凱瑟琳‧麥金儂教授簡介

Catharine A. MacKinnon

        ── One of the Most Important Legal Thinkers in American Law and one of the Most Cited Law Faculty Per Year in Law Teaching


凱瑟琳‧麥金儂

        ── 英語世界最具影響力及最常被引用的法學家與運動者


        凱瑟琳‧麥金儂,耶魯大學法學博士及政治學博士,目前任教於密西根大學法學院及哈佛大學法學院,是基進女性主義中最廣為人知的代表性理論家與運動者之一,著有《性騷擾與性別歧視:職業女性困境剖析》Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination)、《女性主義本色》(Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law)、《邁向女性主義的國家理論》(Toward a Feminist Theory of the State)、《言語不只是言語》(Only Words)、《性平等》(Sex Equality)、《女人的生活,男人的法律》(Women's Lives, Men's Laws)及《女人是人嗎》(Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues)等書,其研究與行動實踐被評比為最具影響力、最常被引用與最知名的法學家之一,獲頒美國、加拿大、以色列等多國大學之榮譽博士,任美國人文與科學院院士,更榮獲包括美國律師基金會傑出學者獎、全美大學女性協會傑出女性獎等諸多獎項。

        麥金儂的宰制論法學,在平等理論、性騷擾、色情與性暴力等議題上,於美國及其他許多國家的立法、理論與運動各方面都產生深遠的影響。在她提出性騷擾理論並將性騷擾訴諸公民權訴訟之前,美國法上並沒有可用的性騷擾概念及適當的請求權基礎,但現在不僅受其理論影響的學術論著隨處可見,在實務判決上連美國最保守的法官都採用她所建立的性騷擾法架構,其他國家的立法也深受影響。她與女性主義作家安德莉亞‧德沃金(Andrea Dworkin)共同推動反色情立法,從平等權的角度將色情視為一種性別歧視,在原本主要把色情視為道德或言論自由問題的美國激起龐大的反對力量及激烈的論辯。她的行動也跨越國界,參與加拿大女性主義法律改革團體LEAF的平等權訴訟,影響了加拿大最高法院的見解。她近年來更專注於國際女性人權議題,擔任國際刑事法庭檢察官的特別性別顧問,也是前南斯拉夫的波士尼亞及克羅埃西亞女性控告獨裁者 Radovan Karadžić 侵犯人權的 Kadic v. Karadzic案之首席辯護律師,為受害者贏得七億四千五百萬美元的賠償金,該判決在國際人權法上開創了將強暴視為酷刑與種族滅絕型態之先例,她更因此獲得國家法學雜誌評比為該月最佳訴訟律師,並入圍年度最佳公益律師。

        作為一位具有律師、法學教授、運動者等多重身分的知名女性主義法學家,麥金儂拒絕將信念、經驗、行動與理論拆離,她從女性生活及女性觀點出發的女性主義法學理論,在相當程度上改善了女性的現實處境,改變了我們所認識的世界,而她的影響力以及這股改變的力量,仍然是進行式。

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Catharine A. MacKinnon  

    Catharine A. MacKinnon is Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (long-term). She holds a B.A. from Smith College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.D. in political science from Yale, specializing in sex equality issues under international and domestic (including comparative and constitutional) law.


    Professor MacKinnon pioneered the legal claim for sexual harassment and, with Andrea Dworkin, created ordinances recognizing pornography as a civil rights violation and the Swedish model for abolishing prostitution. The Supreme Court of Canada has largely accepted her approaches to equality, pornography, and hate speech, which have been influential internationally as well. Representing Bosnian women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities, she won with co-counsel a damage award of $745 million in August 2000 in Kadic v. Karadzic under the Alien Tort Act, the first recognition of rape as an act of genocide.


    Among the schools at which she has taught are Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Harvard, Osgoode Hall, Basel (Switzerland), Hebrew University (Jerusalem), and Columbia. She was awarded residential fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Stanford, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and the University of Cambridge.
Professor MacKinnon’s scholarly books include Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1979), Feminism Unmodified (1987), Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (1989), Only Words (1993), Women's Lives, Men's Laws (2005), Are Women Human? (2006), and the casebook Sex Equality (2001/2007). She is widely published in journals, the popular press, and many languages.


    Professor MacKinnon practices and consults nationally and internationally and works regularly with Equality Now, an NGO promoting international sex equality rights for women, and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW). Serving as the first Special Gender Adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (The Hague) from 2008 to 2012, she implemented her concept “gender crime.”


    Studies document that Professor MacKinnon is among the most widely-cited legal scholars in the English language.