How to Gender the Private and Public Divide in International Law

This session investigates the engagement of women’s rights in international law. It brings back the question, posed by Karen Knop, of interrogating the divide between private and public international law from a historical perspective. By looking at the critical relationship between family/household, market, and the state, and the fundamental role international law has played in implementing a specific economic vision through the organization of gendered power relations, the session aims to disrupt this binary. Speakers: Matilda Arvidsson, Miriam Bak McKenna, Serena Natile