focus on comparative constitutional change, gender equality, and participatory constitutionalism. She has published widely on these themes and her monograph, “Eternity Clauses in Democratic Constitutionalism”, was published by Oxford University Press in 2021. At UCL, she has convened the Public Law Group, has been an editor of the Current Legal Problems journal, and is the Gender Editor for Lex-Atlas: COVID-19, a global academic project mapping legal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prof Suteu has also done work in international humanitarian and human rights law. She has provided legal expertise on constitution-building to organisations such as Democracy Reporting International, the Euromed Feminist Initiative, International IDEA, and UN Women. She has co-authored handbooks on gender-sensitive constitutions and legislation that have been used by government and policy-making experts and women’s rights NGOs. Prof Suteu is currently developing a project on the constitutionalisation of reproductive rights in comparative perspective, which complements her previous work on gender and the law.
To participate in the event we kindly ask you to register with your email address (deadline: 12 October).
