Feminist Judgments Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions

Author : Bennett Capers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100908979X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions written by Bennett Capers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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.

Author : Kathryn M. Stanchi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107126622
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Judgments written by Kathryn M. Stanchi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty feminist law professors come together to rewrite twenty-five major Supreme Court opinions on gender justice and equality.

Author : Martha Chamallas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108484298
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions written by Martha Chamallas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feminist rewrite of tort law cases that reveals gender bias and the law's failure to redress serious harms to women.

Author : Kimberly Mutcherson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425437
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten written by Kimberly Mutcherson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductive justice theory made real through re-imagining critical cases addressing pregnancy, parenting, and the law's treatment of marginalized women.

Author : Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108835538
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions written by Eloisa C. Rodriguez-Dod and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagines fundamental property law cases to demonstrate how a feminist lens could impact the law's development.

Author : Martha Chamallas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108598447
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions written by Martha Chamallas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Rachel Rebouché
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108571522
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten written by Rachel Rebouché and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Anne M. Choike
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009035339
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Judgments: Corporate Law Rewritten written by Anne M. Choike and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sharon Cowan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509923276
Total Pages : 743 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scottish Feminist Judgments written by Sharon Cowan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative collaboration between academics, practitioners, activists and artists, this timely and provocative book rewrites 16 significant Scots law cases, spanning a range of substantive topics, from a feminist perspective. Exposing power, politics and partiality, 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. 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. The book will be of interest to academics, practitioners and students of Scots law, policy-makers, as well as to scholars of feminist and critical theory, and law and gender, internationally.

Author : Deborah S. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108864147
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Judgments written by Deborah S. Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For women and other marginalized groups, the reality is that the laws regulating estates and trusts may not be treating them fairly. By using popular feminist legal theories as well as their own definitions of feminism, the authors of this volume present rewritten opinions from well-known estates and trust cases. Covering eleven important cases, this collection reflects the diversity in society and explores the need for greater diversity in the law. By re-examining these cases, the contributors are able to demonstrate how women's property rights, as well as the rights of other marginalized groups, have been limited by the law.