Feminist Judgments

Fifty feminist law professors come together to rewrite twenty-five major Supreme Court opinions on gender justice and equality.

The book offers twenty-five rewritten Supreme Court opinions and commentaries that demonstrate that anyone who cares about equality should care about greater diversity in the judiciary. This significant work by leading feminist legal scholars will be welcomed by all interested in how gender issues are addressed in the American legal system.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.