Feminist Legal Theory Seminar
This seminar introduces and explores feminist legal theory as a method of understanding and using the law. The course integrates theory and doctrine and explores how gender both affects and is affected by the development of the law. Areas of the law studied will include employment, education, domestic violence, family law, torts and criminal law. Students will write a major research paper using feminist legal theory to explain, critique or defend a legal doctrine and/or solve a legal problem. At the end of the semester, each student will give an oral presentation, in “workshop” format, based on their paper.