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Dr. Hadia Majid (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan), Dr. Ghazal Mir Zulfiqar (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan), and Dr. Kaveri Qureshi (University of Edinburgh,…

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,…

Mr and Mrs Coyle were married for 25 years. After several years of being separated, Mrs Coyle filed for divorce. They had accumulated some wealth over the years, and they agreed to share this wealth…

In 1998, Fiona Lang was charged under the Road Traffic Act of being in charge of a motor vehicle while over the limit: drink driving. Fiona pled the defence of necessity, saying she was fleeing in…

In 1998, Marylin McKenna was murdered by Stuart Drury. Drury was tried for her murder and was found guilty, but he appealed the decision claiming he had been provoked into killing Marylin because she…

With Rama Dieng

The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project is an interdisciplinary project rewriting key legal judgments from a feminist perspective. In September 2018, they brought their project to the Scottish…

The Scottish Feminist Judgments Project is part of a global series that aims to imagine how important legal cases might have been decided differently if the judge had adopted a feminist perspective.…

Adverse Childhood Experience? Gendered Dimensions and Feminist Perspectives

What is this image? Who made it? This is an engraving dating from 1745, which was produced by an Edinburgh engraver, Richard Cooper. Why is it important? This is reputed to be the first…