May 29, 2022
The Almanac, edited by Gisela Dachs was published in German, this is an English version
May 29, 2022
Abstract Israel boasts a strict, effective Law for the Prevention of Sexual Harassment. At the same time, it explicitly discriminates against women in the context of marriage and divorce. Additionally, in the twenty first century, there is a strong movement, coming from conservative ultra-orthodox Jewish circles, to segregate women in the public sphere and exclude…
November 28, 2018
November 28, 2018
October 14, 2016
North Country is a powerful Hollywood depiction of one woman’s painful yet triumphant struggle to establish sexual harassment in the workplace as “class action” and to compel a workplace to stop its harassing practices. The article compares the cinematic version to the historical event on which it relies but focuses on reading the film in…
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016
Hollywood’s Hero-Lawyer movies are a distinct group of American feature films. Typically, they each depict a lawyer who unwittingly finds himself at the heart of a moral drama involving a client and/or a community in distress, gross injustice, the rule of law and powerful, obstructive forces that must be overcome. Alone with nothing at his…
October 14, 2016
October 14, 2016
This Essay contains a close reading of a contemporary film, Pedro Almodvar’s High Heels, as offering a radical and feminist alternative to that of Solomonic justice, which dominates our Judeo-Christian heritage. The Essay explores the imagery of a newly developing legal-feminist concept, “caring justice,” employing the inter-disciplinary methodology of feminist law and film. This approach…