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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand: Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope by Edited by Professor Elisabeth McDonald Edited by Dr Rhonda Powell Edited by Mamari Stephens Edited by Professor Rosemary Hunter
This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge. Feminist judging is an emerging critical legal approach that works within the confines of common law legal method to challenge the myth of judicial neutrality and illustrate how the personal experiences and perspectives of judges may influence the reasoning and outcome of their decisions. Uniquely this book includes a set of cases employing an approach based on mana wahine the use of Maori values that recognise the complex realities of Maori women’s lives. Through these feminist and mana wahine judgments it opens possibilities of more inclusive judicial decision making for the future.