Gender, Informality and Courts: Mapping Theoretical Approaches

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gender, Informality and Courts: Mapping Theoretical Approaches

Original language description

Many judiciaries in the world struggle with representation of women on the bench. Even in countries that invested a lot of energy into increasing the diversity of the judiciary the situation has improved only incrementally. At the same, in those countries where women judges outnumber their male colleagues, women still fail to be represented in the positions of power – at the apex courts, at judicial councils, among court presidents and other crucial positions within judicial governance. This may undermine trust and legitimacy of the judiciary. Much of the existing research that tackles this problem focuses on formal institutions. Yet, the problem often lies elsewhere as it is informal institutions that might have more significant repercussions for horizontal and vertical gender segregation in judicial governance. The aim of this chapter is three-fold. First, it analyses two dominant theoretical approaches (neo-institutionalism, including feminist institutionalism, and relational perspective) on how to study gendered informal practices and networks affecting the judiciary. Second, it identifies informal institutions and informal networks that hold women back in selection and promotion of judges that hamper or improve the role of women in judicial governance. Third, it reflects on the methods that are used to study the role of gender in informal judicial institutions and proposes new avenues for further research.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Informality and Courts: Comparative Perspectives

ISBN

9781399535250

Number of pages of the result

18

Pages from-to

213-230

Number of pages of the book

328

Publisher name

Edinburgh University Press

Place of publication

Edinburgh

UT code for WoS chapter

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