Alice Margaria

Happy faces, kissed by the spring sun, after a successful judicial study visit at the MPI for Social Anthropology!

Big thank you to all participating judges who let themselves be inspired by the beauty of anthropology and embraced the challenge of rethinking asylum decision through that lens!

I’m honestly surprised to see major international law conferences being held in the US are still advertising the events as if nothing is happening. At this point, it is clear that bringing in those working in int law/human rights, esp those who aren’t citizens, is a serious risk.

Snapshots from the Swiss Network for Law and Society conf in Bern

Roundtable "What's Law Got to Do with It? Seeking Justice in Social and Political Transformations”

featuring our volume Leading Works in Law and Anthropology and other exciting publications in the field - details ⬇️

Curious about what’s at stake in the ongoing reform of the Swiss Reproductive Medicine Act? Check out this short and sweet comment by Florina Markwalder & me

www.progress.org.uk/easing-restr...

🔷abolition or relaxation of the "12 rule" in IVF
🔷potential extension of gamete and embryo storage beyond 10 years
🔷regulating import / export of gametes
🔷potential introduction of fixed aged limits for intended parents

One more reason for joining us at the Workshop "The Revision of the Swiss Reproductive Medicine Act – Key Points of a New Regulation"

📅 20-21 February 2025, Faculty of Law, Basel

Program and info on registration: ius.unibas.ch/fileadmin/us...

Fortpflanzungsmedizin: Bundesrat will die Eizellen­spende in der Schweiz legalisieren Heute müssen Frauen bei Unfruchtbarkeit ins Ausland reisen, um zu einer Eizellenspende zu gelangen. Der Bundesrat will diese nun zulassen.

Swiss Federal Council plans to revise the Reproductive Medicine Act to better reflect social realities www.tagesanzeiger.ch/eizellspende...
🔷 lifting ban on egg donation
🔷 opening sperm and egg donation to unmarried couples

“For some, donor siblings are family. If my daughter feels like that, should I not allow her to have that connection?” – Imogen

Leah Gilman, Petra Nordqvist, Nicky Hudson and Lucy Frith on the dilemmas parents face in donor conception.

OpenAccess in the journal buff.ly/4hkvoV5

She Was Faulted in Her Divorce for Refusing Sex. A European Court Disagreed. (Gift Article) A French court had ruled that a woman had violated her marital duties by not having sex with her husband. The European Court of Human Rights condemned that decision.

There goes that meddling European Court of Human Rights again, sticking up for women who want to decide for themselves whether or not to have sex 👇

🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/w... via @nytimes.com

#Consent #HumanRights #ECHR #RightToPrivateLife

Looking forward to this! @sigridwallaert.bsky.social

This beauty edited by M-L Öberg and A Tryfonidou is out #OpenAccess at www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

Drawing from the ECtHR and CJEU caselaw on #surrogacy, I’ve explored the #gender of legal fictions - check it out!

Blurring the line between natural and legal persons in a company’s compensation for non-pecuniary damage: Affaire SCI Le Château du Francport c. France - Strasbourg Observers By Eloïse Ward This post concerns the just satisfaction judgment of SCI Le Château du Francport v France. In this case, the European Court of Human Rights more elaborately explains the considerations ...

✨ Moments of pride as a supervisor: a reflection by Eloise Ward on the ECtHR’s approach to awarding non-pecuniary damages to companies ⬇️ strasbourgobservers.com/2024/12/10/b...

Graduates: Humboldt University Berlin launches an English LL.M. program on German and European law with a global perspective. Starts in the 2025-2026 academic year; targets candidates worldwide with 1+ year of professional experience. Applications open 1-31 March 2025.
-> humboldt-llm.hu-berlin.de

Different beauties in a day: an inspiring lecture on intersex identities & the law by Martin Gramc at UZH, the festive tree in Calatrava's law library, and a serene walk by the Limmat under the winter sun ☀️

#zurich

I love this language of social impact scholar. It definitely drives my approach to research where I work with young fathers and cross-sector professionals to promote family well-being and welfare

Inside Geneva: Europe, the UN and the battle for human rights This week's Inside Geneva podcast, from the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, tackles the latest challenges to human rights and international law.

Is the world still committed to #HumanRights?

The #InsideGeneva podcast with @imogenfoulkes.bsky.social takes a trip to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg 👇

🔗 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/internat...

Very much worth a listen.

@coe.int #ECHR

Are you looking for a PhD position in the field(s) of family law, human rights law, legal gender studies, medical law?

Passionate about law & reproduction topics?

Skilled or interested in empirical research methods?

Apply by 8 December at jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancie...

An exciting contribution to comparative research on the politics of reproduction! Was very honored to co-author the concluding chapter with Hannah Zagel on "Reproduction Policy in the Twenty-first Century."

ALICE MARGARIA and CATHERINE VAN DE GRAAF share their conversation with former ECtHR Vice-President ANGELIKA NUSSBERGER & Judge KATERINA SIMACKOVA
- on storytelling, unseen judicial work, gender balance, and their personal legacies.

verfassungsblog.de/interview-ec...

The Visible and The Invisible of Justice in Strasbourg Former ECtHR Vice-President Prof. Dr. Angelika Nußberger and current ECtHR Judge Dr. Kateřina Šimáčková discuss judges’ responsibility to provide relief to applicants. Focal points are recent procedur...

Interesting interview with two female judges, past and present, at the European Court of #HumanRights 👇

🔗 verfassungsblog.de/interview-ec... via @verfassungsblog.de

States don’t really “lose” cases, says one. They also win when people are better protected - that's the true aim of the #ECHR.

I’d be interested! Thanks for taking this initiative

After two exciting days in Berlin, on the way to MPI Hamburg where we‘ll be cohosting a workshop on The Neutrality of Family Law: Between Framing and Substance - w/ Konrad Duden & Elise Goossens

Out today on @verfassungsblog.de!

"The Visible and the Invisible of Justice in Strasbourg" — based on an interview w/ former ECtHR VP A Nussberger & Judge Kateřina Šimáčková hosted at UZH as part of Who is the Court for? @volkswagenstiftung.bsky.social

verfassungsblog.de/interview-ec...

Thank you for the lovely time and the energising exchange, dear @psussner.bsky.social! Looking forward to many exciting collaborations and I’m so glad our book is getting such kind words! 😊☕📚

Screenshot of the article’s abstract, available at the link in the post

Popping this on here as well: “Intersectionality’s travels to international human rights law” was recently published 🌱

On institutional lives & non-lives of intersectionality; origin stories & their politics; and the danger of deradicalizing Black feminism: repository.law.umich.edu/mjil/vol45/i...

Excited to be part of this friendly community and to announce an exciting start of the week in Berlin 📚

We're launching "Leading Works in Law and Anthropology" @ the LSI (Humboldt Univ) today at 6-8 PM CET hybrid

www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/en/lf/oe/lsi...

Register at law-and-society@hu-berlin.de

Child rights in trans healthcare – a call to action Published in International Journal of Transgender Health (Ahead of Print, 2024)

New editorial:

"Child rights in trans health - A call to action".

Please share

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