TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Brittany Sims on Feb 4, 2015

More than 50 law professors and lawyers are collaborating to analyze how U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence would look if seminal cases had been adjudicated from a feminist perspective, the ABA Journal reports. The book "Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court" will contain 24 rewritten decisions on topics such as reproductive rights and substantive due process to show how feminist legal reasoning might change the course of law. The book aims to prove that stare decisis can mask what is really a masculine viewpoint, and that hidden gender bias — not stare decisis — may be what drives the reasoning and results in much of the nation's jurisprudence.