Feminist Judgments Initiative India
Would the jurisprudence of Indian Courts be significantly different if judges used feminist approaches and perspectives while deciding cases? The Feminist Judgments Initiative aims to answer this question by bringing together a group of practitioners, academics, and students, to right and rewrite significant judgments of the Supreme Court and High Courts that have had serious implications on the state of gender justice in India.
By analysing the language, reasoning, and conclusions of previously decided cases from a feminist lens, the project aims to write alternative judgments to further gender equality, while staying within the legal and temporal constraints that bound the judges at the time the judgments were written.
The exercise of rewriting judgments from a feminist perspective is not unprecedented. The Feminist Judgments Initiative is inspired by sister projects in India and across the world (see eg, Canada, USA, Australia, and UK) where rewritten judgments have successfully attempted to bridge the gap between feminist theory and practice.
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Feminist Judgments Initiative India 