The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project brought together legal academics, practising lawyers and judges to imagine how 16 important legal judgments [1] from the past might have been decided differently if the judge had adopted a feminist perspective.[2] As a result it is hoped that effort will be taken more widely to think about how laws can be made and applied in a more gender equitable way.[3][4][5][6]
Background
editTo mark 100 years of women in law the project found the decisions the judges had reached were by not inevitable, and that, in many cases, a feminist perspective would have changed the outcome and taken the law in a different direction.[7][8] The project was co-ordinated by legal academics Professor Sharon Cowan, Dr Chloë Kennedy and Professor Vanessa Munro[9] and explored Scotland's distinctive national identity, unique legal traditions and the interplay between gender, class, and citizenship.
The project resulted in the publication of an anthology, (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In [10][11]
The project also generated a number of creative outputs[12] including a display in the Scottish Parliament in 2018 sponsored by Gail Ross MSP.[13]
The Scottish project exists as part of a larger context of other, international, feminist judgement projects [14][15][16]
References
edit- ^ "Cases". | Scottish Feminist Judgments Project. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
- ^ "Home". | Scottish Feminist Judgments Project. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
- ^ Munro, Vanessa E. (2021-07-01). "Feminist Judgments Projects at the Intersection". Feminist Legal Studies. 29 (2): 251–261. doi:10.1007/s10691-020-09428-0. ISSN 1572-8455. S2CID 218780610.
- ^ "Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019: part three". The F-Word. 2019-08-14. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
- ^ Cowan, Sharon (2018-09-14). "The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project: A New Frontier". Rochester, NY. SSRN 3249609.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Scottish Feminist Judgments Project launches podcast". Scottish Legal News. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
- ^ Garavelli, Dani (21 April 2019). "Insight: Feminists rebalance the scales of justice in Scotland". The Scotsman.
- ^ "Blog | Perspective matters when it comes to securing social justice: the Scottish Feminist Judgments Project". Scottish Women's Rights Centre. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
- ^ "Feminist legal academics deliver six workshops across Scotland in 200-mile cycle tour". Scottish Legal News. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
- ^ bloomsbury.com. "Scottish Feminist Judgments". Bloomsbury. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
- ^ Enright, Mairead (2021-10-01). "SHARON COWAN, CHLOË KENNEDY and VANESSA MUNRO (eds), Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law From the Outside In". Social & Legal Studies. 30 (5): 818–822. doi:10.1177/0964663921992106. ISSN 0964-6639. S2CID 237565703.
- ^ Cowan, Sharon; Kennedy, Chloë; Munro, Vanessa E. (2020-07-09). "Seeing Things Differently: Art, Law and Justice in the Scottish Feminist Judgments Project". Feminists@law. 10 (1). doi:10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.925. ISSN 2046-9551.
- ^ "Scottish Feminist Judgments Members' Exhibition (sponsored by Gail Ross MSP)". University of Edinburgh Research Explorer. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
- ^ "The Feminist Judgements Project. | SOAS University of London". www.soas.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
- ^ Munro, Vanessa E. (2021-07-01). "Feminist Judgments Projects at the Intersection". Feminist Legal Studies. 29 (2): 251–261. doi:10.1007/s10691-020-09428-0. ISSN 1572-8455. S2CID 218780610.
- ^ "Australian Feminist Judgements Project - School of Law - University of Queensland". law.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2021-10-26.