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Australian Feminist Judgments Righting and Rewriting Law
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Australian Feminist Judgments
Righting and Rewriting Law
Heather Douglas | Francesca Bartlett | Trish Luker | Rosemary Hunter
Law / Gender & the Law
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.
Heather Douglas is a Professor and Francesca Bartlett is a Senior Lecturer at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.
Trish Luker is a Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney.
Rosemary Hunter is Professor of Law and Socio-Legal Studies at Queen Mary, University of London.
| Publication Date: | 29 January 2015 |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Imprint: | Hart Publishing |
| ISBN-13: | 9781849465212 |
| Format: | Paperback softback |
| Page Count: | 496 |
| Weight (oz): | 27.52 |