Susanne Lilian Gössl, ‘“Mirin” and Beyond – Gender Identity, Domestic Private International Law, and Human Rights in the EU’, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, available at SSRN (20 May 2025). Fights over gender identity have preoccupied American politicians in recent years. The dialogue surrounding these issues has not always been civil and productive. Too often, voices with incendiary positions have been rewarded with the most attention. Help comes from what might seem, on first sight, like an unlikely source: private international law, or, as more commonly called stateside, conflict of laws. In ‘“Mirin” and Beyond’, Susanne Lilian Gössl provides an account of how European legal systems deal with situations where different sovereigns have different or even clashing views on gender determination and change, including binary and non-binary approaches … (more)
[Roger M Michalski, JOTWELL, 10 December 2025]
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