Robin West
{{short description|American legal scholar}}
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Robin West (born 1954) is the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy emerita at the Georgetown University Law Center. West's research is primarily concerned with feminist legal theory, constitutional law and theory, philosophy of law, and the law and literature movement.
West holds a B.A. and a J.D. (1979) from the University of Maryland and a masters in judicial studies from Stanford. West came to Georgetown after teaching at the University of Maryland Law School from 1986 to 1991, and at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law from 1982 to 1985.
West is best known for her work in the ethics of care and feminist legal theory. In her article "Jurisprudence and Gender," West argued that women’s socialisation prioritises connection and relationships over autonomy, making it difficult for them to respond to violence with violence, which ultimately hinders their ability to prove lack of consent in legal contexts designed by and for men.{{Cite web|url=http://www.iep.utm.edu/jurisfem/|title = Feminist Jurisprudence | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}
Selected works
= Books =
- {{Cite book | last1 = West | first = Robin | title = Narrative, authority, and law: law, meaning, and violence | year = 1993 }}
- {{Cite book | last1 = West | first = Robin | title = Progressive constitutionalism: reconstructing the Fourteenth Amendment | year = 1994 }}
- {{Cite book | last1 = West | first = Robin | title = Caring for justice | year = 1997 }}
- {{Cite book | last1 = West | first = Robin | title = Rights | year = 2000 }}
- {{Cite book | last1 = West | first = Robin | title = Re-imagining justice: progressive interpretations of formal equality, rights, and the rule of law | year = 2003 }}
- {{Cite book | last1 = West | first = Robin | title = Normative jurisprudence | year = 2011 }}
= Journal articles =
- {{Cite journal | last = West | first = Robin | title = Jurisprudence and gender | journal = University of Chicago Law Review | volume = 55 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–72 | doi = 10.2307/1599769 | jstor = 1599769 | date = Winter 1988 | url = https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/645 }}
::See also: {{Cite journal |last=Nussbaum |first=Martha C. | author-link = Martha Nussbaum | title = Robin West, "Jurisprudence and Gender": defending a radical liberalism | journal = University of Chicago Law Review | volume = 75 | issue = 3 | pages = 985–996 | publisher = University of Chicago Law School | date = Summer 2008 | jstor = 20141934 |url=http://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/75.3/75_3_Nussbaum.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905134112/http://lawreview.uchicago.edu/sites/lawreview.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/75.3/75_3_Nussbaum.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2015-09-05 }}
- {{Cite journal | last = West | first = Robin | title = Love, rage and legal theory | journal = Yale Journal of Law and Feminism | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = 101–110 | publisher = Yale Law School | date = Spring 1989 | url =http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1008&context=yjlf }}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/robin-l-west/ Faculty page at Georgetown Law]
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