The Challenges faced by Women Legal Academics (Panel Discussion

Dauhoo, Eshan

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The Challenges faced by Women Legal Academics (Panel Discussion)Eshan DauhooSumárioCrôniCas ........................................................................................................ 14CróniCa revisión de Laudos arbitraLes de inversión 2020: 2º enCuentro anuaL (san-tiago de ChiLe, 07-08/06/2021) .......................................................................................16Ivette Esis Villarroel e Andrés Delgado Casteleiroas medidas CauteLares da Corte internaCionaL de Justiça na Caso entre uCrânia e Fe-deração russa ..................................................................................................................32Lucas Carlos Limathe ChaLLenges FaCed by Women LegaL aCademiCs (PaneL disCussion) ......................39Eshan Dauhoodossiê ............................................................................................................ 41editoriaL bJiL: internationaL LaW as FueL For CLimate Change Litigation ................43Sandrine Maljean-Duboisthe JurisdiCtion oF the internationaL Court oF JustiCe in Cases oF territoriaL dama-ge Caused to states by CLimate Change ..........................................................................46Cristiane Derani e Patricia Grazziotin NoschangLitigânCia CLimátiCa e LiCenCiamento ambientaL: Consideração da variáveL CLimátiCa à Luz dos tratados internaCionais sobre o CLima ..............................................................61Danielle de Andrade Moreira, Carolina de Figueiredo Garrido e Maria Eduarda Segovia Barbosa NevesCambio CLimátiCo y aCCeso a La inFormaCión y PartiCiPaCión ambientaL .......................80Gonzalo Aguilar Cavallo, Cristian Contreras Rojas e Jairo Enrique Lucero Pantojavidas em movimento: os sistemas de Proteção dos direitos humanos Como esPaços de Justiça Para os migrantes CLimátiCos ............................................................................. 104Fernanda de Salles Cavedon-Capdeville e Diogo Andreola SerraglioemergênCia CLimátiCa e direitos humanos: o Caso do Fundo CLima no brasiL e as obrigações de direito internaCionaL .......................................................................... 126Gabrielle Albuquerque, Gabrielle Tabares Fagundez e Roger FabrePersPeCtivas da LitigânCia CLimátiCa em FaCe de emPresas: o Caso miLieudeFensie et aL. vs. royaL dutCh sheLL .................................................................................................. 145Julia Stefanello Pires e Danielle Anne Pamplonathe eFForts to resPond to CLimate Change and imPLementation oF the sustainabLe deveLoPment goaLs (sdgs) From the hardest-aFFeCted Countries: vietnam Case anaLysis ........................................................................................................................... 164Yen Thi Hong Nguyen e Dung Phuong NguyenConstituCionaLismo CLimátiCo Como Fundamento transnaCionaL aos Litígios CLimáti-Cos .................................................................................................................................. 192Délton Winter de Carvalhoartigos sobre outros temas .......................................................................205a agenda 2030: o ComPromisso do brasiL Com a Proteção do Patrimônio CuLturaL e o Combate ao tráFiCo iLíCito de bens CuLturais ..............................................................207Gilmara Benevides C. 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Villas Bôas Castelo Brancoo PrinCíPio das naCionaLidades no banCo de Provas da CiênCia do direito internaCio-naL brasiLeira: ConFrontos aCerCa da teoria de PasquaLe stanisLao manCini no novo Continente .................................................................................................................... 421Arno Dal Ri Juniordoi: 10.5102/rdi.v19i1.8449 The Challenges faced by Women Legal Academics (Panel Discussion)*Eshan Dauhoo**On 21st May 2021, UNICEUB organised an important panel discussion entitled ‘The Challenges faced by Women Legal Academics’. Given the CO-VID-19 context, the event in question was held online. This also created the possibility and benefit of  bringing together distinguished female academics from across the globe (Brazil, UK, Uruguay, Mexico, India, South Africa, Kuwait, Bangladesh, Argentina and Columbia).1 This brief  summary report revisits the core themes that emerged from this critical conversation. The principle aim of  the event was to provide a space and platform for these academics to have a conversation and share their personal stories, perceptions and understanding of  the challenges faced by women legal aca-demics. It also offered an opportunity to explore these issues beyond the statistics of  gender representation and composition; which might somewhat limit understanding to a mere snapshot of  reality. Here, the intention was to access and understand the lived experiences of  women legal academics. A particularly interesting observation to emerge from the conversations was that despite differences in countries, cultures