Title
Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court
Contributor Roles
Chapter Contributor: Patricia A. Broussard, "Commentary on Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales"
Book Editors:Kathryn M. Stanchi, Linda L. Berger, and Bridget J. Crawford
Files
Description
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.
ISBN
9781107565609
Publication Date
2016
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
City
New York
Disciplines
Constitutional Law | Fourteenth Amendment | Law and Gender | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Broussard, Patricia A., "Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court" (2016). Faculty Books and Book Contributions. 29.
https://commons.law.famu.edu/faculty-books/29
Comments
The chapter entitled "Commentary on Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales" was written by Professor Patricia A. Broussard, for the book "Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court," edited by Kathryn M. Stanchi, Linda L. Berger, and Bridget J. Crawford.