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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 November 2020
      10 December 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108613293
      9781108484299
      9781108706247
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108613293
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.82kg, 458 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1kg, 458 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Socio-Legal Studies, Tort Law, US Law, American Government, Politics and Policy, Law
      Series:
      Feminist Judgment Series: Rewritten Judicial Opinions
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    Subjects:
    Socio-Legal Studies, Tort Law, US Law, American Government, Politics and Policy, Law
    Series:
    Feminist Judgment Series: Rewritten Judicial Opinions
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    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.

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    ‘A strong point of this book is that the cases are all relevant and interesting, and each analysis differs enough from the original opinion. Each rewritten judgment makes enough relevant points that it is easy for readers to wish that they had been the actual decisions. Academic librarians, practitioners interested in gender and the law, as well as law students would certainly benefit from reading this book.’

    Emily Benton Source: Canadian Law Library Review

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