| Title | : | Australian Feminist Judgments |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Heather Douglas, Francesca Bartlett, Trish Luker & Rosemary Hunter |
| Release | : | 2014-11-20 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Law, Books, Professional & Technical |
| Size | : | 2217309 |
| 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. |
