Intersectional legal academy: Afterword to the Foreword by Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy

Abstract This Afterword to Gráinne de Búrca, Rosalind Dixon, and Marcela Prieto Rudolphy’s Foreword “Gender and the Legal Academy” picks up on and interrogates a point made by the authors—that a feminist legal academy is needed for gender equality in the academy. It shows that a truly feminist legal academy has to be intersectional, both normatively and practically. This has implications, as intersectionality necessarily excludes exclusive or limiting ideas of feminism. Whether a legal academy is able to embrace the full force of an intersectional legal academy depends on the context in which that academy is situated and the acceptance of intersectionality in that context.