What if the European Court of Human Rights saw Justice Through an Intersectional Lens?

Handmaker, J. (Chair)

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Co-editor Nani Jansen Reventlow opened the event by introducing the Intersectional Rewrites project and its core purpose: to demonstrate, through concrete examples, how the European Court of Human Rights could approach cases differently when it recognises that discrimination operates across multiple, intersecting dimensions of identity.

The discussion that followed explored the book’s methodology and its implications for legal practice, drawing on the experiences of authors who rewrote specific judgments and reflecting on what becomes visible through an intersectional lens.

The discussion featured:
Jeff Handmaker (ISS) — moderator
Nawal Mustafa (Universiteit van Amsterdam) — contributing author
Guno Jones (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) — discussant
Lyn Tjon Soei Len (The Ohio State University) — co-editor
Adam Weiss (ClientEarth) — co-editor

Period	25 Nov 2025
Event type	Seminar
Location	The Hague, NetherlandsShow on map

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ISS-LMP

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On 25 November 2025, the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague hosted the second launch event of Intersectionality and Human Rights: Reimagining European Court of Human Rights Judgments. Organised together with the Legal Mobilisation Platform, the evening brought together the book’s editors, contributing authors, and other guests to discuss how intersectional rewrites can reshape our understanding of discrimination and justice.