Persuasive or Pipe Dream? The Potential Influence of the Feminist Judgments Project on Future Judical Decision Making

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Author	Kate Webber Nuñez
Position	Professor of Law, Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law
Pages	323-365











The Feminist Judgments Project (“FJP” or the “Project”) rewrites existing judicial

opinions from a feminist perspective. This article explores whether and how the

 

to change the law by revealing unconscious bias and opening judicial minds to



   

and evaluates the FJP using theories from political science. In light of the increasingly

conservative judiciary and the Republican administration, the attitudinal and

     





          

FJP draws on social facts highlighted by the #MeToo and LGBTQ rights movements

and whether the Project thereby creates the conditions for social construction and

resultant legal change. It also uses theories on displacement to present a critique

        



path of persuasion is somewhat narrow and limited, but possible.



Feminist Judgments Project, Feminism and Political Science, Historical



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

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.

 



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A. Methods and Outcomes ................................................................ 

B. Goals and Assumptions ................................................................ 



A. The Problem of the Ideological Models ....................................... 

B. Historical Institutionalism: Theory .............................................. 336

9 Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies (2020)

C. Empirical Support for the Relevance of the Law ........................ 

D. Implications for the FJP .............................................................. 



 ................................ 

B. Social Construction ...................................................................... 

C. Modern Decisions ........................................................................ 



A. Social Construction in the FJP: #MeToo and the Law ................

B. Tax Opinions and Continued Social Recognition of LGBTQ Rights 

 

A. The Problem of Originalists ........................................................ 

B. Displacement ................................................................................ 

C. Alternative Methods of Persuasion .............................................. 

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           

     

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

3Feminist Judgments:

Rewritten Opinions of the Supreme CourtFeminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax

Opinions6





   

  

            

        

     



      

    

      

 E.g.    Introduction to the

in 

     



 Id.         Introduction to the Feminist

Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions Project in   

           

 See also   Women’s Court of Canada Act

and Rules        



          

 

          



  



        



      



 Series Projects     



 supra

 Id.

 Id.         

    

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