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Statue of Lady Justice blindfolded and holding a balance and a sword, outside the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong. Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. [1] [2] Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia.
The Parable of the Unjust Judge (also known as the Parable of the Importunate Widow or the Parable of the Persistent Woman, is one of the parables of Jesus which appears in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 18:1–8). [1] In it, a judge who lacks compassion is repeatedly approached by a woman seeking justice.
Spirit of Justice is a 1933 cast aluminum statue depicting Lady Justice that stands on display along with its male counterpart Majesty of Justice in the Great Hall of the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice. The statue is of a woman wearing a toga-like dress ...
Feminist justice ethics is a feminist view on morality which seeks to engage with, and ultimately transform, traditional universal approaches to ethics. [1] Like most types of feminist ethics, feminist justice ethics looks at how gender is left out of mainstream ethical considerations.
Brenda Hale was the first woman and only woman to serve as a Law Lord, and the first woman to be a Justice of the Supreme Court. Amal Clooney , UK Lebanese female lawyer Radha Stirling , UK Australia female lawyer
History tells us that matters like marriage equality, voting rights, abortion access and campaign finance are often adjudicated through the court system. Currently, the Supreme Court is made up of eight justices, the ninth seat vacant since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death in February.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor cited the 5-4 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization as she asserted the majority was threatening marriage rights, particularly same-sex marriage as ...
Esther Hobart Morris (August 8, 1814 – April 2, 1902) [a] was an American judge who was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States. [1] She began her tenure as justice in South Pass City, Wyoming, on February 14, 1870, serving a term of nearly nine months.