Menina Ugwuoke
Gender and Racism in criminal law
Criminal law is seen by some as an instrument of protection against discrimination, while others see it merely as a reflection of social power relations. Using examples, this lecture deals with the role of gender and racism in criminal law and examines the extent to which criminal law regulations and their application reproduce gender-specific and racist discrimination. The aim is to create an awareness of the ambivalences of criminal law and to develop power-critical perspectives on it.
Nazli Aghazadeh-Wegener
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Menina Ugwuoke is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the junior professorship of Prof. Dr. Leonie Steinl. She completed her law degree at the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2018, she founded BIJOC* (Black Indigenous Jurastudierende of Color), a networking group for law students affected by racism in Berlin and Brandenburg, and has been a member of Afro-German Women Lawyers since 2023. Her research interests include interdisciplinary legal research, feminist jurisprudence, legal history and criminal law criticism.
azli Aghazadeh-Wegener is a research assistant at the University of Frankfurt a.M. under BVR Prof. Dr. Astrid Wallrabenstein (Chair of Public Law with a focus on social law) and is doing her doctorate on "Intersektionale Diskriminierung im Sozialstaat" (“Intersectional Discrimination in the Welfare State”; supervised by Ute Sacksofsky and funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation).
The event takes place in German.