In Conversation: Should legal sex/gender be abolished?

Should legal sex/gender be abolished?  Utopianism, failure, and the challenge of designing contentious law

To discuss whether we should abolish legal sex/gender, please join us for a conversation with Professor Davina Cooper(King's College London) and Dr Lena Holzer(University of Cambridge) at Room SG2, Alison Richard Building on Thursday 27 November 2025.

Professor Davina Cooper is a research professor in law and political theory at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London and the principal investigator of the research project 'Future of legal gender: a critical reform project'. One of the leading voices on prefigurative approaches to law, Cooper's scholarship has challenged top-down perspectives on law reform and, instead, encouraged grassroots, imaginative, and radical rethinkings of law and lawmaking. Dr Lena Holzer is Assistant Professor on Race, Gender and the Law at the University of Cambridge. Her scholarship has examined how legal gender has been constructed in human rights law and international sports law through a historical and comparative law approach, uncovering the distinct colonial, racial, and heteronormative assemblages that underpin these constructions.

The event will be followed by a drinks reception in The Atrium, Alison Richard Building.

Please register here.