Turning Feminist Judgments into Jurisprudence: The Women’s Court of Canada on Substantive Equality

Denise Réaume

doi:10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0994

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Denise Réaume University of Toronto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl/0000-0000-0000-0994

Palabras clave:

Equality, substantive equality, context, Igualdad, igualdad sustantiva, contexto

Resumen

El proyecto del Tribunal de Mujeres de Canadá (WCC, por su nombre en inglés, Women’s Court of Canada) es único en el sentido de que se ha centrado en reescribir, sobre todo, sentencias de un área específica del derecho – casos de igualdad constitucional –. Esta estrategia permite una valoración de la jurisprudencia del WCC para ver si brinda una "teoría" alternativa de derechos de igualdad que se pueda usar para producir argumentaciones capaces de redirigir el derecho real. Este esfuerzo revela la importancia general de la atención al contexto, y la representación de éste, a la hora de dotar de vida los compromisos abstractos de igualdad sustantiva. Si bien no se trata de una novedad, es esclarecedora esta demostración de lo que el contexto de trabajo puede hacer en un número de casos relacionados.

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