This class explores a variety of feminist approaches to law. We will
begin with a review of the development of several schools of
feminist legal theory, including liberal feminism, cultural or
relational feminism, dominance feminism, and postmodernist feminism.
We will examine the perspective offered by these approaches on
central issues in the philosophy of law, including the meaning of
equality, the possibility of objectivity or neutrality, and the role
of power. We will then apply these feminist theories to a range of
legal issues, such as rape, sexual harassment and other employment
discrimination, child custody, spousal abuse, the regulation of
reproduction, and work/family conflict.