MVV363K Feminist Jurisprudence

Faculty of Law
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.
Teacher(s)
JUDr. Dominik Šoltys, PhD. (seminar tutor), doc. JUDr. Ing. Michal Radvan, Ph.D. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Ing. Michal Radvan, Ph.D.
Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Mgr. Věra Redrupová, B.A.
Supplier department: Faculty of Law
Timetable of Seminar Groups
MVV363K/01: Mon 20. 3. 8:00–9:40 041, Tue 21. 3. 12:00–13:40 041, 14:00–15:40 041, Wed 22. 3. 12:00–13:40 041, 14:00–15:40 041
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 32/30, only registered: 1/30
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Course objectives
The course "Feminist Jurisprudence" is devoted to the basic historical, conceptual, and theoretical assumptions about legal feminism. It provides students with knowledge about the different form of legal feminism and its importance in contemporary jurisprudence. The course informs them with the causes of its birth, development, and thus with the need to apply feminist methods and methodology in research of law. The goal of this course is to stimulate the conscious raising process in law students considering the importance of the gender equality in contemporary legal thinking.
Syllabus
  • 1. The Concept, Origin, and Development of Feminist Jurisprudence
  • the concept of feminist jurisprudence – the sources of legal feminism in legal science – the position of legal feminism in jurisprudence – the historical events regarded as birth of feminist jurisprudence – law in three waves of feminism
  • 2. and 3. The Diverzity in Feminist Jurisprudence
  • sources of diversity in legal feminism – legal feminism or legal feminisms (?) – basic different forms of feminist jurisprudence (liberal legal feminism, radical legal feminism, cultural legal feminism, black legal feminism, postmodern legal feminism, pragmatic legal feminism)
  • 4. The Nature and Basic Features of Feminist Perspective in Jurisprudence
  • gynocentric perspective – critique of law´s patriarchy – feminist jurisprudence as normative theory of law – legal feminism as anti-subordination theory – contextualism – essentialism vs. anti-essentialism – intersectionality
  • 5. Feminist Jurisprudence Today
  • feminist jurisprudence in fourth wave – the nature of contemporary feminist jurisprudence – issues and challenges for feminist jurisprudence today
Literature
  • See Teacher's Information for further details.
Teaching methods
lectures, PowerPoint presentations, discussions
Assessment methods
Exam consisting of few single select choice questions.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
Teacher's information
Literature: (only recommended literature)

- BARNETT, H. Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence. 1998. 349 s. ISBN 1859412378.

- FRUG, M. J. A Postmodern Feminist Legal Manifesto (An Unfinished Draft). In Harvard Law Review, Vol. 105, No. 5, 1992. s. 1045-1075.

- MACKINNON, C. A. Only Words. 1993. 152 s. ISBN 0-674-63933-

- SCALES, A. C. Legal Feminism: Activism, Lawyering, and Legal Theory. 2006. 219 s. ISBN 9780814798454.

- ŠOLTYS, D. Prí(r)učka právneho feminizmu: pojem, charakteristika, znaky, vývoj a podoby právneho feminizmu. 2022. 534 s. ISBN 978-80-574-0157-5.

- WILLIAMS, W. W. Equality´s Riddle: Pregnancy and the Equal Treatment/Special Treatment Debate. In N.Y.U Review of Law & Social Change, Vol. 13, Iss. 2, 1984-1985. s. 325-380.

- WILLIAMS CRENSHAW, K. Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics. In University of Chicago Legal Forum, Vol. 1989, Iss. 1. s. 139-167.

- WEST, R. Jurisprudence and Gender. In University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 55, No. 1, 1988. s. 1-72.

Information about Lecturer:

Dominik Šoltys is an assistant professor at the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Gustav Radbruch Institute of Theory of Law. He obtained master’s degree in law, and further the doctoral degree in theory and history of law at Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Faculty of Law. Dr. Šoltys teaches subjects as Legal Ethics, Theory of state and Law and Jurisprudence

Dr. Šoltys is currently doing research on feminist jurisprudence and queer theory of law. He is author of “Prí(r)učka právneho feminizmu: pojem, charakteristika, znaky, vývoj a podoby právneho feminizmu” (“The Handbook of Legal Feminism: Concept, Nature, Feature, Development and Forms of Legal Feminism”), the first and only book about feminist jurisprudence written in the Slovak republic. He has written the text book “Súčasné podoby právnej filozofie: postmoderna, právo a literatúra, právo a ekonómia, kritika liberálneho legalizmu, patriarchátu, rasizmu a heterosexizmu v práve” (“Contemporary Forms of Legal Philosophy: Postmodernism, Law and Literature, Law and Economics, Criticism of Liberal Legalism, Patriarchy, Racism and Heteronormativity in Law”).

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