Gender-competent legal education.

Mak, Charles Ho Wang; Odusanya, Temitope Omotola

Abstract

Gender-Competent Legal Education, edited by Dragica Vujadinović, Mareike Fröhlich and Thomas Giegerich, is a remarkable and timely contribution that addresses the need to make legal education sensitive to systemic gender inequalities. This book offers an extensive examination of law from a gender perspective, drawing on expertise from contributors from different universities with different expertise. It aims to provide an informed approach to enhancing legal curricula worldwide (particularly Europe), and to promote gender equality in legal understanding and practice. The book has been funded with support from the European Commission. It belongs to a tradition of scholarship that recognises how law, in both theory and application, can function as a mechanism of domination when it does not confront patriarchy. Through its many chapters, the book proposes to shift legal education away from a male-dominated mainstream and towards a gender-competent paradigm.

Citation

MAK, C.H.W. and ODUSANYA, T.O. 2025. Gender-competent legal education. Law teacher [online], Latest Articles. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2025.2492470

• Journal Article Type: Book Review
• Acceptance Date: May 27, 2025
• Online Publication Date: May 27, 2025
• Deposit Date: Jun 10, 2025
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 28, 2026
• Journal: Law teacher
• Print ISSN: 0306-9400
• Electronic ISSN: 1943-0353
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Item Discussed: Vujadinović, D., Fröhlichc, M. and Giegerich, T. (eds.) 2023. Gender-competent legal education. Cham: Springer. ISBN 9783031143595
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/03069400.2025.2492470
• Keywords: Legal education; Gender; Gender inequalities; Law
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2878919