{"id":1821,"date":"2015-09-16T21:41:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/?p=1821"},"modified":"2015-09-17T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T01:50:16","slug":"gqual-on-international-law-grrls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gqualcampaign.org\/old\/gqual-on-international-law-grrls\/","title":{"rendered":"GQUAL on International Law Grrls! – author: Strategic Advisor Cecilia Bailliet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gender Imbalance in International\u00a0Courts<\/span><\/h1>\n
On September 13th, the blog International Law Grrls<\/a> began running a series of posts about the GQUAL Campaign and the importance of having gender parity in international tribunals and monitoring bodies. The first post, written by
\nUniversity of Oslo Law Professor Cecilia Marcela Bailliet, was titled “Gender Imbalance in International Courts” and mentioned supporting the campaign as critical to guaranteeing that guidelines, measures, and mechanisms on national and international levels are established to attain gender parity (among other things).<\/h5>\n
You can read the full text below or by clicking the link here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
The 11th ESIL Annual Conference on the Judicialization of International Law- A Mixed Blessing?<\/a> included a panel addressing the significant gender imbalance in international courts, affecting both adjudicators and the legal teams appearing before them.\u00a0 Nienke Grossman <\/a>of the University of Baltimore presented her paper \u201cShattering the Glass Ceiling in International Adjudication\u201d (forthcoming Virginia Journal of International Law<\/a>) which reveals the\u00a0opaque nature of selection procedures and the lack of quotas or targets to achieve gender balance on the courts.\u00a0She combines both quantitative and qualitative data on 12 different international courts. \u00a0She contrasts international courts which lack gender representativeness requirements as having only 15% women judges with international courts which have targets or representative language as having 33% women judges.\u00a0 Most poignantly, she reflects upon the element of democratic legitimacy: \u201cBoth women and men are the beneficiaries of the work of international courts and should be involved in judicial decision making for these institutions to possess justified authority.\u201d<\/h5>\n
Stephanie Hennette Vauchez <\/a>of Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre pursued the issue through her paper- \u201cMore Women -But Which Women? The Rule and the Politics of Gender Balance at the European Court of Human Rights\u201d available in the European Journal of International Law<\/a>.\u00a0 She sets forth the Council of Europe\u2019s parliamentary assembly rule of gender balance on the list of candidates presented by states for the post of judge.\u00a0 She discusses strong opposition and counter-mobilization to implementation of the rule- thus flagging the importance of follow up engagement.\u00a0 She warns that although there are currently 18 women on the bench, there is a need to be wary given the prevalence of all male lists.<\/h5>\n
The final paper was presented by Cecily Rose <\/a>of the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies at Leiden Law School, titled \u201cA Study\u00a0of Lawyers Appearing before the International Court of Justice, 1999-2012\u201d (co-written with Shashank P. Kumar and published in the European Journal of International Law <\/a>as well).\u00a0\u00a0 Rose examined the composition of legal teams appearing before the ICJ and demonstrating grave gender imbalance, in addition to imbalance regarding nationality, development status, and geographic region of country of citizenship, as well as professional status (lawyers v. professors).\u00a0 She concludes that only 4 members of the ICJ Bar were women and accounted for 2.91 per cent of total speaking time.\u00a0 85 per cent of the Bar were nationals of developed states and the majority were international law professors.<\/h5>\n
All three papers call for greater transparency and left the audience with a profound sense that there is a need to\u00a0heed this recommendation both at\u00a0national and\u00a0international\u00a0levels; as the issue of appointments to international courts is indeed transnational in nature.<\/h5>\n
[quote align=”center” color=”#COLOR_CODE”]It appears that the next step will be to support the GQUAL <\/a>campaign which launches this\u00a0upcoming week\u00a0at the United Nations in New York.\u00a0 It seeks to raise awareness about the lack of women\u2019s representation in international institutions, the lack of fair and transparent procedures at national and international levels to nominate candidates.\u00a0 It calls for the establishment of guidelines, measures, and mechanisms on national and international levels to attain gender parity and calls upon States to guarantee parity when presenting and voting for\u00a0candidates.\u00a0 Of particular interest, it will seek to study the under representation of women in international courts from the perspective of non-discrimination.\u00a0 GQUAL will issue a Declaration which will serve as a public petition for all to sign!\u00a0 It is hoped that all IntLawGrrls will disseminate this campaign!ote Content[\/quote]<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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