Feminist Judgments by Kathryn M Stanchi

Feminist Judgments by Kathryn M Stanchi

What would United States Supreme Court opinions look like if key decisions on gender issues were written with a feminist perspective? Feminist Judgments brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite, using feminist reasoning, the most significant US Supreme Court cases on gender from the 1800s to the present day. The twenty-five opinions in this volume demonstrate that judges with feminist viewpoints could have changed the course of the law. The rewritten decisions reveal that previously accepted judicial outcomes were not necessary or inevitable and demonstrate that feminist reasoning increases the judicial capacity for justice. Feminist Judgments opens a path for a long overdue discussion of the real impact of judicial diversity on the law as well as the influence of perspective on judging.

Kathryn M. Stanchi is a Professor of Law and Affiliated Professor of Women's Studies at the Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia. Linda L. Berger is a Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research at the Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is also is the President of the Legal Writing Institute and a founder of the peer-reviewed journal Legal Communication and Rhetoric. Bridget J. Crawford is a Professor of Law at Pace University, New York. She is also an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

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ISBN 13	9781107126626
ISBN 10	1107126622
Title	Feminist Judgments
Author	Kathryn M Stanchi
Series	Feminist Judgment Series: Rewritten Judicial Opinions
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2016-08-02
Number of pages	616
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