and contexts, their experiences were largely connected by certain common characteristics and challenges. The panel consisted of  participants who had demonstrated a high level of  success in their careers as legal academics. Yet, their stories highlighted how, as women, they faced a number of  unnecessary challenges. Participants expressed frustration and disappointment at still having to prove themselves and overcome typical gender stereotypes. One particular challenge that see-med to emerge as a dominant theme related to culture. More specifically, a patriarchal culture which persisted, produced as well as reinforced instances of  gender inequality, bias and discrimination. The conversations demons-trated that these were manifested in both strong and direct forms as well as more subtle and indirect forms.A rather powerful illustration of  how cultural practices could hinder female participation and progression within academia was shared by one participant who described how the practice of  diwaniya2 in her culture meant that women often missed out on key opportunities to socialise in a space where often important connections and decisions were made. Other exam-ples related to stereotypes such as being perceived as the secretary of  a male colleague, comments on appropriate professional attire and being denied opportunities for late evening duties.There were participants who described not being seen or treated as equals by their male colleagues. They described their students as also hol-ding this perception. Participants reported being subject to various forms of  microaggression as well as inappropriate humour. It was felt that in some 1 Patrícia  Perrone Campos Melo (Brazil); Magdalena Bas (Uruguay) ; Carolina Olarte (Co-lombia) ; Virginia Georgieva (Mexico) ; Leïla Choukrone (United Kingdom); Bashayer Al Majed (Kuwait); Ranjana Ferrao (India); Rumana Islam (Bangladesh); Afton Titus (South Africa). 2 A social gathering in a private setting * Recebido em 13/04/2022  Aprovado em 13/04/2022** Doctoral Researcher at University College London (LLB, BSc, LLM, MA, PGCert Int. Law, PGCert Psych., PGDip Eur. Law) and Law Mentor (Academic) at London Metropoli-tan University, UK.E-mail: d_eshan@yahoo.comDAUHOO, Eshan. The Challenges faced by Women Legal Academics (Panel Discussion). Revista de Direito Internacional, Brasília, v. 19, n. 1, p. 39-41, 2022.41cases there was a glass ceiling for women legal acade-mics when it came to opportunities to further progress in their academic careers. Other issues raised were tho-se of  double standards, where participants felt women academics had to tick more boxes and that their success was not being fully recognised and acknowledged, in-cluding within their own institutions. The focus of  the workshop was particularly on the challenges faced by women legal academics. There was also, however, a general level of  recognition and agree-ment of  evidence of  a positive change in relation to the growing number of  female students studying law at universities and progressing to academia and legal prac-tice. Panellists also put forward suggestions for overco-ming challenges faced by women legal academics. These included encouraging more female academic mentors and role models to come forward as well as building networks to help support and guide new female acade-mics to break into the field and those with experience to further grow. Networks could help create relationships and spaces to not only overcome the sense of  isolation felt by some women legal academics, but also make the success of  women academics more visible to female law students; increasing their awareness of, and connect with, inspirational role models. It was expressed that a level of  positive action, including legislative changes, was required to help fast-track necessary changes. One panellist, raised some thought-provoking questions by urging women legal academics to move beyond the sta-tistics and instances of  discrimination. Whilst she ack-nowledged that the statistics and negative experiences were detrimental, she pushed for women legal acade-mics to not feel boxed by the ‘women’ label but instead explore their identity and sense of  belonging to this ca-tegory.In summary, this discussion brought a level of  awa-reness of  the extent to which the challenges faced by women legal academics seem to cut across countries, cultures and contexts. There were inevitable variations in the form or degree of  these challenges, but the ins-tances of  gender discrimination and bias went beyond being individual or isolated. They were particularly reflective of  issues associated with patriarchy. Critical conversations, such as the one organised by UNICEUB, can help understand the causes and consequences of  such unequal power structures by listening to the voi-ces of  those most directly impacted by it: women legal academics.Para publicar na Revista de Direito Internacional, acesse o endereço eletrônicowww.rdi.uniceub.br ou www.brazilianjournal.org.Observe as normas de publicação, para facilitar e agilizar o trabalho de edição.

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