Elisabeth Mcdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3648866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabeth Mcdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MCDONALD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2204-1439 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Communicating Absence of Consent is not Enough
In a study of 40 adult rape jury trials, aimed at identifying how and why the questioning process in rape trials results in re-traumatisation, researchers noticed how often adult women complainants gave evidence of clearly expressed lack of consent – through words or conduct or a combination of both. In 26 cases the complainant also gave evidence of multiple attempts to negotiate the desired limits of sexual intimacy. Her evidence was challenged …
Accessing Court Files as a Feminist Endeavour
In this piece, we reflect on the significance of accessing court records for feminist endeavours. We discuss two examples that illustrate the value of accessing and critiquing court processes. Feminist judgment writing, as a feminist endeavour, demonstrates the significance of hearing women’s stories as well as the importance of nuanced factual analysis that takes account of the lived experiences of women. Access to the court file in one of the r…
Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand
This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge. Feminist judging is an emerging critical legal approach that works within the confines of common law legal method to challenge the myth of judicial neutrality and illustrate how the personal experiences and perspectives of judges may influence the reasoning and outcome of their decisions. Uniquely, this book includes a set of cases emplo…
Reforming the Rules of Evidence in Cases of Sexual Offending
Due to a number of high-profile cases of historical sexual offending by police officers making the headlines in 2006, reforming trial process and the admissibility rules in such cases is back on the political agenda in New Zealand. Public concern has resulted in the initiation and funding of a number of research projects aimed at reform. As members of one of those project teams, the authors discuss in this article some of the most contested rules…
Lesbian Access to Justice
Although some aspects of New Zealand family law have been criticised as discriminatory, the New Zealand legal system has yet to be critically examined from a lesbian perspective. This article begins a development of lesbian legal theory for Aotearoa/New Zealand by analysing the contribution that the 1999 Law Commission study, Women's Access to Legal Services,has made to our knowledge about the impact of the law on lesbian relationships and commun…
The Modern Novel as Viewed by Ortega
More than any other contemporary Spaniard, Jos6 Ortega y Gasset has been most sensitive to the nature of problems facing modern man. In a vast variety of fields-embracing literature, art, music, sociology, psychology, philosophy-Ortega was the first Spaniard, often the first European, to put his finger squarely on the central core of such problems. Always, by means of an eloquent pen and voice, he set these problems before his compatriots. It is …
Communicating Absence of Consent is not Enough
In a study of 40 adult rape jury trials, aimed at identifying how and why the questioning process in rape trials results in re-traumatisation, researchers noticed how often adult women complainants gave evidence of clearly expressed lack of consent – through words or conduct or a combination of both. In 26 cases the complainant also gave evidence of multiple attempts to negotiate the desired limits of sexual intimacy. Her evidence was challenged …
The Modern Novel as Viewed by Ortega
More than any other contemporary Spaniard, Jos6 Ortega y Gasset has been most sensitive to the nature of problems facing modern man. In a vast variety of fields-embracing literature, art, music, sociology, psychology, philosophy-Ortega was the first Spaniard, often the first European, to put his finger squarely on the central core of such problems. Always, by means of an eloquent pen and voice, he set these problems before his compatriots. It is …
Lesbian Access to Justice
Although some aspects of New Zealand family law have been criticised as discriminatory, the New Zealand legal system has yet to be critically examined from a lesbian perspective. This article begins a development of lesbian legal theory for Aotearoa/New Zealand by analysing the contribution that the 1999 Law Commission study, Women's Access to Legal Services,has made to our knowledge about the impact of the law on lesbian relationships and commun…
Reforming the Rules of Evidence in Cases of Sexual Offending
Due to a number of high-profile cases of historical sexual offending by police officers making the headlines in 2006, reforming trial process and the admissibility rules in such cases is back on the political agenda in New Zealand. Public concern has resulted in the initiation and funding of a number of research projects aimed at reform. As members of one of those project teams, the authors discuss in this article some of the most contested rules…
Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand
This edited collection asks how key New Zealand judgments might read if they were written by a feminist judge. Feminist judging is an emerging critical legal approach that works within the confines of common law legal method to challenge the myth of judicial neutrality and illustrate how the personal experiences and perspectives of judges may influence the reasoning and outcome of their decisions. Uniquely, this book includes a set of cases emplo…
Accessing Court Files as a Feminist Endeavour
In this piece, we reflect on the significance of accessing court records for feminist endeavours. We discuss two examples that illustrate the value of accessing and critiquing court processes. Feminist judgment writing, as a feminist endeavour, demonstrates the significance of hearing women’s stories as well as the importance of nuanced factual analysis that takes account of the lived experiences of women. Access to the court file in one of the r…
Communicating Absence of Consent is not Enough
In a study of 40 adult rape jury trials, aimed at identifying how and why the questioning process in rape trials results in re-traumatisation, researchers noticed how often adult women complainants gave evidence of clearly expressed lack of consent – through words or conduct or a combination of both. In 26 cases the complainant also gave evidence of multiple attempts to negotiate the desired limits of sexual intimacy. Her evidence was challenged …
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aotearoa (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Law in Society and Culture (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Criminology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Medicine (2 works)