With a focus on comparative constitutional and human rights law, this course draws from legal controversies around the world to exemplify issues at the frontier of equality law. The topics will be connected through an overarching normative claim whereby the old “gender order”, at the basis of our constitutional democracies, has undergone a gradual process of “disestablishment” which is now being followed by a serious backlash across the world. The specific focus areas will be decided in consultation with enrolled students and may include abortion and reproductive rights; trans rights; violence against women; the right to a gender balanced political representation and fatherhood rights and the distribution of care duties.