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Rewriting Justice: Imagining Intersectional Judgments at the European Court of Human Rights

Intersectional Rewrites 3 Episodes Jun 1, 2026

The European Court of Human Rights often hears cases from people who face multiple forms of discrimination at once, but its judgments rarely reflect that complexity. In this podcast, we explore how intersectionality can change legal thinking, reveal current limitations of European human rights law, and help shape a system capable of seeing the full picture. The series is based on the book "Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments."

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The court we can imagine Jun 1, 2026 00:10:57 Courts are often imagined as neutral spaces, but every judgment reflects decisions about whose experiences count.In this concluding episode, human rights lawyer Nani Jansen Reventlow explores how embracing intersectionality could reshape the European Court of Human Rights itself. Contributors to the book “Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments” dis

Justice, reimagined Jun 1, 2026 00:13:10 What changes when we look at human rights cases through an intersectional lens?In this episode, human rights lawyer Nani Jansen Reventlow dives into three real cases brought before the European Court of Human Rights — and how activists, lawyers, and legal scholars reimagined them for the book “Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments”.From queer prot

Why rewrite the judgments? Jun 1, 2026 00:10:04 Europe’s top human rights court hears cases shaped by multiple forms of oppression — racism, sexism, migration, and poverty — but its judgments rarely reflect how these forces intersect. In this first episode, human rights lawyer Nani Jansen Reventlow introduces “Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments”, a book in which activists, practitioners, and

Rewriting Justice: Imagining Intersectional Judgments at the European Court of Human Rights

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