Why fighting structural inequalities requires institutionalizing difference: a response to Nienke Grossman

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• dc.contributor.author Torbisco Casals, Neus
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-10-21T06:28:22Z
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• dc.date.issued 2016
• dc.description.abstract People ask me sometimes, when—when do you think it will be enough? When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is when there are nine. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court. Nienke Grossman offers a much needed overview of the statistical patterns behind the substantial underrepresentation of women in international courts benches. As her inquiry reveals, despite the growing proportion of female qualified lawyers, sex representativeness has hardly improved in recent years. On the contrary, in the absence of special requirements in courts’ statutes or judicial selection procedures, the percentage of women judges has actually stagnated or even declined in some cases. Such acute sex imbalance cannot be attributed to the (contingent) fact that not enough qualified women are available for such highly prestigious positions. Grossman persuasively contests the plausibility of this widespread assumption. Not only is the limited-pool argument fallacious, but, as her analysis suggests, part of the problem might actually be that judicial selection procedures lack transparency and are not driven by merit. Instead, nominations of international judges are often used “to reward political loyalty or to advance political agendas”; this practice seriously impinges on the chances of women to be appointed as international judges, as politics (both domestic and international) remains very much a male-dominated sphere.
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• dc.identifier.citation Torbisco-Casals N. Why fighting structural inequalities requires institutionalizing difference: a response to Nienke Grossman. Am J Int Law. 2016;110:92-7. DOI: 10.1017/S2398772300002877
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S2398772300002877
• dc.identifier.issn 0002-9300
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68255
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof American Journal of International Law. 2016;110:92-7
• dc.rights Copyright © 2017, Cambridge University Press. This article has been published in a revised form in American Journal of International Law [http://doi.org/10.1017/S2398772300002877]. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed.
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• dc.subject.other Desigualtat social
• dc.subject.other Igualtat entre els sexes
• dc.subject.other Polítiques
• dc.title Why fighting structural inequalities requires institutionalizing difference: a response to Nienke Grossman
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