Scales (May 29, 1952 – June 24, 2012) was an American Lawyer, activist, and law professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law from 2003-2012 where she taught in Constitutional Law, Sexual Orientation and the Law, Civil Procedure and torts.
She was a founder of the legal field of feminist jurisprudence, and coined the term feminist jurisprudence in 1977.