Australian Feminist Judgments Righting and Rewriting Law

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Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:
Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker, Rosemary Hunter
ISBN:
9781782255406
Related ISBNs:
9781849465212
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages:
380
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2018-10-30
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2014
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Nonfiction