Feminist Perspectives on Tort Law offers a distinctly feminist approach to key topics in tort law. Ten original essays written by feminist legal scholars from the UK, US, Canada and Australia encompass a range of ways of thinking about women, tort law and feminism. The collection provides a fresh and original analysis of issues of long-standing concern to feminists as well as nascent areas of concern. These include conceptions of harm, constructions of reasonableness, the duty of care, the public/private divide, sexual wrongdoing, privacy and environmental law. Written with both scholars and...

What should be the primary goals of a judicial appointments system? When will the judiciary be sufficiently diverse? Why is it taking so long? Is it time for positive action? Who does (and should) appoint our judges?

There is broad agreement that diversity raises important questions for a legal system and its officials, but there is much less agreement about the full implications of recognising diversity as an important goal of the judicial appointments regime and differences of opinion as to the method, form, timing and motivations for diversity. On the tenth anniversary...