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16 Feminist L. Stud. 1 (2008)

handle is hein.journals/femlst16 and id is 1 raw text is: Fern Leg Stud (2008) 16:1-7 © Springer 2008 DOI 10.1007/s10691-007-9070-1 EMILY GRABHAM and ROSEMARY HUNTER SPECIAL ISSUE ENCOUNTERING HUMAN RIGHTS: GENDER/SEXUALITY, ACTIVISM AND THE PROMISE OF LAW EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION This special issue of Feminist Legal Studies grows out of a con- ference on Encountering Human Rights: Gender/Sexuality, Activ- ism and the Promise of Law, run by the A.H.R.C. Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality (Centre L.G.S.) in con- junction with Liberty and the Legal Action Group, and held at the University of Westminster in January 2007.1 This two-day con- ference brought together activists, academics and practitioners to assess how human rights law and practice in the U.K. interacts with issues concerning gender and sexuality. Some of the central questions that the conference asked included whether and how litigation on gender/sexuality and human rights can be effective in the long-term; whether the problems associated with making rights claims are outweighed by how useful they can be; and what lessons we can learn from other jurisdictions (for example South Africa and Canada) about litigation and campaigning. One of the objectives of the conference was to establish a meaningful dialogue between activism, academia and legal practice. It combined an analytical attitude to rights litigation with an open and collabo- rative attempt to think creatively about how to use human rights arguments to achieve substantive goals. Most of the papers included in this special issue were originally presented at the Encountering Human Rights Conference. Pragna Patel was one of the plenary speakers, while Sari Kouvo, Clare McGlynn, Barry O'Leary and Tania Pouwhare spoke in the panel The conference received financial and other support from Kent Law School, the University of Westminster, Social & Legal Studies, and in particular from the Modern Law Review. This support is gratefully acknowledged.

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