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

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” di...

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 pr...

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, an...