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Rewriting the Rules

Gender-Responsive Lawmaking for the Twenty-First Century

by Ramona Vijeyarasa (Author)
Price: $34.95 / £30.00
Publication Date: Jan 2026
Edition: 1st Edition
Title Details:
Rights: World
Pages: 189
ISBN: 9780520412965
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Illustrations: 4 b/w figures, 2 tables

About the Book

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Rewriting the Rules considers what law would look like if written with women in mind. Examining both where the law stands today and the ground left to walk if the law is to be truly equitable, Ramona Vijeyarasa takes readers on a global journey of gender-responsive lawmaking across seven legal domains: gender-based violence, shared parenting, corporate board representation, small-scale mining, budgeting, modern slavery, and artificial intelligence. A legislative tour of good and bad practice from every continent, this book affirms that law reform can make a gender-equal world possible.

About the Author

Ramona Vijeyarasa is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. She is author of The Woman President: Leadership, Law and Legacy for Women based on Experiences from South and Southeast Asia and Sex, Slavery and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and Its Victims.