Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781108471701)

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.

Author: Rachel Rebouché
ISBN-10: 1108471706
ISBN-13: 9781108471701
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/25/2020
Pages: 444
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.08h x 6.05w x 1.04d