Advocacy/ December 14, 2023
Her labor force the law to accept a feminist conception of risk, hazard, and safeguarding yourself and your household.
Holly Maguigan, a well known feminist activist, legal representative, and law teacher, passed away last month. (Sam Hollenshead/ New York University Photo Bureau)
Many attorneys imagine winning a huge case, maybe sooner or later arguing before the Supreme Court, or getting their photo in the The New York Times when they’re basing on the court house actions requiring justice for their customer. Couple of ever picture that their work will entirely reinvent the law’s method to a pushing social issue. That’s what Holly Maguigan did.
A feminist activist, attorney, and law teacher, Maguigan started practicing criminal defense and civil liberties law in Philadelphia in the 1970s when domestic violence was dealt with as a personal matter, undeserving of the law’s attention or issue. Just when females resisted versus their abusers did the law take notification, treating them as hysterical man-hating killers who was worthy of the complete opprobrium of the criminal law, while their abusers were depicted as innocent victims.
Holly’s life’s work was committed to altering that script, lighting up the pervasiveness of intimate partner violence,