FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN WESTERN REGIONAL COURTS: COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND AFRICAN COURT OF HUMAN AND PEOPLES' RIGHTS

Resumo

The social scientific study of the courts raises a number of interesting questions, mainly for the equality of opportunities for the female gender in the posts of judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union, of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and of the African Court of Human and Human Rights. Peoples. It seeks to highlight the representativeness of the female gender and the potential evolution of judgments with a greater variety of judges, including the judges' personal characteristics. There is an analysis of two important Courts located on the continents of America and Europe to study the representativeness of that gender.