Professor Davina Cooper presents new findings from a four-year collaborative research project, The Future of Legal Gender, which explored the legal, social, and policy implications of abolishing legal sex status. The presentation will address both the benefits and concerns around “decertifying” gender in England and Wales and set out principles for reform.
Imaging a Future Without Legal Sex: The Politics and Perils of Feminist Law Reform
January 24, 2023
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PT
UCLA School of Law
Room 1314
Davina Cooper, Professor, King's College of London
Davina Cooper is a Research Professor in Law & Political Theory at King’s College London. Davina’s research addresses transformative politics in relation to state governance, everyday utopias, gender and sexual politics, and new conceptual methods. She is the author of six books including Feeling like a State and Everyday Utopias, published by Duke UP.