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The “Woman Question” in Post-Socialist Legal Education
- Human Rights Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 36, Number 3, August 2014
- pp. 507-568
- 10.1353/hrq.2014.0042
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Sex equality—a significant contribution to the international human rights canon—was one of the legitimating principles of socialist states in Eastern Europe and, at least formally, of their post-socialist democratic successors. Why then has the subject been ignored or deeply marginalized in post-socialist legal education? Using socio-legal analysis to establish a legitimation or delegitimation dynamic regarding law in theory and practice in both eras, the author provides answers to this question and suggests various options for reforming post-socialist legal education to provide adequate training in the subject of women’s rights consistent with states’ international and regional human rights obligations.