Transnational Legal Feminisms: Challenges and Opportunities Sital Kalantry† Introduction The Cornell International Law Journal’s annual symposium held in March 2018 was entitled “Transnational Legal Feminisms: Challenges and Opportunities.” In this essay, I reflect on what “Transnational Legal Femi- nisms” means and what potential challenges and opportunities it presents. Feminist legal scholars and lawyers are operating in an increasingly inter- connected world today, where popular feminist perspectives and scholarly theories, capital, people, and information move rapidly from country to country. The #MeToo movement is an example of the transnationalization of feminist ideas and legal solutions. Gaining momentum through social media in the United States, the movement against sexual assault and sexual harassment migrated around the world. 1 This transnational movement of legal solutions is not without its problems. For example, a group of promi- nent French feminists objected to the French version of the #MeToo move- ment, claiming it is based on a puritanical understanding of relations between men and women. 2 According to those feminists, more overt male sexual behavior and flirtation is more acceptable in French society than in American society. 3 What may be considered sexual harassment or assault by American definitions, the French feminists argue, is not the same by † Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School. I would like to thank the participants in the Cornell International Law Journal Symposium in March 2018. I appreciate the hard work of the symposium editors in organizing this innovative conference and for Gianni Pizzitola for his patience and editing assistance in this essay. I am grateful to Sumridhi Kaur for her research assistance. 1. The social media movement #MeToo has migrated to countries such as Brazil, Canada, India, England, Germany, South Africa, Pakistan, and Russia. Other countries have experienced analogous movements, such as #YoTambien in Colombia and Mexico, and #BalanceTonPorc in France. See Kara Fox & Jan Diehm, #MeToo’s Global Moment: the Anatomy of a Viral Campaign, CNN (Nov. 9, 2017), https://www.cnn.com/2017/11/ 09/world/metoo-hashtag-global-movement/index.html [https://perma.cc/TEQ7-77KE]. 2. See Nous d´ e d’importuner, indispensable ` e sexuelle, LE efendons une libert´ a la libert´ MONDE (Jan. 9, 2018), www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2018/01/09/nous-defendons-une- liberte-d-importuner-indispensable-a-la-liberte-sexuelle_5239134_3232.html [https:// perma.cc/SZ5D-UMDL]. See also Aurelien Breeden & Elian Peltier, Response to French Letter Denouncing #MeToo Shows a Sharp Divide, N.Y. TIMES (Jan. 12, 2018), https:// www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/world/europe/france-sexual-harassment.html [https:// perma.cc/E7FF-NEYJ]. 3. See Alissa J. Rubin, ‘Revolt’ in France Against Sexual Harassment Hits Cultural Resistance, N.Y. TIMES (Nov. 19, 2017), https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/19/world/ europe/france-sexual-harassment.html [https://perma.cc/2HDZ-WY4M] (quoting Pro- 52 CORNELL INT’L L.J. 171 (2019)