Clinique juridique bell hooks droit et genre

This course corresponds to the program's learning outcomes framework.
It contributes to the acquisition of “general knowledge and interdisciplinary skills.” By introducing students to the concept of gender, social sciences’ notion, and to feminism, the course aims to raise their awareness of the links between law and gender and to give them an additional tool for decoding legal phenomena. By the end of the course, students will have become familiar with authors, philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, and legal scholars whose ideas they will have drawn upon in their work, where appropriate.
Furthermore, as this course is based on requests from civil society actors, students are given the opportunity to work on issues arising from the field relating to women's rights and, more broadly, gender equality, which strengthens their ability to conduct concrete and in-depth legal analysis. The aim is to enable them to “acquire the ability to analyze, reflect and argue on the basis of concrete situations” (individual or collective) and, more specifically, the “ability to construct a reasoned argument” and “to identify possible solutions, assess their relevance and choose the most appropriate one.”
By the end of the course, students should therefore have addressed and resolved, with several of their classmates, a clinical question in a critical manner, through the concept of gender, using non-legal resources and positive law acquired in other courses, explored in depth in casu. In this respect, the course will enable them to "master concepts, rules, and principles“ which, depending on the question submitted by the field association, may relate to both Belgian public and private law, develop ”the ability to take a critical look at the law“ and ”an awareness of the relative and evolving nature of legal solutions and the controversies they may generate,“ and ”acquire the methods and tools of the scientific approach."
In addition, working in groups, students will be required to write a critical analysis of around ten pages on the same question, demonstrating a mastery of its technical and practical dimensions as well as an ability to make legal tools accessible to a non-specialist audience in a clear and concise manner. The writing of the paper and, where applicable, its presentation to the field association also aims to develop their mastery of “written and oral communication in French of a legal idea and/or reasoning,” which they are expected to be able to “defend convincingly.”
Finally, as students are expected to organize the distribution of topics and tasks among themselves, they will have developed, in terms of transferable skills, “their sense of autonomy in carrying out various tasks (organizational skills, work planning, meeting deadlines, etc.).”