Prototyping and Prefiguring through Law Reform: An Interview with Davina Cooper on the FLaG Sex and Gender Decertification Proposal

In an interview with Professor Davina Cooper, we discuss her research project The Future of Legal Gender (FlaG), a four-year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK (2018-22). Davina Cooper is Research Professor in Law and Political Theory at King's College London and the author of several books, including Everyday Utopias: The Conceptual Life of Promising Spaces (Duke University Press, 2014). In the interview, we explore prefiguration, prototyping and analogies with design methodologies focusing on FLaG's law reform proposal to decertify sex and gender.

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This article discusses Professor Davina Cooper's research project "The Future of Legal Gender" (FLaG), which aims to decertify sex and gender, and explores prefiguration and prototyping from the perspective of design methodologies.