אפריל 28, 2018
אוקטובר 31, 2016
אוקטובר 14, 2016
אוקטובר 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…
אוקטובר 14, 2016
אוקטובר 14, 2016
This paper calls attention to “honor” and “dignity” as two fundamental, antithetical values, both firmly rooted at the heart of social orders and legal systems in the contemporary western world. An antithetical analysis of these concepts has long been suggested, in an anthropological context, by Pierre Bourdieu (1966: 228); I argue for its relevance to…
אוקטובר 14, 2016
אוקטובר 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…
אוקטובר 14, 2016
אוקטובר 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…