Giorgia Baldi

Lecturer in Law

University of Sussex

g.baldi@sussex.ac.uk

Key research interests:

Human Rights
Gender and Religion
Islamic Law
Political Theology and Political Theory
Anthropology of Religion
Middle Eastern Studies

Dr Giorgia Baldi is Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex. Her research work focuses on the intersection of gender, religion and secularism. This relation between gender, religion and secularism is analysed in different contexts, and through different approaches, revealing the complexity and the changeability of norms and values. She has previously worked in the Middle East for several years in the field of International Cooperation and Development, playing leading roles in women’s rights related programmes in the Middle East (2004-2011). In the last years, she has also worked as consultant for diverse international organizations on Human Rights related issues.

Dr Baldi obtained her undergraduate and postgraduate degree from the University of Bologna (Italy) and carried out her doctoral studies at Birkbeck, University of London, School of Law, where she obtained her PhD in 2017. She is a member of the ‘Socio-Legal Study Association’, the ‘Law and Society Association’ (LSA), the ‘Law and Religion Scholars Network’ (LARN), the ‘Association for Middle East Women’s Studies’, the ‘International Association for the study of Religion and Gender’, and the ‘British Association for Islamic Studies’.

Academic Profile:

http://www.sussex.ac.uk/profiles/436348

Selected publications:

2018. Law & critique: burkini, bikini and the female (un)dressed body. Critical Legal Thinking [weblog article, 22 June 2018].
2018. Re-conceptualizing equality in the work place: a reading of the latest CJEU’s opinions over the practice of veiling. Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, 7 (2), pp. 296-312.
2018. Between patriarchy and occupation: violence against women in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. In: Picelli, Giovanni, Borroni, Andrea and Kherkerulidze, Irine (eds.) Reconsidering gender based violence and other forms of violence against women: Comparative analysis in the light of the Istanbul Convention. Libellula University Press, Italy, pp. 247-295.
2017. 'Visible others': a reading of the European obsession with the female veil. Sociology and Anthropology, 5 (8). pp. 677-687.
2016. The ‘humanity’ of the secular legal subject’: reading the European Court of Human Rights’ decisions over the practice of veiling. Working Paper. Birmingham Law School - Institute of European Law.