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Introduction to Symposium on Nienke Grossman, “Achieving Sex-Representative International Court Benches”

Part of: Nienke Grossman, “Achieving Sex-Representative International Court Benches”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Katerina Linos
Katerina Linos*
Affiliation:
UC Berkeley School of Law
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In “Achieving Sex-Representative International Court Benches,” Nienke Grossman begins with embarrassing statistics. Despite decades of progress on gender equality, women are still quite scarce on international benches. Grossman reframes the debate on gender equity in a powerful way. Most promisingly, she suggests that greater meritocracy and greater gender equity go hand in hand. As she argues, “international judgeships are often used to reward political loyalty” and “political horse-trading among states” abounds. For these reasons, reforms to broaden the pool of candidates and to increase the transparency of the selection process would also result in the appointment of more women, in all likelihood. In addition, Grossman puts forth a provocative legal claim—she argues that “states are legally required to take steps to understand and remedy the paucity of women judges on most international court benches.”

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Symposium on Nienke Grossman, “Achieving Sex-Representative International Court Benches”
Information
AJIL Unbound , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 84 - 85
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

References

1 Grossmann, Nienke, Achieving Sex-Representative International Court Benches, 110 AJIL 82 (2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Id. at 86.

3 Id. at 87.

4 Rose, Cecily, Justifying Arguments About Selection Procedures for Judges at International Courts and Tribunals: A Response to Nienke Grossman, 110 AJIL Unbound 86 (2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Torbisco-Casals, Neus, Why Fighting Structural Inequalities Requires Institutionalizing Difference: A Response to Nienke Grossman, 110 AJIL Unbound 92 (2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Ebrahim-Carstens, Memooda, Gender Representation on the Tribunals of the United Nations Internal Justice System: A Response to Nienke Grossman, 110 AJIL Unbound 98 (2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.