Full Paper Submission Rules

1. General Requirements

The selected judgment to be rewritten and commented upon must be contentious — the case must reveal contradictions in decisions across levels of court, raise a novel legal issue, or contain strong disagreement from the parties, the procuracy, or the adjudicating panel.

Full papers must be between 5,000 and 10,000 words (excluding references), meeting the standards and quality of an international academic publication. The content must be previously unpublished in any form.

Papers may be written in Vietnamese or English.

2. Content Requirements

Authors may choose between two approaches to writing a feminist judgment:

Approach 1: Judgment Commentary + Rewritten Judgment

This is the first approach of the Vietnamese Feminist Judgments project, aimed at popularising feminist legal theory as a research framework through applied illustration.

Authors are required to structure their paper as follows:

• Introduction / Background Context
• Facts and Legal Issues
• Procedural History
• Original Court Decision
• Feminist Legal Theory Analysis and Contributions
• Rewritten Judgment Section (optional)

Approach 2: Rewritten Judgment + Commentary on the Rewritten Judgment

This approach centres on the rewritten judgment as the primary output, approached through feminist legal theory.

This approach requires two authors — one to write the rewritten judgment and one to write the commentary. This is also the approach adopted by all feminist judgments projects worldwide. The conference encourages this approach to bring the Vietnamese project closer to international parallels.

The paper consists of two parts — the rewritten judgment and the commentary. For the commentary section, authors follow this structure:

• Introduction: Introduction to the original judgment; identification of the legal issues the original judgment must resolve and the inadequacies of current law in resolving those disputes.
• Summary of the original judgment: Facts and court decision.
• Commentary on the rewritten judgment: Clarifying whether the application of feminist legal theory yields a more satisfactory outcome.