Australian Feminist Judgments

This book brings together feminist academics and lawyers to present an impressive collection of alternative judgments in a series of Australian legal cases.

By re-imagining original legal decisions through a feminist lens, the collection explores the possibilities, limits and implications of feminist approaches to legal decision-making.

Each case is accompanied by a brief commentary that places it in legal and historical context and explains what the feminist rewriting does differently to the original case.

The cases not only cover topics of long-standing interest to feminist scholars – such as family law, sexual offences, and discrimination law – but also areas which have had less attention, including Indigenous sovereignty, constitutional law, immigration, taxation, and environmental law.

The collection contributes a distinctly Australian perspective to the growing international literature investigating the role of feminist legal theory in judicial decision-making.

Australian Feminist Judgments is an insightful work that challenges traditional judgements and broadens the dialogue around legal interpretation in Australia.