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Seeking… The Faces Of Otherness…: A Response To Professors Sarat Felstiner And Cahn , Lucie E. White

Cornell Law Review

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Covenant And Feminist Reconstructions Of Subjectivity Within Theories Of Justice, Janet Moore

Law and Contemporary Problems

The connections between structuralist, poststructuralist and postmodern philosophers are traced. The opposition between individualists and relationists over the meaning of subjectivity is discussed.

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Feminist Jurisprudence In A Conventional Context: Is There Room For Feminism In Dworkin's Theory Of Interpretive Concepts?, Lynne Hanson

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

This paper examines Dworkin's interpretive theory of law from a feminist perspective, and asks whether his attempts to accommodate competing political opinions within an interpretive community can successfully encompass feminist concerns as well. It is argued that Dworkin repeatedly underestimates the extent of disagreement regarding the practice of law as a whole, while his requirements of fit, coherence and integrity impose a political agenda on the interpreter. As a consequence, Dworkin's theory is ultimately unable to adequately respond to a feminist critique of law, so that feminist jurisprudence must be seen as falling outside the scope of his interpretive community.

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