In this interview, Professor Deborah Gordon (Drexel), one of the editors of Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Trusts & Estates Opinions (2020), talks about critical opinion writing and the challenges of rewriting opinions using precedents and facts in existence at the time of the original opinion.
Professor Gordon touches on rewritten opinions as a form of “scholarship,” Justice Cardozo, judicial perspectives, the contours of a collaborative scholarly project looks like, and working together to envision what might have been and what could be!
The Trusts & Estates volume is available from Cambridge University Press (here). Below the fold is a list of the cases and contributors.
1. Introduction Deborah S. Gordon, Browne Lewis and Carla Spivack
2. In re Strittmater’s Estate, 53 A.2d 205 (N.J. 1947)
Commentary: Lloyd Bonfield and Bridget Crawford
Judgment: Kristen K. Tiscione
3. In re Will of Moses, 227 So. 2d at 831 (Miss. 1969)
Commentary: Claire May
Judgment: Julia Belian
4. Estate of Wilson, 452 N.E.2d 1228 (N.Y. 1983)
Commentary: Deborah S. Gordon
Judgment: Camille Davidson
5. O’Neal v. Wilkes, 439 S.E.2d 490 (Ga. 1994)
Commentary: Benedetta Faedi Duramy and Ayelet Blecher-Prigat
Judgment: Browne Lewis
6. Via v. Putnam, 656 So. 2d 460 (Fla. 1995)
Commentary: Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod
Judgment: Elena Marty-Nelson
7. Estate of Myers, 256 Neb. 817, 594 N.W.2d 563 (1999)
Commentary: Danaya C. Wright
Judgment: Karen J. Sneddon
8. Egelhoff v. Egelhoff, 532 U.S. 141 (2001)
Commentary: Donna Litman
Judgment: Naomi R. Cahn
9. Drevenik v. Nardone, 862 A.2d 635 (Super. Ct. Pa. 2004)
Commentary: Elizabeth R. Carter
Judgment: Carrie Ann Hagan
10. Reece v. Elliot, 208 S.W.3d 419, 423 (Tenn. Ct. App. 2006)
Commentary: Browne Lewis
Judgment: Elizabeth Sparks and Browne Lewis
11. Khabbaz v. Comm’r Soc. Sec. Admin., 930 A.2d 1180 (N.H. 2007)
Commentary: Melanie B. Jacobs and Browne Lewis
Judgment: Lynda Wray Black
12. Karsenty v. Schoukroun, 959 A.2d 1147 (Md. 2008)
Commentary: Kent D. Schenkel
Judgment: Allison A. Tait.
