SOURCE: MacCormick, Neil. “With Due Respect.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 4686 (22 January 1993): 3-4.

In the following review, MacCormick examines MacKinnon's feminist legal theory in Toward a Feminist Theory of the State and finds parallels between her ideas and those of Elizabeth F. Kingdom in What's Wrong with Rights?

In the very month that saw the bitter break-up of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow amid mutual allegations of startling abuse, a yet more remarkable family lawsuit came to the boil in Florida. Gregory Kingsley sued his mother for termination of her parental rights over him, and won. Gregory was thirteen, but the court recognized him as competent to bring his action for himself in his own name. The court saw no other way of securing his legitimate interests than to let him sue for himself. The court granted his application to be adopted by his then foster-parents, who were themselves...