Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten

Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten
Author: Rachel Rebouché
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108471706

Reimagined court opinions that address iconic issues in family law from a feminist perspective with timely commentaries on those issues.

Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten

Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten
Author: Rachel Rebouché
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108571522

This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family law cases that span generations. The chapters take court decisions and rewrite them with feminist ideas in mind. Each rewritten opinion is penned by a leading scholar who relied only on materials available at the time of the original decision. The decisions address topics such as the criminalization of polygamy, intimate partner violence as a ground for asylum, the legality of gestational surrogacy, the rights of cohabitants, discrimination against transgender parents, immigration rules governing non-citizen parents, and child welfare and child support systems, among others. Each opinion is accompanied by a commentary that explains the original opinion as well as its contemporary relevance, and each commentary also is authored by a respected scholar. The combination of a rewritten opinion and its commentary provides an in-depth examination of the most important topics in family law.

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions
Author: Martha Chamallas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108484298

A feminist rewrite of tort law cases that reveals gender bias and the law's failure to redress serious harms to women.

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions
Author: Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2021-10-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108835538

Reimagines fundamental property law cases to demonstrate how a feminist lens could impact the law's development.

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions
Author: Martha Chamallas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108598447

By rewriting both canonical and lesser-known tort cases from a feminist perspective, this volume exposes gender and racial bias in how courts have categorized and evaluated harm stemming from pre-natal malpractice, pregnancy loss, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, invasion of privacy, and the award of economic and non-economic damages. The rewritten opinions demonstrate that when confronted with gendered harm to women, courts have often distorted or misapplied conventional legal doctrine to diminish the harm or deny recovery. Bringing this implicit bias to the surface can make law students, and lawyers and judges who craft arguments and apply tort doctrines, more aware of inequalities of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation or identity. This volume shows the way forward to make the basic doctrines of tort law more responsive to the needs and perspectives of traditionally marginalized people, in ways that give greater value to harms that they disproportionately experience.

Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten

Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten
Author: Anne M. Choike
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2022-12-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1009035339

Corporate law has traditionally assumed that men organize business, men profit from it, and men bring cases in front of male judges when disputes arise. It overlooks or forgets that women are dealmakers, shareholders, stakeholders, and businesspeople too. This lack of inclusivity in corporate law has profound effects on all of society, not only on women's lives and livelihoods. This volume takes up the challenge to imagine how corporate law might look if we valued not only women and other marginalized groups, but also a feminist perspective emphasizing the importance of power dynamics, equity, community, and diversity in corporate law. Prominent lawyers and legal scholars rewrite foundational corporate law cases, and also provide accompanying commentary that situates each opinion in context, explains the feminist theories applied, and explores the impact the rewritten opinion might have had on the development of corporate law, business, and society.

Scottish Feminist Judgments

Scottish Feminist Judgments
Author: Sharon Cowan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509923268

"An innovative collaboration between academics, practitioners, activists and artists, this timely and provocative book re-writes 16 significant Scots law cases, spanning a range of substantive topics, from a feminist perspective. Exposing the power, politics and partiality reflected in the initial judgment, our feminist judges provide alternative accounts that bring gender equity concerns to the fore, whilst remaining bound by the facts and legal authorities encountered by the original court. Paying particular attention to Scotland's distinctive national identity, fluctuating experiences of political sovereignty, and unique legal traditions and institutions, this book contributes in a distinctive register to the emerging dialogue amongst feminist judgment projects across the globe. Its judgments address concerns not only about gender equality, but also about the interplay between gender, class, national identity and citizenship in contemporary Scotland. It will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of Scots law, and policy-makers, as well as to scholars of feminist and critical theory, and law and gender, internationally. The book also showcases unique contributions from leading artists which, provoked by the enterprise of feminist judging, or by individual cases, offer a visceral and affective engagement with the legal"--

Australian Feminist Judgments

Australian Feminist Judgments
Author: Heather Douglas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 780
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1782255419

This book brings together feminist academics and lawyers to present an impressive collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases. By re-imagining original legal decisions through a feminist lens, the collection explores the possibilities, limits and implications of feminist approaches to legal decision-making. Each case is accompanied by a brief commentary that places it in legal and historical context and explains what the feminist rewriting does differently to the original case. The cases not only cover topics of long-standing interest to feminist scholars – such as family law, sexual offences and discrimination law – but also areas which have had less attention, including Indigenous sovereignty, constitutional law, immigration, taxation and environmental law. The collection contributes a distinctly Australian perspective to the growing international literature investigating the role of feminist legal theory in judicial decision-making.

Feminist Judgments

Feminist Judgments
Author: Kathryn M. Stanchi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2016-08-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107126622

Fifty feminist law professors come together to rewrite twenty-five major Supreme Court opinions on gender justice and equality.

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions
Author: Bennett Capers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2022-12-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 100908979X

'Is it possible to be both a judge and a feminist?' Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions answers that question in the affirmative by re-writing seminal opinions that implicate critical dimensions of criminal law jurisprudence, from the sexual assault law to provocation to cultural defences to the death penalty. Right now, one in three Americans has a criminal record, mass incarceration and over-criminalization are the norm, and our jails cycle through about ten million people each year. At the same time, sexual assaults are rarely prosecuted at all, domestic violence remains pervasive, and the distribution of punishment, and by extension justice, seems not only raced and classed, but also gendered. We have had #MeToo campaigns and #SayHerName campaigns, and yet not enough has changed. How might all of justice look different through a feminist lens. This book answers that question.