Rachel Rebouche, Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
This book provides new, feminist perspectives on famous family law cases that span generations. The chapters take court decisions and rewrite them with feminist ideas in mind. Each author of a rewritten opinion relied only on materials available at the time of the original decision. The decision address topics such as the criminalization of polygamy, intimate partner violence as a ground for asylum, the enforcement of gestational surrogacy, contracts, the rights of cohabitants, discrimination against transgender parents, immigration rules governing noncitizen parents, and child welfare and child support systems, among others. Each opinion is accompanied by a commentary that explains the original opinion as well as the case's contemporary relevance. The combination of rewritten opinion and its commentary provides an in-depth examination of the most important topics in family law.
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