Congratulations to Pedro Salomon Bezerra Mouallem and Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, in São Paulo, Brazil, editors of the Revista Direito GV special issue on “Law, Gender and Equality,” which aims to foster discussion on the themes explored in in Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives, edited by Rebecca Cook (2023). This special issue promotes research by 15 female authors from countries including Brazil, Canada, Colombia, India, Mexico, Turkey, and the USA. All articles are usefully prefaced by abstracts in English, Portuguese and Spanish. We are pleased to circulate their Table of Contents:
Law, Gender and Equality: A Special Issue
of Revista Direito GV, volume 21 (2025),
edited by Pedro Salomon Bezerra Mouallem and Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin
published Dec 31, 2025
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Preface by Rebecca J. Cook
Introduction by Pedro Salomon Bezerra Mouallem and Lívia Gonçalves Buzolin of the Getulio Vargas Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil
Preface and Introduction in English. Preface and introduction in Portuguese.
- Abortion as a Fundamental Right in Mexico: Exploring the Multiple Layers of Reproductive Freedom,
— Alma Beltrán y Puga Article in English, with abstracts in 3 languages. - [Social Representations of Jurors on Femicide and Transfemicide]
Representações sociais de jurados sobre feminicídio e transfeminicídio
—Gabriela Perissinotto de Almeida, and Rosemeire Aparecida Scopinho
Article in Portuguese, with abstracts in 3 languages. - An Exploration of Petition 16 through the Prism of Equality [re: Uganda]
— Serena Meghji Article in English, with abstracts in 3 languages. - Reconstructing Labour Law for Gender Equity: Tackling Economic Dependence and the Neoliberal Framework [re European Union]
— Meltem Ince-Yenilmez, Gökmen Kantar
Article in English, with abstracts in 3 languages. - [Reimagining Reparations: A Reinterpretation of the González et al. v. Mexico Case in Light of Business and Human Rights]
Reimaginando reparações: uma releitura do caso González e Outras vs. México à luz dos direitos humanos e empresas.
— Júlia Lambert Gomes Ferraz
Article in Portuguese, with abstracts in 3 languages. - Maria da Penha Law and Judicial Resistance: Heteroframing Gender-Based Violence in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
— Samantha Nagle Cunha de Moura
Article in English, with abstracts in 3 languages.Lei Maria da Penha e resistência judicial: enquadramento hetero da violência de gênero em Belo Horizonte, Brasil
— Samantha Nagle Cunha de Moura
Article in Portuguese, with abstracts in 3 languages. - “Social Reproductive Justice”: Substantive Equality in the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court’s Ruling on Abortion Decriminalization (ADPF 442)
– Luna Borges
Article in English, with abstracts in 3 languages. - [Lesbianities in Contexts of Violence in the Decisions of the Superior Court of Justice]
Lesbianidades em contextos de violência nas decisões do Superior Tribunal de Justiça.
— Maria Beatriz Dias da Silva, Jalusa Silva de Arruda
Article in Portuguese, with abstracts in 3 languages. - [The Human Right to Care and Women on the Move: Challenges and Opportunities within a Regional Agenda]
El derecho humano al cuidado y las mujeres en movimiento: retos y oportunidades en el marco de una agenda regional
— Carolina Moreno y Camila Vega-Salazar
Article in Spanish, with abstracts in 3 languages. - Between Equality and Religion: A Critical Analysis of the Indian Supreme Court’s Approach in the Sabarimala Case.[India]
— Manisha Aswal
Article in English, with abstracts in 3 languages.
RELATED RESOURCES:
Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives, ed. Rebecca J. Cook (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023)
Purchase options: North America, Rest of the World
Table of Contents, with abstracts.
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