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CCTL Seminar – ‘Poverty in Judgecraft: New Narratives through the Language of Equality’ by Dr. Sarah Ganty
2025年2月25日
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm (HKT)
Moot Court, 5/F Lee Shau Kee Building, CUHK, Shatin
Dr. Sarah Ganty is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she serves as President of the Yale Law School European Law Association. She is also a Postdoctoral Fellow at Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve and a research affiliate at the Central European University Democracy Institute in Budapest. This academic year, Sarah is a visiting professor at Hong Kong University and a Research Visitor at the Bonavero Institute at Oxford University. Sarah Ganty’s research focuses on immigration law, social justice, anti-discrimination law and citizenship law. Her first monograph dissects the concept of “migrants’ integration” in EU law; her articles have appeared in numerous peer reviewed law journals including the Human Rights Law Review, The Hague Journal of the Rule of Law, International Journal of Law in Context, European Journal of Risk Regulation, Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law, as well as Columbia Journal of European Law and Yale Journal of International Law Online. She is currently working on the concept of merit in law and its role in determining how public, economic, and social goods ought to be shared or attributed. With strong background in EU law, she is active in the study of the European Union legal system too. She taught social justice, EU law and human rights law at CEU (Vienna) as well as the ULB and the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels.
Discussant:
Prof. Jennifer Hendry, Professor, CUHK LAW
https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13704689
Submission Deadline: 12:30 pm (HKT), 24 February 2025
Millions worldwide face poverty daily. While its effects vary by society, poverty consistently marginalizes individuals, limiting their opportunities and access to societal benefits. Myths about poverty undergird and perpetuate socioeconomic exclusion, being the vehicles for cultural processes, such as stigmatization, racialization, and rationalization. These myths abound in law. They include the conception of poverty as solely concerned with the deprivation of basic material goods; equal opportunities and collective amnesia about the past; stigmatization of people in poverty as irresponsible and lazy; the categorization of aspects and elements of their poverty condition as criminal. This Article argues that judges, as (meta)narrators, have the power to challenge myths and develop new narratives about poverty, through the language of non-discrimination and equality. This could open the way to judicially redress certain troubling situations of misrecognition, social exclusion and inequality. Ultimately, as long as myths about poverty prevail in law any attempt to tackle the issue of socioeconomic exclusion is destined to fail. This article contributes to the law and sociology literature on poverty in judgecraft by addressing the research gap on narratives of poverty within judicial reasoning and practice.
Language: English
