Library Displays 2022: Women's History Month
Faculty Books Displayed
- A Practical Guide to Appellate Advocacy byISBN: 9781454896340Publication Date: 2018-09-14
- International Intellectual Property Law, Cases and Materials byISBN: 9781634592802Publication Date: 2015-12-01
- Research Handbook on Transnational Corporations byISBN: 9781783476909Publication Date: 2017-01-27Featuring Rachel Anderson's
"Theoretical Approaches to Global Regulation of Transnational Corporations"
Faculty Articles in Print
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.
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court byISBN: 9781107126626Publication Date: 2016-08-02Featuring Leslie Griffin's Rewritten Opinion in Harris v. McRae, 448 U.S. 297 (1980).
"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." - Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Employment Discrimination Opinions byISBN: 9781108493178Publication Date: 2020-10-15Featuring Ann McGinley's Rewritten Opinion in Oncale v. Sundowner Services, 523 U.S. 75 (1998).
"How would feminist perspectives and analytical methods change the interpretation of employment discrimination law? Would the conscious use of feminist perspectives make a difference? This volume shows the difference feminist analysis can make to the interpretation of employment discrimination statutes. This book brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite fifteen employment discrimination decisions in which a feminist analysis would have changed the outcome or the courts' reasoning. It demonstrates that use of feminist perspectives and methodologies, if adopted by the courts, would have made a significant difference in employment discrimination law, leading to a fairer and more egalitarian workplace, and a more prosperous society." - Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Property Opinions byISBN: 9781108835534Publication Date: 2021-10-28"How could feminist perspectives and methods change the shape of property law? This volume assembles a group of diverse scholars to explore this question by presenting fundamental property law cases rewritten from a feminist perspective. The cases cover a broad range of property law topics, from landlord-tenant rights and obligations, patents, and zoning to publicity rights, land titles, concurrent ownership, and takings. These rewritten opinions and their accompanying commentaries demonstrate how incorporating feminist theories and methods could have made property law more just and equitable for women and marginalized groups. The book also shows how property law is not neutral but is shaped by the society that produces it and the judges who apply it."
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions byISBN: 9781316510209Publication Date: 2017-12-28Featuring Francine Lipman's Rewritten Opinion in Lucas v. Earl, 281 U.S. 111 (1930).
"Could a feminist perspective change the shape of tax laws? Feminist reasoning and analysis are recognized as having tremendous potential to affect employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and reproductive rights laws - but they can likewise transform tax law (as well as other statutory or code-based areas of the law). By highlighting the importance of perspective, background, and preconceptions on reading and interpreting statutes, this volume shows what a difference feminist analysis can make to statutory interpretation. Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite tax decisions in which a feminist emphasis would have changed the outcome, the court's reasoning, or the future direction of the law. Featuring cases including medical expense deductions for fertility treatment, gender confirmation surgery, tax benefits for married individuals, the tax treatment of tribal lands, and business expense deductions, this volume opens the way for a discussion of how viewpoint is a key factor in statutory interpretation." - Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten byISBN: 9781108471701Publication Date: 2020-06-25Featuring Elizabeth MacDowell's Rewritten Opinion in Turner v. Rogers, 564 U.S. 431 (2011).
"This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family law cases that span generations. The chapters take court decisions and rewrite them with feminist ideas in mind. Each rewritten opinion is penned by a leading scholar who relied only on materials available at the time of the original decision. The decisions address topics such as the criminalization of polygamy, intimate partner violence as a ground for asylum, the legality of gestational surrogacy, the rights of cohabitants, discrimination against transgender parents, immigration rules governing non-citizen parents, and child welfare and child support systems, among others. Each opinion is accompanied by a commentary that explains the original opinion as well as its contemporary relevance, and each commentary also is authored by a respected scholar. The combination of a rewritten opinion and its commentary provides an in-depth examination of the most important topics in family law." - Feminist Judgments: Reproductive Justice Rewritten byISBN: 9781108425438Publication Date: 2020-04-16"Reproductive justice (RJ) is a pivotal movement that supplants the language and limitations of reproductive rights. RJ's tenets are that women have the human rights to decide if or when they'll become pregnant, whether to carry a pregnancy to term, and to parent the children they have in safe and healthy environments. Recognizing the importance of the rights at stake when the law addresses parenting and procreation, the authors in this book re-imagine judicial opinions that address the law's treatment of pregnancy and parenting. The cases cover topics such as forced sterilization, pregnancy discrimination, criminal penalties for women who take illegal drugs while pregnant, and state funding for abortion. Though some of the re-imagined cases come to the same conclusions as the originals, each rewritten opinion analyzes how these cases impact the most vulnerable populations, including people with disabilities, poor women, and women of color."
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tort Opinions byISBN: 9781108484299Publication Date: 2020-12-10"By rewriting both canonical and lesser-known tort cases from a feminist perspective, this volume exposes gender and racial bias in how courts have categorized and evaluated harm stemming from pre-natal malpractice, pregnancy loss, domestic violence, sexual assault and harassment, invasion of privacy, and the award of economic and non-economic damages. The rewritten opinions demonstrate that when confronted with gendered harm to women, courts have often distorted or misapplied conventional legal doctrine to diminish the harm or deny recovery. Bringing this implicit bias to the surface can make law students, and lawyers and judges who craft arguments and apply tort doctrines, more aware of inequalities of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation or identity. This volume shows the way forward to make the basic doctrines of tort law more responsive to the needs and perspectives of traditionally marginalized people, in ways that give greater value to harms that they disproportionately experience."
- Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts and Estates Opinions byISBN: 9781108816953Publication Date: 2020-09-17"For women and other marginalized groups, the reality is that the laws regulating estates and trusts may not be treating them fairly. By using popular feminist legal theories as well as their own definitions of feminism, the authors of this volume present rewritten opinions from well-known estates and trust cases. Covering eleven important cases, this collection reflects the diversity in society and explores the need for greater diversity in the law. By re-examining these cases, the contributors are able to demonstrate how women's property rights, as well as the rights of other marginalized groups, have been limited by the law."
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).
Selected from the Collection
Documentary Films
- Chisholm ‘72: Unbought & Unbossed byPublication Date: 2005
- A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde byPublication Date: 2006
- Miss Representation byPublication Date: 2011
- RBG byPublication Date: 2018
- Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights byPublication Date: 2013
- She's Beautiful When She's Angry byPublication Date: 2014
- To Empower Women: The Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, 1995 byPublication Date: 2010
Available for Checkout
- Women Take Their Place in State Legislatures: the Creation of Women's Caucuses byISBN: 9781439915967Publication Date: 2018-11-01
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.