Feminist Judgments as Teaching Resources
Keywords:
Critical thinking, feminist legal theory, Feminist Judgments Project, judicial decision-making, legal education, Women’s Court of Canada, Pensamiento crítico, teoría feminista del derecho, Proyecto de Sentencias Feministas, toma de decisiones judicialAbstract
This paper discusses feminist judgments as a specific vehicle for teaching students to think critically about law. The analysis of appellate judgments forms a central plank of Anglo-Commonwealth and US jurisprudence and legal education. While academic scholarship generally offers various forms of commentary on decided cases, feminist judgment-writing projects have recently embarked on a new form of critical scholarship. Rather than critiquing judgments from a feminist perspective in academic essays, the participants in these projects have set out instead to write alternative judgments, as if they had been one of the judges sitting on the court at the time. After introducing the UK Feminist Judgments Project and describing what is ‘different’ about the judgments it has produced, the paper explains some of the ways in which these judgments have been used in UK law schools to teach critical thinking. The paper finally speculates on the potential production and application of feminist judgments or their equivalents beyond the common law context.
Este artículo analiza las sentencias feministas como un vehículo específico para enseñar a los estudiantes a analizar el derecho desde un punto de vista crítico. El análisis de las sentencias de apelación constituye un elemento central de la jurisprudencia y la enseñanza del derecho en los países angloamericanos y de la Commonwealth. Mientras la comunidad académica ofrece generalmente diversas formas de comentario de casos resueltos, los proyectos de literatura judicial feminista se han embarcado recientemente en un nuevo sistema de crítica académica. En lugar de redactar ensayos académicos criticando las sentencias judiciales desde una perspectiva feminista, los participantes de estos proyectos se han propuesto redactar sentencias alternativas, como si hubieran sido uno de los jueces del tribunal en cuestión. Después de presentar el Proyecto de Sentencias Feministas del Reino Unido y describir las “diferencias” que presentan las sentencias que ha producido, el artículo explica algunas de las formas en que se han utilizado estas sentencias en las facultades de derecho del Reino Unido para enseñar pensamiento crítico. Finalmente, el artículo especula sobre la producción y aplicación potencial de resoluciones judiciales feministas o sus equivalentes más allá del contexto del derecho consuetudinario.
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