Feminist and queer scholarship has very long histories of critical theoretical engagements with law and criminal justice.

In this conversation, we bring together three legal scholars and  thinkers to examine some key questions of law and gender and how these matter to imagining better worlds and futures.

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Meet our chair and speakers: 

Professor Susanne Baer is Centennial Professor at LSE, Professor of Public Law and Gender Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, and a Lea Bates Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. From 2011 until 2023, she served as Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court in Germany. In the UK, she is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, where she gave the Maccabean Lecture in 2019. Her interests include constitutional law, comparative law and feminist and socio-legal theory.  Susanne’s many publications include ‘The Rule of – and not by any – Law: On Constitutionalism’ (2018).  

Professor Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy at the London School of Economics. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2025 she won the UK Law Teacher of the Year Award. Her publications include A Life of HLA Hart (OUP 2004); Women, Crime and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D’Urbervilles (2008); The Prisoners’ Dilemma (2008), and In Search of Criminal Responsibility (2016). 

Professor Sumi Madhok is Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies, LSE and Head of Department of Gender Studies at the LSE. She is also Faculty Associate at the LSE International Inequalities Institute. Her recent book Vernacular Rights Cultures: The Politics of Origins, Human Rights and Gendered Struggles for Justice (2021) is the winner of the ‘Susan Strange Best Book Prize’ and ‘The Sussex International Theory Prize, 2022’. 

Dr SM Rodriguez is scholar-activist and Assistant Professor of Gender, Rights and Human Rights. Their research advances the understanding of the impact of racialisation, criminalisation, ableism, and the imposition of gendered and sexual control on people of African descent. With a monograph and over a dozen journal articles and book chapters, Dr. Rodriguez’s work has had a profound impact on scholarship, legal proceedings, and organizational practices.