Library Displays 2022: Women's History Month

Faculty Books Displayed

Library Display Mar. 2022

Feminist Judgments Series

"The United States Feminist Judgments Project is part of a global collaboration of hundreds of feminist law professors who reimagine and rewrite key judicial decisions from a feminist perspective. The touchstone of the project is that the rewritten opinions must use the facts and precedent of the original opinion, but bring to the process of judging a feminist perspective that takes into account race, class, gender, disability and other status groups historically marginalized by the law. In this way, the Project seeks to show that United States jurisprudence is not objective or neutral, but rather deeply influenced by the perspectives of those who are appointed to interpret it. As a consequence, the Project also shows that previously accepted judicial outcomes were neither necessary nor inevitable, and that feminist judges could have changed the course of American jurisprudence." 

Additional details can be found at the Project's dedicated website:

U.S. Feminist Judgments Project

To access the full-text of the books below, click on the title to be taken to the Law Library's catalog. By signing into the catalog with your ACE ID, you will be able to open each chapter on the Cambridge University Press website.

Coming Soon...

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions (2022).

  • Featuring Leslie Griffin's Rewritten Opinion in Means v. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, No. 15-1779 (6th Cir. 2016).

 

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Criminal Law Opinions (2022).

  • Featuring Addie Rolnick's Rewritten Opinion in State v. Williams, 484 P.2d 1167 (1971).

 

Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Immigration Law Opinions (2022).

  • Featuring Stewart Chang's Rewritten Opinion in Chy Lung V. Freeman, 92 U.S. 275 (1875).
  • Featuring Ruben Garcia's Rewritten Opinion in Hoffman Plastic Compounds, Inc. v. NLRB, 535 U.S. 137 (2002).

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Credits

Justin Iverson, Research Librarian & Assistant Professor of Law, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Agnes Semling, Circulation Supervisor, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.