In this bonus episode, we discuss the impact that feminist judgments can have, and how they are meaningful.
In the first half of the episode, Amrita Ahluwalia-McMeddes and Gabrielle Blackburn, creators of the podcast, discuss what resonated with them, as non-legal experts, when they first read the Scottish Feminist Judgments book, and why they decided to create a podcast about it.
In the second half, the editors of the book (Chloƫ Kennedy, Sharon Cowan and Vanessa Munro) discuss how feminist judging can help achieve fairer legal outcomes.
About the Scottish Feminist Judgments Podcast:
Is
the law neutral, and does it serve us all equally? The Scottish
Feminist Judgements Project (SFJP) attempts to answer these questions.
Legal academics and practitioners got together to re-write historical
cases through a gendered lens. In their re-writing, the feminist judges
could only use tools - laws, evidence, and social understanding of the
world - that could have been accessed by the original judge and jury at
the time of the original judgement.
Learn more about the SFJP